EDITOR
Ginetta E. B. Candelario '90
EDITORIAL OFFICE MANAGER
Allyson Einbinder '10
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
May Chan, Ph.D.
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
Kyla Butler ’25
Rinal Dahhan ’27
Xinyang Sun ’25
Linh Tran ’27
STRIDE FELLOWS
Virginia Cornett ’27
Isa Grijalva ’27
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
Ginetta E.B.Candelario and Basuli Deb
COVER ARTIST STATEMENT
Kai Two Feathers Orton Aleqa’s Taqqiq (Older Sister of the Moon), 2024
How the Oak Tree Came to Be
Jenny L. Davis
Decolonizing Feminisms:
Accomplices, Action, and Accountability
Robyn Bourgeois
“we were two ends of one taut rope:” Audre Lorde and Black–Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands
Tatsiana Shchurko
Between the Sensuous and Sacred: A Postcolonial Reading of African Spirituality, Sexuality, and “The Erotic” through Mbari Art in Igboland, Nigeria
Bright Alozie
The Making Is the Story: Sovereignty, Sharing, and the Seven Sisters Cloak
Sabra Thorner, Fran Edmonds, Kerri Clarke, and Maree Clarke
Yakama Auntie Lessons on How to Outfox a Monster
Michelle M. Jacob
Storytelling from the Heart: A Decolonial Feminist Humanism
Ashjan Ajour
Insurgent Memories of Armed Struggle: Self-Representation by Female Ex-Combatants in Peru
Evelyn Saavedra Autry
ESSAY 190 Nanya Jhingran
“Counter Me!’”: Militarization, Postcoloniality and the Poetics of Historical Experience in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi”
ESSAY 214 Daniel McKay
The Unfillable Stomach: Trauma and its Discontents through Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House”
ESSAY 237
Grounding Emotions Across Borders: Zapotec Healing Practices Rituals in Places and Times of Social Strife Candy Esther Martínez
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285
ESSAY
Embodied Coalitions: Alternative Affective Autonomies through Acompañamiento Ana Del Conde
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
CREATIVE WRITING AWARD
2024 WINNER FOR POETRY
3.13.22 | Translations of Ba’s Recipe for COVID Prevention Winniebell Xinyu Zong
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E. B. Candelario
IN THE TRENCHES
Feminist Development Justice as Emancipatory Praxis: Recognizing the Knowledge of Social Movements ‘From Below’ Nasha Mohamed, Sutapa Chattopadhyay, and Levi Gahman
COUNTERPOINT
Consumption as Changemaking and Producers as Artists:
Theorizing Alt-Profit Corporations from a Transnational Feminist Perspective Debjani Chakravarty and Christine Standish
The Unforgetting of Claribel Alegría: Reckoning with Capitalist Catastrophe in El Salvador Guadalupe Escobar
RESPONSE
Response to Kuokkanen: On Structural Violence, Bad Faith, and Strategic Ignorance in Norwegian Wind Power Development Henrikke Sæthre Ellingsen
‘Enhancing Human Dignity Here and Around the World’: The Black Sorority as International Uplift Movement Aisha A. Upton Azzam
COUNTERPOINT
De-naming: Unraveling the Sex-skin and Gender Mask Technologies in the Colonial Naming Structure Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang
IN THE TRENCHES
Colectiva Feminista en Construcción:
Building a Transnational Feminist Pedagogy
Aurora Santiago Ortiz
ESSAY
Coming Out for Community, Coming Out for the Cause: Queer Arab American Activism in the 1990s
Umayyah Cable
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
POETRY 523
Catalogue of Writings Left by the Chinese Railroad Workers of the C P R R ,
唔需 (No Need)
Caroline M. Mar
525
POETRY
Maric***
Ming Li (Ari) Wu
ESSAY 528
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
COVER ART 566
For Those of Us Who Live at the Shoreline La Vaughn Belle
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Basuli Deb and Ginetta E. B. Candelario
Mes del viento / Month of wind
Cece Roth-Eagle
COUNTERPOINT
Structural Trauma Elena Ruíz
POETRY
Open Your Mouth Yael Valencia Aldana
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” 52
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
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
The ‘Grandmother’ of Indigenous Filmmaking in New Zealand: Merata Mita Film Is Her Patu
Denise Schallenkammer
175
VISUAL ESSAY
Tools of the Trade; or, Women’s Works Gina Athena Ulysse
Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities:
Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present
Mariam Georgis
COUNTERPOINT 210
Rehumanizing Ainu: Performance of Desubjectification
and a Politics of Singularity
Yurika Tamura
Interview by Priti Narayan INTERVIEW 235
What It Takes to Be Counted:
An Interview with Ruby Hembrom
Ruby Hembrom
259
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
Safe Motherhood Initiative:
Whither African Indigenous Birthing Knowledge?
Esther Oluwashina Ajayi-Lowo IN
About the Artwork
“Woman Digging Thorns out of Field”
Dana Barqawi
231
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267
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E.B.Candelario
COUNTERPOINT
What Transnational Feminisms Has Not Disrupted Yet: Toward a Quilted Epistemology
Devaleena Das
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
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
408
436
440 446
A Conversation with Doris Gray on the Power and Limitations of Restorative Justice across History, Culture, and Gender
INTERVIEW Rosetta Marantz Cohen and Doris H Gray
POETRY
Nancy KangBruise Blue
ESSAY
Young Afghan-Canadian Women’s Negotiations of Gendered Cultural Scripts and Hybrid Cultural Identities
Saher Ahmed and Amrita Hari
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Between Skin and Stone: A Letter to My Son, Lienzo Michaela Django Walsh
Julie Torres IN THE TRENCHES
“We are Orlando”: Silences, Resistance, and the Intersections of Mass Violence
475
POETRY
Farm of Forgetting
Erika G. Abad
478
503
ESSAY
Black Women Undertakers of the Early Twentieth Century Were Hidden in Plain Sight
Kami Fletcher
CULTUREWORK
When Diane Tells Me a Story
Lashon Daley
516
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
CREATIVE WRITING AWARD
2023 WINNER FOR POETRY
American Beech Yalie Saweda Kamara
518
COVER ARTIST STATEMENT
“Indigo” Gina Athena Ulysse
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E.B.Candelario
GUEST EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
European BIPOC Feminisms 5
Nana Osei-Kofi and Shirley Anne Tate
ESSAY
Are Reindeer the New Buffalo? Climate Change, the Green Shift, and Manifest Destiny in Sápmi
Rauna Kuokkanen
IN THE TRENCHES
Flamboyant: Wildness, Loss, and Possibility in Feminist Organizing in the Netherlands
Chandra Frank
Motherwork, Daughterwork: Exploring Activist Mothering within the Latin American Diaspora in Sweden
Paulina de los Reyes and Diana Mulinari
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Intersectional Vulnerabilities and the Banality of Harm: The Dangerous Desires of Women of Color Activists
Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande IN THE TRENCHES
ESSAY
Gendering the Nador/ Melilla Border: Immigrant Muslim Women, Economic (Under) Development, and Structural Violence
Luz María Gordillo
CULTUREWORK
Matter and Memory: Black Feminist Poetics and Performance in Berlin, Germany
Ayasha Guerin
CULTUREWORK
Couwenbergh’s "The Rape of the Negress:" Visual Violence, Theological Erasure, and Black Feminist Fugitivity
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones
VISUAL ESSAY
169 229 La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers
Strategies of Visibilization: Searching for Contact Zones between the Periphery and Center in mumok’s Exhibitions, 1998–2018 claudia sandoval romero*
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
MEDIA MATTERS
“Out in the Streets”: Hip-Hop Narratives in Contemporary Greece Natalia A. Koutsougera
ARTIST STATEMENT
I Am Queen Mary
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E.B.Candelario
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
CREATIVE WRITING AWARD
Daughtersong Diaspore
Barbara Jane Reyes
GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
The Uses of Mourning: An Introduction
Kimberly Juanita Brown, Jyoti Puri
MEMOIR
The Mourning of My Birth in the Wake of Grandma’s One Hundredth Year
K. Melchor Quick Hall
ESSAY
Mothers, Daughters, and the Lash:
Mourning the Mother Tongue in Toni Morrison’s "Mercy"
Courtney R. Baker
ESSAY
Caring for the Dead: Corpse Washers, Touch, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey
Aslı Zengin
“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
Nancy Kang
Eman Ghanayem 397
TESTIMONIO
Proactive Grief: Palestinian Reflections on Death
STATE OF THE FIELD
Techniques of Abstraction in Black Arts: A Feminist Review Essay
Kelli Moore
CULTUREWORK
Mourning Methods: Weaving, Burning, Excision, and Preservation
Amanda Russhell Wallace
ESSAY
ESSAY A Light for a Light: Minoritarian Aesthetics and the Politics of Grief-Work
Sandra Ruiz
ESSAY
Unweepable Wounds Unwept:
Mother Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia in Harriet E Wilson’s "Our Nig"
Patricia Ann Lott
POETRY
Four Poems from a Lesbian Diasporic Body 436
Emer Lyons
COUNTERPOINT
Mothering Dead Bodies:
Black Maternal Necropolitics
Tiffany Caesar, Desireé Melonas, Tara Jones
POETRY
Remittances Elizabeth Pérez
Rachel Afi Quinn 158
TESTIMONIO
La Reina de la Fusión: Xiomara Fortuna Coming of Age in the Dominican Republic
CULTUREWORK
Signifying Sistas: Black Women's Humor and Intersectional Poetics Constance Bailey
POETRY
Longer, Love S Erin Batiste
MEDIA MATTERS
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E B Candelario
INTERVIEW
Disruptive Ruptures: The Necessity of Black/Girlhood Imaginary Kenly Brown, Lashon Daley, Derrika Hunt 1 75
Apologizing to Chavers: #Blackgirlmagic's Resilience Discourse and the Fear of Melancholy Black Femme Digital Subjectivity Jennifer Williams
Vodou, the Arts, and (Re)Presenting the Divine: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat Kyrah Malika Daniels
ESSAY
Beyond Tragedy: Black Girlhood in Marlon James's "The Book of Night Women" and Evelyne Trouillot's "Rosalie l'infâme" Annette K Joseph-Gabriel
POETRY
Consort of the Spirits: after Ntozake Shange Nia McAllister 11
COUNTERPOINT
IN THE ARCHIVES
Carlota's Hum: An Archive Fiction 101 Alana Perez, Pamela Fernández
ESSAY
Afro-Latina Disidentification and Bridging: Lourdes Casal's Critical Race Theory Laura Lomas
IN THE TRENCHES
An Intersectional Approach to Interrogating Rights: How the United States Does Not Comply with the Racial Equality Treaty Malia Lee Womack
MEMOIR
Sisterhood Birthed through Colonialism: Using Love Letters to Connect, Heal, and Transform
Raquel Wright-Mair, Milagros Castillo-Montoya
POETRY
Black Berries Teri Ellen Cross Davis
COVER ART
Ann fè on ti pale (The Meeting) Mafalda Nicolas Mondestin
ERRATA
Erratum
Tom J. Abi Samra
Erratum
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
EDITOR'S
Shari'a Barbie's Afterlives: Apprehending Racialized and Sexualized Islam through Social Media Amira Jarmakani
Four Editorials from "Bint al-Nīl" Tom J. Abi Samra
Between Orientalism and Anti-Muslim Racism: Pakistan, the United States, and Women's Transnational Activism in the Early Cold War Interlude Elora Shehabuddin
The Entanglement of Secularism and Feminism in Pakistan Amina Jamal ESSAY
Becoming "Black" and Muslim in Today's Russia Tatiana Rabinovich ESSAY
Ginetta E.B.Candelario
Who's Terrorizing Who?
ELIZABETH
To Forage Gwendolyn Maya
Transnational
Race,
Transnational
Routes
How Hate Crime Laws Perpetuate Anti-Muslim Racism Evelyn Alsultany
CULTUREWORK
Searching for the Next Intifada: Exercises in Queer Muslim Futurism Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Nadine Naber ESSAY
Queering Islam and Muslim Americanness: Perversity, Recognition, and Failure in Usama Alshaibi's "Profane" Taneem Husain
"When the World Sleeps" Malak Mattar
Ginetta
The Diversity of Women's Studies and Women's Histories: Reflections from South Asia
Ramya Sreenivasan
Brinda
ESSAY
The Mythical Courtesan: Womanhood and Dance in Transnational India
Rumya S Putcha
Ethical Reckoning: Human Rights and National Cinema in Bangladesh
Elora Halim Chowdhury
Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity
Organization (AAPSO) Presidium
Committee Nairobi Preparations
Destiny Wiley-Yancy
POETRY
Letter-Poems to Shauki Masi: Diasporic
Queer South Asian Muslim Reflections on the Five Pillars of Islam
Sasha A. Khan
COUNTERPOINT
The Feminization of Translation: Gender Politics in the Translation Controversy over Han Kang's "The Vegetarian"
Min Young Godley
MEMOIR
Filipinx Care, Social Proximity, and Social Distance
Alden Sajor Marte-Wood
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER CREATIVE
Lamaze Adrienne Perry
In Blocks of Light, She Calls Back
Nancy Kang
Shazia's Dream
Upasana Agarwal
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E B Candelario
Leigh-Anne Francis 250
COUNTERPOINT
Playing the “Lady Sambo”: Poor Black Women’s Legal Strategies in the Post–Civil War South’s Civil Courts
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
TESTIMONIO
Mi Casa Is Not Su Casa: A Research Reflection
Vanessa Rosa
ESSAY
Different When I Opened My Mouth: Experiences, Reflections, and Perspectives of Faculty Members with Foreign English Accents in Higher Education 295
Sabrina F Sembiante, Cristóbal Salinas Jr , J. Andrés Ramírez, Maria D. Vásquez-Colina, Yamilé Silva
POETRY
a language outside Shana Bulhan
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
ESSAY
The Making of Viequenses: Militarized Colonialism and Reproductive Rights
Marie Cruz Soto
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
ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST
Shiva Tamara
Ginetta E.B.Candelario 1
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
POETRY
Elegy for Mary Turner 14
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
Debates in the Field: Debt and Transnational Feminist Analysis 65
COUNTERPOINT
Laura Briggs
Lauren E. Shoemaker 85 ESSAY
Azza Basarudin, Khanum Shaikh 107 ESSAY A Structure of Terror in Jamaica Kincaid's "A Small Place"
The Contours of Speaking Out: Gender, State Security, and Muslim Women's Empowerment
IN THE ARCHIVES
Kartini Day Callen Swaim-Fox
147
POETRY
Minor Planet 2986 Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
ESSAY
Alyssa Garcia 149
202 IN THE ARCHIVES
Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra 209 136
Federada Testimonios on the Ground: Revealing the Gendered Limits in Operationalizing the Cuban Revolution's Campaign against Prostitution
The Struggles for Women's Suffrage in Lebanon
Emma Schubert
IN THE TRENCHES
Harvesting Hope: Building Worker Power at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center
ABOUT
THE COVER ARTIST
Preetika Rajgariah
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
ESSAY
69
Missing in Action: Ida B Wells, the NAACP, and the Historical Record Paula Giddings ESSAY
87 Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex:
California and Beyond
Angela Y. Davis, Cassandra Shaylor ESSAY
MEMOIR
112 Lisa Suhair Majaj
On Writing and Return:
Palestinian-American Reflections
51
Ginetta Candelario
Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production
MEDIA MATTERS
Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity?: Comments on "Mississippi Masala" Kum-Kum Bhavnani
127 Amrita Basu, Paula Giddings, Inderpal Grewal, Kamala Visweswaran
131
IN THE ARCHIVES
September 11: A Feminist Archive
REFLECTION
Transnational Feminist Practices Against War
Paola Bacchetta, Tina Campt, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Minoo Moallem, Jennifer Terry
139
IN THE TRENCHES
War FrenzySunera Thobani
149
155 POETRY
First Writing Since Suheir Hammad
MEMOIR
Dreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay Kristal Brent Zook
166
POETRY
The Making of Paper Nikky Finney
Luz Calvo 169
CULTUREWORK
Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana
Feminism and the Work of Alma López
Sara Ahmed 196
COUNTERPOINT
The Nonperformativity of Antiracism
ESSAY 219
Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism
Joanne Barker
255
MEDIA MATTERS
"All That You Can't Leave Behind":
Surrogation and Black Female Soul
Singing in the Age of Catastrophe
Daphne A. Brooks
ESSAY 279
Queering Puerto Rican Women's Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Pantoja and Luisita López Torregrosa
Lourdes Torres
Laurie Ann Guerrero 308
POETRY
How I Put Myself through School
Nancy Marie Mithlo 310
CULTUREWORK
"A Real Feminine Journey": Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts
Kimala Price 340
COUNTERPOINT
What Is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm
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Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women's Magazine in Indonesia
L. Ayu Saraswati ESSAY
PEDAGOGY
"The Daughter of Fu Manchu": The Pedagogy of Deconstructing the Representation of Asian Women in Film and Fiction
Shoba Sharad Rajgopal
COUNTERPOINT
Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
Jennifer Cho
POETRY
Under/Water: Memorial Day, May 31, 2010
Myriam J A Chancy
Jennifer C. Nash ESSAY
Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality
Vivian M. May PEDAGOGY
Under-Theorized and Under-Taught: Re-examining Harriet Tubman's Place in Women's Studies
MEDIA MATTERS
Cutting Across Imperial Feminisms Toward Transnational Feminist Solidarities
Basuli Deb
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
Rethinking "Meridians": As a Critical Knowledge Project, a Pedagogical Offering, and a Black Feminist Quilted Narrative Karsonya Wise Whitehead PEDAGOGY
599
COVER ART
Silenced Voices of Everyday Sheroes
Samanta Tello
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E B Candelario
INTRODUCTION
Laura Briggs, Robyn C Spencer
ESSAY
Peace and the Barrel of the Gun in the Internationalist Women's Movement, 1945–49 Elisabeth Armstrong
POETRY
Call Me by My True Names Maylei Blackwell
Introduction to Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association "Southeast Asia and the United Nations" Discussion Group Mandira Venkat
ESSAY
The Dead, the Living, and the Sacred: Patsy Mink, Antimilitarism, and Reimagining the Pacific World
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
POETRY
Self-Portrait, Cannibal/Reversal/Break In/Benediction Ching-In Chen
ESSAY
Indigenous Feminist Notes on Embodying Alliance against Settler Colonialism
Maile Arvin
CULTUREWORK
Bite Out Your Tongue: A Record of Ugly YouthNancy Kang
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
MEDIA MATTERS
Claudia Coca's Chola Power: Pop Art as Decolonial Critique
Tara Daly
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Radical Interdisciplinarity: A New Iteration of a Woman of Color Methodology
Rosamond S. King COUNTERPOINT
IN THE TRENCHES
Petition for a Comprehensive Law against Gender-Based Violence in Cuba
Deema Kaedbey, Nadine Naber
MEMOIR/REFLECTION
Remarks for a Roundtable on Transnational Feminism: National Women's Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 16 – 19, 2017
Stanlie James
POETRY
Secousses and Tremors
Evelyne Trouillot, Nathan H Dize
Neda Maghbouleh, Laila Omar, Melissa A. Milkie, Ito Peng ESSAY
Listening in Arabic: Feminist Research with Syrian Refugee Mothers
ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST
Trinh Mai
EDITOR'S
Ginetta E.B.Candelario
Whale
Gabeba Baderoon
Queering the Chicana/o Archive in Felicia
Luna Lemus's "Like Son"
Emily Lederman
AIllustrated
Sally McWilliams
ARCHIVES
Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
Joyce C. Follet
MEMOIR
Legacy Dysphoria
Tina Hernandez
Polemics of Love and the Family in "A New Day in Old Sana'a"
Lily Mabura, Ronak Husni
183 ESSAY
Liquid Echoes: The Breast and Voice
Transmission in Maryse Condé's "Windward Heights"
Nicole M Morris Johnson
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
POETRY
No Name
Gabeba Baderoon
Elizabeth LaPensée
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E.B.Candelario
GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
African Feminisms: Cartographies for the Twenty-First Century Alicia C. Decker, Gabeba Baderoon
POETRY
And They Didn’t Die Tsitsi Jaji
MEMOIR
Creating the Archive of African Women’s Writing: Reflecting on Feminism, Epistemology, and the Women Writing Africa Project 233 Abena P A Busia
246 ESSAY
Beyond the Spectacular: Contextualizing
Gender Relations in the Wake of the Boko Haram Insurgency Charmaine Pereira
INTERVIEW
269 Fatima Sadiqi, Aziza Ouguir
Reflecting on Feminisms in Africa: A Conversation from Morocco
279 ESSAY
“We Fit in the Society by Force”: Sex Work and Feminism in Africa
Ntokozo Yingwana
296 IN THE ARCHIVES
Decade for Women Information
Resources #5: Images of Nairobi, Reflections and Follow-Up, International Women’s Tribune Center Callan Swaim-Fox
309 MEDIA MATTERS
Saving Nigerian Girls: A Critical Reflection on Girl-Saving Campaigns in the Colonial and Neoliberal Eras
Abosede George
325 Anne Moraa
IN THE TRENCHES
Smoke Is Everywhere, but No One Is Running: A Kenyan Activist Speaks Out
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
POETRY
Three WomenMakhosazana Xaba 359
361 REFLECTION
Contested Encounters: Toward a Twenty-First-Century
376
African Feminist Ethnography
Selina Makana
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 Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women
415
Neo Sinoxolo Musangi COUNTERPOINT
TESTIMONIO
Patricia McFadden
Contemporarity: Sufficiency in a Radical African Feminist Life ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST
Gulshan Khan 432
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E.B.Candelario
ESSAY
Witchcrafts of Color: Suzanne Césaire, Mayotte Capécia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique
Marina Magloire
POETRY
Summer Girl Michelle J. Pinkard
El mejor regalo es ser mujer y sobre todo mujer negra
Altagracia Jean Joseph
The Greatest Gift Is Being a Woman and Above All, a Black Woman
Altagracia Jean Joseph, Michelle Joffroy
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant ESSAY
The New Howard Woman: Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe and the Education of a Modern Black Femininity
Token Survival Guide
Michelle J. Pinkard
Panther Teacher:
Sarah Webster Fabio’s Black
Michael J. New
COUNTERPOINT
#TurbanteoConsciente: Racial Healing through Wearable Resistance
María Beatriz Serrano-Abreu
“Hard-Headed and Masculine-Hearted Women": Female Subjectivity in Mabel Dove-Danquah’s Fiction
Helen Yitah ESSAY
150 STATE OF THE FIELD
The Aftereffects of Slavery: A Black 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 ABOUT
Iris Pérez Romero, Corazon iluminado, de la serie Energia Vital
219
276 ESSAY
Institutional Strategies to Promote the Health of Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Nkiru Nnawulezi, Carolyn M. West
286
ESSAY
295
308
Cornbread, Collard Greens, and a Side of Liberation: Black Feminist Leadership and AIDS Advocacy
Denise McLane-Davison
ESSAY
The Dance Chose Me: Womanist Reflections on Bèlè Performance in Contemporary Martinique
Camee Maddox-Wingfield
ESSAY
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E.B.Candelario
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
238 STATE OF THE FIELD
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
326
Enacting Our Multidimensional Power: Black Women Sex Educators Demonstrate the Value of an Intersectional Sexuality
Education Framework
Sara C Flowers
FROM THE ARCHIVES
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
343 REFLECTION
Normalized Chaos: Black Feminism, Womanism, and the (Re)definition of Trauma and Healing
Shawn Arango Ricks
351
373
Re-membering Ourselves: Confession as a Pathway to Conscientization
Courtney Bryant REFLECTION
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
Chinyere Okafor COUNTERPOINT
Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism
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
416
IN THE TRENCHES
Call to Action
Michele Tracy Berger
ESSAY
Naming, Claiming, and Framing
Marie Chauvet
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
77 POETRY
Quarantined rose.elle.kiwi
ESSAY
Sex Wars and the Contemporary French Moral Panic: The Productivity and Pitfalls of Feminist Conflicts 79 Cornelia Möser
112 POETRY
Marina Tsvetaeva's Letter to Stalin Jacqueline Bishop
ESSAY
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Ginetta E.B.Candelario
The Vise of Geometry: Distorting Intersectionality at the Scene of Argument 1
Barbara Tomlinson
Race and Women of Color in Socialist/ Postsocialist Transnational Feminisms in Central and Southeastern Europe 114 Miglena S. Todorova
142 POETRY
Three Lilacs
Jacqueline Bishop Instead of Lilacs
144 MEDIA MATTERS
Blue Soliloquy vs Xenophobia
Karen An-hwei Lee
MEMOIR
Despite Your Tiger Mother, or Your Other Racial Half Will Not Save You from What the World Thinks of Your Blackness
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
Tituba Speaks
Jacqueline Bishop
157 Leilani Rania Ganser
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"
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
Profoundly Decolonizing?: Reflections on a Transfeminist Perspective of International Relations Chamindra Weerawardhana COUNTERPOINT
214 IN THE ARCHIVES
Editor's Introduction (Vol 5, Iss 2)
Paula J. Giddings
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Paula J Giddings
The Women of "Things Fall Apart," Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda
Adichie's Headstrong Storytellers
Anene Ejikeme
Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's
412
Eusebia Cosme and Black Womanhood on the Transatlantic Stage
Takkara Brunson
The International Engagements of Working-Class Jamaican Women: Listening to Louise Bennett and Her Routes Women
Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
435 And so I Write You: Practices in Black Women's Diaspora
Celeste Henery
464
Triangular Voyages: Locating the Transnational Caribbean Woman in Paule Marshall's "To Da-duh, in Memoriam"
Sam Vásquez
491
The City-Child's Quest: Spatiality and Sociality in Paule Marshall's "The Fisher King"
Daphne Lamothe
507
An Interesting Woman: A Conversation with Andrea Lee
Jennifer D Williams
POETRY
518 Alexis Pauline Gumbs
M is for Move (scenes from three lifetimes)
"The Reign of Wazobia"
Kanika Batra
Motherhood as Activism in the Angolan People's War, 1961–1975
Selina Makana
Section Editors' Introduction
Jennifer D. Williams, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
521
Transatlantic Time Travel Poem in Five Channels: after M NourbeSe Philip & Kerry James Marshall, "Voyager"
Meta DuEwa Jones
INTRODUCTION
Rethinking Meridians:
Karsonya Wise Whitehead VII
As a Critical Knowledge Project, a Pedagogical Offering, and a Black Feminist Quilted Narrative
1
7 POETRY
Mourning in America:
A Black Mother’s Blues Song for the Mothers of Tamir Rice & Tyre King
Karsonya Wise Whitehead
READING THE PERSONAL AS POLITICAL & PUBLIC
Lessons in Transgression: #BlackGirlsMatter and the Feminist Classroom
Stephanie Troutman, Ileana Jiménez
40
Black Feminism and Critical Media Literacy: Moving from the Margin to the Center
Ashley N. Patterson, Arianna Howard, Valerie Kinloch
65
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Techno-Social Change Agents: Fostering Activist Dispositions Among Girls of Color
Kimberly A Scott, Patricia Garcia
A Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Rooting in Feminist Scholarship, Framing Contemporary Black Activism
Kia M Q Hall
EXISTING, TEACHING, AND LEARNING ON THE EDGES AND BEYOND
109
From Slavery to Jane Crow to Say Her Name: An Intersectional Examination of Black Women and Punishment
Nishaun T. Battle
137
Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada
Lena Palacios
On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice
Jallicia Jolly
189
The Slow Poisoning of Black Bodies: 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
218
Signifying, Narrativizing, and Repetition: Radical Approaches to Theorizing
African American Language
Bonnie J. Williams-Farrier
SAYING THEIR NAMES OVER & OVER AGAIN
245 A Black Feminist Interpretation:
Reading Life, Pedagogy, and Emilie
Conra D Gist
290
Afterword: How I Use #BlackLivesMatter as an Entry Point and a Disruption Tool
Regina N Bradley
300
90 poems I didn’t write for you for
Jasmine Richards
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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
25
ESSAY
Traveling Words: A Reflection on “Rotundamente negra” and AfroDescendant Women’s Cultural Politics
Dorothy E. Mosby
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 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
V
GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Promoting Feminist Amefricanidade: Bridging Black Feminist Cultures and Politics in the Americas
Sonia E. Alvarez, Kia Lilly Caldwell
30 TRANSLATIONS
1
Feminisms from the Perspective of Afro-Brazilian Women
Cláudia Pons Cardoso, Miriam Adelman
Women in Movement
Sueli Carneiro, Regina Camargo
50
Feminisms and Anti-Racism: 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
MARCH OF BLACK WOMEN AGAINST RACISM, VIOLENCE, AND FOR LIVING WELL, 2015
70
‘Vem Marchar com a Gente’
Come March with Us
Sonia E. Alvarez
76 Manifesto da Marcha das Mulheres
Negras: Images from the 2015 March of Black Women in Brasília
Claudia Ferreira, Adriana Medeiros
84 POETRY
Selected Poems Conceição Evaristo, Maria Aparecida Salgueiro de Andrade, Antonio D Tillis
U.S.-BASED SCHOLARSHIP
94
Geographies of Power: Black Women
Mobilizing Intersectionality in Brazil
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
121
Centering African-Descendant Women in HIV/AIDS Research, Policy, and Praxis in Brazil
Kia Lilly Caldwell
148
Beyond the Flesh: Contemporary Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature
Flávia Santos de Araújo
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Paula J Giddings
1
79
Transnational Adoption and Life-Writing: Oppressed Voices in Jane Jeong Trenka’s "The Language of Blood" Ina C. Seethaler ESSAY ESSAY
Indo-Caribbean Women from Trinidad and Guyana: Hardships, Conflict, and Resiliency
Odessa D Despot
28
The Continual Search for Sisterhood: Narcissism, Projection, and Intersubjective
Disruptions in Toni Morrison’s "Sula" and Feminist Communities
Cassandra Fetters
56 Sexual Citizenship and Vulnerable Bodies in Makeda Silvera’s "The Heart Does Not Bend" and Joan Riley’s "The Unbelonging" Wiebke Beushausen
99
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148
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189
Beyond Machine Dreams: Zen, Cyber-, and Transnational Feminisms in Ruth Ozeki’s "A Tale for the Time Being"
Marlo Starr ESSAY
Lauren J. Gantz ESSAY
Archiving the Door of No Return in Dionne Brand’s "At the Full" and "Change of the Moon"
Lily Martinez ESSAY
Post-Colonial Consciousness and the Erotic in "Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica and Caballero"
Cutting Across Imperial Feminisms Toward Transnational
Feminist Solidarities
Basuli Deb ESSAY
IN THE TRENCHES
Voices of Feminism: Linda Burnham
Loretta Ross, Linda Burnham
V Paula J. Giddings
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
1 Carole Boyce Davies
CRITICAL EDGES
Gender/Class Intersections and African Women’s Rights
26
78 CULTUREWORK
“I’m So Proud to Be Your Queen”: Alison Hinds and Queenliness as a Diasporic Resource
Lia T. Bascomb
103
129
157
186
53
The Crucible of Witnessing: Projects of Identity in Carrie Mae Weems’s "From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried"
Claire Raymond CRITICAL EDGES
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
204
The Dirty Body that Cleans: Representations of Domestic Workers in Brazilian Common Sense
Patricia de Santana Pinho
IN THE TRENCHES
Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers in the US–Mexico Borderlands
Long Thanh Bui
IN THE TRENCHES
Magic Tricks: The Politics of Memory, State, and Tribe in Lahaul, India Himika Bhattacharya
IN THE TRENCHES
Werewere Liking’s Village "Ki-Yi:" Dissidence and Creativity in Abidjan
Cheryl Toman
IN THE TRENCHES
Black Feminism on Capitol Hill: Shirley Chisholm and Movement Politics, 1968–1984
Anastasia Curwood CULTUREWORK
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Paula J. Giddings
Janell Hobson
Kate Clifford Larson
Under-Theorized and Under-Taught: Re-examining Harriet Tubman’s
Place in Women’s Studies
Vivian M. May
50 Between History and Fantasy:
Harriet Tubman in the Artistic and Popular Imaginary
Janell Hobson
Harriet Tubman: Transnationalism and the Land of a Queen in the Late Antebellum
Dann J. Broyld
99
Frances Watkins (Harper), Harriet Tubman and the Rhetoric of Single Blessedness
Andreá N. Williams 123
What Would Harriet Do?: A Legacy of Resistance and Activism
Barbara Smith, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Paula Giddings 142
Prophecy in the Present Tense: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee Pilgrimage, and Dreams Coming True
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
153 Does Anyone Care about Black Women?
Brittney Cooper 156
Harriet Tubman: From Maternal Mother to Jezebel
Karsonya Wise Whitehead
161 The Rape of Harriet Tubman
Janell Hobson 169
Searching for Climax: Black Erotic Lives in Slavery and Freedom
Treva B Lindsey, Jessica Marie Johnson 196
Beyond Myths and Legends: Teaching
Harriet Tubman and Her Legacy of Activism
Karsonya Wise
Kate Clifford Larson
V Paula J. Giddings
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Reclaiming Third World Feminism: or Why Transnational Feminism Needs Third World Feminism
Ranjoo Seodu Herr
The BirthItoro Udofia
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
Where Author and Auteur Meet: Genre, the Erotic, and Black Female Subjectivity
Ayesha K. Hardison
There’s Something about Mary: Female Wisdom and the Folk Presence in Ralph Ellison’s "Invisible Man"
Shanna Greene Benjamin
MEMOIR
Building the Neo-Archive: Dionne Brand’s "A Map to the Door of No Return"
Erica L. Johnson
Trafficking Sex: Politics, Policy, Personhood A Conversation with Gloria Steinem and Ruchira Gupta
IN
THE
TRENCHES
Telling Stories of Trafficking: The Politics of Legibility
Julietta Hua
An Intersectional Analysis of Sex Trafficking Films
Carrie N Baker
IN THE TRENCHES IN THE TRENCHES
Human Trafficking and Sex Work: Foundational Social-Work Principles
Crystal DeBoise
V Paula J. Giddings 1 ESSAY
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Practicing Love: Black Feminism, LovePolitics, and Post-Intersectionality
Jennifer C Nash
Mule
Glenis Redmond
Four Sisters and the Dance
Hermine Pinson
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Feminist Cosmopolitics and the Transnational Beauty Assemblage
Vanita Reddy
Mitochondrial Eve 12 16
Bettina Judd
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 JoeBettina Judd
114 ESSAY
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
205 POETRY
The Caretaker
Phillip Williams
206 FICTION
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 POETRY
[If I am of rib marrow, boil me thin]
Phillip B. Williams
242 On the Politics of Citation
Bettina Judd
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION V Paula J Giddings
1 PART I 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
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
91
Pawòl Fanm sou Douz Janvye (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
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
Jennifer Cho
Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s "Dictée"
62 POETRY
Kado Katia D Ulysse
132 PHOTOGRAPHY
Kimberly Juanita Brown
For the Lost and So You Die Slowly
Ayiti: Reaching Higher Ground
Regine Romain
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
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Paula J. Giddings
The Garden, Hyderabad Notebook, Cantata for a Riderless Horse (with Sitar and Flute)
Meena Alexander
Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women's Magazine in Indonesia
L. Ayu Saraswati
ROUNDTABLE: CONTINUED
Celebrating and Becoming
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Jane Sherron De Hart
Honoring Blanche Wiesen Cook
Linda Kerber
Supporting Activist Women: Blanche
Wiesen Cook and Feminist Biography
Debra L Schultz
"Outing History:" Blanche Wiesen Cook
Marcia M. Gallo
Blanche Wiesen Cook and World Peace
Lawrence S. Wittner
Writing the Outrageous Life: Blanche Wiesen Cook and Eleanor Roosevelt
Paula J. Giddings
Thank you
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Carol Bailey ESSAY MEMOIR
Performance and the Gendered Body in Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" and Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice
I Grew Up White: Crossing Borders and Changing Race
Judith Ezekiel
"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
V Paula J. Giddings
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
1 ESSAY
Passing-as-if: Model-Minority Subjectivity and Women of Color Identification
Shireen M Roshanravan
32
54 ESSAY ESSAY
Revisiting Blu’s Hanging: A Critique of Queer Transgression in the Lois-Ann Yamanaka Controversy
Cynthia Wu
Transnational Community in Demetria Martínez’s "Mother Tongue"
Ariana Vigil
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
“Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?”: Postcolonial Sexualities, National Reception, and Caribbean Soca Performance
Samantha Pinto
164
About the Contributors
V Paula J. Giddings
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Nancy Marie Mithlo ESSAY 1
“A Real Feminine Journey”: Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts
Erica R Meiners 31 ESSAY
Never Innocent: Feminist Trouble with Sex Offender Registries and Protection in a Prison Nation
63 POETRY
All That White, Zora Neale Hurston: A kwansaba, and Marian Anderson’s Voice Carries
Tara Betts
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
130 ESSAY
Floating on Silent Waters: Religion, Nationalism, and Dislocated Women in Khamosh Shahnaz Khan
V Paula J Giddings
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
ESSAY
An African Queen at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876: Edmonia Lewis's "The Death of Cleopatra" Naurice Frank Woods Jr 62
83
ESSAY
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
140 CULTUREWORK
Forgiveness from Malintzin
Daníel R. Martínez
Maroon Abolitionists: Black Genderoppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in the U S and Canada
Julia Sudbury IN THE TRENCHES
30 CULTUREWORK
141 ESSAY
Birthed and Buried: Matrilineal History in Michelle Cliff's "No Telephone to Heaven" Jennifer J. Smith
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 CULTUREWORK
Hollyhock in Caliche Silence
Daníel R. Martínez
163 FROM THE ARCHIVES: 2008 US ELECTION
What's Race Gotta Do With It? –
November 2008 Cherríe L. Moraga
174 She Ain't Oprah, Angela, or Your Baby
177
183
Mama: The Michelle O Enigma
Gina Athena Ulysse
An Ocean of Heart
Martha Ackelsberg
Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave Alice Walker
V Paula J. Giddings
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
ESSAY 64 94 POETRY
Fire’s Queer Anti-Communalism
Alexandra Lynn Barron
Benediction
Glenis Redmond
Grace Kyungwon Hong ESSAY 95
“The Future of Our Worlds”: Black Feminism and the Politics of Knowledge in the University under Globalization
116 POETRY
Salvation is the Issue
Myisha Priest
POETRY
123 126 FROM THE ARCHIVES
Don’t Hang Up; and Now Sapphire
Pamela Butler, Jigna Desai ESSAY 1
Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras:
Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism
INTERVIEW 32
Re-Visioning Memoirs Old and New:
A Conversation with Meena Alexander
Lavina Shankar
POETRY
Meena Alexander 49
Elegy for My Father; Rites of Sense; Black River, Walled Garden; and Pitfire
Excerpts from the Voices of Feminism
Oral History Project:
Interview with Frances Beal
Frances M. Beal, Loretta J. Ross 166
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female
Frances M. Beal
177 POETRY
Between Us: A Bio-Poem
Aisha S Durham
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION V Paula J. Giddings
Janell Hobson, Dianne Bartlow INTRODUCTION 1
Representin’: Women, Hip-Hop, and Popular Music
HIP-HOP (AND) FEMINISM 15
Hip-Hop Hegemony
“Under Construction”: Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second-Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms 19
“Like an Old Soul Record: Black Feminism, Queer Sexuality, and the Hip-Hop Generation 53
“Hotep and Hip-Hop: Can Black Muslim Women Be Down with Hip-Hop? Anaya Mcmurray
93
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“Roll It Gal”: Alison Hinds, Female Empowerment, and Calypso SIGHT AND SOUND
Las Krudas, Spatial Practice, and the Performance of Diaspora
Ronni Armstead
Meri Awaaz Suno: Women, Vocality, and Nation in Hindi Cinema
Pavitra Sundar
"All That You Can’t Leave Behind": Black Female Soul Singing and the Politics of Surrogation in the Age of Catastrophe
Daphne A. Brooks
180 Still RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
205 Ayanah Moor
211
“Drop It Like It’s Hot”: Culture Industry Laborers and Their Perspectives on Rap Music Video Production
Mako Fitts
236
The Essence of Res(ex)pectability: Black Women’s Negotiation of Black Femininity in Rap Music and Music Video
Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley
261
Hip-Hop Honeys and Da Hustlaz: Black Sexualities in the New Hip-Hop Pornography
Mireille Miller-Young
293
Women, Pop Music, and Pornography
Meredith Levande
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Paula J Giddings
The Erotic and the Pornographic in
Chicana Rap: JV vs. Ms. Sancha
Beauty Bragg, Pancho McFarland
Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender: A
Native Feminist Approach to Belonging
Renya K. Ramirez
The Adoration of the Faithful
Cathy Song
Reconfigurations of Caribbean History:
Michelle Cliff's "Rebel
Jennifer Thorington
jumpinjumpoutjumpsidetosidejumponju mpinjumpout: a jumprope song
Keli Stewart
"Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States," A Traveling Public Art Exhibition
Rickie Solinger
Writing Rape, Trauma, and Transnationality onto the Female Body: Matrilineal Em-body-ment in
Nora Okja Keller's "Comfort Woman" Silvia Schultermandl
Antigone to Ismene
Lee Peterson
Revisiting the Second Wave: In Conversation with Mary King FROM THE ARCHIVES
Elizabeth Jacobs, Mary King
Beyond the Shadow:
Re-scripting Race in Women's Studies
Laura Gillman
Portrait Mihaela Moscaliuc
Going Home: A Feminist Anthropologist's Reflections on Dilemmas of Power and Positionality in the Field
M Cristina Alcalde
V Paula J. Giddings
1
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
CRITICAL EDGES
"Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood":
Global Feminisms and the U S Body
Politic, Or: "They Done Taken
My Blues and Gone"
Karla F C Holloway
Tanya Saracho, Coya Paz 19 CULTUREWORK
Performing the "Generic Latina": A
Conversation with Teatro Luna
Sobeira Latorre, Joanna L Mitchell,
Winnifred Brown-Glaude ESSAY 38
Size Matters: Figuring Gender in the (Black) Jamaican Nation
Karen An-hwei Lee 69 POETRY
Caring for Another Woman
"A Shared Queerness": Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Sexuality in Shani Mootoo's "Cereus Blooms at Night" Grace Kyungwon Hong ESSAY 73
CRITICAL EDGE
The Nonperformativity of Antiracism
Sara Ahmed
Joanne Barker ESSAY 127
"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism
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
TRENCHES
The Tsunami's Windfall: Women and Aid Distribution
Elisabeth Armstrong
191 FROM THE ARCHIVES
Excerpts from the Voices of Feminism
Oral History Project Interview with Linda Chavez-Thompson
Kathleen Banks Nutter, Linda Chavez-Thompson
Inquisitor and Insurgent: Black Woman with Pencil, Sharpened 214 Nikky Finney
MEMOIR
PREFACE V
Paula J Giddings
INTRODUCTION 1
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
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
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
V
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Paula J Giddings
ESSAY 1
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 POETRY
dirty south moon
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
58 ESSAY
Gender, Nation, and Globalization in "Monsoon Wedding" and "Dilwale
111 POETRY
82
Dulhania Le Jayenge"
Jenny Sharpe
ESSAY
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's "Alien":
Copy with a Difference
Nandini Bhattacharya
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
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 on the Environment, the War in Iraq, Debt, and Women's Equality: Interview with Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now!" Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
Wangari Maathai, Amy Goodman
216 BOOK REVIEW
Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations (review)
Daphne Mary Lamothe
V Paula J Giddings
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
ESSAY 1
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 Amina Jamal
Transnational Feminism as Critical Practice: A Reading of Feminist Discourses in Pakistan IN
Gabeba Baderoon 83
Hunger, and: I used to live
52nd and Spruce Allison Whittenberg 85
POETRY POETRY
Serenghetti Crow, and: Fried Glenis Redmond 86
Donna M. Bickford ESSAY 89
A Praxis of Parataxis: Epistemology and Dissonance in Lucha Corpi's "Detective Fiction"
104
ESSAY
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
149
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Helena Grice 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
180
BOOK REVIEWS
Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women (review)
Mayumi Takada
Dona Carminda e o principe Regina Rheda
Voices from Hispaniola: A "Meridians" 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
Edwidge Danticat's Kitchen History
Valérie Loichot
Julia Alvarez and the Anxiety of Latina Representation
Lucía M. Suárez
The Gate to Phaeton
Kathleen M. Balutansky
Rewriting Exile, Remapping Empire, Remembering Home: Hualing Nieh's "Mulberry" and "Peach" Yu-Fang Cho
Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma Lopez Luz Calvo
On the Ferry to Staten Island
Arisa White
Fertile Cosmofeminism: Ruth L.Ozeki and Transnational Reproduction Shameem Black
Woman Song
Carol Bailey
Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures and Communities
Trinidad Linares
Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature
Kwame Dixon
V Myriam J.A. Chancy 1
39
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
CRITICAL ESSAY
Geographies of Space: Spatial
Impositions, Circularity, and Memory in Malika Mokeddem's "Les hommes qui marchent" and "Le siecle des sauterelles" Brinda J. Mehta
MEMOIR
Chez les arabes Joyce Zonana
55
COUNTERPOINT
Migrations: A "Meridians" Interview with Elif Shafak Elif Safak, Myriam J A Chancy
86
An Assyro-Babylonian Pregnant
Goddess: An Excerpt from "The Saint Of Incipient Insanities" Elif Shafak FICTION
...Kneading: Zhang Yu, Fly Girl/Letter to Bessie Coleman
Tracie D. Hall
FROM THE ARCHIVES 109
130
132
100
POETRY
Dream of the Soft-shell Crab, Hazel at the Ailey Matinee, Third and Main
Diving into Audre Lorde's "Blackstudies"
Angela Bowen
POETRY
Change Places
Marilyn Anderson
A "Meridians" Report on MADRE: The War on Iraq Elizabeth Hanssen COUNTERPOINT
142 Ambreen Hai
165
Departures from Karachi Airport: Some Reflections on Feminist Outrage IN THE TRENCHES
POETRY
Necessities, Imagine Yourself Happy, Punya for the Angel Gabriel Arlene R K Zide
173
CRITICAL ESSAY
A Global Feminist Travels: Assia Djebar and FantasiaJennifer Bernhardt Steadman
200 POETRY
Vintage, Belated Libation, Where I Write, Arrival Nelly Rosario
205
Writing the Nation on the Beauty Queen's Body: Implications for a "Hindu" Nation Huma Ahmed-Ghosh CRITICAL ESSAY
228
ART
Escrava Anastacia Clancy Cavnar
229
FICTION
Escrava Anastacia Speaks Jene Watson-Aifah
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Myriam J A Chancy
Domesticating NATO's War in Kosovo/a: (In)Visible Bodies and the Dilemma of Photojournalism
Consanguinidad
CULTUREWORK: FICTION
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
Introduction: Conference-making
Andrea Humphrey
93 The Challenges of Feminist Citizenship: An Interview with Anannya Bhattacharjee
Laura Roskos, Anannya Bhattacharjee
102 Effective Organizing in Terrible Times: The Strategic Value of Human Rights for Transnational Anti-Racist Feminisms
Barbara Schulman
108 Legislative Tactics in a Movement Strategy: The Economic Human RightsPennsylvania Campaign
Mary Bricker-Jenkins
113 Redefining the Terms: Putting South African Women on Democracy's Agenda
Leslie Hill
120 Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights
Andrea Smith
124 Reflections of a Human Rights Educator
Dazon Dixon Diallo
129
From the Center to the Margins: The Radicalization of Human Rights in the United States
Laura Roskos
137 Suchitra Samanta
168
The "War on Terror," and Withdrawing American Charity: Some Consequences for Poor Muslim Women in Kolkata, India IN THE TRENCHES
ESSAY
Cosmopolitan Cartographies: Art in a Divided World Ranu Samantrai
195 POETRY
Algun lugar en ruinas Mirta Yañez, Sonia Feigenbaum
205 Harryette Mullen
"Artistic Expression was Flowing Everywhere":
Alison Mills and Ntozake Shange, Black Bohemian Feminists in the 1970s FROM THE ARCHIVES
236 POETRY
on the wings of morning, holding back Eunice Heath Tate
239
261
"I Cannot Find Her": The Oriental Feminine, Racial Melancholia, and Kimiko Hahn's
"The Unbearable Heart" Juliana Chang
POETRY
The Telling of Tales, Anti-Manifesto
Frances Kim Russell CRITICAL ESSAY
Shameless Women: Repression and Resistance in "We Sinful Women"
Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry
Neluka Silva
A new garden, her hair supplanted, and: Plain Song, and: 101 memories of midnight miracles
Purvi Shah
Confronting Power and Politics: A Feminist Theorizing of Gender in Commonwealth Caribbean Societies IN THE
Violet Eudine Barriteau
An Interview with Judith Ortíz Cofer
Margaret Crumpton
Daffodils, Rhizomes, Migrations: Narrative Coming of Age in the Diasporic Writings of Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid CRITICAL ESSAY
Jana Evans Braziel
The Beautiful One Has Come CULTUREWORK: FICTION
Suzanne Kamata
The Ultimate Rebellion: Chicana Narratives of Sexuality and Community
Katherine Sugg
171 Nikol G Alexander-Floyd
"We Shall Have Our Manhood": Black Macho, Black Nationalism, and the Million Man March FROM THE ARCHIVES
204
Effects in the Struggle for Definition and Control over Development in Nepal ESSAY
Jana Evans Braziel Feminist Tigers and Patriarchal Lions: Rhetorical Strategies and Instrument
250
278
Taxation, Women, and the Colonial State: Egba Women's Tax Revolt
Judith A. Byfield
MEMOIR
Dreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay
Kristal Brent Zook ESSAY
IX
EDITOR'S FAREWELL
Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Re-Engaging the Local Radhika Coomaraswamy MERIDIANS LECTURE 1
Are Women's Rights Universal?:
82
CULTUREWORK
Farideh Farhi She Is Not Captured!
89
112
125
19
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Struggle Against Impunity in Argentina
Rita Arditti ESSAY
42 Passion, Generosity, and the Academy: "Meridians" Interview with Ruth J. Simmons INTERVIEW
50 POETRY
I don't do lunch
Marjorie Agosín, Laura Rocha Nakazawa
54
Dyan Mazurana ESSAY
Juana Alicia's "Las Lechugueras/ The Women Lettuce Workers"
134
Afghan Refugee Women's Experience of Conflict and Disintegration
Ayesha Khan ESSAY
Ironing, Ironing POETRY
Nellie Wong
CONFERENCE REPORT
Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color for the 21st Century
Martha Arevalo Duffield, Karina Lissette Cespedes
133 Claudia Rankine POETRY
Michelle Smith
Temporary Tattoos: Indo-Chic Fantasies and Late Capitalist Orientalism ESSAY
Sunaina Maira
161
Seeing Faces, Making Races: Challenging Visual Tropes of Racial Difference ESSAY
Terry Kawashima
191
COMMENTARY
South African and African American Women: Journey to Freedom
Elise Young, Zengie Mangaliso
201
When Ten Minus Two Equals Zero: An Interview with Sanda Lwin SPOKEN WORD
Nina Ha
209 Snow POETRY
Ruth Sanabria
210 Hindsight FICTION
226
Christine Benvenuto
Looked Class, Talked Red: Sketches of Ruth First and Redlined Africa ESSAY
Barbara Harlow
252 Irony POETRY
Catrióna Rueda Esquibel
253 Pride Cometh Before a Fall FICTION
265
Rochelle Lynn Holt
Demanding the Right to Live without Violence: Reflections on "Color of Violence II" IN CONVERSATION
Sharmila Lodhia, Sylvanna Falcón
274 Alien 2 POETRY
Vaneeta Palecanda
Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Crimes of Fashion: The Pachuca and Chicana Style Politics
Catherine S Ramírez
Mary, Staring at Me Sejal Shah
“Be Careful What You Ask For: The Goddesses Might Be Listening
Grace Poore
A Mask of Razorblades & the Voice of the Rain and My Favorite Boatperson
Sara Littlecrow-Russell
Revolutionary Vision: Black Women Writers, Black Nationalist Ideology, and Interracial Sexuality
Shane Trudell Verge
Neighbors and August Days
Mary Ann Larkin
"That Little Boy": An English Translation of Jyotirmoyee Devi's Bengali Short Story "Shei Chheleta"
Debali Mookerjea
In Many Worlds: A Discussion with Egyptian Artist Sabah Naeem CULTUREWORK
Jessica Winegar
Diasporadas: Black Women and the Fine Art of Activism
Bonnie Claudia Harrison
How Sukie Come Free FICTION
Sheree Renée Thomas
Returning the American Gaze:
Pandita Ramabai's The Peoples of the United States, 1889 FROM THE ARCHIVES 188 Meera Kosambi
213
Catalina RíosMargins POETRY
Gita Rajan 215 ESSAY
237
Chitra Divakaruni's "The Mistress of Spices": Deploying Mystical Realism
Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the UN World Conference Against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices A Conference Report REPORT
Maylei Blackwell, Nadine Naber
249
Maureen Tolman Flannery Garrote POETRY 250
September 11: A Feminist Archive
CREATING AN ARCHIVE: 312 About the Contributors
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION IX Kum-Kum Bhavnani
26
Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex California and Beyond
Angela Y. Davis, Cassandra Shaylor
The Aliens Have Landed! Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions Banu Subramaniam ESSAY
For Anna Mani (1918-2001)
Suniti Namjoshi
“The Many Faces of Globalism
C A Griffith, H L T Quan
Odilia Rivera
Histories and Heresies: Engendering the Harlem Renaissance Cheryl A. Wall
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
The Sugar from the Cane / El Azúcar de la Caña POETRY
Odilia Rivera
113 MEMOIR
On Writing and Return: Palestinian-American Reflections Lisa Suhair Majaj
Opal Palmer Adisa 127 Sisters Behind Bar (For the Women in FCI-Dublin) POETRY
130
ESSAY
Contradictory Locations: Blackwomen and the Discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM ) in South Africa Pumla Dineo Gqola
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
218 POETRY
Mami Haikus Odilia Rivera
219
Hillary Rodham Clinton's Orient: Cosmopolitan Travel and Global Feminist Subjects Caren Kaplan ESSAY
177
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 ESSAY
176 Fire Flies POETRY
Odilia Rivera
Women's WORLD: A Transnational Network of Women Writers: The Targeting of Feminist Writers REPORT
Meredith Tax
186
187
Funeral Procession in Puerto Nuevo POETRY
Odilia Rivera
The Other Dancer As Self: Girlfriend Selfhood in Toni Morrison's "Sula" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" Kevin Everod Quashie ESSAY
VII
FOREWORD
Ruth J Simmons
IX
INTRODUCTION
Smith-Wesleyan Editorial Group
XVI
TRIBUTE TO BARBARA CHRISTIAN
Ann duCille 1
Ama Ata Aidoo, Edna Acosta-Belén, Amrita Basu, Maryse Condé, Nell Painter, and Nawal El Saadawi Speak on Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism COUNTERPOINTS
ESSAY 29
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
Notes from the (non)Field: Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color IN THE TRENCHES 85
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
ESSAY 128
Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production
Ginetta Candelario
ESSAY
Marilyn Miller 157
Mixedblood Mediation and Territorial Re-Inscription in Ceremony
179 MEMOIRS
‘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
The Papers of Constance Baker Motley: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College IN THE ARCHIVES 204 Kathleen Banks Nutter
N D E X
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
(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
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, (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
WOC Feminism (22.1) p. 76 | (19.2) p. 348 | (18.2) p. 282, 445 | (17.1) p. 7, 16 |
Fiction
|
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)
|
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.
Transnational Feminism, (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
(23.1) p. 259 | (22.1) p. 180 | (21.2) p. 317 | (21.1) p. 49 | (18.1) p. 63,
|
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 |
(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
(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) (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
(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
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)
(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
(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
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
(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
Policing / State-sanctioned violence
(20.1) p. 53 | (17.1) p. 205 | (15.1) p. 1 | (3.1) p. 19
Postcolonialism (neocolonialism, colonialism)
(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
Postcolonialism (neocolonialism, colonialism)
(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 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
(20.2) SPECIAL ISSUE | (15.1) p. 189 | (13.1) p. 26 | (2.2) p. 237 | (1.2) p. 53 | see also: Antiracism
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
p.
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
