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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 102–108.
Published: 01 March 2004
... alluded to earlier, I was increasingly concerned about the disconnect between various progressive movements at a time when broadening our base of action was critical. Like many before me, I recognized in human rights a vehicle for grass-roots multi-issue organizing across communities of comfort, identity...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 187–203.
Published: 01 September 2000
... life. In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s most of us 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...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 29–67.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Sonia E. Alvarez Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 ESSAYS Translatingthe Global Effects of Transnational Organizing on Local Feminist Discourses and Practices in Latin America SONIA E. ALVAREZ International activism has been a defining feature of both first- and second-wave...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 155–191.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Kimberly Springer Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 ESSAY The Interstitial Politics of Black Feminist Organizations KIMBERLY SPRINGER The sociopolitical conditions and social movements of the late 1960s gave rise to an unprecedented growth in Black feminist consciousness...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 174–182.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Destiny Wiley-Yancy Abstract The Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization’s (AAPSO) Presidium Committee on Women met to prepare for the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya. The committee aimed to tackle the impact of colonialism and imperialism and the ways...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 51–68.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to engage with political issues, I suggest that this film does engage with politics by drawing on organic hybridity to hint at how individuals can negotiate different ways of living and of identification to subvert the rigid political realities of their lives. Thus, although the British (Sandhurst)-trained...
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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
> Meridians
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 (2014) 12 (2): 142–152.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Abstract On June 2, 2013, Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind and Mobile Homecoming organized a celebration of the 150 th anniversary of the Combahee River uprising, an epic event organized by Harriet Tubman in which nearly 800 enslaved Africans achieved their freedom...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
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 Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 32. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee drawing blood from a woman at the mobile health clinic Alpha Kappa Alpha set up in a Mississippi church, 1938. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Health Committee. Miscellaneous Organizations Collection, SSC.
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 33. The 1938 Mississippi Health Project . Fourth Annual Report of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, December 1938. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Health Committee. Miscellaneous Organizations Collection, SSC. (See Supplement 11 [23 pp.].)
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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 (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Elisabeth Armstrong Abstract In 1949, at a conference instigated by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) held in Beijing, China, the Asian Women’s Conference solidified an anticolonial, antifascist, and antiracist theory for organizing women transnationally. This transnational...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., amplified by activists on the outside and international human rights organizations documenting prison conditions, highlight rampant violations of human rights behind walls. The gendered nature of racism, which fuels the growth of the prison industrial complex, results in experiences of violence, including...
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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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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 163–197.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of organizing: direct service, civil rights, community organizing, and philanthropy. The interview offers a general outline of Saika's path as a postwar progressive who embraces her generation's challenge to build an ethnic movement that affirms Asian American identity and rights while it also advances a broad...
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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 (2018) 17 (1): 51–81.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Michael J. New Abstract Sarah Webster Fabio taught some of the earliest Black studies courses at Merritt College and the University of California, Berkeley, where founding members of the Black Panther Party and other activist organizations took her classes. In the mid-1960s she earned...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 340–369.
Published: 01 October 2021
... neighbor, Pakistani women from both wings were quickly pulled into the orbit of US- and Soviet-sponsored women’s organizations targeting women around the world. In this article, the author focuses on the relationship between Pakistani and US women in the 1950s that emerges from the memoirs, biographies...
