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Archiving the Door of No Return in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
... longing for documentary proof only serves to emphasize how much of her history has been lost forever, and her efforts at reconstruction become a source of grief. I argue that Brand's novel suggests that other means of dealing with painful histories—such as compartmentalization or attempting to forget...
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“To My Girls in Therapy, See Imma Tell You This fo Free . . .”: Black Millennial Women Speaking Truth to Power in and across the Digital Landscape
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of oppression that reproduce practices of marginalization, silence, and erasure. To counter this, they embrace and reproduce narratives of resilience that remain pervasive in cultural and subcultural locales of their lives while also “speaking truth to power” where they work to confront their pain via radical...
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Re-membering Ourselves: Confession as a Pathway to Conscientization
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 351–362.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Courtney Bryant Abstract In her book Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength , Chanequa Walker-Barnes (2014) offers a theological analysis of the myth of the “StrongBlackWoman,” a trope that suggests that black women do not have the same human needs or experience pain like others...
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Dominican Futurism: The Speculative Use of Negative Aesthetics in the Work of Rita Indiana
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in which Dominicans are the agents of change. This article argues that Indiana’s version of Dominican futurism engages with “negative aesthetics”—defined here as the aesthetics of disorientation, dystopia, and disgust. Negative aesthetics offer a way of staying with the pain and unrest of trauma...
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A Conversation with Doris H. Gray on the Power and Limitations of Restorative Justice across History, Culture, and Gender
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 399–407.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Rosetta Marantz Cohen; Doris H. Gray Abstract This interview with Doris H. Gray, author of Leaving the Shadow of Pain: A Cross-cultural Exploration of Truth, Trauma, Reconciliation, and Healing , explores the impact of political trauma across time, and the strategies for healing and justice...
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Woman Song
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 257–260.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Carol Bailey BookReviews WomanSona.ByJean Goulbourne. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2002. 48 pp. Softcover, $12.95. Jean Goulbourne's collection of poems entitled WomanSongdelivers what the title promises-several poignant vignettes of female experience and, more specifically, female pain...
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Mothers, Daughters, and the Lash: Mourning the Mother Tongue in Toni Morrison’s Mercy
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 334–349.
Published: 01 October 2022
... for American literature itself—essentially characterized by pain and longing for a wholeness never to be fulfilled. Notwithstanding the desires of the characters and perhaps even the desires of American origin mythology, the logics and indeed the very language of this “new” world are rooted in the past...
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Mourning in America: A Black Mother’s Blues Song: for the mothers of Tamir Rice & Tyre King
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 December 2016
... stood still then the world would stop moving simply because we did there are too many bodies too many memories too many bullets too many marches too many hash tags to properly mourn to fully engage to disconnect so we bury these feelings of fear of pain of mourning of emptiness somewhere inside...
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Sisterhood Birthed through Colonialism: Using Love Letters to Connect, Heal, and Transform
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 265–292.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... Your joy is my joy. Your pain is my pain. It reminds me of the Mayan principle In Lak’Ech , meaning that you are my other me. Love , Milagros July 12, 2020 Dear Milagros, It is interesting that you mention our visit to the Museum Van Loon during our trip...
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Women's Resistance Conference—Excerpts from Speech
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 283–288.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., no. 2, pp. 283-8] ©2002 by Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. policy is soaked in blood. Yes, we have all seen and felt the trauma and pain of the attacks in the United States and are trying to grasp the fact of the numbers of people who died. We feel the pain of those attacks every day...
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Memory's Muse
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 26–35.
Published: 01 September 2011
... RestandCare She complains of a throbbing pain climbing up and down her right leg. A gentle massage and a day of rest budge the flow of blood clots that rupture like coal burned to soot and ash. Muscle and tissue stifle these troubled veins. Veins clogged by years of ardent labor. Ash mounts over her sick bed...
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Reflections of a Human Rights Educator
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 124–128.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... exceptionalism on the global scale-as well as right here at home. Reflectionosfa HumanRiBhtsEducator BY DAZ6N DIXON DIALLO In my early days as an activist, I spent a lot of my time examining the problems in the world, and dreaming of ways to eradicate the pain and suffering oflife on Earth. So many forces work...
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On the Wings of Morning
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 236–237.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Eunice Heath Tate EUNICE HEATH TATE onthewingsofmorning i'm gonnalay downmy burden downby theriverside downby you said i came to you after a hard day's work maneuvering the dark tunnel from your center the searing pain whipped your loins and there i was a small scream clearing my throat the future...
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Contesting Militarized Violence in “Northeast India”: Women Poets against Conflict
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 April 2021
... “with the wistful whispers / of autumnal leaves,” a secret language that expresses communion with nature and ancestral spirits (157). Instead, the wounded landscape sings its pain in bloodied rivers that flow upstream, “rivers [that] are running red” (158). Once gurgling rivers and streams are now forced to choke...
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101 memories of midnight miracles
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 54–56.
Published: 01 March 2003
... the music of your voice the threat of the leaving night the visions of fading dye Legends we linked together sea across sea a stitch of words spliced from two languages members of the same family separated along grim linesbooming sounds too painful to simply hear [Meridians:feminismr,acet...
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 137–164.
Published: 01 April 2025
... disturbed me deeply and ultimately changed the way I see the world. I have witnessed human intensity, pain, and the complexity of extensive resilience, as well as total heartbreak. The research was very painful and emotionally exhausting; while reporting my first-round field visit in 2015 in an academic...
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Structural Trauma
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 April 2024
... . Pember Mary Annette . 2016 . “ Intergenerational Trauma: Understanding Natives’ Inherited Pain .” Indian Country Today . Ritchie Andrea . 2017 . Invisible No More: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color . Boston : Beacon Press . Rodriguez Tori . 2015...
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Marielle, Presente!
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 207–211.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Sol há de brilhar mais uma vez / a luz há de brilhar nos corações / o mal será queimada a semeste / o amor será eterno novamente . . . ” 11 We would have talked about what it means to hope as we honor our pain in struggle. You would have taught me so much. We would have listened and tended to each...
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Carlota’s Hum: An Archive Fiction
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 April 2022
... could hear. It hurt her body, her ears, and everything climaxed to her head, a pounding she could not move through. She got back in the bed defeated by her own body. She tried to wait for the pain to quiet down, until it was just her, the silence and her body that did not know how to lay in this bed...
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Womanism and Black Women’s Health
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 329–332.
Published: 01 March 2018
... is reflected and manifested individually as physical and mental illness and collectively as dissociation, disconnection, poverty, injustice, and violence. Today, masses of people are in pain. They experience malaise, estrangement, depression, demoralization, and acute sickness. These conditions are endemic...
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