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... by citing de Certeau's walking in the city as analogous to the agential speech act. I suggest that the creation of sound/aural landscape/music is a particularly powerful productive tool for speaking back to and ultimately destabilizing disciplinary power. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 RONNI...

...Miyoko Sugano Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 CULTUREWORKS TRAINING MiyokoSu9ano My father's urgency to become American Clouded what was otherwise a placid marriage. English lessons day after day-practice, practice. Mother found the hardest part was walking: "Walk straight...

... for Black Women's Wellness Atlanta, Georgia Goal: $400,000 Public Education/Public Policy Office Washington, D.C. Goal: $250,000 Sistereach International Program Atlanta, Georgia Goal: $250,000 Walking for Wellness Altanta, Georgia Goal: $500,000 Total Annual Goal $2,000,000 Additionally, to better insure...

... and moles and a head full of blazing dusty red hair. She used to go fishing every day in her lake that sat at the end of the woods on her property. She probably had somewhere between eight to ten acres ofland, most ofit wooded. She had a path through the woods where she used to make us walk down...

... it here? [Meridians:feminism, race,transnationalism2004, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 201-202] ©2004 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 201 Maybe I found it while walking in a cemetery? Which cemetery? Which walk? Was it the recollection of a fortunate encounter or a farewell?. Which walk brought me...

... of Vanity’s allure Is the Ice Seller’s likeness in Neyshapur He set up his pile of ice trade in July Not a coin in his pocket, none came to buy “Sanai adapts the account of a dervish in Neyshapur who is said to have walked around the city begging for alms every morning,” he explained, glancing...

... who were in and out of the house on a daily basis stop coming by. After you realize that your mother isn’t coming home again—ever. I didn’t expect any more phone calls that evening. I had been on the phone most of the week and up until the moment I walked into the funeral home earlier in the day. I...

... this and then she was gone. Stella walked right down the path to massa's house, spit and set the Big House afire. Then the fields, then the tool shack that held every hoe. She kept walking til she come 'cross overseer, running crook-legged and buck-toe from all them burning fields. Now, overseer was looking mighty...

... performative acts points to the speaker's acceptance of the place prescribed for women. 6 Instructions such as "On Sundays walk like a lady and not like the slut you are bent on becoming" and "This is how you behave in the presence of men you don't know" are unequivocal indicators of the speaker's...

.... The revolution grew out of her palms and feet. On these plantations, the enslaved worked from the early morning to late night. At night, Carlota walked off from her post. Invisible. She knew her friends would have her back while she went off. When Carlota returned to her secluded section in the woods, she would...

... where many of the small businesses and storefronts, as well as the four- and five-story walk-ups tiered above them, stood boarded up or burnt out" (46). The idea of blackness as signifier oflack and abjection echoes in the description of structures incapable of providing shelter or warmth, DAPHNE...

... driving up after work. I was his "Lovechild" and he the man who warmed my pillow on the heater grate in winter and cooled my forehead with ice cubes from his lemonade glass in hot unforgiving August. Ours was a mutual adoration society that was fed, steadfastly, by spontaneous afternoon walks and drives...

... could not compre- hend what had just happened. I remember seeing this lady coming out bare-breasted and thinking, "Has she gone crazy? How come she is walking out like that?" I saw people covered with cement dust, running, and still, I was not seeing the collapsed houses from which they were running. I...

... beneath the flesh. She is skin and bones walking the death road her spirit prepares to surrender. This she does not notice. This she avoids, but I approach margins of error knowing years later how deadly these proclamations can be. [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2002, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 213-4] ©...

..., the smartest kid in the class, has just walked hand over hand from one end of the monkey bars to the other twice. Now he hangs upside down. "Can I play?" I say in a squeaky voice. Roy reaches up and grabs hold of the bar. Small for his age, like me, he is very strong. He will become my friend...

... by walking. Traci found the treadmill "so boring to me," and she began going outdoors, where she enjoyed "being free, out in the air, the wind blowing." KEEPING UP APPEARANCES, GETTING FED UP 115 Particularly striking is how liberating-both emotionally and physicallywalking was to her. Essentially...

... and fingers. People around me were trying to calm me down. My late mother was saying "it is God's will-now look after your other children." I have seen lots of miseries in Afghanistan. A few days before that, my aunt's daughter and one of my aunt's grandchildren were killed in a similar way.They were walking...