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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 14–16.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Gabeba Baderoon Copyright © 2019 Gabeba Baderoon 2019 virgin Muslim Thelma and Louise apartheid existence You and your sisters ask your mother if it hurts on your wedding night when your hymen is broken and she answers, it’s a membrane and it doesn’t break, just gets nudged...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 244–246.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Gabeba Baderoon Copyright © 2019 Gabeba Baderoon 2019 virgin Muslim Thelma and Louise apartheid existence My parents only bought stuff in bulk or on discount, No Name brands. They saved up for years, saying no to all our requests, then bought everything in cash, even the car...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 16. Letter from Margaret Sanger to “Cele” (Mrs. Damon) in which she rejects plans that rely on encouraging black women to seek services at existing birth control centers, November 24, 1939. Margaret Sanger Papers, SSC. (See Supplement 5 [2 pp.].)
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 93–129.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and its dance forms to empower women cross-culturally. She subverts traditional representations of womanhood in her songs and performances, thereby expanding existing definitions of womanhood. Hinds addresses women's ambivalent relationships with the performance and celebration of Caribbean culture...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and abolitionist visions and explores the possibility of “non-reformist reforms” that take up the challenge of a radical, antiracist, gender justice perspective. The article posits the existence of a unique abolitionist vision and praxis, centered on the participants' direct experience of gender oppression...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... that are the state's response to sexual violence against children and women. Part one offers a brief and queer history of sex offender registries in the United States and their growth in the last two decades, the available data on who assaults children and women. Part one will also use existing research to question...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., a heterogeneous set of transnational cultural flows of Indian beauty and fashion, first in order to map the transnational dimensions of Indian fashion and beauty, which have remained under-explored within existing feminist scholarship on cultural economies of Indian fashion and beauty. Second, the essay shifts...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 39–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
... experience as a black Chinese American woman, the author reflects on having received anti-black messages throughout her childhood and how her need for healing has paralleled her work which challenges existing racial logic that casts Asian Americans as a model minority in competition and conflict with black...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 335–357.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Maile Arvin Abstract How can we enact meaningful forms of solidarity across Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities? This essay, which focuses specifically on the context of settler colonialism in Hawaiʻi, examines existing or potential alliances between Indigenous feminisms and transnational...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
... feminism, mourning, and Black works of art speak to Frantz Fanon’s idea of “the leap into existence,” Hortense Spillers’s “dialectics of a global new woman,” and David Marriott’s psycho-political analysis of invention. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022 art mourning Black...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 240–266.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the existing limitations of transnational feminism and embrace multiple and incompatible feminist knowledge positions from the Global South to the Global North. Works Cited Abu-Lughod Lila . 2013 . Do Muslim Women Need Saving ? Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Adichie...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Msia Kibona Clark Abstract Women hip hop artists in Africa have created spaces for themselves within hip hop’s (hyper)masculine culture. They have created these spaces in order to craft their own narratives around gender and sexuality and to challenge existing narratives. This research uses African...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and the United States, and between film analysis and the dance studio, the author examines the cultural politics of the romanticized and historical Indian dancer—the mythical courtesan. The author argues that the mythical courtesan was called into existence through film cultures in the early twentieth century...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 465–489.
Published: 01 October 2024
... in the Bay Area, such as LISPP and Lesbians and Gays Against Imperialism (LAGAI), to work toward some of the group’s stated goals, namely to make queer Arab existence visible to the Arab American community and to educate local queer communities about how and why Arab American cultural politics were relevant...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 445–456.
Published: 01 October 2019
... that the hybrid methodology that I have arrived at—and the strategy of the critical biomythography that I will discuss below—exist within an activist, artistic, and intellectual tradition. Marisa Fuentes describes her groundbreaking scholarship as within a tradition of academics who “use analyses of race...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
... about who to be. My grandmother has no guide for this. I am reminded of the words of one of my mentors, Combahee River Collective’s Margo Okazawa-Rey (2020), who asks, “Who do we have to become for the world we want to exist?” 1 Who is my grandmother becoming? Is she becoming me? Am I becoming her...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 158–175.
Published: 01 September 2001
... tactics leave her, before an inexorable demise, what Castillo describes as "floundering between invisibility and a tacit hope" (36), a floundering that is "marked by a schizophrenic-like existence" (39). This mode of being that Fe finds herselfin further exacerbates the type of neurosis that Du Bois...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 144–156.
Published: 01 September 2018
... itsendlessly elasticpointofview,sciencejictioins uniquelysuitedto the herculeatnask ofallowingourspecies to experiencuen, derstanda,ndacceptthevariedwaysinwhichpeoplexpresws hatit meansto behuman. Everyproblem that exists can be cured by creativity. Science fiction, a form of creativity that leaves scholars...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
... as well as a physical one: a primal scene that shapes all Afro-diasporic experience. In her memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return, she writes that this psychic Door "exists as an absence. A thing in fact which we do not know about, a place which we do not know. Yet it exists as the ground we walk. Every...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 528–547.
Published: 01 October 2024
... McMillan Cottom says in Thick that a Black girl “does not need the protection of childhood, for she has never been a child” (Cottom 2019 : 187). If Black girls don’t exist within such a paradigm, then it makes sense that the Speculative creates space for new paradigms that stretch beyond...
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