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in Honoring the Ancestors and Creator: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Politics of Spiritual Relationality in Tannis Nielsen’s A Creation and Rosa Sungjoo Park’s Forgotten Dreams
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2024
Figures 1a–1d. Stills from Forgotten Dreams: Meditations on Narrative Space . Photos courtesy of Rosa Sungjoo Park.
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in Honoring the Ancestors and Creator: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Politics of Spiritual Relationality in Tannis Nielsen’s A Creation and Rosa Sungjoo Park’s Forgotten Dreams
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2024
Figures 2a–2d. Stills from Forgotten Dreams: Meditations on Narrative Space . Photos courtesy of Rosa Sungjoo Park.
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 113–132.
Published: 01 September 2005
... and Afro-Caribbean scholars whose academic benefits and gains are directly tied to the marginalization of African Americans. As scholars of women's studies, our solidarity and coalition with African American feminists must be forged with such kinds of racial history in mind. Teaching offers a wide space...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 26. “Proper Child Spacing Prevents Infant Deaths,” a Birth Control Federation of America poster illustrating the impact of birth control in reducing infant mortality, undated. Florence Rose Papers, SSC.
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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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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 261–292.
Published: 01 September 2008
... authority, legitimacy, legibility, and power. Hip-hop porn provides black women and men an arena for labor and accumulation as well as self-presentation, mediation, and mobility. As a space for work, survival, consumption, and identity-formation, the genre proffers an opportunity to explore the gendering...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 34–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Chandra Frank Abstract This essay draws on the feminist and queer organization Flamboyant, the first and only nationwide Black and migrant women–run meeting place, active in the 1980s in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After five years, the collective was forced to leave their space due to a lack...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 April 2023
... attacks in a “reunited” Germany. Part I explores how these poetics and politics have influenced ongoing efforts to engage with the memory of German colonialism, xenophobia, and memorialization in public spaces. Part II moves the reader into close studies of two contemporary performance works by Afro...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and belonging, as well as analyzing the ejects of how queer, Black, transnational sharing of stories promotes survival and activism. Utilizing a Black feminist framework, this paper seeks to interrogate homeplace for queer people of color, as well as the spaces where activism lives, how it is enacted, and what...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 335–357.
Published: 01 October 2019
... with Indigenous feminisms and transnational feminisms might provide space to move our practices of solidarity against settler colonialism, imperialism, nativism, militarization, and environmental destruction into a generative space for Kānaka Maoli and non-Indigenous peoples alike. Copyright © 2019 Smith...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 440–445.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Michaela Django Walsh Abstract This piece, written in the form of a letter to my son, explains the meaning of his name. In Spanish the word lienzo is a type of drystone wall. Spanning rural areas of Mexico, the lienzo has—for centuries—been a way to gently delineate space. I frame the composition...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
Published: 01 March 2014
... like Latin America. However, building on relatively recent attempts to locate Morrison in broader transnational spaces, in this discussion, I propose closely examining a text from another Anglophone, African diasporic context, which utilizes many of the strategies evident in Bluest —Kincaid's Annie...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 491–506.
Published: 01 March 2017
... on the limits and possibilities of traversing geographic and social spaces. Hattie Carmichael, the “City child” who occupies the moral center of the novel, embodies practices of cultural improvisation, self-determination, and intersubjective reciprocity; practices that make it possible for diasporic subjects...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 464–490.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the representations of black women bodies as complex discursive spaces, the essay explores Barbadian women’s struggles with latent colonial paradigms and highlights women’s assertions of agency and their challenging of limiting constructs. Utilizing the theoretical insights of numerous transnational and African...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Erin L. Berry-McCrea Abstract This paper describes the ways that Black millennial women have come to acknowledge the role of voice and to recognize the sociolinguistic traumas that they experience in and outside of digital spaces. The lived experiences of Black millennial women within the digital...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Msia Kibona Clark Abstract Women hip hop artists in Africa have created spaces for themselves within hip hop’s (hyper)masculine culture. They have created these spaces in order to craft their own narratives around gender and sexuality and to challenge existing narratives. This research uses African...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 183–205.
Published: 01 April 2019
... undermined by its upholders’ own attempts to silence, control, and erase both the black and white breast. Milk becomes a liquid catalyst that enables an ever-slippery, ever-morphing creolization, the process that leads to the creation of an alternative space for the collection and projection of female voice...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2007
.... Comparison of the works of each artist helps clarify the difficulties women encounter when attempting to intervene in male-dominated cultural spaces. Each artist contends with the misogyny of the dominant culture that largely sanctions pornography and denies the erotic. Copyright © 2007 by Smith College...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 236–260.
Published: 01 September 2008
... response generated on its internet-based scribble boards, which offered their readers the opportunity to participate in a communal dialogue. Arguing that the scribble boards became a black women's temporary “safe space,” this essay interrogates the manner in which black women construct subject positions...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the flexibility of religion as it moves through cultures and spaces of resistance, black Muslim women successfully reconcile hotep and hip-hop. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 ANAYA MCMURRAY Hotep and Hip-Hop CanBlackMuslimWomenBeDownwith Hip-Hop1? Abstract "BlackMuslimwomenandhip-hop realMuslimsdon't...
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