...Carol Bailey Abstract Jamaica Kincaid's compact and succinct story “Girl,” the lead story in the collection At the Bottom of the River (1983), has been lauded as one of the premier works in Kincaid's corpus, particularly her discourse on the making of “woman” in postcolonial Caribbean contexts...

...Michelle J. Pinkard Abstract “Summer Girl” celebrates the spirit of resistance and individuality. The poem explores and broadens limited perceptions of identity. Say it slow, Summer girl. Tell me your story. Like bubbles popping in country white gravy, thick. Like sweet cantaloupe on rusted...

...Abosede George Abstract This essay discusses girl-saving campaigns in Nigerian history, focusing on the two that have been most extensively documented: the girl hawker project of the early twentieth century, which climaxed with the 1943 passage of the first hawking ban in Nigeria...

...Meena Alexander Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 MEMOIRS 'TheShockof Sensation' On Reading TheWavesas a Girl in India, and as a Woman in America MEENA ALEXANDER Wehavenoceremonieos,nlyprivatedirBeasndno conclusionos,nlyviolentsensationse,achseparate1. -VirBiniaWoolf...

...Reetika Vazirani Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 WHAT A FISHER GIRL SAID IN DEFENSE OF ABSENCE, HER LOVER ReetikaVazirani at least he kept his promise he said I'll make you rich even though he left when I close my eyes I'm hitched to his strides he's shown me my house...

...Samantha Pinto Abstract “Why must all girls want to be flag women?” laments one critic regarding what he sees as the infiltration of “Carnival” culture into the performative desires of Indo-Trinidadian women. The intersections of soca, a form of music derived from the traditional Carnival genre...

...Karsonya Wise Whitehead Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD Lesson Plan: Them Girls SureGot History: Notes on Becoming a Forensic HerstoricalInvestigator IntendedAudience:9th-12th grade and postsecondary students ScopeandSequence:This lesson plan set examines...

...Kimberly A. Scott; Patricia Garcia Abstract Discourse about girls and women of color in technology has followed the familiar path of using a single-unit analysis to explain disparity. Consequently, approaches to “motivate” girls of color overemphasize gender and engage in technological...

... digital self-care practices. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 ERIN L. BERRY-MCCREA "To My Girls in Therapy, See Imma Tell You This fo Free . . ."1: Black Millennial Women Speaking Truth to Power in and across the Digital Landscape Abstract This paper describes the ways that Black millennial women...

... Imaginary is a multivalent prism that aids in the recovery of the losses, the undermining, the layered violence, the joys, and the embodied experiences of Black girls. As a methodology, Black/Girlhood Imaginary weaves both the fullness and fissures of Black girlhoods, opening up the space for Black girls...

...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Abstract This study explores the relationship between past and future in neo-slave narratives that feature Black girl protagonists. Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women tells the story of six enslaved women and their youngest recruit Lilith, as they organize a slave...

...Carrie N. Baker Abstract This essay analyzes the portrayal of sex trafficking in representative dramas and documentaries, both Hollywood and independent films. The majority of these films use a rescue narrative to tell the story of sex trafficking: an innocent and naïve young woman or girl...

...Ayesha Hardison Abstract This essay examines black women's transition from cultural consumers to artistic producers in Martha Southgate's under-studied novel Third Girl from the Left . Analyzing the text's exploration of black women's misrepresentation in popular film and mainstream narratives...

...Stephanie Troutman; Ileana Jiménez Abstract This coauthored article examines the ways in which teaching Black feminism in both high school and undergraduate contexts can inspire Black feminist activism in young Black women and girls. Using the work of bell hooks as a foundation for designing...

...Anne Moraa Abstract The essay explores, through the author’s work in developing educational content for adolescent girls, the importance of listening to girls’ distinct voices and looking beyond the numbers when seeking to create impact. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 Kenya activism...

... bodies (i.e. gynecology and other medical and drug experimentation) have not been equitably disseminated to Black women and girls. Black women sex educators possess a unique set of knowledge and skills that, when centered, has the potential to positively and materially impact the way that sexuality...

... about Muslim women have also marked the rhetoric of Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Cherie Booth, and Condoleezza Rice. In contrast, this article draws on various photographic counter-narratives, among them “the girl in the blue bra,” that transnational feminists circulated through social media during...

...Uddipana Goswami Abstract A reflection on the different forms that violence against women takes in militarized societies like that in Assam in Northeast India. A young girl living with an abusive father is married off to an abusive husband. Like other women living with quotidian violence, she...