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...Lavinia Kumar Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 LAVINIA KUMAR LuvThatI(itchen! Marjorie Stewart Joyner (1896-1994) Beauticianb, usinesswoman She was tired of straightening black hair, one slow stove-heated curling iron ata time. Still at night like any woman she cooked potroastpoked many...

...Jacqueline Bishop Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 JACQUELINE BISHOP ThreeLilacs Allpoetryisa catastrophe. -Anna Ahkmatova Years later, when everyone came to visit, when there were awards, recognition and international travel, when there was Mozart again, black bread and vodka; when you...

...Jacqueline Bishop Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 JACQUELINE BISHOP Insteadof Lilacs: I brought you a world of trouble. We should have known that nothing is ever easy in Soviet Russia. So many things they accused you of: groveling before a foreigner. But if they could have seen you...

...Jacqueline Bishop Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 JACQUELINE BISHOP TitubaSpeaks The magic I brought wrapped up tight in the bosom of my chest to Salem, Massachusetts, Came not from slaves, nor from my Guyanese Indian people, but from a white woman Who taught it to me back in Barbadoes...

...Jacqueline Bishop Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 JACQUELINE BISHOP MarinaTsvetaeva'sLetterto Stalin Now she takes up the pen in an unsteady hand, knowing that her husband's life depends upon this, her lone surviving daughter's, Her sixteen years old son's; her own. Where does one even...

...Karen An-hwei Lee Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 KAREN AN-HWEI LEE BlueSoliloquyvs. Xenophobia Cases of mistaken identity thanks to a velvet robe with bell-shaped sleevesMy love, a marvelous performance on the organ last night. Are you a sister-which convent? Excuse me, young lady...

...rose.elle.kiwi Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 ROSE.ELLE.KIWI Quarantined Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember. Remember...

...Paula J. Giddings Copyright © 2017 Smith College 2017 PAULAJ.GIDDINGS FromHere to There Everytime I come across a historical record about African-descended women and movement-migration, immigration, or just plain going and gone-I raise my hand in tribute. Our pathways of water, land, and air...

...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Copyright © 2017 Smith College 2017 ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS M is for Move (scenes from three lifetimes) I. youcannotcarrythisin herea, voice said. and she knew it meant her gorgeous leather luggage filled with grief. and her recently polished, frequently restained vanity...

...Karsonya Wise Whitehead Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD Mourningin America:A Black Mother'sBlues Song forthemotherosfTamirRice& Tyre King it's morning (again) in america and i am at the edge of singing and crying and mourning out a black woman's blue song so i - i...

... Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 SisterSong wofrkil, oczoorrRw,f0Attoroiti.molcAKtiyA The SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective is made up of local, regional and national grassroots organizations representing four primary ethnic populations/indigenous nations...

...Paula J. Giddings Copyright © 2015 by Smith College 2015 PAULA J. GIDDINGS Editor's Introduction Carole Boyce Davies, the eminent scholar of Caribbean and African studies, opens the issue with an analysis regarding a "shift" in African feminist discourse in her essay, "Gender/Class...

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.... Meridians:feminismra, cet,ransnationa!ism14, no. r (2016): 76-83. Copyright© 2016 Smith College. doi:ro.2979/meridians.14.r.06 76 We have been and continue to be the basis for the economic and political development of Brazil, and yet the wealth generated by our labor has not been returned to us. Evenwith the prospect...

...Paula J. Giddings Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 PAULA J. GIDDINGS Editor's Introduction 13.2 Citizenship, belonging, solidarity. These are the themes that wind through this issue of Meridians and emerge in an array of cultural contexts: IndoCaribbean, African American, Korean, Jamaican...

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