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“A Real Feminine Journey”: Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Nancy Marie Mithlo Abstract Despite the prevailing acceptance of homogenized global sensibilities in media productions, many American Indian and other indigenous artists continue to articulate a sovereign, bounded, and discrete identity based on land, family, and memory. Both material (embodied...
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Indigenous to No Land
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 240.
Published: 01 March 2013
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Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Lena Palacios Abstract This essay, with accompanying lesson plan, explores how race-radical women of color feminist activists—in particular, Black and indigenous feminists—identify, conceptualize, theorize, and resist the carceral state violence of white settler societies in both Canada...
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How to Write about Hawai'i: A Guide to the Handling of Indigenous Characters, Inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina's “How to Write About Africa”
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 157–160.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Maoli and Chamoru student at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She is majoring in political science and is formerly a Next Leader with the Institute for Policy Studies. She currently works with domestic violence survivors and organizes for indigenous rights. 160 MERIDIANS16:1 ...
View articletitled, How to Write about Hawai'i: A Guide to the Handling of <span class="search-highlight">Indigenous</span> Characters, Inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina's “How to Write About Africa”
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Indigenous Feminist Notes on Embodying Alliance against Settler Colonialism
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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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Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 522–547.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lena Palacios Abstract This essay, with accompanying lesson plan, explores how race-radical Black and Indigenous feminists theorize and resist the carceral state violence of White settler nations of Canada and the United States. It focuses on the theoretical interventions driven by Indigenous...
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“A Real Feminine Journey”: Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 310–339.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Nancy Marie Mithlo Abstract Despite the prevailing acceptance of homogenized global sensibilities in media productions, many American Indian and other indigenous artists continue to articulate a sovereign, bounded, and discrete identity based on land, family, and memory. Both material (embodied...
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Safe Motherhood Initiative: Whither African Indigenous Birthing Knowledge?
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 263–294.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Esther Oluwashina Ajayi-Lowo Abstract In the quest to create global maternal health care protocols, African Indigenous birthing epistemologies are often overlooked in research, policy, and advocacy aiming to improve maternal health and reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). The global maternal...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of Guajajara and Xakriabá and their leadership in Amazonian Indigenous environmental justice movements. 2 Elena Langdon, a Smith College undergraduate majoring in Portuguese, translated from the Portuguese language to English, and we include both the original and translation here. 1 An inquiry...
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Indigenous Women on the Frontlines of Climate Activism: The Battle for Environmental Justice in the Amazon
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 82–109.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Sônia Bone Guajajara; Célia Xakriabá; Malcolm McNee; Elena Langdon Abstract In this public address, transcribed and translated from the Portuguese, two leaders of Brazil’s pan-ethnic Indigenous rights movement, Sônia Bone Guajajara and Célia Xakriabá, describe their respective formation...
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The “Grandmother” of Indigenous Filmmaking in New Zealand: Merata Mita—Film Is Her Patu
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 156–174.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Denise Schallenkammer Abstract With reference to Heperi Mita’s documentary Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2018) about his mother, Merata Mita, this article illustrates the importance of Indigenous filmmaking by providing insights into the work and life of New Zealand’s first female Māori...
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“we were two ends of one taut rope”: Audre Lorde and Black-Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 37–62.
Published: 01 April 2025
... a beautiful account of her intimate interaction with Chukchee writer Antonina Kymytval’. This article is focused on exploring the connection between U.S. Black and Soviet Indigenous writers to unravel the alternative visions of solidarity across differences and geographies that this moment of reciprocity may...
View articletitled, “we were two ends of one taut rope”: Audre Lorde and Black-<span class="search-highlight">Indigenous</span> Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands
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Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 182–209.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Mariam Georgis Abstract The author’s work spans the disciplinary boundaries of political science, Middle East studies, Indigenous studies, and their subfields. Broadly situated within critical theoretical bodies of knowledge, she focuses on an Indigenous nation in what is today known as Iraq. Her...
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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
...Ruthann Lee Abstract Contemporary feminist scholars problematize the difficulties of creating meaningful political alliances between Indigenous and diasporic communities in settler states such as Canada and the United States. This essay uses a relational framework to trace how two feminist artists...
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View articletitled, Honoring the Ancestors and Creator: <span class="search-highlight">Indigeneity</span>, Diaspora, and the Politics of Spiritual Relationality in Tannis Nielsen’s A Creation and Rosa Sungjoo Park’s Forgotten Dreams
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Rehumanizing Ainu: Performance of Desubjectification and a Politics of Singularity
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., which emphasizes the sameness of their humanity with the dominant Japanese rather than arguing for Ainu ethnic difference or their colonial history. At first glance, their performance and iterations seem detached from the discourse of Indigenous resistance. However, this article demonstrates how...
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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
...Candy Martínez Abstract Anthropologists and social scientists have examined how Oaxacans oppose conventional models of health, insisting on maintaining their own epistemologies for practical, spiritual, and economic reasons. Much of the academic literature does not consider Indigenous knowledge...
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The Making Is the Story: Sovereignty, Sharing, and the Seven Sisters Cloak
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 89–125.
Published: 01 April 2025
... photographs of project participants wearing the cloak. This project is part of an initiative to imagine and forge a Living Archive of Aboriginal Art, based in Australia. The objective: to radically reimagine what archives are and what they do, from Indigenous perspectives. The authors argue that photography...
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“Counter Me!”: Militarization, Postcoloniality, and the Poetics of Historical Experience in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi”
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 190–213.
Published: 01 April 2025
... existence in the form of counterinsurgent military operations. These operations develop persecutorial knowledge apparatuses around tribal and Indigenous life-worlds and produce the categories of “terrorist” and “insurgent” in order to render dissenting bodies violable. In response, Devi animates how tribal...
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Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender: A Native Feminist Approach to Belonging
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 22–40.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Renya Ramirez Abstract Too often there is the assumption in Native communities that we as indigenous women should defend a tribal nationalism that ignores sexism as part of our very survival as women as well as our liberation from colonization. In contrast, in this essay, I assert that race, tribal...
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Decolonizing Britain and Domesticating Women: Race, Gender, and Women's Work in Post-1945 British Decolonial and Metropolitan Liberal Reform Discourses
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Denise Noble Abstract This article deploys an intersectional, transnational, and postcolonial approach to uncovering what is repressed and connoted in recent pronouncements that multiculturalism in Britain has failed and that it is time for Britain to return to a lost, indigenous, “active, muscular...
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