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EDITOR Ginetta E. B. Candelario '90 ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER Leanna Oen EDITORIAL COORDINATOR Joy Houlder EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Carol Bailey, Amherst College Ibtissam Bouachrine, Smith College Banu Gokariksel, UNC-Chapel Hill Elizabeth Jacob, UMass-Amherst Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University Miliann Kang, UMass-Amherst Ranjana Khanna, Duke University Heidi Kim, UNC-Chapel Hill Lili M. Kim, Hampshire College Kimberly Kono, Smith College Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University Lucy Mule, Smith College Sarah Quesada, Duke University Vanessa Rosa, Mount Holyoke College Ara Wilson, Duke University CREATIVE WRITING ADVISORY BOARD Maryam Ala Amjadi, Black Mountain Institute Leslie Marie Aguilar, Rice University Abigail Chabitnoy, UMass-Amherst Floyd Cheung, Smith College Dawn Fulton, Smith College Anna Maria Hong, Mount Holyoke College Tsitsi Jaji, Duke University Yalie Saweda Kamara, Xavier University Nancy Kang, University of Manitoba Adrienne Perry, Villanova University Traci-Ann Wint, Smith College

QUIGLEY FELLOWS Ava Lansbury ‘27 Brianna Rosa ‘27 Dayanara Saavedra ‘28 Meridians FELLOWS Sadri Mohamed ‘28 STRIDE FELLOWS Eliot Kelly-Leftwich ‘30 Harper Ragle ‘30 FOUNDING ADVISORY BOARD Edna Acosta-Belén Leila Ahmed Ama Ata Aidoo Amrita Basu Rey Chow Maryse Condé Angela Davis Cynthia Enloe Paula J. Giddings Wilma Mankiller Toni Morrison Nell Irvin Painter Elena Poniatowska Nawal el Saadawi Vandana Shiva Ruth J. Simmons FOUNDING EDITORS Ravina Aggarwal Elizabeth Alexander Ann Arnett Ferguson Ann Jones Gayle Pemberton Nancy Saporta Sternbach Susan Van Dyne EDITORS EMERITAE Kum-Kum Bhavnani Myriam J. A. Chancy Paula J. Giddings


VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1, OCTOBER 2026 THEORY IN THE FLESH

31 MEMOIR

The Temples of the Demon: A Travel Memoir

Malini Roy

57 ESSAY The Strands We Entwine: Weaving Histories of Reproductive Politics and Activism Between Guåhan and Hawai’i Ha’ åni Lucia Falo San Nicplas

82 IN THE TRENCHES

Liberation Through Chinese Medicine: Radical Wholeness, Collection Care, and Self-Healing

Gwen D’Arcangelis

106 ELIZABETH ALEXANDER 2025 HONORABLE MENTION FOR POETRY

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electrocardiogram of a mother’s broken heart

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION The “Meridians” Project’s Contribution To Theory in The Flesh Ginetta E.B.Candelario

12 A Prayer (2021)

ARTIST STATEMENT

Simone Elizabeth Saunders

OF FIELD 14 STATE Transformation, Pedagogy, and Repair: Theory in the Flesh in the Present Amber Jamilla Musser

ALEXANDER 29 ELIZABETH CREATIVE WRITING AWARD 2025 WINNER FOR POETRY: the dead sell the living Paramita Vadhahong

Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi

107 ESSAY Black Feminist Spatial Imagination and Geographies of Liberation in Indivisível Leonora Souza Paula

132 MEDIA MATTERS Differentiating the Dirty Work? The Racialized Division of Reproductive Labor During The Neoliberal Era, 1960-2020 Luke Kim

156 IN THE TRENCHES

Feminist Uprising in Iran and the Politics of Solidarity

Manijeh Moradian


VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1, OCTOBER 2025 CONTINUED

181

COUNTERPOINT Queer Ecofeminism in Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades Shazia Rahman

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ELIZABETH ALEXANDER CREATIVE WRITING AWARD 2024 HONORABLE MENTION FOR PROSE Heart Like an Ocean Amissa Miller

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MEDIA MATTERS “Live like Her” : Reparative Worldmaking and Transversal Third World Womanhood in Triple Jeopardy Soami Phuong Nguyen

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INTERVIEW On Reparations, Black Feminisms, and Literary Activism: An Interview with Eliana Alves Cruz Ludmila Porto

257

COUNTERPOINT Reading Against Technoliberal Subjectivities:: Searching for Muslim Women Across Datasets, Archives, and Governmental Reports Hina Shaikh


VOLUME 24, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2025

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MILESTONES AND MOMENTUM: THE MERIDIANS PROJECT AT TWENTY-FIVE

331 ESSAY In the Name of Awareness: Audience, Value, and the Politics of Witnessing Human Rights Violations Laura Barberán Reinares and Eunah Lee

357 CULTURE WORK Curating Transnational Femenist Solidarities in “Born in Flames: Feminist Futures” Yafrainy Familia

379 IN THE ARCHIVES Leaving Michoacán: My Family’s Migration Ahead of the Mexican Revolution Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe

291 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

Milestones and Momentum: The “Meridians” Project at Twenty-Five

Ginetta E.B.Candelario

305 ARTIST STATEMENT “Mother Land” Bhavika Yendapalli, Mamata Reddy, and J. Shankaraiah

307 INTERVIEW

In the Clearing: A Conversation with Karla FC Holloway Karla FC Holloway and Faith Barter

320 ELIZABETH ALEXANDER CREATIVE WRITING AWARD 2025 WINNER FOR PROSE: Preserves

Danielle Bradley

399 MEDIA MATTERS Black Butterfly Denied: Race and Masquerade in “My Geisha” Terry Kawashima

415 INTERVIEW Being Granular about Defiant Disrobing: A Conversation with Naminata Diabate Mayowa Ajibade and Naminata Diabate

433 CULTURE WORK The Many Voices of Woman: Radharani/Aparajita Devi’s Poems in Translation Debali Mookerjea-Leonard


VOLUME 24, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2025 CONTINUED

451 ELIZABETH ALEXANDER CREATIVE WRITING AWARD 2025 HONORABLE MENTION FOR PROSE What Does It Mean to Be a Woman in Afghanistan? An Exploration of the Five Senses

456 ESSAY

Dana Serea

Erasing Race and Racing Beauty in Asia’s Global City Elizabeth LaCouture

480 IN THE TRENCHES Policing and the Carceral State in Brazil and the United States: Conceptualizing, Tracking, and Resisting Anti-Black Violence Cat Brooks and Andrea Beatriz dos Santos, with Maria-Fátima Santos

507 ESSAY

The Labial Politics of Stella Nyanzi Laura Edmonson

532 POETRY

Pride Was a Riot, but Mine Was Different

shiv k

533 COUNTERPOINT Thinking With: A Letter to Femenists of Color on the Contours of Relational Research Praxis Porntip Israsena Twishime

555 ESSAY

“Dabke Is Better Than a Thousand Lectures Against Islamophobia”: Palestine, Arab Mothering, and the Research Imagination Lucy El-Sherif

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VOLUME 24, NUMBER 1, FORTHCOMING APRIL 2025 SPECIAL ISSUE: INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS ACROSS THE WORLD, PART 2

37 ESSAY “we were two ends of one taut rope:” Audre Lorde and Black–Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands Tatsiana Shchurko

63 ESSAY Between the Sensuous and Sacred: A Postcolonial Reading of African Spirituality, Sexuality, and “The Erotic” through Mbari Art in Igboland, Nigeria Bright Alozie

89 PEDAGOGY The Making Is the Story: Sovereignty, Sharing, and the Seven Sisters Cloak Sabra Thorner, Fran Edmonds, Kerri Clarke, and Maree Clarke

1 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario and Basuli Deb

11 COVER ARTIST STATEMENT Aleqa’s Taqqiq (Older Sister of the Moon), 2024 Kai Two Feathers Orton

12 POETRY How the Oak Tree Came to Be Jenny L. Davis

14 STATE OF THE FIELD Decolonizing Feminisms: Accomplices, Action, and Accountability Robyn Bourgeois

126 PEDAGOGY Yakama Auntie Lessons on How to Outfox a Monster Michelle M. Jacob

137 ESSAY Storytelling from the Heart: A Decolonial Feminist Humanism Ashjan Ajour

165 ESSAY Insurgent Memories of Armed Struggle: Self-Representation by Female Ex-Combatants in Peru Evelyn Saavedra Autry

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VOLUME 24, NUMBER 1, APRIL 2025 CONTINUED

190 ESSAY ‘Counter Me!:’ Militarization, Postcoloniality and the Poetics of Historical Experience in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi” Nanya Jhingran

214 ESSAY The Unfillable Stomach: Trauma and its Discontents through Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House” Daniel McKay

237 ESSAY Grounding Emotions Across Borders: Zapotec Healing Practices Rituals in Places and Times of Social Strife Candy Esther Martínez

261 ESSAY Embodied Solidarities: Alternative Affective Autonomies through Acompañamiento Ana Del Conde

285 ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

CREATIVE WRITING AWARD 2024 WINNER FOR POETRY 3.13.22 | Translations of Ba’s Recipe for COVID Prevention

Winniebell Xinyu Zong

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VOLUME 23, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2024

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COUNTERPOINTS

360 ESSAY The Unforgetting of Claribel Alegría: Reckoning with Capitalist Catastrophe in El Salvador Guadalupe Escobar

384 RESPONSE Response to Kuokkanen: On Structural Violence, Bad Faith, and Strategic Ignorance in Norwegian Wind Power Development Henrikke Sæthre Ellingsen

392 ESSAY ‘Enhancing Human Dignity Here and Around the World’: The Black Sorority as International Uplift Movement Aisha A. Upton Azzam

417 COUNTERPOINT 297 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E. B. Candelario

306 IN THE TRENCHES

Feminist Development Justice as Emancipatory Praxis: Recognizing the Knowledge of Social Movements ‘From Below’ Nasha Mohamed, Sutapa Chattopadhyay, and Levi Gahman

332 COUNTERPOINT Consumption as Changemaking and Producers as Artists: Theorizing Alt-Profit Corporations from a Transnational Feminist Perspective Debjani Chakravarty and Christine Standish

De-naming: Unraveling the Sex-skin and Gender Mask Technologies in the Colonial Naming Structure Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang

439 IN THE TRENCHES Colectiva Feminista en Construcción: Building a Transnational Feminist Pedagogy Aurora Santiago Ortiz

465 ESSAY Coming Out for Community, Coming Out for the Cause: Queer Arab American Activism in the 1990s Umayyah Cable


VOLUME 23, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2024 CONTINUED

490 INTERVIEW Within and Outside the Black-Maghrebi Binary: A Conversation with Maha Abdelhamid Maha Abdelhamid and Shreya Parikh

510 MEMOIR According to the Record Lisa E. Wright

523 POETRY Catalogue of Writings Left by the Chinese Railroad Workers of the C.P.R.R., (No Need)

唔需

Caroline M. Mar

525 POETRY Maric*** Ming Li (Ari) Wu

528 ESSAY Beyond Black Girlhood: An Underground Railroad to Nowhere Chamara Moore

548 ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

CREATIVE WRITING AWARD 2024 WINNER FOR PROSE The Ice Seller of Hell

Maryam Ala Amjadi

566 COVER ART For Those of Us Who Live at the Shoreline La Vaughn Belle

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VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1, APRIL 2024 SPECIAL ISSUE: INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS ACROSS THE WORLD, PART 1

52 MEDIA MATTERS 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” Ruthann Lee

82 IN THE TRENCHES

Indigenous Women on the Frontlines of Climate Activism: The Battle for Environmental Justice in the Amazon

Sônia Bone Guajajara and Célia Xakriabá Introductory Note by Malcolm McNee Translation by Elena Langdon

110 COUNTERPOINT I EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Basuli Deb and Ginetta E. B. Candelario

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ELIZABETH ALEXANDER CREATIVE WRITING AWARD 2023 WINNER FOR PROSE Mes del viento / Month of wind Cece Roth-Eagle

The Palestinian Feminist Movement and the Settler Colonial Ordeal: An Intersectional and Interdependent Framework Eman Alasah

133 ESSAY “A Rape of the Earth”: Sámi Feminists against Mines Ina Knobblock

156 MEDIA MATTERS

Structural Trauma

The ‘Grandmother’ of Indigenous Filmmaking in New Zealand: Merata Mita—Film Is Her Patu

Elena Ruíz

Denise Schallenkammer

29 COUNTERPOINT 51 POETRY

175 VISUAL ESSAY

Open Your Mouth

Tools of the Trade; or, Women’s Works

Yael Valencia Aldana

Gina Athena Ulysse


VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1, APRIL 2024 CONTINUED

182 ESSAY

Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present

Mariam Georgis

210 COUNTERPOINT

Rehumanizing Ainu: Performance of Desubjectification and a Politics of Singularity

Yurika Tamura

235 INTERVIEW What It Takes to Be Counted: An Interview with Ruby Hembrom Ruby Hembrom Interview by Priti Narayan

259 MEMOIR The Contemporary Origins of Smum’iem Matriarchy in Sinixt Təmxʷúlaʔxʷ Transcribed from recordings with Marilyn James, Sinixt Smum’iem Matriarch Marilyn James Introductory Note by Lori Barkley Transcription by Sarah Beauchamp

263 IN THE TRENCHES

Safe Motherhood Initiative: Whither African Indigenous Birthing Knowledge?

Esther Oluwashina Ajayi-Lowo

295 COVER ARTIST STATEMENT About the Artwork “Woman Digging Thorns out of Field” Dana Barqawi

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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2023

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SPECIAL ISSUE: MOSAIC

323 TESTIMONIO

When My Brown Got Colored: Living through/in the Times of White and Brahmanical Supremacy

Sreerekha Sathi

348 MEDIA MATTERS

Picturing Herself in Africa: Haiti, Diaspora, and the Visual Folkloric

Grace L. Sanders Johnson

374 ESSAY

In the Name of Sovereignty: Rethinking the “Tiger Bitch” and the Terrorist Bomber in Nayomi Munaweera’s "Island of a Thousand Mirrors" (2012)

Cherise Fung

399 INTERVIEW 231 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario

240 COUNTERPOINT

What Transnational Feminisms Has Not Disrupted Yet: Toward a Quilted Epistemology Devaleena Das

267 ESSAY

(Mis)Translations of the Critiques of AntiMuslim Racism and the Repercussions for Transnational Feminist Solidarities Zeynep K. Korkman

297 ESSAY

Writing Castelessly: Brahminical Supremacy in Education, Feminist Knowledge, and Research Dia Da Costa

A Conversation with Doris Gray on the Power and Limitations of Restorative Justice across History, Culture, and Gender

Rosetta Marantz Cohen and Doris H. Gray

408 POETRY Bruise Blue

Nancy Kang

436 ESSAY

Young Afghan-Canadian Women’s Negotiations of Gendered Cultural Scripts and Hybrid Cultural Identities Saher Ahmed and Amrita Hari

440 CREATIVE NONFICTION

Between Skin and Stone: A Letter to My Son, Lienzo

Michaela Django Walsh

446 IN THE TRENCHES

“We are Orlando”: Silences, Resistance, and the Intersections of Mass Violence

Julie Torres


VOLUME 22, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2023 CONTINUED

475 POETRY

Farm of Forgetting Erika G. Abad

478 ESSAY

Black Women Undertakers of the Early Twentieth Century Were Hidden in Plain Sight Kami Fletcher

503 CULTUREWORK

When Diane Tells Me a Story Lashon Daley

ALEXANDER 516 ELIZABETH CREATIVE WRITING AWARD 2023 WINNER FOR POETRY American Beech Yalie Saweda Kamara

518 COVER ARTIST STATEMENT “Indigo”

Gina Athena Ulysse

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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 1, APRIL 2023 SPECIAL ISSUE: BIPOC EUROPE

76 IN THE TRENCHES

Intersectional Vulnerabilities and the Banality of Harm: The Dangerous Desires of Women of Color Activists Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande

94 ESSAY

Gendering the Nador/ Melilla Border: Immigrant Muslim Women, Economic (Under) Development, and Structural Violence

Luz María Gordillo

115 CULTUREWORK

Matter and Memory: Black Feminist Poetics and Performance in Berlin, Germany

Ayasha Guerin

146 CULTUREWORK 1 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario

5 GUEST EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

European BIPOC Feminisms Nana Osei-Kofi and Shirley Anne Tate

11 ESSAY

Are Reindeer the New Buffalo? Climate Change, the Green Shift, and Manifest Destiny in Sápmi Rauna Kuokkanen

34 IN THE TRENCHES

Flamboyant: Wildness, Loss, and Possibility in Feminist Organizing in the Netherlands Chandra Frank

58 ESSAY

Motherwork, Daughterwork: Exploring Activist Mothering within the Latin American Diaspora in Sweden Paulina de los Reyes and Diana Mulinari

Couwenbergh’s "The Rape of the Negress:" Visual Violence, Theological Erasure, and Black Feminist Fugitivity Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones

169 VISUAL ESSAY

Strategies of Visibilization: Searching for Contact Zones between the Periphery and Center in mumok’s Exhibitions, 1998–2018 claudia sandoval romero*

180 IN THE ARCHIVES

Writing Letters as Counter-Archiving: An Afro-Nordic Feminist Care Practice Kollektiv Omsorg: Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo, Jasmine Kelekay, Maimuna Abdullahi, and Lena Sawyer

204 MEDIA MATTERS

“Out in the Streets”: Hip-Hop Narratives in Contemporary Greece Natalia A. Koutsougera

229 ARTIST STATEMENT I Am Queen Mary

La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers


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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2022 SPECIAL ISSUE: FEMINIST MOURNINGS

350 ESSAY

Caring for the Dead: Corpse Washers, Touch, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey Aslı Zengin

371 ESSAY

“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss Nancy Kang

397 TESTIMONIO

Proactive Grief: Palestinian Reflections on Death Eman Ghanayem

413 STATE OF THE FIELD Techniques of Abstraction in Black Arts: A Feminist Review Essay

299 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario

302 ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

CREATIVE WRITING AWARD Daughtersong Diaspore Barbara Jane Reyes

307 GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

The Uses of Mourning: An Introduction Kimberly Juanita Brown, Jyoti Puri

317 MEMOIR

The Mourning of My Birth in the Wake of Grandma’s One Hundredth Year

K. Melchor Quick Hall

334 ESSAY

Mothers, Daughters, and the Lash: Mourning the Mother Tongue in Toni Morrison’s "Mercy" Courtney R. Baker

Kelli Moore

CULTUREWORK 436 Mourning Methods: Weaving, Burning, Excision, and Preservation Amanda Russhell Wallace

455 ESSAY

A Light for a Light: Minoritarian Aesthetics and the Politics of Grief-Work

Sandra Ruiz

480 ESSAY

Unweepable Wounds Unwept: Mother Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia in Harriet E. Wilson’s "Our Nig" Patricia Ann Lott

506 POETRY Four Poems from a Lesbian Diasporic Body Emer Lyons

512 COUNTERPOINT

Mothering Dead Bodies: Black Maternal Necropolitics

Tiffany Caesar, Desireé Melonas, Tara Jones


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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 1, APRIL 2022 BLACK FEMINISMS IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE UNITED STATES: REPRESENTATION, REBELLION, RADICALISM, AND RECKONING

155 POETRY

Remittances Elizabeth Pérez

158 TESTIMONIO

La Reina de la Fusión: Xiomara Fortuna Coming of Age in the Dominican Republic Rachel Afi Quinn

185 CULTUREWORK Signifying Sistas: Black Women's Humor and Intersectional Poetics Constance Bailey

206 POETRY

Longer, Love S. Erin Batiste

1 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario

11 INTERVIEW

Vodou, the Arts, and (Re)Presenting the Divine: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat

Kyrah Malika Daniels

49 ESSAY

Beyond Tragedy: Black Girlhood in Marlon James's "The Book of Night Women" and Evelyne Trouillot's "Rosalie l'infâme"

207 MEDIA MATTERS Apologizing to Chavers: #Blackgirlmagic's Resilience Discourse and the Fear of Melancholy Black Femme Digital Subjectivity Jennifer Williams

236 IN THE TRENCHES

An Intersectional Approach to Interrogating Rights: How the United States Does Not Comply with the Racial Equality Treaty Malia Lee Womack

265 MEMOIR

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel

Sisterhood Birthed through Colonialism: Using Love Letters to Connect, Heal, and Transform

Consort of the Spirits: after Ntozake Shange

Raquel Wright-Mair, Milagros Castillo-Montoya

73 POETRY

Nia McAllister

75 COUNTERPOINT

Disruptive Ruptures: The Necessity of Black/Girlhood Imaginary Kenly Brown, Lashon Daley, Derrika Hunt

101 IN THE ARCHIVES

Carlota's Hum: An Archive Fiction Alana Perez, Pamela Fernández

123 ESSAY

Afro-Latina Disidentification and Bridging: Lourdes Casal's Critical Race Theory

Laura Lomas

293 POETRY

Black Berries Teri Ellen Cross Davis

ART 296 COVER Ann fè on ti pale (The Meeting) Mafalda Nicolas Mondestin

297 ERRATA Erratum

Tom J. Abi Samra

298 ERRATA Erratum

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto


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VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2021 SPECIAL ISSUE: TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST APPROACHES TO ANTI-MUSLIM RACISIM

MATTERS 298 MEDIA Shari'a Barbie's Afterlives: Apprehending Racialized and Sexualized Islam through Social Media Amira Jarmakani

323 IN THE ARCHIVES

Four Editorials from "Bint al-Nīl"

Tom J. Abi Samra

340 ESSAY

Between Orientalism and Anti-Muslim Racism: Pakistan, the United States, and Women's Transnational Activism in the Early Cold War Interlude Elora Shehabuddin

370 ESSAY

The Entanglement of Secularism and Feminism in Pakistan

Amina Jamal

396 ESSAY 249 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Who's Terrorizing Who? Ginetta E.B.Candelario

253 ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

CREATIVE WRITING AWARD To Forage

Gwendolyn Maya Wallace

261 Transnational Feminist Approaches to

GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Anti-Muslim Racism Zeynep K. Korkman, Sherene Halida Razack

271 COUNTERPOINT

Race, Gender, and Religion: Islamophobia and Beyond Minoo Moallem

291 Transnational Anti-Muslim Racism: IN THE TRENCHES Routes in Law Natasha Bakht

Becoming "Black" and Muslim in Today's Russia

Tatiana Rabinovich

414 ESSAY

How Hate Crime Laws Perpetuate Anti-Muslim Racism

Evelyn Alsultany

443 CULTUREWORK

Searching for the Next Intifada: Exercises in Queer Muslim Futurism

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

ESSAY 466 Queering Islam and Muslim Americanness: Perversity, Recognition, and Failure in Usama Alshaibi's "Profane" Taneem Husain

491 EPILOGUE 504 COVER ART Nadine Naber

"When the World Sleeps" Malak Mattar


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VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1, APRIL 2021

127 ESSAY

The Mythical Courtesan: Womanhood and Dance in Transnational India Rumya S. Putcha

151 MEDIA MATTERS

Ethical Reckoning: Human Rights and National Cinema in Bangladesh Elora Halim Chowdhury

174 IN THE ARCHIVES

Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) Presidium Committee Nairobi Preparations Destiny Wiley-Yancy

183 POETRY 1 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario

11 STATE OF THE FIELD The Diversity of Women's Studies and Women's Histories: Reflections from South Asia Ramya Sreenivasan

39 CULTUREWORK Clean and Green Sri Craven

53 ESSAY Contesting Militarized Violence in "Northeast India": Women Poets against Conflict Brinda J. Mehta

84 CULTUREWORK Body, Bones, and All

Uddipana Goswami

90 MEDIA MATTERS

Engendering Protest and Rethinking "Azadi" in Kashmir in Vishal Bhardwaj's "Haider" Sreyoshi Sarkar

Letter-Poems to Shauki Masi: Diasporic Queer South Asian Muslim Reflections on the Five Pillars of Islam Sasha A. Khan

193 COUNTERPOINT

The Feminization of Translation: Gender Politics in the Translation Controversy over Han Kang's "The Vegetarian" Min Young Godley

218 MEMOIR

Filipinx Care, Social Proximity, and Social Distance Alden Sajor Marte-Wood

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER CREATIVE WRITING AWARD

229 Lamaze

Adrienne Perry

246 In Blocks of Light, She Calls Back Nancy Kang

248 COVER ART Shazia's Dream

Upasana Agarwal


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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2020

295 ESSAY

Different When I Opened My Mouth: Experiences, Reflections, and Perspectives of Faculty Members with Foreign English Accents in Higher Education

Sabrina F. Sembiante, Cristóbal Salinas Jr., J. Andrés Ramírez, Maria D. Vásquez-Colina, Yamilé Silva

321 POETRY

a language outside

Shana Bulhan

323 ESSAY

Not No Rapunzel: "The House on Mango Street’s" Revised Ever After

Laura Halperin

348 IN THE ARCHIVES

Born in Cuba, Made in the Americas: The Inter-American Commission of Women / Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres

Sheilena M. Downey

360 ESSAY

239 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario

250 COUNTERPOINT

Playing the “Lady Sambo”: Poor Black Women’s Legal Strategies in the Post–Civil War South’s Civil Courts

Leigh-Anne Francis

271 IN THE ARCHIVES

Precursor to Women of Color Feminism: The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World and Their Internationalist Orientation

Sheilena M. Downey

278 TESTIMONIO

Mi Casa Is Not Su Casa: A Research Reflection

Vanessa Rosa

The Making of Viequenses: Militarized Colonialism and Reproductive Rights

Marie Cruz Soto

383 IN THE TRENCHES Petition for a Comprehensive Law Against Gender-Based Violence in Cuba Lucía M. Suárez

401 MEDIA MATTERS

Dominican Futurism: The Speculative Use of Negative Aesthetics in the Work of Rita Indiana Kristie Soares

427 ESSAY

Between Protest and Politics: Black Lives Matter Movement(s) for Black Lives Robert J. Patterson

453 ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST Shiva Tamara


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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1, APRIL 2020

85 ESSAY A Structure of Terror in Jamaica Kincaid's "A Small Place" Lauren E. Shoemaker

107 ESSAY

The Contours of Speaking Out: Gender, State Security, and Muslim Women's Empowerment

Azza Basarudin, Khanum Shaikh

136 IN THE ARCHIVES Kartini Day

Callen Swaim-Fox

147 POETRY

Minor Planet 2986

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

1 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

149 ESSAY

Ginetta E.B.Candelario

Federada Testimonios on the Ground: Revealing the Gendered Limits in Operationalizing the Cuban Revolution's Campaign against Prostitution

Elegy for Mary Turner

Alyssa Garcia

14 POETRY

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

32 ESSAY

Coming of Age with Anne Moody: Looking Within and Without for the Origins of Black Women's Activism in the Civil Rights Movement

Tracey Jean Boisseau

65 COUNTERPOINT

Debates in the Field: Debt and Transnational Feminist Analysis

Laura Briggs

202 IN THE ARCHIVES

The Struggles for Women's Suffrage in Lebanon

Emma Schubert

209 IN THE TRENCHES

Harvesting Hope: Building Worker Power at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra

237 ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST Preetika Rajgariah


VOLUME 19, SUPPLEMENT , JANUARY

20th ANNIVERSARY READER

2021

69 ESSAY

Missing in Action: Ida B. Wells, the NAACP, and the Historical Record Paula Giddings

87 ESSAY Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond Angela Y. Davis, Cassandra Shaylor

112 MEMOIR

On Writing and Return: Palestinian-American Reflections Lisa Suhair Majaj

127 IN THE ARCHIVES

September 11: A Feminist Archive

1 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Speaking Our Peace: Celebrating Twenty Years of Women of Color Feminist Transnational Knowledge Production in Meridians Ginetta E.B.Candelario

11 INTERVIEW

Passion, Generosity, and the Academy: Meridians Interview with Ruth J. Simmons Ruth J. Simmons

22 Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture ESSAY

and Identity Production Ginetta Candelario

51 MEDIA MATTERS

Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity?: Comments on "Mississippi Masala" Kum-Kum Bhavnani

Amrita Basu, Paula Giddings, Inderpal Grewal, Kamala Visweswaran

131 REFLECTION

Transnational Feminist Practices Against War Paola Bacchetta, Tina Campt, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Minoo Moallem, Jennifer Terry

139 IN THE TRENCHES War Frenzy

Sunera Thobani

149 POETRY

First Writing Since Suheir Hammad

155 MEMOIR

Dreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay Kristal Brent Zook

166 POETRY The Making of Paper Nikky Finney

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VOLUME 19, SUPPLEMENT , JANUARY

2021

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20th ANNIVERSARY READER (CONTINUED)

169 CULTUREWORK

Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma López Luz Calvo

196 COUNTERPOINT

The Nonperformativity of Antiracism Sara Ahmed

219 ESSAY

363 ESSAY

Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women's Magazine in Indonesia L. Ayu Saraswati

389 PEDAGOGY

Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism

"The Daughter of Fu Manchu": The Pedagogy of Deconstructing the Representation of Asian Women in Film and Fiction

Joanne Barker

Shoba Sharad Rajgopal

255 MEDIA MATTERS

"All That You Can't Leave Behind": Surrogation and Black Female Soul Singing in the Age of Catastrophe

Daphne A. Brooks

279 ESSAY

Queering Puerto Rican Women's Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Pantoja and Luisita López Torregrosa

Lourdes Torres

308 POETRY

How I Put Myself through School Laurie Ann Guerrero

310 CULTUREWORK

"A Real Feminine Journey": Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts Nancy Marie Mithlo

340 COUNTERPOINT What Is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm Kimala Price

410 COUNTERPOINT

Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée Jennifer Cho

435 POETRY

Under/Water: Memorial Day, May 31, 2010 Myriam J. A. Chancy

439 ESSAY

Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality Jennifer C. Nash

463 PEDAGOGY

Under-Theorized and Under-Taught: Re-examining Harriet Tubman's Place in Women's Studies Vivian M. May

484 MEDIA MATTERS

Cutting Across Imperial Feminisms Toward Transnational Feminist Solidarities Basuli Deb


VOLUME 19, SUPPLEMENT , JANUARY

2021

20th ANNIVERSARY READER (CONTINUED)

508 IN THE TRENCHES

'Vem Marchar com a Gente' / Come March with Us Sonia E. Álvarez

513 IN THE TRENCHES

'March against Racism and Violence and in Favor of Living Well (bem viver), Brasilia 2015: National Black Women's March, November 18 Claudia Ferreira, Adriana Medeiros

522 PEDAGOGY

Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada Lena Palacios

548 PEDAGOGY

Rethinking "Meridians": As a Critical Knowledge Project, a Pedagogical Offering, and a Black Feminist Quilted Narrative Karsonya Wise Whitehead

599 COVER ART

Silenced Voices of Everyday Sheroes Samanta Tello

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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2019

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RADICAL TRANSNATIONALISM

304 ESSAY

The Dead, the Living, and the Sacred: Patsy Mink, Antimilitarism, and Reimagining the Pacific World Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

332 POETRY

Self-Portrait, Cannibal/Reversal/Break In/Benediction Ching-In Chen

335 ESSAY

Indigenous Feminist Notes on Embodying Alliance against Settler Colonialism Maile Arvin

249 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario

253 GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

Laura Briggs, Robyn C. Spencer

261 ESSAY

Peace and the Barrel of the Gun in the Internationalist Women's Movement, 1945–49

Elisabeth Armstrong

278 POETRY

Call Me by My True Names

282

Maylei Blackwell

IN THE ARCHIVES Introduction to Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association "Southeast Asia and the United Nations" Discussion Group Mandira Venkat

358 CULTUREWORK Bite Out Your Tongue: A Record of Ugly Youth Nancy Kang

372 INTERVIEW

Everything's Connected: An Interview with Aurora Levins Morales Brooke Lober, Aurora Levins Morales

394 IN THE ARCHIVES Genealogies of Transnational Activism: The Somos Hermanas Project in Central America Denisse D. Velázquez

414 MEDIA MATTERS

Claudia Coca's Chola Power: Pop Art as Decolonial Critique Tara Daly


VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER 2019 RADICAL TRANSNATIONALISM

445 COUNTERPOINT

Radical Interdisciplinarity: A New Iteration of a Woman of Color Methodology Rosamond S. King

457 IN THE TRENCHES

Petition for a Comprehensive Law against Gender-Based Violence in Cuba Deema Kaedbey, Nadine Naber

471 MEMOIR/REFLECTION Remarks for a Roundtable on Transnational Feminism: National Women's Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 16 – 19, 2017 Stanlie James

480 POETRY Secousses and Tremors Evelyne Trouillot, Nathan H. Dize

482 ESSAY

Listening in Arabic: Feminist Research with Syrian Refugee Mothers Neda Maghbouleh, Laila Omar, Melissa A. Milkie, Ito Peng

508 ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST Trinh Mai

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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 1, APRIL 2019

94 IN THE ARCHIVES & ON THE LINE

Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960 Joyce C. Follet

152 MEMOIR

Legacy Dysphoria Tina Hernandez

161 MEDIA MATTERS

Polemics of Love and the Family in "A New Day in Old Sana'a" Lily Mabura, Ronak Husni

183 ESSAY 1 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 8

Ginetta E.B.Candelario

CULTUREWORK Whale Songs Alexis Pauline Gumbs

14 POETRY

The Law of the Mother Gabeba Baderoon

17 ESSAY

The Rise of the Madre Abnegada (Selfless Mother): Sara García and the National Maternal Marie Sarita Gaytán

41 ESSAY

Queering the Chicana/o Archive in Felicia Luna Lemus's "Like Son"

Emily Lederman

63 ESSAY

AIllustrated Connections: Family, Memories, and Imagination in "The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam" Sally McWilliams

Liquid Echoes: The Breast and Voice Transmission in Maryse Condé's "Windward Heights" Nicole M. Morris Johnson

206 COUNTERPOINT

Making Way for Ghosts and Mothers: Storied Socialities, Sexual Violence, and the Figure of the Furtive Migrant Moon Charania

227 REFLECTION Breaking Silences: A Contemporary Black Feminist Reading of Rebecca Walker's "Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence" Cheryl R. Hopson

244 POETRY No Name

Gabeba Baderoon

247 ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST Elizabeth LaPensée


VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2, NOVEMBER 2018

24

AFRICAN FEMINISIMS: CARTOGRAPHIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

269 INTERVIEW

Reflecting on Feminisms in Africa: A Conversation from Morocco Fatima Sadiqi, Aziza Ouguir

279 ESSAY

“We Fit in the Society by Force”: Sex Work and Feminism in Africa Ntokozo Yingwana

THE ARCHIVES 296 IN Decade for Women Information Resources #5: Images of Nairobi, Reflections and Follow-Up, International Women’s Tribune Center Callan Swaim-Fox

215 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario

219

GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION African Feminisms: Cartographies for the Twenty-First Century Alicia C. Decker, Gabeba Baderoon

232 POETRY

And They Didn’t Die Tsitsi Jaji

233 MEMOIR Creating the Archive of African Women’s Writing: Reflecting on Feminism, Epistemology, and the Women Writing Africa Project Abena P. A. Busia

246 ESSAY

Beyond the Spectacular: Contextualizing Gender Relations in the Wake of the Boko Haram Insurgency

Charmaine Pereira

MATTERS 309 MEDIA Saving Nigerian Girls: A Critical Reflection on Girl-Saving Campaigns in the Colonial and Neoliberal Eras Abosede George

THE TRENCHES 325 IN Smoke Is Everywhere, but No One Is Running: A Kenyan Activist Speaks Out Anne Moraa

331 CULTUREWORK

Re-collections: Matter, Meaning, Memory Wambui Mwangi

338 ESSAY

Gender and (Militarized) Secessionist Movements in Africa: An African Feminist’s Reflections Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

359 POETRY

Three Women Makhosazana Xaba


VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2, NOVEMBER 2018

25

AFRICAN FEMINISIMS: CARTOGRAPHIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

361 REFLECTION

Contested Encounters: Toward a Twenty-First-Century African Feminist Ethnography

Selina Makana

376 IN THE TRENCHES Finding Women in the Zimbabwean Transition

Chipo Dendere

382 POETRY my mother’s trousseau Toni Stuart

383 ESSAY

Feminisms in African Hip Hop Msia Kibona Clark

401 COUNTERPOINT

Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women Neo Sinoxolo Musangi

415 TESTIMONIO

Contemporarity: Sufficiency in a Radical African Feminist Life Patricia McFadden

432 ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST Gulshan Khan


VOLUME 17, NUMBER 1, SEPTEMBER

2018

26

97 ESSAY

Witchcrafts of Color: Suzanne Césaire, Mayotte Capécia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique Marina Magloire

131 POETRY

Summer Girl Michelle J. Pinkard

133 ESSAY

“Hard-Headed and Masculine-Hearted Women": Female Subjectivity in Mabel Dove-Danquah’s Fiction Helen Yitah

OF THE FIELD 150 STATE The Aftereffects of Slavery: A Black

1 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Ginetta E.B.Candelario

7 TESTIMONIO

El mejor regalo es ser mujer y sobre todo mujer negra Altagracia Jean Joseph

16 The Greatest Gift Is Being a Woman and Above All, a Black Woman

Altagracia Jean Joseph, Michelle Joffroy

25 ESSAY The New Howard Woman: Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe and the Education of a Modern Black Femininity Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant

49 POETRY

Token Survival Guide Michelle J. Pinkard

51 ESSAY

Panther Teacher: Sarah Webster Fabio’s Black Power Michael J. New

82 COUNTERPOINT

#TurbanteoConsciente: Racial Healing through Wearable Resistance María Beatriz Serrano-Abreu

Feminist Genealogy Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

163 COUNTERPOINT Sassy Mouths, Unfettered Spirits, and the Neo-Lynching of Korryn Gaines and Sandra Bland: Conceptualizing Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome and the Familiar “Policing” of Black Women’s Resistance in Twenty-First-Century America Zoe Spencer, Olivia N. Perlow

184 MEDIA MATTERS

“Where Do You Go When You Go Quiet?": The Ethics of Interiority in the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Beyoncé Sequoia Maner

205 CALL TO ACTION Rise Up

Zoe Spencer

207 IN MEMORIUM Marielle, ¡Presente!

Flávia Santos de Araújo

212 ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST

Iris Pérez Romero, Corazon iluminado, de la serie Energia Vital


VOLUME 16, NUMBER 2, JUNE

27

2018

SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES:RECLAIMING, REDESIGNING, AND REIMAGINING RESEARCH ON BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH

276 ESSAY

Institutional Strategies to Promote the Health of Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Nkiru Nnawulezi, Carolyn M. West

286 ESSAY

Cornbread, Collard Greens, and a Side of Liberation: Black Feminist Leadership and AIDS Advocacy Denise McLane-Davison

295 ESSAY

The Dance Chose Me: Womanist Reflections on Bèlè Performance in Contemporary Martinique

Camee Maddox-Wingfield

INTRODUCTION V EDITOR'S Ginetta E.B.Candelario

219 GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

Speaking for Ourselves: Reclaiming, Redesigning, and Reimagining Research on Black Women’s Health Jameta Nicole Barlow, LeConté J. Dill

230 POETRY

We Want Our Bodies Back jessica Care moore

OF THE FIELD 238 STATE Moving from Silos to Systems in Black Women’s Health Research Shiriki Kumanyika

253 STATE OF THE FIELD

The Secret to Black Women’s Health: Ask, Listen, Do

Linda Goler Blount

ESSAY 308 Enacting Our Multidimensional Power: Black Women Sex Educators Demonstrate the Value of an Intersectional Sexuality Education Framework Sara C. Flowers

THE ARCHIVES 326 FROM SisterSong 2001 Mission Statement and Principles of Unity

329 CULTUREWORK

Womanism and Black Women’s Health Layli Maparyan

333 REFLECTION

Reflections on the Development of the Superwoman Schema Conceptual Framework: An Intersectional Approach Guided by African American Womanist Perspectives Cheryl L. Woods-Giscombé


VOLUME 16, NUMBER 2, JUNE

2018

SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES:RECLAIMING, REDESIGNING, AND REIMAGINING RESEARCH ON BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH

343 REFLECTION Normalized Chaos: Black Feminism, Womanism, and the (Re)definition of Trauma and Healing Shawn Arango Ricks

351 REFLECTION Re-membering Ourselves: Confession as a Pathway to Conscientization Courtney Bryant

363 MEDIA MATTERS

“To My Girls in Therapy, See Imma Tell You This fo Free . . .”: Black Millennial Women Speaking Truth to Power in and Across the Digital Landscape Erin L. Berry-McCrea

373 COUNTERPOINT

Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism Chinyere Okafor

382 COUNTERPOINT PsychoHairapy: Using Hair as an Entry Point into Black Women’s Spiritual and Mental Health Afiya Mbilishaka

393 FROM THE ARCHIVES

The 1938 Mississippi Health Project Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

THE TRENCHES 416 IN Call to Action Michele Tracy Berger

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VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1, DECEMBER

2017

29

50 ESSAY

Naming, Claiming, and Framing Marie Chauvet Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

77 POETRY

Quarantined

rose.elle.kiwi

79 ESSAY

Sex Wars and the Contemporary French Moral Panic: The Productivity and Pitfalls of Feminist Conflicts

Cornelia Möser

112 POETRY Marina Tsvetaeva's Letter to Stalin Jacqueline Bishop

114 ESSAY INTRODUCTION V EDITOR'S Ginetta E.B.Candelario

1 ESSAY

The Vise of Geometry: Distorting Intersectionality at the Scene of Argument Barbara Tomlinson

37 POETRY Blue Soliloquy vs. Xenophobia Karen An-hwei Lee

39 MEMOIR

Despite Your Tiger Mother, or Your Other Racial Half Will Not Save You from What the World Thinks of Your Blackness Wendy Thompson Taiwo

49 POETRY

Tituba Speaks Jacqueline Bishop

Race and Women of Color in Socialist/ Postsocialist Transnational Feminisms in Central and Southeastern Europe

Miglena S. Todorova

142 POETRY

Three Lilacs Instead of Lilacs

Jacqueline Bishop

144 MEDIA MATTERS

Questing to Understand the Other without "Othering": An Exploration of the Unique Qualities and Properties of Science Fiction as a Means for Exploring and Improving Social Inequity

Janelle Marie Evans


VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1, DECEMBER

157 IN THE TRENCHES How to Write about Hawai'i: A Guide to the Handling of Indigenous Characters, Inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to Write About Africa" Leilani Rania Ganser

161 POETRY

Luv That Kitchen! Lavinia Kumar

163 ESSAY Are We All Feminists?: The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Americanah" Julie Iromuanya

184 COUNTERPOINT

Profoundly Decolonizing?: Reflections on a Transfeminist Perspective of International Relations Chamindra Weerawardhana

214 IN THE ARCHIVES

Editor's Introduction (Vol. 5, Iss. 2) Paula J. Giddings

2017

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VOLUME 15, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER

2017

31

Cosme and Black Womanhood 389 Eusebia on the Transatlantic Stage Takkara Brunson

International Engagements of 412 The Working-Class Jamaican Women: Listening to Louise Bennett and Her Routes Women Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

so I Write You: Practices in Black 435 And Women's Diaspora Celeste Henery

Voyages: Locating the 464 Triangular Transnational Caribbean Woman in Paule Marshall's "To Da-duh, in Memoriam" Sam Vásquez

491 The City-Child's Quest: Spatiality and INTRODUCTION V EDITOR'S Paula J. Giddings

Sociality in Paule Marshall's "The Fisher King" Daphne Lamothe

Women of "Things Fall Apart," Speaking 307 The Woman: A Conversation 507 AnwithInteresting from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Andrea Lee Adichie's Headstrong Storytellers

Anene Ejikeme

Postcolonialism and 330 Polygamous Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's "The Reign of Wazobia" Kanika Batra

as Activism in the Angolan 353 Motherhood People's War, 1961–1975 Selina Makana

TRAVELIN' WOMEN: BLACK FEMINIST MIGRATIONS, DIASPORAS, AND COSMOPOLITANISMS

382 Section Editors' Introduction

Jennifer D. Williams, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

Jennifer D. Williams

POETRY

518 M is for Move (scenes from three lifetimes) Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Time Travel Poem in Five 521 Transatlantic Channels: after M. NourbeSe Philip & Kerry James Marshall, "Voyager" Meta DuEwa Jones


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VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1, MARCH 2016 #BLACKGIRLACTIVISM: EXPLORING THE WAYS THAT WE KEEP COMING THROUGH THE STORM

Feminism and Critical Media 40 Black Literacy: Moving from the Margin to the Center Ashley N. Patterson, Arianna Howard, Valerie Kinloch

Change Agents: Fostering 65 Techno-Social Activist Dispositions Among Girls of Color Kimberly A. Scott, Patricia Garcia

Transnational Black Feminist 86 AFramework: Rooting in Feminist Scholarship, Framing Contemporary Black Activism Kia M. Q. Hall

VII INTRODUCTION

Rethinking Meridians: As a Critical Knowledge Project, a Pedagogical Offering, and a Black Feminist Quilted Narrative

Karsonya Wise Whitehead

1 POETRY

Mourning in America: A Black Mother’s Blues Song for the Mothers of Tamir Rice & Tyre King Karsonya Wise Whitehead

7

READING THE PERSONAL AS POLITICAL & PUBLIC Lessons in Transgression: #BlackGirlsMatter and the Feminist Classroom Stephanie Troutman, Ileana Jiménez

EXISTING, TEACHING, AND LEARNING ON THE EDGES AND BEYOND

Slavery to Jane Crow to Say Her 109 From Name: An Intersectional Examination of Black Women and Punishment Nishaun T. Battle

Convictions: Indigenous and 137 Challenging Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada Lena Palacios

Forbidden Wombs and Transnational 166 On Reproductive Justice Jallicia Jolly


VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1, MARCH 2016 #BLACKGIRLACTIVISM: EXPLORING THE WAYS THAT WE KEEP COMING THROUGH THE STORM

Slow Poisoning of Black Bodies: 189 The A Lesson in Environmental Racism and Hidden Violence Rita Turner

205 #WhenIFellInLoveWithMyself: Disrupting the Gaze and Loving Our Black Womanist Self As an Act of Political Warfare Jameta N. Barlow

Narrativizing, and Repetition: 218 Signifying, Radical Approaches to Theorizing African American Language Bonnie J. Williams-Farrier

SAYING THEIR NAMES OVER & OVER AGAIN

Black Feminist Interpretation: 245 AReading Life, Pedagogy, and Emilie Conra D. Gist

How I Use #BlackLivesMatter 290 Afterword: as an Entry Point and a Disruption Tool Regina N. Bradley

poems I didn’t write for you for 300 90 Jasmine Richards Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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VOLUME 14, NUMBER 2, MARCH

34

2017

AFRICAN DESCENDANT FEMINISMS IN LATIN AMERICA PART II: SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE SPANISH-SPEAKING CARIBBEAN

46 ESSAY

Rethinking Radical Anti-Racist Feminist Politics in a Global Neoliberal Context Ochy Curiel, Manuela Borzone, Alexander Ponomareff

56 ESSAY

Afrodescendant Women: A Race and Gender Intersectional Spiderweb Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, Manuela Borzone, Alexander Ponomareff

71 ESSAY

Towards a Black Feminist Model of Black Atlantic Liberation: Remembering Beatriz Nascimento

V GUEST EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

Translations across Black Feminist Diasporas Sonia E. Alvarez, Kia Lilly Caldwell, Agustín Laó-Montes

1 ESSAY

Afro-Latin American Feminisms at the Cutting Edge of Emerging Political-Epistemic Movements Agustín Laó-Montes

ESSAY 25 Traveling Words: A Reflection on “Rotundamente negra” and AfroDescendant Women’s Cultural Politics Dorothy E. Mosby

Christen Anne Smith

88 ESSAY

Afro-Latin American Women Writers and the Historical Complexities of Reproducing Race Karen Y. Morrison

118 ESSAY

Afrodiasporic Feminist Conspiracy: Motivations and Paths forward from the First International Seminar Aurora Vergara Figueroa, Katherine Arboleda Hurtado


VOLUME 14, NUMBER 1, OCTOBER

2016

35

AFRICAN DESCENDANT FEMINISMS IN LATIN AMERICA PART1: BRAZIL

MARCH OF BLACK WOMEN AGAINST RACISM, VIOLENCE, AND FOR LIVING WELL, 2015 Marchar com a Gente’ 70 ‘Vem Come March with Us Sonia E. Alvarez

da Marcha das Mulheres 76 Manifesto Negras: Images from the 2015 March of Black Women in Brasília Claudia Ferreira, Adriana Medeiros

POETRY

V GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

Promoting Feminist Amefricanidade: Bridging Black Feminist Cultures and Politics in the Americas Sonia E. Alvarez, Kia Lilly Caldwell

1

TRANSLATIONS Feminisms from the Perspective of Afro-Brazilian Women Cláudia Pons Cardoso, Miriam Adelman

30 Women in Movement

Sueli Carneiro, Regina Camargo

and Anti-Racism: 50 Feminisms Intersections and Challenges: An interview with Luiza Bairros, Minister, Brazilian Secretariat of Public Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR), 2011–2014 Luiza Bairros, Sonia E. Alvarez, Miriam Adelman

84 Selected Poems

Conceição Evaristo, Maria Aparecida Salgueiro de Andrade, Antonio D. Tillis

U.S.-BASED SCHOLARSHIP of Power: Black Women 94 Geographies Mobilizing Intersectionality in Brazil Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

African-Descendant Women 121 Centering in HIV/AIDS Research, Policy, and Praxis in Brazil Kia Lilly Caldwell

the Flesh: Contemporary 148 Beyond Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature Flávia Santos de Araújo


VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2, JUNE

36

2016

79 ESSAY

Transnational Adoption and Life-Writing: Oppressed Voices in Jane Jeong Trenka’s "The Language of Blood"

Ina C. Seethaler

99 ESSAY

Beyond Machine Dreams: Zen, Cyber-, and Transnational Feminisms in Ruth Ozeki’s "A Tale for the Time Being" Marlo Starr

123 ESSAY

Archiving the Door of No Return in Dionne Brand’s "At the Full" and "Change of the Moon" Lauren J. Gantz

V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 ESSAY

Indo-Caribbean Women from Trinidad and Guyana: Hardships, Conflict, and Resiliency Odessa D. Despot

28 ESSAY

The Continual Search for Sisterhood: Narcissism, Projection, and Intersubjective Disruptions in Toni Morrison’s "Sula" and Feminist Communities

Cassandra Fetters

56 ESSAY

Sexual Citizenship and Vulnerable Bodies in Makeda Silvera’s "The Heart Does Not Bend" and Joan Riley’s "The Unbelonging" Wiebke Beushausen

148 ESSAY

Post-Colonial Consciousness and the Erotic in "Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica and Caballero"

Lily Martinez

164 ESSAY

Cutting Across Imperial Feminisms Toward Transnational Feminist Solidarities

Basuli Deb

IN THE TRENCHES 189 Voices of Feminism: Linda Burnham Loretta Ross, Linda Burnham


VOLUME 13, NUMBER 1, SEPTEMBER 2015

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CULTUREWORK 78 “I’m So Proud to Be Your Queen”: Alison Hinds and Queenliness as a Diasporic Resource Lia T. Bascomb

103 CULTUREWORK

The Dirty Body that Cleans: Representations of Domestic Workers in Brazilian Common Sense

Patricia de Santana Pinho

129 IN THE TRENCHES

Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers in the US–Mexico Borderlands

Long Thanh Bui

V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 CRITICAL EDGES

Gender/Class Intersections and African Women’s Rights Carole Boyce Davies

26 CRITICAL EDGES

The Crucible of Witnessing: Projects of Identity in Carrie Mae Weems’s "From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried"

Claire Raymond

53 CRITICAL EDGES

Decolonizing Britain and Domesticating Women: Race, Gender, and Women’s Work in Post-1945 British Decolonial and Metropolitan Liberal Reform Discourses

Denise Noble

157 IN THE TRENCHES

Magic Tricks: The Politics of Memory, State, and Tribe in Lahaul, India Himika Bhattacharya

THE TRENCHES 186 IN Werewere Liking’s Village "Ki-Yi:" Dissidence and Creativity in Abidjan Cheryl Toman

204 IN THE TRENCHES

Black Feminism on Capitol Hill: Shirley Chisholm and Movement Politics, 1968–1984

Anastasia Curwood


VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2, NOVEMBER

2014

38

HARRIET TUBMAN

A LIFE, A SYMBOL (CONTINUED)

Watkins (Harper), 99 Frances Harriet Tubman and the Rhetoric of Single Blessedness Andreá N. Williams

Would Harriet Do?: A Legacy of 123 What Resistance and Activism Barbara Smith, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Paula Giddings

RECLAIMING AND DEFENDING A LEGACY

in the Present Tense: Harriet 142 Prophecy Tubman, the Combahee Pilgrimage, and Dreams Coming True

V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 INTRODUCTION Janell Hobson

9 TIMELINE

Kate Clifford Larson

A LIFE, A SYMBOL

and Under-Taught: 28 Under-Theorized Re-examining Harriet Tubman’s Place in Women’s Studies Vivian M. May

History and Fantasy: 50 Between Harriet Tubman in the Artistic and Popular Imaginary Janell Hobson

Tubman: Transnationalism 76 Harriet and the Land of a Queen in the Late Antebellum Dann J. Broyld

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

153 Does Anyone Care about Black Women? Brittney Cooper

Tubman: From Maternal Mother 156 Harriet to Jezebel Karsonya Wise Whitehead

161 The Rape of Harriet Tubman Janell Hobson

for Climax: Black Erotic Lives 169 Searching in Slavery and Freedom Treva B. Lindsey, Jessica Marie Johnson

LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD

Myths and Legends: Teaching 196 Beyond Harriet Tubman and Her Legacy of Activism Karsonya Wise

219 AFTERWORD Kate Clifford Larson


VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1, APRIL

39

2014

ESSAY 88 Where Author and Auteur Meet: Genre, the Erotic, and Black Female Subjectivity Ayesha K. Hardison

121 ESSAY

There’s Something about Mary: Female Wisdom and the Folk Presence in Ralph Ellison’s "Invisible Man" Shanna Greene Benjamin

149 MEMOIR

Building the Neo-Archive: Dionne Brand’s "A Map to the Door of No Return"

Erica L. Johnson

THE TRENCHES 172 IN Trafficking Sex: EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION V Paula J. Giddings

1 CRITICAL EDGES

Reclaiming Third World Feminism: or Why Transnational Feminism Needs Third World Feminism

Ranjoo Seodu Herr

31 CULTUREWORK The Birth

Itoro Udofia

36 ESSAY

Authority, History, and Everyday Mysticism in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton: A Womanist View

Rachel Elizabeth Harding

58 ESSAY In Her Own Image: Literary and Visual Representations of Girlhood in Toni Morrison’s "The Bluest Eye" and Jamaica Kincaid’s "Annie John" Sam Vásquez

Politics, Policy, Personhood A Conversation with Gloria Steinem and Ruchira Gupta

201 IN THE TRENCHES

Telling Stories of Trafficking: The Politics of Legibility Julietta Hua

208 IN THE TRENCHES

An Intersectional Analysis of Sex Trafficking Films Carrie N. Baker

227 IN THE TRENCHES

Human Trafficking and Sex Work: Foundational Social-Work Principles Crystal DeBoise


VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, MAY

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2013

NATIONALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS

61 POETRY

The Love Song of Alice Clifton DaMaris B. Hill

62 ESSAY Gender, Religious Agency, and the Subject of Al-Huda International Khanum Shaikh

91 INTERVIEW

Solidarity across Borders: An Interview with Artist Andrea Arroyo Vanessa Pérez Rosario

112 POETRY Hey Joe

Bettina Judd

114 ESSAY EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION V Paula J. Giddings

1 ESSAY

Practicing Love: Black Feminism, LovePolitics, and Post-Intersectionality

Jennifer C. Nash

25 POETRY Mule

Glenis Redmond

27 POETRY

Four Sisters and the Dance Hermine Pinson

29 ESSAY

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Feminist Cosmopolitics and the Transnational Beauty Assemblage Vanita Reddy

60 POETRY

Mitochondrial Eve 12.16 Bettina Judd

Vendidas y Devueltas: Queer Times and Color Lines in Chicana/o Performance Aimee Carillo Rowe

147 POETRY

Lusts and Gaines DaMaris B. Hill

149 ESSAY

Covert Wars in the Bedroom and Nation: Motherwork, Transnationalism, and Domestic Violence in Black Widow's "Wardrobe and Mother Tongue" Leigh Johnson

172 POETRY Palms

DaMaris B. Hill

174 ESSAY

Gendered Casualties: Memoirs in Activism and the Problem of Representing Violence Sudarat Musikawong


VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, MAY

2013

CONTINUED

205 POETRY The Caretaker Phillip Williams

FICTION 206 Black Wings against the Blue Sky Deyonne Bryant

211 POETRY

I’m Supposed to be the First Jade Foster

212 ESSAY

Sara Baartman and the “Inclusive Exclusions” of Neoliberalism

Sheila Lloyd

238 POETRY

The Researcher Discovers Anarcha, Betsey, Lucy, Indigenous to No Land

Bettina Judd

241 POETRY

[If I am of rib marrow, boil me thin] Phillip B. Williams

242 POETRY

On the Politics of Citation Bettina Judd

41


VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, SEPTEMBER 2011

42

MEMORY

66 ESSAY

We Are What We Pretend to Be: The Cautionary Tale of Reading Winnie Mandela as a Rhetorical Widow Linda Diane Horwitz, Catherine R. Squires

PART II FROM THE ARCHIVES

Fanm sou Douz Janvye 91 Pawòl (Women’s Words on January 12th, 2010)

Introduction Gina Athena Ulysse

98 ESSAY

Malè Pa Gen Klaksonn: A Personal Experience of a Foretold yet Unavoidable Disaster Marie-José N’zengou-Tayo

INTRODUCTION V EDITOR'S Paula J. Giddings PART I

1

ESSAY The Violence of Memory: Renarrating Partition Violence in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s "What the Body Remembers" Deepti Misri

26 POETRY Memory’s Muse Sonia Adams

36 ESSAY

Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s "Dictée" Jennifer Cho

62 POETRY For the Lost and So You Die Slowly Kimberly Juanita Brown

106 POETRY

because john doe is not a haitian name Lenelle Moïse

108 ESSAY My Dearest Ana Nadève Ménard

114 POETRY

Under/Water: Memorial Day, May 31, 2010 Myriam J. A. Chancy

118 ESSAY

Reflections on Being Machann ak Machandiz: August 27, 2010

Carolle Charles

124 ESSAY Kado

Katia D. Ulysse

132 PHOTOGRAPHY

Ayiti: Reaching Higher Ground

Regine Romain


VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, SEPTEMBER 2011 CONTINUED

141 ESSAY

Haiti’s Earthquake’s Nickname and Some Women’s Trauma Gina Athena Ulysse

144 ESSAY

Returning to Petit-Goâve after Goudougoudou Brunine David

149 ESSAY

“They Forgot about Us!” Gender and Haiti’s IDP Camps Mark Schuller

158 POETRY

Unequal Distribution and Other Poems Claudine Michel

43


44

VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2, JANUARY 2011 WAYS OF FRAMING

ROUNDTABLE: CONTINUED

and Becoming 68 Celebrating Blanche Wiesen Cook Jane Sherron De Hart

74 Honoring Blanche Wiesen Cook Activist Women: Blanche 76 Supporting Wiesen Cook and Feminist Biography Linda Kerber

Debra L. Schultz

81 "Outing History:" Blanche Wiesen Cook 86 Blanche Wiesen Cook and World Peace the Outrageous Life: Blanche 96 Writing Wiesen Cook and Eleanor Roosevelt Marcia M. Gallo

Lawrence S. Wittner

V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 POETRY

The Garden, Hyderabad Notebook, Cantata for a Riderless Horse (with Sitar and Flute) Meena Alexander

15 ESSAY

Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women's Magazine in Indonesia

L. Ayu Saraswati

42 ESSAY

What is Reproductive Justice?: How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm Kimala Price

ROUNDTABLE: IN CELEBRATION OF BLANCHE WIESEN COOK

Historical Association, 66 American San Diego, California, January 7–10, 2010 Jane Sherron De Hart

Paula J. Giddings

102 Thank you

Blanche Wiesen Cook

ESSAY 106 Performance and the Gendered Body in Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" and Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice Carol Bailey

124 MEMOIR

I Grew Up White: Crossing Borders and Changing Race Judith Ezekiel

141 ESSAY

"The Daughter of Fu Manchu": The Pedagogy of Deconstructing the Representation of Asian Women in Film

Shoba Sharad Rajgobal

163 FROM THE ARCHIVES

Excerpts from the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project: Interview with Peggy Saika by Loretta Ross

Peggy Saika, Loretta Ross


45

VOLUME 10, NUMBER 1, APRIL 2010 TRANSNATIONAL TRANS(FORMATIONS)

77 POETRY

Two Birthdays, Airport Checkpoints Miliann Kang

81 ESSAY “Too high a price”: The “Terrible Honesty” of Black Women’s Work in Quicksand Jessica Labbé

111 ESSAY

“Hello, War Brides”: Heteroglossia, Counter-Memory, and the Auto/biographical Work of Japanese War Brides

Ayaka Yoshimizu

137 ESSAY V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 ESSAY

Passing-as-if: Model-Minority Subjectivity and Women of Color Identification Shireen M. Roshanravan

32 ESSAY

Revisiting Blu’s Hanging: A Critique of Queer Transgression in the Lois-Ann Yamanaka Controversy Cynthia Wu

54 ESSAY

Transnational Community in Demetria Martínez’s "Mother Tongue"

Ariana Vigil

“Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?”: Postcolonial Sexualities, National Reception, and Caribbean Soca Performance Samantha Pinto

164 About the Contributors


VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2, AUGUST

46

2009

66 ESSAY

Chinese Women Protesting Domestic Violence: The Beijing Conference, International Donor Agencies, and the Making of a Chinese Women’s NGO

Lu Zhang

100 POETRY

Two. Because Poems Are: (For Fallujah)

Veronica Golos

102 ESSAY

Legal Frankensteins and Monstrous Women: Judicial Narratives of the “Family in Crisis”

Sharmila Lodhia

V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 ESSAY

“A Real Feminine Journey”: Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts

Nancy Marie Mithlo

31 ESSAY

Never Innocent: Feminist Trouble with Sex Offender Registries and Protection in a Prison Nation Erica R. Meiners

63 POETRY

All That White, Zora Neale Hurston: A kwansaba, and Marian Anderson’s Voice Carries

Tara Betts

130 ESSAY

Floating on Silent Waters: Religion, Nationalism, and Dislocated Women in Khamosh

Shahnaz Khan


VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1, MAY

47

2009

62 ESSAY

An African Queen at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876: Edmonia Lewis's "The Death of Cleopatra" Naurice Frank Woods Jr.

ESSAY 83 Queering Puerto Rican Women's Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Pantoja and Luisita López Torregrosa Lourdes Torres

113 CULTUREWORK Shamed Angels

Daníel R. Martínez

114 ESSAY

Ghostwriting Transnational Histories in Michelle Cliff's "Free Enterprise" Erica L. Johnson

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION V Paula J. Giddings

1

IN THE TRENCHES

Maroon Abolitionists: Black Genderoppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in the U.S. and Canada Julia Sudbury

30 CULTUREWORK

How I Put Myself through School Laurie Ann Guerrero

31 ESSAY

The Formation of a Chinese Immigrant Working-class Patriarchy: Reinventing Gendered Expectations within the Structural Confines of U.S. Society Yu Shi

61 Hollyhock in Caliche Silence CULTUREWORK Daníel R. Martínez

140 CULTUREWORK

Forgiveness from Malintzin

Daníel R. Martínez

141 ESSAY Birthed and Buried: Matrilineal History in Michelle Cliff's "No Telephone to Heaven" Jennifer J. Smith

FROM THE ARCHIVES: 2008 US ELECTION

Race Gotta Do With It? – 163 What's November 2008 Cherríe L. Moraga

Ain't Oprah, Angela, or Your Baby 174 She Mama: The Michelle O Enigma Gina Athena Ulysse

177 An Ocean of Heart We Forget: An Open Letter to My 183 Lest Sisters Who Are Brave Martha Ackelsberg

Alice Walker


VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2, JULY

48

2008

64 ESSAY

Fire’s Queer Anti-Communalism

Alexandra Lynn Barron

94 POETRY

Benediction

Glenis Redmond

95 ESSAY

“The Future of Our Worlds”: Black Feminism and the Politics of Knowledge in the University under Globalization Grace Kyungwon Hong

116 POETRY

Salvation is the Issue

Myisha Priest

123 POETRY

Don’t Hang Up; and Now

V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 ESSAY

Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism Pamela Butler, Jigna Desai

32 INTERVIEW

Re-Visioning Memoirs Old and New: A Conversation with Meena Alexander Lavina Shankar

49 POETRY

Elegy for My Father; Rites of Sense; Black River, Walled Garden; and Pitfire

Meena Alexander

Sapphire

126 FROM THE ARCHIVES

Excerpts from the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project: Interview with Frances Beal Frances M. Beal, Loretta J. Ross

THE ARCHIVES 166 FROM Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female Frances M. Beal

POETRY 177 Between Us: A Bio-Poem Aisha S. Durham


VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1, SEPTEMBER

2008

49

SPECIAL ISSUE: REPRESENTIN': WOMEN, HIP-HOP, AND POPULAR MUSIC

SIGHT AND SOUND

93 “Roll It Gal”: Alison Hinds, Female Empowerment, and Calypso

Krudas, Spatial Practice, and the 130 Las Performance of Diaspora Ronni Armstead

Awaaz Suno: Women, Vocality, and 144 Meri Nation in Hindi Cinema Pavitra Sundar

That You Can’t Leave Behind": Black 180 "All Female Soul Singing and the Politics of Surrogation in the Age of Catastrophe Daphne A. Brooks

V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 INTRODUCTION

Representin’: Women, Hip-Hop, and Popular Music Janell Hobson, Dianne Bartlow

HIP-HOP (AND) FEMINISM

15 Hip-Hop Hegemony Construction”: Identifying 19 “Under Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second-Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms an Old Soul Record: Black 53 “Like Feminism, Queer Sexuality, and the Hip-Hop Generation and Hip-Hop: Can Black Muslim 74 “Hotep Women Be Down with Hip-Hop? Anaya Mcmurray

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

205 Still

Ayanah Moor

It Like It’s Hot”: Culture Industry 211 “Drop Laborers and Their Perspectives on Rap Music Video Production Mako Fitts

Essence of Res(ex)pectability: Black 236 The Women’s Negotiation of Black Femininity in Rap Music and Music Video Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley

Honeys and Da Hustlaz: 261 Hip-Hop Black Sexualities in the New Hip-Hop Pornography Mireille Miller-Young

293 Women, Pop Music, and Pornography Meredith Levande


VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2, JULY

50

2007

HOME IS WHERE...

61 POETRY

jumpinjumpoutjumpsidetosidejumponju mpinjumpout: a jumprope song Keli Stewart

63 CRITICAL EDGES

"Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States," A Traveling Public Art Exhibition Rickie Solinger

71 ESSAY

Writing Rape, Trauma, and Transnationality onto the Female Body: Matrilineal Em-body-ment in Nora Okja Keller's "Comfort Woman" Silvia Schultermandl

101 POETRY

Antigone to Ismene

V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 ESSAY

The Erotic and the Pornographic in Chicana Rap: JV vs. Ms. Sancha Beauty Bragg, Pancho McFarland

22 ESSAY

Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender: A Native Feminist Approach to Belonging Renya K. Ramirez

41 POETRY

The Adoration of the Faithful

43

Cathy Song

ESSAY Reconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff's "Rebel Women" Jennifer Thorington Springer

Lee Peterson

102 FROM THE ARCHIVES Revisiting the Second Wave: In Conversation with Mary King Elizabeth Jacobs, Mary King

117 ESSAY

Beyond the Shadow: Re-scripting Race in Women's Studies Laura Gillman

142 POETRY Portrait

Mihaela Moscaliuc

143 IN THE TRENCHES

Going Home: A Feminist Anthropologist's Reflections on Dilemmas of Power and Positionality in the Field M. Cristina Alcalde


VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY

2007

51

69 POETRY

Caring for Another Woman Karen An-hwei Lee

73 ESSAY

"A Shared Queerness": Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Sexuality in Shani Mootoo's "Cereus Blooms at Night"

Grace Kyungwon Hong

104 CRITICAL EDGE

The Nonperformativity of Antiracism Sara Ahmed

127 ESSAY

"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism

Joanne Barker

162 ESSAY V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 "Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood": CRITICAL EDGES

Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic, Or: "They Done Taken My Blues and Gone" Karla F. C. Holloway

19 CULTUREWORK

From Trigueñita to Afro–Puerto Rican: Intersections of the Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland

Maritza Quiñones Rivera

183 IN THE TRENCHES

The Tsunami's Windfall: Women and Aid Distribution Elisabeth Armstrong

191 FROM THE ARCHIVES

Performing the "Generic Latina": A Conversation with Teatro Luna

Excerpts from the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project Interview with Linda Chavez-Thompson

Sobeira Latorre, Joanna L. Mitchell, Tanya Saracho, Coya Paz

Kathleen Banks Nutter, Linda Chavez-Thompson

38 ESSAY

214 MEMOIR

Size Matters: Figuring Gender in the (Black) Jamaican Nation

Inquisitor and Insurgent: Black Woman with Pencil, Sharpened

Winnifred Brown-Glaude

Nikky Finney


VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2, OCTOBER

52

2006

SPECIAL ISSUE: SIDELINE INSURGENCIES AND GENDERED ART

78 ESSAY

Outrageous Behavior: Women's Public Performance in North Africa

Laura Chakravarty Box

93 ESSAY

Blurred Genres, Blended Memories: Engendering Dissidence in Nawal el Saadawi's "Memoirs of a Woman Doctor" and Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions" Katwiwa Mule

117 ESSAY

Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, Gazbia Sirry and Ghada Amer Chika Okeke-Agulu

V PREFACE

Paula J. Giddings

1 INTRODUCTION

Sideline Insurgencies and Gendered Art Obioma Nnaemeka (Guest Editor)

22 ESSAY

The Seventh International AWSA Conference: Rationale and the Way Forward Nawal el Saadawi (Guest Editor)

33 ESSAY

To Be Singularly Nomadic or a Territorialized National: At the Crossroads of Francophone Women's Writing of the Maghreb Valérie Orlando

54 ESSAY

Feminist or Simply Feminine? Reflections on the Works of Nana Asmā'u, a Nineteenth-Century West African Woman Poet, Intellectual, and Social Activist Chukwuma Azuonye

150 ESSAY

The Price of Dissidence: A Meditation on Creativity, Censorship, and Exile

Samar Attar

177 ESSAY

Durable Dreams: Dissent, Critique, and Creativity in Faat Kiné and Moolaadé

Jude Akudinobi

195 ESSAY

African Literature and the Woman: The Imagined Reality as a Strategy of Dissidence

Chimalum Moses Nwankwo

209 ESSAY

Guantanamo: A Feminist Perspective on U.S. Human Rights Violations

Victoria Brittain

220 ESSAY

Dissidence, Creativity, and Embargo Art in Nuha Al-Radi's "Baghdad Diaries"

Brinda J. Mehta


VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1, NOVEMBER

2005

53

111 POETRY Oklahoma Naming Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

113 ESSAY

African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of Women Josephine A. Beoku-Betts, Wairimu Ngaruiya Njambi

133 ESSAY

From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty Years: Theorizing Diasporic Chinese Female Subjectivities in Geling Yan's "The Lost Daughter" of Happiness

Sally E. McWilliams

INTRODUCTION V EDITOR'S Paula J. Giddings

1 ESSAY

Becoming Postcolonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship Patricia McFadden

23 ESSAY

Tending to the Roots: Anna Julia Cooper's Sociopolitical Thought and Activism

Kathy L. Glass

56 dirty south moon POETRY

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

ESSAY 58 Gender, Nation, and Globalization in

161 POETRY On Learning That My Indian Student Is a Sundancer Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

163 CRITICAL ESSAY

Feminist Negotiations: Contesting Narratives of the Campaign against Acid Violence in Bangladesh

Elora Halim Chowdhury

193 POETRY

Hawk Hoof Tea

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

195 ARCHIVES

Nobel Peace Prize Speech: Nobel Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 2004

Wangari Maathai

202 Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai

"Monsoon Wedding" and "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge"

on the Environment, the War in Iraq, Debt, and Women's Equality: Interview with Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now!" Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Jenny Sharpe

Wangari Maathai, Amy Goodman

Copy with a Difference

Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations (review)

82 ESSAY 216 BOOK REVIEW Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's "Alien": Nandini Bhattacharya

Daphne Mary Lamothe


VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2, APRIL

54

2005

85 POETRY

52nd and Spruce

Allison Whittenberg

86 POETRY Serenghetti Crow, and: Fried Glenis Redmond

89 ESSAY

A Praxis of Parataxis: Epistemology and Dissonance in Lucha Corpi's "Detective Fiction" Donna M. Bickford

104 ESSAY V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Paula J. Giddings

1 ESSAY

Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen's "Passing" and the Rhinelander Case

Miriam Thaggert

30 ESSAY

Shifting Contexts, Shaping Experiences: Child Abuse Survivor Narratives and Educating for Empire Marie Lovrod

57 IN THE TRENCHES

Transnational Feminism as Critical Practice: A Reading of Feminist Discourses in Pakistan

Amina Jamal

83 POETRY

Hunger, and: I used to live

Gabeba Baderoon

Keeping Up Appearances, Getting Fed Up: The Embodiment of Strength among African American Women Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant

124 ESSAY

Transracial Adoption Narratives: Prospects and Perspectives Helena Grice

149 FROM THE ARCHIVES

Coyotes, Comadres, y Colegas: Theorizing the Personal in Ruth Behar's "Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story"

Susana S. Martìnez

176 BOOK REVIEWS

Butterfly in the Wind (review)

Carol Bailey

REVIEWS 180 BOOK Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women (review) Mayumi Takada


VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1, NOVEMBER

2004

55

STILL IN SEARCH OF SAFE SPACES

COUNTERPOINTS SPECIAL SECTION: VOICES FROM HISPANIOLA

from Hispaniola: A "Meridians" 69 Voices Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat,

Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, Nelly Rosario

92 Edwidge Danticat's Kitchen History Valérie Loichot

Alvarez and the Anxiety of 117 Julia Latina Representation Lucía M. Suárez

146 The Gate to Phaeton Exile, Remapping Empire, Re157 Rewriting membering Home: Hualing Nieh's Kathleen M. Balutansky

FAREWELL V EDITOR'S Myriam J. A. Chancy

1 CRITICAL ESSAY

Of Monsters and Mothers: Filipina American Identity and Maternal Legacies in Lynda J. Barry's "One Hundred Demons" Melinda L. De Jesus

27 CULTUREWORK: FICTION Dona Carminda e o principe Regina Rheda

34 TRANSLATION

Miss Carminda and the Prince Regina Rheda, Lydia Billon

40 IN THE TRENCHES

She Who Returned Home: The Narrative of an Afro-Guyanese Activist

Kimberly D. Nettles

66 New World Babylon Remix POETRY

(Honduran punta) Sheila Maldonado

"Mulberry" and "Peach" Yu-Fang Cho

201 ESSAY

Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma Lopez Luz Calvo

225 POETRY

On the Ferry to Staten Island Arisa White

ESSAY 226 CRITICAL Fertile Cosmofeminism: Ruth L.Ozeki and Transnational Reproduction Shameem Black

BOOK REVIEWS

257 Woman Song Carol Bailey

Bound: Filipino American Lives 261 Home Across Cultures and Communities Trinidad Linares

Language, and Identity in 264 Place, Afro-Costa Rican Literature Kwame Dixon


VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1, JANUARY

56

2004

WAGE PEACE

...Kneading: Zhang Yu, Fly Girl/Letter to Bessie Coleman Tracie D. Hall

109 FROM THE ARCHIVES

Diving into Audre Lorde's "Blackstudies" Angela Bowen

130 POETRY

Change Places Marilyn Anderson

132 COUNTERPOINT A "Meridians" Report on MADRE: The War on Iraq Elizabeth Hanssen

142 IN THE TRENCHES

Departures from Karachi Airport: Some Reflections on Feminist Outrage

INTRODUCTION V EDITOR'S Myriam J.A. Chancy

1 Geographies of Space: Spatial CRITICAL ESSAY

Impositions, Circularity, and Memory in Malika Mokeddem's "Les hommes qui marchent" and "Le siecle des sauterelles" Brinda J. Mehta

39 MEMOIR

Chez les arabes Joyce Zonana

55 COUNTERPOINT

Migrations: A "Meridians" Interview with Elif Shafak

Elif Safak, Myriam J. A. Chancy

86 FICTION An Assyro-Babylonian Pregnant Goddess: An Excerpt from "The Saint Of Incipient Insanities" Elif Shafak

100 POETRY

Dream of the Soft-shell Crab, Hazel at the Ailey Matinee, Third and Main...

Ambreen Hai

165 POETRY

Necessities, Imagine Yourself Happy, Punya for the Angel Gabriel Arlene R. K. Zide

ESSAY 173 CRITICAL A Global Feminist Travels: Assia Djebar and Fantasia

Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman

200 POETRY Vintage, Belated Libation, Where I Write, Arrival Nelly Rosario

ESSAY 205 CRITICAL Writing the Nation on the Beauty Queen's Body: Implications for a "Hindu" Nation Huma Ahmed-Ghosh

228 ART

Escrava Anastacia Clancy Cavnar

229 FICTION

Escrava Anastacia Speaks Jene Watson-Aifah


VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2, MAY

57

2004

GLOBALIZING HOME

FICTION 80 CULTUREWORK: Bloodlines: Conversations with My Mother Vanara Taing

SPECIAL SECTION "International Feminism, Human Rights and the Women's Studies Curriculum: A Conference at the Nexus of Pedagogy and Activism ed. Laura H. Roskos, Andrea L. Humphrey

87 Introduction: Conference-making Challenges of Feminist Citizenship: An 93 The Interview with Anannya Bhattacharjee Andrea Humphrey

Laura Roskos, Anannya Bhattacharjee

V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Myriam J.A. Chancy

1 CRITICAL ESSAY

Domesticating NATO's War in Kosovo/a: (In)Visible Bodies and the Dilemma of Photojournalism Wendy Kozol

39 POETRY

Watching A Friend Dance in Bill T. Jones' You Walk Mendi Lewis Obadike

40 CRITICAL ESSAY

Racial House, Big House, Home: Contemporary Abolitionism in Toni Morrison's "Paradise" Megan Sweeney

68 COUNTERPOINT

Post Partum Blues I and II Consanguinidad Virtual/Virtual Consanguinity Mariangeles Soto-Diaz

Organizing in Terrible Times: The 102 Effective Strategic Value of Human Rights for Transnational Anti-Racist Feminisms Barbara Schulman

Tactics in a Movement Strategy: 108 Legislative The Economic Human Rights Pennsylvania Campaign Mary Bricker-Jenkins

the Terms: Putting South 113 Redefining African Women on Democracy's Agenda Leslie Hill

the Politics of Inclusion: 120 Beyond Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights Andrea Smith

124 Reflections of a Human Rights Educator Dazon Dixon Diallo

the Center to the Margins: 129 From The Radicalization of Human Rights in the United States Laura Roskos


VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2, MAY

2004

CONTINUED

137 IN THE TRENCHES

The "War on Terror," and Withdrawing American Charity: Some Consequences for Poor Muslim Women in Kolkata, India Suchitra Samanta

168 ESSAY Cosmopolitan Cartographies: Art in a Divided World Ranu Samantrai

195 POETRY

Algun lugar en ruinas Mirta Yañez, Sonia Feigenbaum

205 FROM THE ARCHIVES

"Artistic Expression was Flowing Everywhere": Alison Mills and Ntozake Shange, Black Bohemian Feminists in the 1970s Harryette Mullen

236 POETRY

on the wings of morning, holding back Eunice Heath Tate

239 CRITICAL ESSAY

"I Cannot Find Her": The Oriental Feminine, Racial Melancholia, and Kimiko Hahn's "The Unbearable Heart" Juliana Chang

261 POETRY

The Telling of Tales, Anti-Manifesto Frances Kim Russell

58


VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2, MARCH

59

2003

WHAT OUR GRANDMOTHERS KNEW

27 blessing the boats Lucille Clifton

28 FROM THE ARCHIVES

Shameless Women: Repression and Resistance in "We Sinful Women" Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry Neluka Silva

52 POETRY A new garden, her hair supplanted, and: Plain Song, and: 101 memories of midnight miracles Purvi Shah

57 IN THE TRENCHES V EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Myriam J.A. Chancy

TRIBUTE TO JUNE JORDAN AND OTHERS RECENTLY DEPARTED

1 Tribute to June Jordan 3 Memoriam 5 Lumpectomy Eve 6 Report from the Bahamas, 1982 17 The Making of Paper To Those Who 20 Homage Hollered Before Me Angela Davis

Ruth Forman

Lucille Clifton June Jordan

Nikky Finney

Gina Ulysse

25 If You Lose Your Pen Ruth Forman

Confronting Power and Politics: A Feminist Theorizing of Gender in Commonwealth Caribbean Societies Violet Eudine Barriteau

93 COUNTERPOINTS

An Interview with Judith Ortíz Cofer Margaret Crumpton

110 CRITICAL ESSAY Daffodils, Rhizomes, Migrations: Narrative Coming of Age in the Diasporic Writings of Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid Jana Evans Braziel

132 CULTUREWORK: FICTION The Beautiful One Has Come Suzanne Kamata

139 CRITICAL ESSAY

The Ultimate Rebellion: Chicana Narratives of Sexuality and Community Katherine Sugg


VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2, MARCH CONTINUED

171 FROM THE ARCHIVES

"We Shall Have Our Manhood": Black Macho, Black Nationalism, and the Million Man March Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd

204 ESSAY

Feminist Tigers and Patriarchal Lions: Rhetorical Strategies and Instrument Effects in the Struggle for Definition and Control over Development in Nepal

Jana Evans Braziel

250 ESSAY

Taxation, Women, and the Colonial State: Egba Women's Tax Revolt Judith A. Byfield

278 MEMOIR

Dreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay Kristal Brent Zook

2003

60


VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, SEPTEMBER

2002

61

82 CULTUREWORK She Is Not Captured! Farideh Farhi

89 ESSAY Afghan Refugee Women's Experience of Conflict and Disintegration Ayesha Khan

POETRY 112 Ironing, Ironing Nellie Wong

REPORT 125 CONFERENCE Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color for the 21st Century Martha Arevalo Duffield, Karina Lissette Cespedes

IX EDITOR'S FAREWELL Kum-Kum Bhavnani

1 MERIDIANS LECTURE

Are Women's Rights Universal?: Re-Engaging the Local

Radhika Coomaraswamy

19 ESSAY

The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Struggle Against Impunity in Argentina Rita Arditti

42 INTERVIEW

Passion, Generosity, and the Academy: "Meridians" Interview with Ruth J. Simmons

50 POETRY

I don't do lunch Marjorie Agosín, Laura Rocha Nakazawa

54 ESSAY

Juana Alicia's "Las Lechugueras/ The Women Lettuce Workers" Dyan Mazurana

133 POETRY

Claudia Rankine

Michelle Smith

134 ESSAY

Temporary Tattoos: Indo-Chic Fantasies and Late Capitalist Orientalism

Sunaina Maira

161 ESSAY

Seeing Faces, Making Races: Challenging Visual Tropes of Racial Difference Terry Kawashima

191 COMMENTARY

South African and African American Women: Journey to Freedom

Elise Young, Zengie Mangaliso

201 SPOKEN WORD

When Ten Minus Two Equals Zero: An Interview with Sanda Lwin Nina Ha

209 POETRY Snow

Ruth Sanabria


VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, SEPTEMBER CONTINUED

210 FICTION Hindsight

Christine Benvenuto

226 ESSAY

Looked Class, Talked Red: Sketches of Ruth First and Redlined Africa Barbara Harlow

252 POETRY Irony

Catrióna Rueda Esquibel

253 FICTION

Pride Cometh Before a Fall Rochelle Lynn Holt

265 IN CONVERSATION

Demanding the Right to Live without Violence: Reflections on "Color of Violence II" Sharmila Lodhia, Sylvanna Falcón

274 POETRY Alien 2

Vaneeta Palecanda

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MATTERS 78 MEDIA “Be Careful What You Ask For: The Goddesses Might Be Listening Grace Poore

98 POETRY A Mask of Razorblades & the Voice of the Rain and My Favorite Boatperson Sara Littlecrow-Russell

101 ESSAY

Revolutionary Vision: Black Women Writers, Black Nationalist Ideology, and Interracial Sexuality Shane Trudell Verge

126 POETRY Neighbors and August Days Mary Ann Larkin

INTRODUCTION IX EDITOR'S Kum-Kum Bhavnani

1 ESSAY

Crimes of Fashion: The Pachuca and Chicana Style Politics Catherine S. Ramírez

36 FICTION

Mary, Staring at Me Sejal Shah

41 ESSAY

Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water Ifi Amadiume

WORD 67 SPOKEN "Meridians" Interview with Marilyn Chin

70 POETRY The Cock's Wife, Bold Beauty,

Kali-fornia, Bad Date, and Take a Left at the Waters of Samsara Marilyn Chin

128 FICTION

"That Little Boy": An English Translation of Jyotirmoyee Devi's Bengali Short Story "Shei Chheleta" Debali Mookerjea

146 CULTUREWORK

In Many Worlds: A Discussion with Egyptian Artist Sabah Naeem Jessica Winegar

163 ESSAY

Diasporadas: Black Women and the Fine Art of Activism Bonnie Claudia Harrison

185 FICTION

How Sukie Come Free Sheree Renée Thomas


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188 FROM THE ARCHIVES

Returning the American Gaze: Pandita Ramabai's The Peoples of the United States, 1889 Meera Kosambi

213 POETRY Margins

Catalina Ríos

215 ESSAY

Chitra Divakaruni's "The Mistress of Spices": Deploying Mystical Realism Gita Rajan

237 REPORT

Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the UN World Conference Against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices— A Conference Report Maylei Blackwell, Nadine Naber

249 POETRY Garrote

Maureen Tolman Flannery

250 CREATING AN ARCHIVE: September 11: A Feminist Archive

312 About the Contributors

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59 ESSAY

Histories and Heresies: Engendering the Harlem Renaissance

Cheryl A. Wall

77 INTERCONNECTIONS

Locating and Translating "Meridians"

Sharon K. Hom

92 COUNTERPOINTS

"Meridians" Roundtable on Peace: Harvard University, November 2000 Malathi de Alwis, Rita Arditti, Sandra T. Azar, Amrita Basu, Cynthia Cockburn, Carol Cohn, Val Moghadam

112 POETRY

The Sugar from the Cane / El Azúcar de la Caña

IX EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Kum-Kum Bhavnani

1 ESSAY

Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex California and Beyond Angela Y. Davis, Cassandra Shaylor

26 ESSAY

The Aliens Have Landed! Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions

Banu Subramaniam

41 POETRY

For Anna Mani (1918-2001) Suniti Namjoshi

42 MEDIA MATTERS “The Many Faces of Globalism and the Challenges of Documentary Filmmaking C. A. Griffith, H. L. T. Quan

58 POETRY Gardens

Odilia Rivera

Odilia Rivera

113 MEMOIR

On Writing and Return: Palestinian-American Reflections Lisa Suhair Majaj

127 POETRY

Sisters Behind Bar (For the Women in FCI-Dublin) Opal Palmer Adisa

130 ESSAY

Contradictory Locations: Blackwomen and the Discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM ) in South Africa Pumla Dineo Gqola

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153 POETRY

Mahadevi Chastens Her Lover, Lord of Mallika: The Preference of Vishnu, What a Fisher Girl Said in Defense of Absence, Her Lover, Her Final Word to Vishnu, and The Challenge Reetika Vazirani

158 ESSAY

Con un pie a cada lado/With a Foot in Each Place: Mestizaje as Transnational Feminisms in Ana Castillo's "So Far from God"

Laura Gillman, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas

176 POETRY Fire Flies

Odilia Rivera

177 REPORT

Women's WORLD: A Transnational Network of Women Writers: The Targeting of Feminist Writers

Meredith Tax

186 POETRY

Funeral Procession in Puerto Nuevo Odilia Rivera

187 ESSAY

The Other Dancer As Self: Girlfriend Selfhood in Toni Morrison's "Sula" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" Kevin Everod Quashie

218 POETRY

Mami Haikus Odilia Rivera

219 ESSAY

Hillary Rodham Clinton's Orient: Cosmopolitan Travel and Global Feminist Subjects Caren Kaplan

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65 CONFERENCE REPORT: The Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color Andrea Smith

73 REVIEW ESSAY

Global Feminisms and Food: A Review Essay Doris Witt

94 POETRY

In the Company of Women Darlene Pagán

95 ESSAY Dispersed Radiance: Women Scientists in C.V. Raman's "Laboratory" Abha Sur

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION IX Kum-Kum Bhavnani

1 ESSAY

Missing in Action: Ida B. Wells, the NAACP, and the Historical Record

Paula Giddings

18 POETRY Instrumental Rhythm Nellie Wong

19 INTERVIEW

Edwidge Danticat: An Intimate Reader Jessica Horn

26 POETRY The Lost Ring

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

128 POETRY Sparkle Yona Harvey

130 ESSAY

Transgressive Women and Transracial Mothers: White Women and Critical Race Theory France Winddance Twine

154 POETRY Epigram

Adrienne Su

155 ESSAY The Interstitial Politics of Black Feminist Organizations Kimberly Springer

28 ESSAY 192 POETRY Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade: From RHYMES Transnational Feminist Perspectives Kamala Kempadoo

52 Geography

POETRY Adrienne Su

53 FICTION

Fire and Sand Laila Halaby

Yolanda Wisher

194 REFLECTIONS

The Politics of Place and Racism in Australia: A Personal Exploration Laila Halaby

208 POETRY

Why I am Afraid

Lorelei Williams


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85 IN THE TRENCHES

Notes from the (non)Field: Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color

Rachel Lee

110 CULTUREWORK

Poems by Miyoko Sugano, Cathy Kanoelani Ikeda, Muriel M. Ah Sing Hughes, Tamara Wong-Morrison, Juliet S. Kono, and Cathy Song. With a note on Hawai'i's local literature by Miyoko Sugano

128 ESSAY

Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production

Ginetta Candelario

VII FOREWORD Ruth J. Simmons

IX INTRODUCTION

Smith-Wesleyan Editorial Group

XVI TRIBUTE TO

BARBARA CHRISTIAN

Ann duCille

1 COUNTERPOINTS

Ama Ata Aidoo, Edna Acosta-Belén, Amrita Basu, Maryse Condé, Nell Painter, and Nawal El Saadawi Speak on Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism

29 ESSAY

Translating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organizing on Local Feminist Discourses and Practices in Latin America

Sonia E. Alvarez

68 ESSAY Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Movements Amrita Basu

157 ESSAY

Mixedblood Mediation and Territorial Re-Inscription in Ceremony

Marilyn Miller

MEMOIRS 179 ‘The Shock of Sensation’: On Reading "The Waves" as a Girl in India, and as a Woman in America Meena Alexander

187 MEDIA MATTERS

Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity?: Comments on "Mississippi Masala" Kum-Kum Bhavnani

204 IN THE ARCHIVES

The Papers of Constance Baker Motley: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

Kathleen Banks Nutter


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INDEX Abolition (15.1) p. 137 | (9.1) p. 1 | (4.2) p. 40 | see also: Prison Industrial Complex, Carceral state Activism (social and political movements, social justice, resistance) (22.1) p. 76 | (20.2) p. 340 | (20.1) p. 53 | (20.1) p. 90 | (19.1) p. 107 | (18.2) p. 304 | (18.2) p. 394 | (17.2) p. 309 | (17.2) p. 325 | (17.1) p. 82 | (17.1) p. 163 | (16.2) p. 286 | (16.2) p. 373 | (16.2) p. 416 | (15.2) p. 353 | (15.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (15.1) p. 205 | (14.2) p. 1 | (14.2) p. 88 | (14.1) p. 30 | (14.1) p. 70 | (14.1) p. 76 | (13.1) p. 204 | (12.2) p. 123 | (12.2) p. 27 | (11.2) p. 174 | (10.2) p. 42 | (10.2) SPECIAL SECTION: p. 66-102 | (9.2) p. 66 | (9.1) p. 1 | (7.1) p. 127 | (6.2) p. 54 | (6.2) p. 150 | (6.1) p. 23 | (5.1) p. 40 | (4.2) SPECIAL SECTION: p. 87-129 | (2.2) p. 163 | (2.1) p. 130 Adoption (incl. Transnational and Transracial) (13.2) p. 79 | (5.2) p. 124 Antebellum (-South) (12.2) p. 76 | (6.1) p. 216 Antiracism (14.2) p. 46 | (14.1) p. 30 | (7.1) p. 104 | (4.2) p. 102 | see also: Racism Black Power, Black nationalism, Black Panthers (17.1) p. 51 | (2.2) p. 52 Body (body politics, health, illness) (23.1) p. 263 | (18.2) p. 183 | (16.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (14.1) p. 121, 148 | (13.2) p. 56 | (13.1) p. 103 | (11.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (10.2) p. 106 | (8.2) p. 177 | (7.2) p. 71 | (7.1) p. 162 | (4.1) p. 205 | (2.2) p. 141 Care (22.1) p. 180 | (21.1) p. 265 | (20.1) p. 218 | (15.1) p. 205 | (12.2) p. 153 | (11.2) p. 1, 29 | (7.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (7.1) p. 69

Cartographies (17.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (5.1) p. 157 | (1.1) p. 68 Childhood, early childhood (5.2) p. 30 Civil Rights Movement (19.1) p. 32 | (3.2) p. 171 Class (19.2) p. 250 | (16.1) p. 114 | (15.2) p. 412 | (13.1) p. 1, 103, 129 | (9.1) p. 31 | (4.2) p. 108 | (4.2) p. 137 | (3.1) p. 226 Color/ism (10.2) p. 15 Community (13.2) p. 28 | (10.1) p. 54 | (3.2) p. 139 Dance, movement, ritual (22.1) p. 204 | (21.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (20.1) p. 127 | (16.2) p. 295 | (11.2) p. 27 | (10.1) p. 137 | (1.1) p. 157 Death studies (death positivity) (21.2) p. 350 Decolonizing (16.1) p. 184 | (18.2) p. 414 | (13.1) p. 53 | see also: Postcolonialism Diaspora (23.1) p. 52 | (20.1) p. 183 | (15.2) SPECIAL SECTION | (14.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (14.2) p. 88 | (14.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (13.1) p. 78 | (8.1) p. 130 | (6.1) p. 133 | (3.2) p. 110 | (2.2) p. 163 | see: Migration Digital arts, theory, and technology (21.1) p. 207 | (20.2) p. 298 | (16.2) p. 363 | (15.1) p. 65| (13.2) p. 99 | (13.1) p. 129 Education (educators) (12.2) p. 196 | (4.2) p. 120 | (1.1) p. 85 Embodiment (24.2) p. 507 | (24.2) p. 456 | (24.2) p. 415 | (16.2) p. 373 | (7.2) p. 71 | (5.2) p. 104 Environmental Studies (23.1) p. 82, 133 | (22.1) p. 11 | (15.1) p. 189


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Epistemology (17.2) p. 233 | (5.2) p. 89 Feminisms

African Feminism, (21.1) p. 123 | (17.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (13.1) p. 1 | (3.2) p. 204 Asian American Feminism, (13.1) p. 129 | (11.1) p. 36 | (5.2) p. 180 | (4.2) p. 93, 239 | (3.1) p. 201 Asian Feminism, (24.2) p. 451 | (24.2) p. 433 | (20.2) p. 370 | (20.1) p. 11, 127 | (18.2) p. 282 | (9.2) p. 130 | (4.1) p. 142 | (4.2) p. 137 | (3.2) p. 28, 204 Black Feminism, (22.1) p. 115, 146 |(19.1) p. 32 | (18.1) p. 94, 227 | (17.1) p. 25, 150, 163 | (16.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (16.1) p. 163 | (21.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (15.2) SPECIAL SECTION | (15.1) p. vii, 40, 86, 205, 245 | (14.2) p. v | (14.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (13.1) p. 204 | (11.2) p. 1 | (10.1) p. 81 | (8.2) p. 95, 166 | (8.1) p. 19, 53, 236 | (7.1) p. 214 | (5.2) p. 104 | (4.2) p. 205 | (2.2) p. 163 | (1.2) p. 155 Chicana Feminism, (18.1) p. 41 | (11.2) p. 114 | (7.2) p. 1 | (5.1) p. 201 | (3.2) p. 139 | (2.2) p. 1 Indigenous Feminism, (23.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (18.2) p. 335 | (15.1) p. 137 | (9.2) p. 1 | (7.2) p. 22 | (7.1) p. 127 Latina Feminism, (23.1) p. 82 | (21.1) p. 123 | (14.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (14.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (1.1) p. 29 LGBTQIA+ Feminism, (18.1) p. 41 | (17.2) p. 401 | (16.1) p. 184 | (9.1) p. 83 | (8.2) p. 64 Middle Eastern Feminism (18.2) p. 482 Queer of Color Feminism (17.2) p. 401 | (16.1) p. 184 Third World Feminism (12.1) p.1 Transnational Feminism, (24.2) p. 357 | (23.1) p. 110 | (20.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (20.1) p. 127 | (19.2) p. 348 | (19.1) p. 65 | (18.2) p. 471 | (16.1) p. 114 | (15.1) p. 86 | (13.2) p. 164 |

(12.1) p. 1 | (11.2) p. 29 | (11.1) p. 36 | (10.2) p. 15 | (10.1) p. 54 | (8.2) p. 1 | (7.1) p. 1 | (6.2) p. 22 | (5.2) p. 57 | (5.1) p. 226 | (4.1) p. 173 | 4.2, SPECIAL SECTION | (2.2) p. 237 | (2.1) p. 158, 177 | (1.2) p. 28, 73 | (1.1) p. 1, 29 WOC Feminism (24.2) p. 533 | (22.1) p. 76 | (19.2) p. 348 | (18.2) p. 282, 445 | (17.1) p. 7, 16 | (14.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (14.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (10.2) p. 42 | (10.1) p. 1 | (9.1) p. 183 | (4.2) p. 120 | (3.1) p. 125, 265 | (2.2) p. 101 | (1.2) p. 28 | (1.1) p. 85 Fiction (24.2) p. 307 | (4.1) p. 86 | (4.1) p. 229 | (3.2) p. 132 | (3.1) p. 210, 253 | (2.2) p. 36, 128, 185 | (1.2) p. 194 | ( Film (23.1) p. 156 | (20.1) p. 151 | (15.1) p. 40 | (12.1) p. 172 | (8.1) p. 236 | (6.1) p. 58 | (2.1) p. 42 | (1.1) p. 187 Food (16.2) p. 286 | (16.1) p. 161 | (1.2) p. 73 Futurity / futurism (20.2) p. 443 | (19.2) p. 401 Gender-based violence (22.1) p. 95 | (19.2) p. 383 | (18.2) p. 457 | (16.2) p. 276 | (15.1) p. 109 | (11.2) p. 149 | (11.2) p. 174 | (9.2) p. 66 | (6.1) p. 163 | (5.2) p. 30 | (4.2) p. 120 | (3.1) p. 265 | (1.2) p. 65 Generations (family, ancestors, incl. matrilineal) (23.1) p. 259 | (22.1) p. 180 | (21.2) p. 317 | (21.1) p. 49 | (18.1) p. 63, 161 | (17.2) p. 309, 401 | (17.1) p. 150 | (9.2) p. 102 | (9.1) p. 141 | (7.2) p. 71 | (3.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (3.1) p. 19 | (2.2) p. 41 | (2.1) p. 187 Global regions see also: Migration, Governance Africa (17.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (13.1) p. 1 | (6.2) p. 195 | (6.1) p. 1, 113 | (3.1) p. 226 East Africa, (20.1) p. 174 Mediterranean, The Levant, (19.1) p. 202 | (18.2) p. 482 | (2.1) p. 113 Middle East, (23.1) p. 110, 182 | (21.2) p. 350 | (21.2) p. 397 | (19.1) p. 202 | (9.2) p. 100 | (6.2) p. 117 |


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(6.1) p. 195 | (4.1) p. 132 | (2.2) p. 146 | (2.1) p. 113 Northern Africa, (17.2) p. 269 | (6.2) p. 78 Oceania, (1.2) p. 53 South Africa, (11.1) p. 66 | (4.2) p. 113 | (3.1) p. 191 | (2.1) p. 130 Southern Africa, (15.2) p. 353 West Africa, (23.1) p. 263 | (17.2) p. 246, 296, 309, 325 | (13.1) p. 186 | (6.2) p. 54 Americas Latin America, (23.1) p. 14, 82 | (19.2) p. 271, 383 | (19.1) p. 149 | (18.2) p. 394, 457 | (14.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (14.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (13.2) p. 1 | (13.1) p. 103 | (5.1) p. 264 | (3.1) p. 19 | (1.1) 29 The Caribbean, (19.2) p. 401 | (17.1) p. 97 | (16.2) p. 295 | (15.2) p. 412, 464 | (14.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (13.2) p. 1 | (11.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (10.1) p. 137 | (9.1) p. 83 | (7.2) p. 43 | (7.1) p. 38, 162 | (5.1) SPECIAL SECTION | (3.2) p. 57 | (1.1) p. 128 US American South, (19.2) p. 250 | (16.2) p. 393 | (3.2) p. 278 US and Canada, (23.1) p. 259 | (21.1) p. 236 | (20.2) p. 340, 466 | (17.1) p. 163 | (16.1) p. 157 | (15.1) p. 1, 137 | (10.1) p. 32 | (9.1) p. 1, 31, SPECIAL SECTION | (7.2) p. 63 | (7.1) p. 1, 162 | (6.2) p. 209 | (4.2) p. 108, 129 | (2.1) p. 1, 59 | (1.1) p. 110 US-Mexican Borderlands, (13.1) p. 129 | (11.2) p. 91 | (5.2) p. 149 Asia (24.2) p. 555 | (13.1) p. 129 Central Asia, (3.1) p. 89 East and Southeast Asia, (23.1) p. 235 | (20.1) p. 218 | (18.2) p. 282, 304 | (13.2) p. 79 | (11.1) p. 36 | (10.2) p. 15 | (10.1) p. 32, 111 | (9.2) p. 66 | (9.1) p. 31 | (6.1) p. 133 | (3.2) p. 204

South Asia, (20.2) p. 340, 370 | (20.1) p. 11, 53, 90, 127, 151, 183 | (13.1) p. 157 | (11.2) p. 62 | (11.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (9.2) p. 130 | (8.1) p. 144 | (6.1) p. 58, 82, 163 | (5.2) p. 57 | (4.1) p. 142 | (4.2) p. 137 | (3.2) p. 28 | (2.2) p. 188, 215 | (1.1) p. 179 Europe (22.1) SPECIAL ISSUE Central, (16.1) p. 114 Eastern / Southeastern, (16.1) p. 114 | (4.2) p. 1 UK, (13.1) p. 53 Western, (16.1) p. 79 Russia (20.2) p. 396 | (16.1) 112 Geographies (spatial geographies) (24.2) p. 305 | (16.2) p. 373 | (15.2) p. 491 | (14.1) p. 94 | (8.1) p. 130 | (6.1) p. 113 | (4.1) p. 1 Hair (16.2) p. 382 | (16.1) p. 163 | (1.1) p. 128 Higher ed, academia, the university (19.2) p. 295 | (17.1) p. 25 | (12.2) p. 28 | (9.1) p. 30 | (8.2) p. 95 | (3.1) p. 42 Historiography (19.2) p. 250 | (18.2) p. 394 | (12.2) | (12.1) p. 36 | (10.2) p. 66 | (9.1) p. 114, 141 | (8.2) p. 126 | (7.2) p. 43, 102 | (7.1) p. 191 | (6.2) p. 54 | (2.1) p. 42 Human rights (24.2) p. 331 | (21.1) p. 236 | (20.1) p. 151 | (18.2) p. 282 | (6.2) p. 209 | (4.2) SPECIAL SECTION International relations and governance (incl. sovereignty) (19.2) p. 271 | (19.1) p. 107 | (13.2) p. 1, 164 | (7.1) p. 127, 183 | (4.2) p. 1, 137 | (3.2) p. 204 | (3.1) p. 89 | (2.2) p. 188, 237 | (2.1) p. 219 Insurgencies, militarized secession, civil unrest (17.2) p. 246 | (17.2) p. 338 | (15.2) p. 353 | (6.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (3.1) p. 19 Labor (workers, unions, Socialisms) (19.1) p. 209 | (16.1) p. 114 | (13.1) p. 103, 129 | (9.1) p. 31 | see also: Class


INDEX

Languages (semiotics, -glossia) (18.2) p. 482 | (15.1) p. 218 | (10.1) p. 54, 111 | (5.1) p. 201 Law (legislation, judicial systems) (19.2) p. 250, 383 | (18.2) p. 457 | (9.2) p. 102 | (4.2) p. 108 LGBTQIA (20.2) p. 443, 466 | (20.1) p. 183 | (18.1) p. 41 | (17.2) p. 401 | (16.2) p. 286 | (14.1) p. 121 | (11.2) p. 114 | (10.1) p. 32 | (9.1) p. 83 | (8.1) p. 53 | (7.1) p. 73 Literature (essays on) (23.1) p. 235 |(22.1) p. 115 | (19.2) p. 323, 401 | (19.1) p. 85 | (18.1) p. 41 | (17.1) p. 133, 184 | (16.1) p. 144, 163 | (15.2) p. 307, 330, 491, 521 | (14.2) p. 88 | (13.2) p. 56, 79, 99, 123 | (12.1) p. 36, 88, 121, 149 | (11.2) p. 29 | (11.1) p. 36 | (10.2) p. 141 | (10.1) p. 32 | (9.1) p. 114, 141 | (8.2) p. 1, 32 | (7.2) p. 71 | (6.2) p. 54, 93, 195 | (6.1) p. 133 | (5.2) p. 89 | (5.1) p. 264 | (4.2) p. 239 | (4.1) p. 109 | (3.2) SPECIAL SECTION | (2.2) p. 101 | (1.1) p. 179 Memoir, testimonio (21.2) p. 317, 397 | (21.1) p. 158, 265 | (20.1) p. 218 | (19.2) p. 278 | (18.2) p. 471 | (18.1) p. 152 | (17.2) p. 233, 415 | (17.1) p. 7, 16 | (16.1) p. 39 | (12.1) p. 149 | (11.2) p. 174 | (10.2) p. 124 | (7.1) p. 214 | (4.1) p. 39 | (3.2) p. 278 | (2.1) p. 113 | (1.1) p. 179 Memory (22.1) p. 115 | (18.1) p. 63 | (17.2) p. 331 | (13.1) p. 157 | (11.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (10.1) p. 111 | (6.2) p. 93 | (4.1) p. 1 Migration (displacement) (24.2) p. 379 | (22.1) p. 94 | (18.2) p. 482 | (18.1) p. 206 | (15.2) SPECIAL SECTION | (9.2) p. 130 | (9.1) p. 31 | (6.2) p. 33, 150 | (4.1) p. 55 | (3.2) p. 110 | (3.1) p. 89 | see also: Diaspora Mothers, mothering (24.2) p. 320 | (23.1) p. 259, 263 |(22.1) p. 58 | (21.2) p. 334, 480, 512 | (18.2) p. 482 | (18.1) p. 17, 206, 227 | (17.2) p. 401 | (15.2) p. 353 | (15.1) p. 1 | (12.2) p. 156 | (12.1) p. 31 | (11.2) p. 149 | (7.2) p. 63 | (5.1) p. 1 | (4.2) p. 68, 80 | (1.2) p. 130 | see also: Reproductive rights

72 Mourning (grief) (21.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (15.1) p. 1 Movement for Black Lives / Black Lives Matter / Black Girls Matter (19.2) p. 427 | (15.1) p. 7 Music (22.1) p. 204 | (17.2) p. 383 | (8.1) SPECIAL ISSUE | (7.2) p. 1 NAACP (1.2) p. 1 Necropolitics (21.2) p. 512 | (18.2) p. 304 | (15.1) p. 189 | (4.2) p. 1 Passing (10.1) p. 1 | (5.2) p. 1 Pedagogy (20.1) p. 11 | (18.2) p. 445 | (15.1) p. vii, 7, 86, 245 | (12.2) p. 28 | (8.2) p. 95 | (7.2) p. 117 | (4.2) p. 87 | (3.1) p. 42 Performance (22.1) p. 115 | (11.2) p. 114 | (10.2) p. 106 | (6.2) p. 78 Performance Art (23.1) p. 210| (13.1) p. 78 | (11.2) p. 114 Poetry (24.2) p. 532 | (23.1) p. 51 | (21.2) p. 302, 506 | (21.1) p. 73, 155, 206, 293 | (20.2) p. 253 | (20.1) p. 39, 84, 183, 229, 246 | (19.2) p. 321 | (19.1) p. 14, 147 | (18.2) p. 278, 332 | (18.2) p. 480 | (18.1) p. 14 | (17.2) p. 232, 359 | (17.2) p. 382 | (17.1) p. 131 | (16. 2) p. 230 | (16.1) p. 37, 49, 77, 112, 161 | (15.2) p. 518 | (15.1) p. 1, 300 | (14.1) p. 84 | (11.2) p. 25, 27, 60, 61, 112, 147, 172, 205, 211, 238, 241, 242 | (11.1) p. 26, 62, 106, 114, 158 | (10.2) p. 1 | (10.1) p. 77 | 9.2, p. 63, 100 | (9.1) p. 30, 113 | (8.2) p. 49, 94, 116, 123, 177 | (7.2) p. 41, 61, 101, 142 | (7.1) p. 69 | (6.1) p. 56 | (5.2) p. 83, 86 | (5.1) p. 66, 225 | (4.1) p. 100, 130, 165, 200 | (4.2) p. 39, 195, 236, 261 | (3.2) SPECIAL POETRY SECTION | (3.2) p. 52 | (3.1) p. 50, 133, 209, 252, 274 | (2.2) p. 70, 98, 126, 213, 249, 249 | (2.1) p. 41, 58, 127, 153, 176 | (2.1) p. 153, 186 | (1.2) p. 18, 26, 52, 94, 128, 154, 154, 192, 208


INDEX

Policing / State-sanctioned violence (20.1) p. 53 | (17.1) p. 205 | (15.1) p. 1 | (3.1) p. 19 Postcolonialism (neocolonialism, colonialism) (23.2) p.306 |(23.1) p. 29, 110, 182 | (21.1) p. 265 | (19.2) p. 360 | (18.2) p. 335 | (15.2) p. 330 | (13.2) p. 148 | (10.1) p. 137 | (7.1) p. 73 | (6.1) p. 1 | (2.2) p. 41 Prison Industrial Complex / Carceral state (15.1) p. 137 | (9.2) p. 31 | (7.2) p. 63 | (2.1) p. 1 | see also: Abolition Policing / State-sanctioned violence (20.1) p. 53 | (17.1) p. 205 | (15.1) p. 1 | (3.1) p. 19 Prison Industrial Complex / Carceral state (15.1) p. 137 | (9.2) p. 31 | (7.2) p. 63 | (2.1) p. 1 | see also: Abolition Prose, Fiction (12.1) p. 31 | (11.2) p. 206 Racialization (14.2) p. 88 | (13.1) p. 26 | (10.2) p. 124 | (10.1) p. 1, 32 | (7.1) p. 162 | (4.2) p. 239 | (3.1) p. 134, 161 Racism (24.2) p. 480 | (24.2) p. 399 | (20.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (15.1) p. 189 | (13.1) p. 26 | (2.2) p. 237 | (1.2) p. 53 | see also: Anti-racism Religion(s) (theology) (22.1) p. 146 | (21.1) p. 11 | (20.2) p. 271, 370 | (20.1) p. 183 | (19.1) p. 107 | (17.1) p. 97 | (12.1) p. 36 | (11.2) p. 62 | (9.2) p. 130 | (8.1) p. 74 | (6.2) p. 33 | (4.1) p. 205 | (4.2) p. 137 Reproductive justice (23.1) p. 263 |(19.2) p. 360 | (18.1) p. 94 | (15.1) p. 166 | (10.2) p. 42, 163 | (8.2) p. 126 Rhetoric (19.2) p. 295 | (12.2) p. 99 | (3.2) p. 204 | (2.1) p. 26

73 Sex (education, positivity, sexualization) (20.2) p. 370 | (16.2) p. 308 | (16.1) p. 79 | (15.2) p. 330 | (13.2) p. 56 | (12.2) p. 169, 196 | (10.1) p. 137 | (8.1) p. 53, 261, 293 | (7.2) p. 1 | (7.1) p. 73, 162 | (3.2) p. 139 | (2.2) p. 101 Sex Work (19.1) p. 149 | (17.2) p. 279 | (12.1) p. 227 | (1.2) p. 28 Sexual Violence (consent, sexual assault, rape) (22.1) p. 146 | (18.1) p. 206 | (12.2) p. 153, 161 | (9.2) p. 31 | (7.2) p. 71 Slavery, Transatlantic Slave Trade (17.1) p. 150, 163 | (15.1) p. 109 | (12.2) p. 169 Social media (20.2) p. 298 Temporalities (17.2) p. 415 | (17.1) p. 163 | (16.2) p. 363 | (15.2) p. 521 | (13.1) p. 53 | (12.2) p. 9 | (12.2) p. 142 | (11.2) p. 114 | (6.1) p. 133 | (3.1) p. 134 Theatre (21.2) p. 73 | (7.1) p. 19 | (4.2) p. 205 Trafficking (12.1) p. 172, 201, 208, 227 Trauma, healing (23.1) p. 29 | (22.1) p. 76 | (21.1) p. 265 | (17.1) p. 82, 163 | (16.2) p. 343, 373 | (11.1) p. 1 | (7.2) p. 71 | (5.2) p. 30 Translation (20.1) p. 193 | (17.1) p. 7, 16 | (14.1) p. 1, 30, 50 | (5.2) p. 149 | (5.1) p. 27, 34 | (2.2) p. 128 | (2.1) p. 112 Visual Arts (23.1) p. 52, 156 | (22.1) p. 146, 229 | (21.2) p. 413 | (18.2) p. 414 | (13.1) p. 26 | (12.2) p. 1 | (11.2) p. 91 | (7.2) p. 63 | (6.1) p. 82 | (5.1) p. 201 | (3.1) p. 54 | (2.2) p. 146 Visual Essays (23.1) p. 175 | (22.1) p. 169 | (14.1) p. 76 | (11.1) p. 132 | (4.1) p. 228 | (4.2) p. 68 Women’s Movement, women’s rights (19.1) p. 202 | (18.2) p. 261 | (17.2) p. 296 | (3.1) p. 1


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