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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 174–182.
Published: 01 April 2021
... anticolonial and anti-imperial project. Works Cited AAPSO (Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization) . 1972 . Women in Africa and Asia Today . Cairo : Permanent Secretariat of AAPSO . Prashad Vijay . 2007 . The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World . New Press People’s...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 51–68.
Published: 01 December 2020
... hybridity is not merely to be rejected. I also suggest that situational and organic hybridity have roots that intertwine them with each other; that is, that they are also interconnected, an argument I cannot develop in this paper. 6 There are examples of situational hybridity, but I suggest...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 34–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Chandra Frank Abstract This essay draws on the feminist and queer organization Flamboyant, the first and only nationwide Black and migrant women–run meeting place, active in the 1980s in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After five years, the collective was forced to leave their space due to a lack...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 187–203.
Published: 01 September 2000
... involved in left political struggles in Britain behaved as ifidentities organized around "race", gender, nation, and sexuality were static. 1 Yet, somehow, of course, we knew they were not. I would go from my women's group, where all the women were white, and they didn't even notice I...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 29–67.
Published: 01 September 2000
... (for example, feminist ideals) or identities (for example, as Afro-Latin Americans or as lesbians). Second, activists also organize across borders in an effort to expand formal rights or affect public policy, seeking to enhance their local political leverage via what Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink (1998a...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 155–191.
Published: 01 March 2001
... among all organization members. A pitfall of egalitarianism, or structurelessness, is that factionalism can more easily erupt between members with differing political agendas and ideologies who claim a stake in organizational structure. Unfortunately, the NBFOwas never in an organizationally...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 102–108.
Published: 01 March 2004
....9islatiTveacticisn a MovemenSttrate.9y: TheEconomiHc umanRi.9htsPennslyvaniaCampai.9n BY MARY BRICKER-JENKINS The Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU)is a membership organization of poor and homeless families and others, like myself, who are not currently living in poverty but know that it can and must be ended...
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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 41. Group at YWCA Student Conference, Waveland, Mississippi, 1931. Beginning in the early twentieth century, the YWCA took up “colored work,” working initially through segregated associations. In the 1930s the organization took positions against lynching and the poll tax as well
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in Precursor to Women of Color Feminism: The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World and Their Internationalist Orientation
> Meridians
Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 1. “International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World, Statement from the Organization,” p. 1, by Margaret Murray Washington, 1923 . Content published with permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Image produced by ProQuest LLC
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in Precursor to Women of Color Feminism: The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World and Their Internationalist Orientation
> Meridians
Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 2. “International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World, Statement from the Organization,” p. 2, by Margaret Murray Washington, 1923 . Content published with permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Image produced by ProQuest LLC
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in Precursor to Women of Color Feminism: The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World and Their Internationalist Orientation
> Meridians
Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 3. “International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World, Statement from the Organization,” p. 3, by Margaret Murray Washington, 1923 . Content published with permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Image produced by ProQuest LLC
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in Precursor to Women of Color Feminism: The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World and Their Internationalist Orientation
> Meridians
Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 4. “International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World, Statement from the Organization,” p. 4, by Margaret Murray Washington, 1923 . Content published with permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Image produced by ProQuest LLC
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 439–464.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Aurora Santiago Ortiz Abstract Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (La Cole) is a Black feminist political organization that emerged in 2014 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This article discusses the ways La Cole’s public discourse around sexism, racism, and homophobia in the archipelago is articulated...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 62–90.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Khanum Shaikh Abstract The focus of this paper is Al-Huda International, a Pakistan-based Sunni Muslim women's organization working to bring about social reform through women's religious education. Created and led by urban, upper-class Pakistani women, Al-Huda approaches religious interpretation...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 142–152.
Published: 01 September 2014
... at the Combahee River near Beaufort, South Carolina, and the legacy of the Combahee River Collective, a Boston-based, black, lesbian, socialist, feminist organization famous for its analysis of interlocking oppression in the 1970s and early 1980s. With the support of INCITE Women of Color against Violence, Black...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 94–120.
Published: 01 June 2016
... in Salvador, the prevailing image of black women, particularly those who live in poor neighborhoods, is that they lack the knowledge and political sophistication needed to organize mass social movements. This article seeks to undermine this image by exploring how black women have come to radicalize local...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra Abstract This 2018 report reviews the organizing model of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center (PVWC), an organization based in Western Massachusetts that builds the collective power of immigrants and workers. It illustrates how the PVWC practices participatory democracy...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 17. “Program for Action,” a Birth Control Federation of America poster depicting the organization’s approach to establishing birth control services, undated. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Records (PPFA I), SSC.
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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 31. Mothers and children waiting to be treated at the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority traveling health clinic, Mississippi, 1938. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Health Committee. Miscellaneous Organizations Collection, SSC.
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 163–197.
Published: 01 March 2010
... (WAR),the Organization of Asian Women (OAW),and third world women's activism. Since returning to the BayArea in 1983, Saika has continued to combine employment in nonprofits with community activism. From 1983 to 1991she served as executive director of the Asian Law Caucus. In 1986 she became the first...
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