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Normalized Chaos: Black Feminism, Womanism, and the (Re)definition of Trauma and Healing
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 343–350.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Shawn Arango Ricks Abstract This paper will discuss how the lens through which Black women view narratives of trauma and resiliency problematizes healing. Lessons learned via elders on how to view and situate themselves within the world can lead to living in a state of “normalized chaos...
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Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that means for positive identity formation and healing from a toxic, homophobic environment. The piece is grounded in Black feminist work such as Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick (2006) and bell hook’s (1990) “Homeplace: A Site of Resistance,” as well...
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#TurbanteoConsciente: Racial Healing through Wearable Resistance
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 97–106.
Published: 01 September 2018
... #I’mBlackandI’mProud. Loíza, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Welmo E. Romero Joseph. Figure 8. Healing Hands. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Gloribel Delgado Esquilín. Figure 8. Healing Hands. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Gloribel Delgado Esquilín. Figure 9. On Becoming . . . San Juan, Puerto Rico...
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Figure 8. Healing Hands. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Gloribel Delgado Esquilín.
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Grounding Emotions Across Borders: Zapotec Healing Practices in Places and Times of Social Strife
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 237–260.
Published: 01 April 2025
... of emotional health. While other scholars focus on the social forces on Oaxacan mental health, this essay draws a through line from Indigenous knowledge to emotional injury through their experiences of migration. In the context of strong Occidental influence on Oaxacan traditions, contemporary healing rituals...
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Sisterhood Birthed through Colonialism: Using Love Letters to Connect, Heal, and Transform
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 265–292.
Published: 01 April 2022
... minoritized women in the U.S. academy to reflect on how this colonial legacy has shaped not only their identities but also their identifications—how and with whom they identify. The authors demonstrate what they refer to as a love letter approach that enables them to foster connection, healing...
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Women in LaForge, Missouri, listening to a speech by a visiting public heal...
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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 21. Women in LaForge, Missouri, listening to a speech by a visiting public health official of the Farm Security Administration, a New Deal agency, which collaborated with the Birth Control Federation of America to deliver birth control services in migrant labor camps, 1938. Library of Congr...
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A Conversation with Doris H. Gray on the Power and Limitations of Restorative Justice across History, Culture, and Gender
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 399–407.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Rosetta Marantz Cohen; Doris H. Gray Abstract This interview with Doris H. Gray, author of Leaving the Shadow of Pain: A Cross-cultural Exploration of Truth, Trauma, Reconciliation, and Healing , explores the impact of political trauma across time, and the strategies for healing and justice...
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Vendidas y Devueltas: Queer Times and Color Lines in Chicana/o Performance
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 114–146.
Published: 01 March 2013
... imperatives, Chicana feminist treatments of imperial trauma and queer erotics provide alternate modes of belonging, healing, and embodiment. Copyright © 2013 by Smith College 2013 AIMEE CARRILLO ROWE Vendidasy Devueltas: QueerTimes and ColorLines in Chicana/oPerformance Abstract...
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Despite Your Tiger Mother, or Your Other Racial Half Will Not Save You from What the World Thinks of Your Blackness
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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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PsychoHairapy: Using Hair as an Entry Point into Black Women’s Spiritual and Mental Health
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 382–392.
Published: 01 March 2018
... significance of informal helping networks, spirituality, and interdependence found in the Black community. Based in Africana Womanism, an exploration of healing modalities in traditional African societies reveals the influential role of hair and spirituality in holistic wellness practices. Therefore...
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Mel- han -cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 410–434.
Published: 01 December 2020
... proposes that mel- han -choly serves a healing function within the diasporic Korean community, offering transnational connectivity through the shared experience of grief. Copyright © 2011 Smith College 2011 melancholy Asian American han Korean diaspora model minority “[Y]our han calls...
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“Where Do You Go When You Go Quiet?”: The Ethics of Interiority in the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Beyoncé
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 184–204.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Sequoia Maner Abstract This essay traces the ethical impulse of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, Lemonade. I frame the writings of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston as antecedent creations that depict black women’s journeys into interior psychic spaces as method for healing. Reading the trope...
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When Diane Tells Me a Story
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 503–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., and the common experience of loss. By exploring the performativity of Black women who are bonded by love and not blood, this essay demonstrates how Black womanhood becomes a conduit for grieving and healing. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 By the evening of December 7, 2013, I...
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Carlota’s Hum: An Archive Fiction
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 April 2022
... healing scenes and also referencing nature-based Yoruba and Cuban Santería practices. Additionally, other records of this legend explain that Carlota only had eyes for another enslaved woman, Fermina. Therefore, the author attempts to push queer imaginations of the two women, beyond the Atlantic and onto...
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#WhenIFellInLoveWithMyself: Disrupting the Gaze and Loving Our Black Womanist Self As an Act of Political Warfare
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 205–217.
Published: 01 December 2016
...) is to have a space where Black women can find healing in others’ moments of clarity about self-love, self-care, mental health, and well-being. Inspired by bell hooks’s discourse on the gaze and rooted in community psychological research with a Womanist approach, the S.O.S. Project builds upon intrinsic...
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Womanism and Black Women’s Health
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 329–332.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Layli Maparyan Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 LAYLI MAPARYAN Womanism and Black Women's Health Womanism is spiritual movement. It is spiritual movement individual, collective toward the realization of our fundamental Innate Divinity. It is movement through healing toward wellness...
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Speaking for Ourselves: Reclaiming, Redesigning, and Reimagining Research on Black Women’s Health
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 219–229.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and healing pedagogies. We quickly understood that it fell upon us to start the conversation. We were both uniquely positioned as trained public health practitioners who are also skilled community health, action-based research, psychology, sociology, urban planning, critical race theory and consciousness...
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Honoring the Ancestors and Creator: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Politics of Spiritual Relationality in Tannis Nielsen’s A Creation and Rosa Sungjoo Park’s Forgotten Dreams
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 52–81.
Published: 01 April 2024
...—as a way to explore the crucial but often disregarded significance of spiritual healing in social justice work. Alexander invokes both Lorde’s and Anzaldúa’s work to argue that erotic knowledge can be a crucial guiding principle for feminism, urging critical scholars to take seriously aspects...
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2025
... M. Jacob, “Yakama Auntie Lessons on How to Outfox a Monster” Trees are of such significance to Indigenous Mesoamerican communities that they sometimes summon the trees for guidance. —Candy Martínez, “Grounding Emotions Across Borders: Zapotec Healing Practices in Places and Times of Social...
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