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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., the essay author revisits her hesitations regarding slavery’s archive and the stakes of approaching the silences of enslaved people in the records. Drawing on pivotal work in black feminist studies, this essay rearticulates the nuances of Saidiya Hartman’s “critical fabulation” to bring attention back...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
... studies, not only toward sound studies but toward feminist studies. Vazquez's work, alongside that of Edwin Hill, Shana Redmond, and Tsitsi Jaji (among others), pushes black cultural studies in new directions via feminist inquiry and methodologies, as well as via the basic inclusion of women as subjects...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 65–80.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Mother Who Fathered Me . Smith identifies a governor’s wife as the instigator of the campaign, not the black Jamaican middle-class nationalist feminists who were responsible, yet his account has ascended to a form of academic folk knowledge that is oft repeated and rarely probed. As a valued resource...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that Ellis Neyra has identified across the fault lines of “Black/Brown” racial formations in a post-1492 context by paying specific attention to how these tensions crystalize in Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean studies. The essay unpacks Ellis Neyra’s account of the breakdown of the concept of Brownness...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2014
... transphobia is informed by racism in the course of MacDonald's experience in the criminal justice system. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 CeCe McDonald transgender studies black feminist studies black queer studies Smoldering in the rage and grief ignited when Trayvon Martin's murder was ruled self...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 159–168.
Published: 01 March 2015
.../Queer/Diaspora at the Current Conjuncture,” GLQ 18, nos. 2–3 (2012): 223. 16 Ann duCille, “The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies,” Signs 19, no. 3 (1994): 591–629. 17 See the book discussion in Small Axe , no. 24 (October 2007). 18...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... feminist studies literary studies je ne me charge pas du rapport j’aime mieux regarder le printemps. —Aimé Césaire, “Le verbe marronner” These mushrooms are not the product of my labour, and because I have not toiled and worried over them, they jump into my hands with all the pleasures...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
... focusing on peoples of African descent in this hemisphere, we are simultaneously witnessing the continuing strength of black feminist studies to now include black girlhood studies; I hope for a similar growth within our hispanophone and lusophone contexts. It is my firm belief that the archive holds...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of value have been interwoven into our imagination of
black womanhood that I am suggesting that feminists cannot challenge the presumptions
of humanism by circumnavigation. Caribbean feminisms’ engagement with the effects of the
liberal humanist tradition is far from over: this is a tradition...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in this work and question what such investments mean for black liberation, gender relations, and power/knowledge. A number of questions might well be raised about the now burgeoning body of work on Caribbean masculinities. What is the study of Caribbean masculinity for? Is it explicitly guided by feminist...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 139–153.
Published: 01 October 2007
... in our various academic and activist locations, I build on this deployment of the Sacred to argue for a feminist pedagogy of the erotic as a form of liberatory politics within Women's Studies. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Rethinking Interdisciplinarity:
Meditations on the
Sacred Possibilities...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 129–133.
Published: 01 March 2005
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will focus on mine for the moment. It is not that Edwards has not ably retraced and
interpreted the gendered and feminist implications of the Nardal sisters’ essays and let-
ters and their contributions to black internationalism and to Négritude even, but in
the process of doing so he too...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and decolonial feminist discourses and ethics help us understand literary and cultural productions as insurgent practices that are central to tracking and reformulating notions of decoloniality and Afro-diasporic studies. My work on the diasporic Afro-Atlantic hispanophone literatures makes racialized...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to express her Communist ideologies and her feminist activism, marked her as a
“radical black subject” in the eyes of the state, and as such she became a target for surveil-
lance and persecution.1 That her politics would also put her so far outside of the political
mainstream within black American...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 154–161.
Published: 01 March 2023
... explored in Reimagining Liberation , their political imaginations have sometimes been misconstrued as nationalist in ways that obscure their articulation through the transnational feminist networks that sustained them. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Decolonial citizenship Black...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 March 2002
... referring to the English-speaking region of the Caribbean, particularly countries that were colonized by
Britain and that are now independent countries of the Commonwealth.
2. I use the terms “black” and “Caribbean” the way the women in the grassroots groups I studied do. While...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Shanya Cordis Building on black and indigenous feminist scholarship, this essay examines the mutually constitutive processes of racial gendered violence and colonial dispossession undergirding Guyanese statecraft. Through an analysis of the colonial construction of the racial-sexual bodies...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 35–52.
Published: 01 July 2020
... feminist perspectives on local news, seeking to reshape public discourse surrounding sexual violence as produced in the media. Through Facebook, the army founded Black Sauna Radio —a radio show for feminists and activists living in Jamaica, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. The radio show was an all-woman...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shanna Jean-Baptiste This essay explores the decolonial future imagined by the Black women who make up Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). A much-needed project of historical redress, Joseph-Gabriel’s study...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 180–190.
Published: 01 July 2014
... the majority of those in cages. 20 As a consequence, Richie's and Waligora-Davis's recent books stand as resplendent examples of a feminist and black perspective because they enact how these categories cannot be understood in isolation from one another and show that studies of blackness need...
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