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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Erica R. Meiners Abstract Using recent work by anti-prison theorists and community-based activists who are working against the prison industrial complex, this article links prison abolition to feminist frameworks to question escalating sex offender registries and community notification laws...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2001
... on a global scale. Yet,even with this increasing attention, the violence linked to women's prisons remains obscured by the social invisibility of the prison. There, violence takes the form of medical neglect, sexual abuse, lack of reproductive control, loss of parental rights, denial oflegal rights...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Julia Sudbury Abstract This article examines the experiences of black, gender-oppressed women, and transgender activists in the anti-prison movement in the U.S. and Canada. By foregrounding the experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming activists, the author makes visible the reality...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Angela Y. Davis; Cassandra Shaylor Abstract Despite the transnational growth of the prison industrial complex and the rapid expansion of the carceral state in the United States and beyond, violence against women in prisons has remained largely invisible. Reports from people inside prisons...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 300–305.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Pasadena on August 29 th 2015. In a move designed to attack the Black Lives Matter Movement and to disrupt their work in Pasadena, Jasmine was arrested and charged with "felony lynching” a California law against taking a person out of police custody which carries a sentence of up to 4 years in prison...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 236–264.
Published: 01 April 2022
...) and 2) concerning the U.S. prison industrial complex (its “school to prison pipeline,” discriminatory sentencing practices, as well as police and prison workers’ violence against women). The author applies intersectional theory developed by Black feminists to UN Working Group reports, ICERD’s shadow...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 December 2016
... insights have those critiques generated in the activist scholarship on social movements dedicated to anti-racist, feminist anti-violence, Indigenous decolonial, and anti-prison abolitionist praxis? Proceeding from the argument that both prison abolitionist praxis and race-radical feminist praxis...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 414–442.
Published: 01 October 2021
... advocating for rethinking the criminal justice system through prison abolition and restorative justice, it posits that seeking state recognition for hate crimes cannot provide justice given that the state is responsible for constructing Muslims as a national security threat. It explores how anti-Muslim...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 522–547.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... Its transnational, comparative focus helps us to not only identify but to create multiple strategies that dismantle the carceral state and the racialized gendered violence that it mobilizes and sustains. Proceeding from the argument that both prison abolitionist praxis and race-radical feminist praxis...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 63–70.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Rickie Solinger Copyright © 2007 by Smith College 2007 RICKIE SOLINGER WAKEUP/ARTS InterruptedLife:Incarcerated Mothersin the United States A TravelingPublicArtExhibition The anti-prison movement in the United States is a growing activist front, partly because the numbers are so shocking...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 40–67.
Published: 01 March 2004
... humanimaginationbecametryingto achieveit. -Reverend Misner,in ToniMorrison'Ps aradise In 1998, the Directors' Review Committee of the Texas prison system banned Toni Morrison's Paradisefrom Texas prisons. According to the Review Committee, Morrison's novel contains "information of a racial nature" that "a reasonable person...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and prison but also the home and university. Nicole Fleetwood’s book and exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020); Grief and Grievance , an exhibition (2021) and book (2020) conceived by the late Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor; and Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Victoria Brittain VICTORIA BRITTAIN Guantanamo AfeministperspectivoenU.S. human r(ghtsviolations The Play On 24 May 2004 in London our play Guantanamo,HonourBoundto Defend Freedomopened in Tricycle, a small London theater. It is a play using only the words of the families ofBritish prisoners held...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Angela . n.d. “ The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation with Dylan Rodriguez .” History Is a Weapon (accessed April 22 , 2021 ). www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/davisinterview.html . Deeb Lara . 2018 . Keynote address at BRISMES Conference 2018, “ New Approaches...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 September 2014
... it was. Yousee where I'm going people get erased and excluded. Audiencemember:I am a doctoral student from the School of Social Welfare. Myquestion is in regard to what Harriet would do with the connection between the prison-industrial complex and race and the notion that it's the new slavery, which is explained...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 78–92.
Published: 01 March 2006
... In English, her play is titled TwelveWomenin a Cell(1994). I know of no record of it having been performed in Egypt, but it was produced by the Arcola Theatre in London in 2004 (Arcola 2005). It is a semiautobiographical dramatization of Dr. el Saadawi's incarceration in the women's prison at Qanatir...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 241–245.
Published: 01 September 2001
... incarceration, Davis was acquitted. In 1998, she helped to organize a national conference on prison issues at UC Berkeley, "Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex," which is the focus of her current scholarship and activism. Her most recent publications include The AngelaDavisReader and Blues...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2007
... project, Gilman juxtaposes incompatible perspectives and political commitments that emerge in real-life interactions. The real-life interactions of mothers domiciled in prison is strikinglyand disturbingly-presented by Rickie Solinger in this art essay entitled, "Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 65–72.
Published: 01 March 2001
... within communities of color without addressing these larger structures of violence, such as militarism, attacks on immigrants' rights and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, economic neo-colonialism, and institutional racism. A second problem is that rape crisis centers and shelters...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 149–157.
Published: 01 September 2011
... involved." The police came to the camp twice, but they only patrolled the perimeter. Because the day of the earthquake, January 12, the prison wasn't destroyed but it was opened, people let out. Youdon't know where the key went because it was open. Everyone who was in prison-rapists, thieves, bandits...