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... are all around us; they are precious relatives who have witnessed our people struggle, survive, and thrive in this place, Since Time Immemorial. Maybe you have an Auntie who battles big monsters in settler society: the courts, health care systems, social services, prisons, police, schools, or church...

... "dragon ladies" is the parallel erasure of Filipinas from the construction "Asian American women," which is most often understood to signify solely women ofJapanese or Chinese descent. Moreover, Filipino Americans continue to be marginalized within Asian OF MONSTERS AND MOTHERS 3 America itself as well...

... that make palpable the entrenched effects of anti-Black violence. Casal’s scholarship practices what queer Cuban philosopher José Muñoz calls “disidentification.” Against a tradition that dismisses women as monsters, she reformats Cuban and Black thought by assuming the role of Shakespeare and Fernández...

..., when the settler-colonial monster oozes toward you with the intention of suffocating your hope, your spirit, your love . . . gather up whatever kindness and care you have left in your power . . . and join us in sitting quietly, respectfully, and ready to soak up Auntie’s precious teachings. —Michelle...

... the fact that not all of her comrades behaved badly, my interviewee often used the phrase “behaved like monsters.” She argued that the tough conditions of war brought out the “monster,” even within good soldiers. This view is problematic since it dismisses the magnitude of wartime sexual violence...

... and the Muslims, 2018. Figure 4. Devouring Becky by Laylatul Qadr. Digital collage. Image courtesy of Qadr and the Muslims, 2018. Punk rock exploits and reveals social prejudices and anxieties. The zombie, the alien, and the monster are all welcome in punk’s extensive embrace of rejects that includes...

... the rest of the essay. In her reflective essay Medrano-Marra sidesteps the less savory angles of the ciguapa, including well-known depictions of her as serial seducer and nocturnal predator of men. Journalist Isabelia Herrera ( 2015 ) points out that the monster version first appeared in a late...

..., flying boulders that whiz past Indiana and the dancers. There are snakes and monsters made of rocks that emerge from the ground. Disembodied purple legs walk alongside Indiana as she traverses the screen. Yet, the queer dancing of men of color offers a counternarrative. The queer Dominican migrant, here...

... backsallof us may wantto run in verydtlferentdirections. And not only that: even though both "Olive" and "I" live inside a conflict neither one of us created, and even though both of us therefore hurt MERIDIANS TRIBUTE TO JUNE JORDAN 13 inside that conflict, I may be one of the monsters she needs...

... autoimmune illness as a             “death sentence.” They offer a reprieve through treatment. We are not so sure; the root has always been oppression. Unlike the rest of the khandaan, I know he means it when he says he’d prefer to die than to be caught in the maw of the monster...

... of him, she will make love to a man and a monster, she will rise from her bed, grenades ticking in her. (Martinez 1994, 82) 12 In the violent, climactic scene of the novel, Ana's voice rings prophetic as Jose Luis transforms into a monster that beats his North American lover, Marfa. The "grenades ticking...

... cosmopolitan feminist rhetoric." And in Luz Calvo's essay "Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and EDITOR'S FAREWELL VII the Work of Alma Lopez" as well as in Melinda Luisa de Jestis's "Of Monsters and Mothers: Filipina American Identity and Maternal Legacies in Lynda J...

... in Bagram. Each party in their own turn did their own brand of cruelties and atrocities on us. From Gulbuddin to Burhanuddin, the Hazaras, the Dostumis, they did nothing but worsen peoples lives. The worst amongst all of them were the Taliban. The mullahs turned to monsters. God has given us a throat...

... that the Malik decision was rendered the Punjab and Haryana High Court issued a ruling where one finds early evidence of the judicial characterization of the anti-cruelty law as a Frankenstein-like monster. At the conclusion ofits judgment in the HarjeetSinghAhluwaliav. StateofPunjab case the court makes...

... the war on patriarchy” (Das 2019 ). These violations have led to the creation of a monstrous situation in the Northeast, as Veio K. Pou ( 2015 : 4) affirms: “If colonialism was the monster, the postcolonial, after overcoming the monster, became the monster incarnate.” At the same time...

...–88). When imagined as subversives, witches, and monsters, incarcerated women are transformed into alien objects that must be eradicated in accordance with law and modernity: “Torture, rape, impunity. The taboo was founded on these unprotected subjects, without rights, almost unmentionable...

... already figured through a monster-terrorist-fag framework (Puar and Rai 2002 ). A key alibi witness for Syed, Bilal, who could testify that he was with Syed at the alleged time of the murder (Syed was practicing a speech he was scheduled to deliver the following night at his mosque) failed to show up...

...), Paradisesuggests that choosing to lose a sister is nothing short of criminal. Monstrous Women Bridling Monsters The multiple sacrifices of women in Paradise-culminating with the death of Sweetie Fleetwood's daughter-leave some critics and readers highly dissatisfied with the redemptive, magical-realist overtones...

... on her deathbed calls her “the monster who devoured her son” and left her life empty of meaning. Figure 4. Bilqis and Mrs. Khan at a party hosted by West Pakistani army officers. Figure 4. Bilqis and Mrs. Khan at a party hosted by West Pakistani army officers. In Hasan’s absence, Bilqis...

... by an actress from the Bollywood film industry. In this sense it is truly representative of the repertory ofimages that conjure up the Asian woman as "the sensual woman who is there to be used by the man, the East as a kind of mysterious place full of secrets and monsters" (Jhally 1998). These differences...