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... relief, femicide, and policing, this article attends to deep histories of slavery, revolt, and marronage as resources for a feminist rejection of the liberal notions of freedom that make indebtedness possible. Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 debt marronage globalization structural...

... "Theseawaslikeboilingmilk.Butafterthejirstwave,thesedimentchurnedup bythe seamadeit appearlikeboilingmilkwithricein it." -Comment from a fisherman in Nalla Thanni Odai, North Chennai, India On January 15, 2005, three weeks after the Tsunami, I visited relief camps in and around North Chennai, India, with the All India Democratic Women's...

... on their shoulders, and drove kilometers to bury them decently, while the Haitian government treated the bodies of the victims like those of vulgar animals. There were no legal authorities that took over or organized emergency relief for the victims, but the population stood up and took care of one another...

... theirown histories, African American women are able to make "the women whose blood runs through [their] veins breathe amidst the statistics." Women of color have many histories, and those histories can be brought into full and useful relief by providing opportunities for those women to speak for themselves...

...-Katrina relief and recovery. As Simon Reynolds might suggest in his Barthes-inspired ruminations on the singing voice, we should listen for the noise in Blige’s embodied voice, and we should hold still to catch “the way she chews and twists language” in this performance, “not for any decipherable...

... disenfranchisement and white patriarchal and legislative power, arrogance, and humility. 1 Candles in the Wind: Surrogation and (Collective) Griefin the Age of Pop Protest Within the first two and a half weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, a stunning four separate relief benefit telethons aired...

... a medium to investigate her prospects of finding a male companion. The card reader offers the woman no hope of finding the partner she seeks, and the poems ends with the card reader inviting the woman to come again for more "relief." Although this poem alludes to the fraudulence of the spirit medium, its...

...) and HomingDevicesT:hePoorasTargetsof PublicHousingPolicyandPractice(Lexington, 2006).He chairs the Society for AppliedAnthropology's Human Rights and SocialJustice Committee and is active in many grassroots efforts, including earthquake relief. CATHERIRN.ESQUIREisSCowlesProfessor ofJournalism, Diversity,and Equality...

... generally understood that civil liberties were limited. In Mugabe’s Zimbabwe there was freedom before speech but not after; therefore our generation was brought up not to speak or think politics. The day Mugabe resigned brought relief among millions of Zimbabweans who had followed the events leading to his...

... lover fails to read the black enslaved woman’s language of loss and need. Whereas Paul D of Morrison’s Beloved reaches Sethe in her misery over the loss of “her best thing”—her deceased daughter—and restores to Sethe a sense of her autonomous self as her “own best thing,” no similar relief...

... with you I would swim in a lake to find relief from the summer heat, from the weight of your being in my body. Your movement within me like a ripple, a throb without the ache, I could sometimes trace the outline of your arm or leg bowed against the tautness of my belly, the boundary of my skin enfolding...

... discourse tends to reinforce individualist interpretations of globally 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...

... 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...

... the inside of our skulls. What a relief to have someone we could hate together. We sat in an oval, on metal folding chairs around a banquet table, facing each other. Except for Geneva, me, and a woman taking this community Lamaze class to support a friend, everyone else was one half of a serious couple...

... . Maiangwa B. , and Amao O. B. 2015 . “ ‘Daughters, Brides and Supporters of the Jihad’: Revisiting the Gender-Based Atrocities of Boko Haram in Nigeria .” African Renaissance 12 , no. 2 : 117 – 44 . Malik S. 2015 . “ Displaced Persons Face Hunger as Relief Materials Disappear...

... helped. In 1970, three years after I'd gotten this job, a tornado hit downtown Lubbock. Residential areas and the Texas AFL-CIOneeded a tornado relief coordinator, and they EXCERPTS FROM VOICES OF FEMINISM ORAL HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEW 199 couldn't get anybody who had full-time jobs to give up those...

... the highest quality and most resourced health-care systems in the world, but there, as throughout society, institutional racism produces devastating and deadly outcomes for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities. After a brief period of seeming relief due to the development of several...

... of italicized text to provide Roop's alternate perspective, setting it in relief to the dominant male narrations ofJeevan and her father. Third, the testimonial narrations of the men are marked by internal inconsistencies that call into question their interpretive as well as their factual reliability. Finally...

... has been lost forever, making it impossible for her to feel that her forays into the archive can overwrite oppressive histories once and for all. Poignantly, she states that the Door's "perpetual 'no' denies . . . relief, denies an ending or a reconciliation" (26). Brand argues that like those who...

... partner agencies or even fellow mothers. In general, our interview data showed a shift in mothers’ sense of control about their destinies in Toronto across the first several months of their resettlement. In Wave 1, most mothers described a felt sense of relief that they had safely relocated their families...