... who is invisible-who is erased-in the United States, whose voices are inaudible? Strictly speaking, the subject ofincarceration hasn't been at the center of my life's work as a scholar and activist, even while I have focused on questions about what racism looks like, how it functions, how it has been...

...Sally McWilliams Abstract In The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam , Ann Marie Fleming creates an illustrated memoir that highlights the connections between generations of diasporic Chinese subjects. Nominally a memoir about her great-grandfather, Fleming uses the politics of vaudeville and her great...

... blackfeministlenstotheworkofEmilieFranceDs avis. Starting at the Place Where We Stand Reading life through the lens of black feminism offers the reader an analytical framework for interpreting the social world. Disturbing images and treatment of black women can be seen as a set of social scripts that are the "legacy of racism, sexism...

... and consciousness of freedom and well-being. In so doing I have come to understand that being free of patriarchy in new ways is essential to my dignity and well-being as a female person and that I cannot experience pleasure as an intellectual and creative force without crafting and living a life of feminist dignity...

... rights papers. In addition, Cook's activism on this front also facilitated the opening of the 5,000-page file on Eleanor Roosevelt (Cook 1996, 286; Rattiner 2003). As I thought about her contributions, a kind of paradigmatic phrase came to mind that sums up much ofher life and work. Blanche Wiesen Cook...

...Ina C. Seethaler Abstract Jane Jeong Trenka's adoption memoir received harsh criticism for its negative stance against transnational adoption. Within a small yet growing group of life-writing works on transnational adoption, I see Trenka as an important voice in challenging the dominant cultural...

...Eman Ghanayem Abstract Part memoir, part theoretical reflection, this essay offers one answer to the question “How do Palestinians grieve?” In this narration of the author’s mother’s relationship to death, her multiple displacements, and her plan for her life, the term proactive grief is used...

....” Normalized chaos is defined as a defense mechanism used by Black women to minimize daily hassels and life situations, viewing them as part of their “normal” life. Normalizing chaos leads to cocreated self-violence and trauma under the guise of martyrdom. By disrupting the narrative of normalized chaos within...

..., or flatten. Tubman is often discussed as an exceptional but lone figure or in ways that animate stereotypes of black women's unparalleled strength. Her life's work is also often fragmented, meaning that her varied activism and different forms of coalition-building remain undertheorized and under-recognized...

... of these dialogues offers an opportunity to pose new questions about the erotic life of slavery. This essay is a call to explore and a foundational excavation of the sexual lives of black women during slavery, and more specifically, historical narratives of pleasure. Grappling with the erotic lives of black women...

...Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Abstract Migration is a fundamental constitutive element of Caribbean life, culture, and identity, made so by colonialism, local and regional economic insecurity, and educational opportunities abroad. A plethora of scholars, filmmakers, poets, and novelists have indexed...

... devises coping mechanisms: often the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred. The unbearable burden of a life abused (and its grim ending) can be made bearable only through recourse in the unreal and the magical. Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 Assam Northeast India folklore...

... but also the living, tending to immaterial energies that shift the fecund terrain of both life and death. 25 Muñoz ( 1999 : 5) describes disidentification as a “survival strategy that works within and outside the dominant public sphere simultaneously.” 26 Pedro Lopez, email interview...

... to, their domestic roles and invested in building religiously educated families and communities. The group has gained unprecedented popularity among urban Pakistani women, influencing the ways that women practice and participate in religious discourse in everyday life. Due precisely to its influence, the group has...

... blessedness, which considered single women's vocations and charity as indirectly supporting heteronormative marriage rather than challenging it. Reading through the lens of black feminist scholarship and recent research in singleness studies, this essay traces how the period of mid-life singleness for Tubman...

...Umayyah Cable Abstract This article focuses on the life experience and political activism of Palestinian American lesbian activist Huda Jadallah as a representative example of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT/queer) Arab Americans came out to both queer communities and Arab...

... a seven-volume series of chapbooks entitled Rainbow Signs. Yet Webster Fabio’s contributions to the Black Student, Black Power, and Black Arts movements have been largely forgotten by most who aren’t themselves veterans of these struggles. This essay recovers Webster Fabio’s life story and literary art...

...Tom J. Abi Samra Abstract This article is in two parts. The first part provides an overview of the life of the Egyptian feminist Doria Shafik (1908–1975) by drawing extensively on the work of her biographer Cynthia Nelson. This allows readers unfamiliar with Shafik to understand her social...

...—should be recognized as survival strategies for African diasporic subjects. At the Full depathologizes these strategies, offering them a place within the neo-archive and incorporating them into the history of black life in the New World. Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 LAUREN J. GANTZ Archiving...