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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 435–463.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and frustrations that are most frequently only shared in the intimacy of their writing. It is precisely these encounters and discoveries that convey how their searches for connection and recognition detail their praxis as one of love. Such examples expand theories of diaspora to include the experiences...
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., ciguapismo in Espaillat’s poetry offers a critical resource, an imaginative faculty, and a liminal ontology for mapping transformative feminist intimacies against a backdrop of ever-encroaching human and environmental losses. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 350–370.
Published: 01 October 2022
... 2022 Smith College 2022 death mourning care intimacy touch “You need to touch the body softly, you have to be gentle,” she noted. “The water shouldn’t be cold or hot, just warm enough, like the water you use to wash babies. Treat the body like she’s still alive.” These are the words...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 382.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., it is polyester and synthetic. polycotton blends of machine designed prints. no hand-woven. no hand-stitched. no passed down cloth that’s lived on the beds of all the women in my family. i have no hand-carved wooden chest, no brass lock and key to keep things safe. no mothballs, no lavender to keep the intimacy...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 169–195.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... Visualizing enslaved blacks, and more specifically "Black Moses," as sexual subjects introduces sexuality, intimacy, pleasure, and erotics into a historical era in which dehumanization and dispossession messily complicate the meaning of consent, complicity, and agency for enslaved black people. Through close...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 206–226.
Published: 01 April 2019
... was anything but dead. Weeks went by with neither a furtive glance nor a nod of intimacy, no sliding touch as they passed each other at the gates. The bourgeois privacy of my mother’s life versus the working-class spectacle of the young mother meant that no more intimate relations passed between the girls...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 56–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., national, and global power structures.' The regulations of intimacy and sexual union by colonial authorities, postcolonial governments, and, subsequently, neo-imperial policies are often realized in institutionalized forms of sexual exploitation and are "violently enacted upon the bodies of Caribbean women...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 34–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the Flamboyant center produced a racialized notion of intimacy (Eng 2010 ; Lowe 2005 ). David Eng ( 2010 : 10) reminds that “racialized subjects and objects are reinscribed into a discourse of colorblindness.” As in the United States, Dutch immigration policies and BMR-focused funding were used to maintain...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 248.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Upasana Agarwal Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 My work often explores queer identity via repetition in patterns. In this work I look at Shazia, my friend, who finds intimacy and peace with herself on a hot summer’s day. She almost crosses the wall but pauses for a moment to ponder...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 82–96.
Published: 01 September 2018
... . Durham : Duke University Press . carrington andré . 2017 . “ Spectacular Intimacies: Texture, Ethnicity, and a Touch of Black Cultural Politics .” Souls 19 , no. 2 : 177 – 95 . Davis Angela . 1994 . “ Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia .” Critical Inquiry 21...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 187–217.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., they had set about creating something else to be" (52). They are girlfriends, dancers, each other's someone, 192 KEVIN EVEROD QUASHIE something, my-thing, me-thing. "Their meeting was fortunate, for it let them use each other to grow on they found in each other's eyes the intimacy they were looking...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2010
... at the American Historical Association's (AHA)2010 meeting in San Diego, California, where historians honored her life and work. As I mentioned at the AHA round table, Cook-who wrote about Eleanor Roosevelt's same-sex intimacies, revealed covert documents detailing the machinations of the CIAunder President...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 September 2015
... between maids and their employers, which include, among other elements, the promise of reciprocal "loyalty." Loyalty is supposed to be mutual in the sense that, while the maid should be discreet about the family's privacy and intimacy, her employer should function as a sort of protector for her...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2014
... songs (Clifton 1987b, 53; Clifton 1991,6I). V.History and the Prophetic In her writing, Clifton understands and approaches history with intimacy. The history about which she writes belongsto her, whether family stories of Dahomey women and slavery, the Biblical accounts of prophets and holy women...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
...—in quotidian practices of mourning? Theorizing the material and symbolic significance of touch in Sunni rituals in contemporary Turkey, the essay inquires what it means for transgender corpses to be denied such intimacies of caring for the dead. Such denials reenact the hegemony of the nexus of family, kinship...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., telling him that she finds his job as a language translator "romantic" (57).As the intimacy between them builds, Mina, in a private moment with Mr. Kapasi during the tour, confesses a sexual secret. She tells him that unbeknownst to her husband, one of her children is the product of an extramarital affair...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 351–362.
Published: 01 March 2018
...; and avoiding intimacy and interdependence compromises the SBW's health by concealing her vulnerabilities and dissociating her suffering. Walker-Barnes (2014) contends: StrongBlackWomen commonly experience a mismatch between their outward appearance and inner reality. The myth of strength effectually creates...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in the United States, or as the father, armed with a video recording device. 13 Such gendered understandings of the space where daughters become dancers speaks to unexamined economies of sexuality and intimacy, inasmuch as these spaces are protected from the male gaze, though implicitly engineered...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Fanon by his first name, Frantz, because he is among my friends, and in that way, I could even claim him as a friend, in the hope that this creates an intimacy and in so doing allows for a thinking with, a building with, a starting with, that does not rely on unusable bibliographies. “How are you...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 97–106.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to generate an intimate approach between women who do or do not know each other. The touch of the hand-fabric-head encounter presents an opportunity to minimize gaps of rivalry, competition, and individuality, giving the women a chance to build an intimacy that grows with verbal compliments and aspires...
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