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Mel- han -cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 36–61.
Published: 01 September 2011
... bodies may then legitimate familiar patterns of remembrance. JENNIFER CHO MEL·HAN·CHOLIA AS POLITICAL PRACTICE 37 In the U.S., the grief of racialized others is managed through the expectation that they relinquish those oppressive histories around which minority identity is often organized. Histories...
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Mel- han -cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 410–434.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Koreans in the U.S. This is because the history of the Korean peninsula cannot be recalled without sparking memory of American intervention. Cha reminds us to pursue a kind of conscientious historical practice, in which we examine not so much the validity of one’s grief over another’s, but the state’s...
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Transnational Feminism as Critical Practice: A Reading of Feminist Discourses in Pakistan
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 57–82.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of social behavior. TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM AS CRITICAL PRACTICE 59 I draw on Kandiyoti's insights to highlight the differential relationship of women in different contexts to the traditions ofliberal democracy, pluralism, and fundamental rights. Transnational feminism must steer clear of both cultural...
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Writing Letters as Counter-Archiving: An Afro-Nordic Feminist Care Practice
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 180–203.
Published: 01 April 2023
... an explorative and intuitive practice informed by Black feminist thought, the authors dive into the archives of their families and of the communities that they relate to and are part of as a way to communicate how and why they approach counter-archiving. Black diasporic contributions to Nordic histories...
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Las Krudas, Spatial Practice, and the Performance of Diaspora
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 130–143.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Ronni Armstead Abstract This essay argues that female rappers Las Krudas are, with their music, engaging in trangressive spatial practice. Las Krudas are especially helping to disrupt the classificatory eye's orientalist gaze—which visually and aurally disciplines space through the distribution...
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Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Jennifer C. Nash Abstract This article examines the consolidation of love into a black feminist politics during second-wave feminism. By reading love-politics as both a practice of the self and a nonidentitarian strategy for constructing political communities, I argue that black feminism's love...
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And so I Write You: Practices in Black Women’s Diaspora
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 435–463.
Published: 01 March 2017
... computer keys and handwriting. It is also about conversations, longings, and love. This is about writing things down, spelling them out, and translating experiences into forms that link and inspire, most pointedly, other black women. This essay sketches how black women's writing is a practice of diaspora...
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Transnational Feminist Practices against War
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 131–138.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and repertoires of practice or risk reproducing them anew. Seventh, we call for a deeper understanding of the nature of capitalism and globalization as it generates transnational movements of all kinds. Thus, we seek to counter oppressive transnational movements, from both the “West” as well as the “non-West...
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Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 439–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of second-wave love-practitioners so radical is a fundamental investment in love as a practice of self-work. If Black feminism’s commitment to love has been amplified as an interest in a transformative labor of the self, it has also manifested itself through an advocacy of the formation of affective...
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Translating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organizing on Local Feminist Discourses and Practices in Latin America
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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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Intersectionality in an Era of GlobalizationThe Implications of the un World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 237–248.
Published: 01 March 2002
..." and not historic wrongs, many activists insisted that slavery is an ongoing, contemporary practice. U.S. prison rights activists cited the incarceration of people of color in U.S. prisons as a modern-day form of slavery. African women at a regional meeting of the "Gender Commission" added that modern...
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Transnational Feminist Practices Against War
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 302–308.
Published: 01 March 2002
... significant events and it does so in an ethnocentric manner. Seeking relief through a psychotherapeutic apparatus may be a common practice among Euro-American upper- and middle-class people in the United States, but it should not be assumed to be a universally appealing or effective way to counter experiences...
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Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color for the 21st Century
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 125–132.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and coalition-building and has offered strategies for transformative political practice that are as valid today as they were two decades ago. She pointed out that the new bibliography in the third edition is an example of the research This Brid.9ehas influenced. She also commented on the changes...
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Grounding Emotions Across Borders: Zapotec Healing Practices in Places and Times of Social Strife
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 237–260.
Published: 01 April 2025
... to emphasize these relations during their rituals, challenging nature-versus-human binaries as they reflect on the sources of life and the perceived unity among different beings. My findings illustrate the ways Oaxacans retrieve and practice ancestral forms for healing emotional distress and present-day...
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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
.... Walker-Barnes suggests self-awareness as one of a myriad of interventions to combat the internalization of the StrongBlackWoman myth and the multidimensional manifestations of dis-ease it produces in black women. Offering greater specificity to Walker-Barnes’s strategy, this paper identifies the practice...
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The Vise of Geometry: Distorting Intersectionality at the Scene of Argument
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 September 2018
... that framed gender as the primary axis of oppression and white women as the primary representatives of feminism. Rather than welcoming this critique as a necessary tool for crafting a more capacious feminist practice, many white feminists perceived the emergence of intersectionality as a loss of power...
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Listening in Arabic: Feminist Research with Syrian Refugee Mothers
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 482–507.
Published: 01 October 2019
... internal meetings as a diverse, multigenerational group open to learning from others. Second, a feminist approach requires that the authors center mothers’ words through the critical practice of ensuring shared Arabic language and local knowledge in the research process. The authors offer excerpts...
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Lessons in Transgression: #BlackGirlsMatter and the Feminist Classroom
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 December 2016
... feminism in general, and #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName in particular. The article ultimately demonstrates the importance of women of color feminisms both in and outside of the classroom, as content and as practice, to promote critical self awareness and burgeoning political consciousness...
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PsychoHairapy: Using Hair as an Entry Point into Black Women’s Spiritual and Mental Health
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 382–392.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and the practice of PsychoHairapy includes training hair care professionals in micro-counseling techniques, psychologists housing private psychotherapy sessions within the hair care setting, facilitating salon-based group therapy, and the distribution of psychoeducational materials and workshops to Black women...
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Mourning Methods: Weaving, Burning, Excision, and Preservation
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Amanda Russhell Wallace Abstract There is no encapsulated decisive moment in mourning. Rather, it manifests as time based and time oriented collaging amalgamated from broad notions of the archive. Particularly, the author’s practice of historical collaging interlaces the past and present...
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