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Abstract: [Meridians] will provide a critical forum for conversations between feminists of color, enabling women to build bridges between one another’s work, to forge links across different generations, and to make connections among our institutional and social locations.The time has come to end systems of governance that are beholden to principles of capitalism, rooted in Western thought, driven by neoliberal logics, and that continue to exploit and oppress women and negatively racialized communities.In the introduction to the first Meridians issue, published in the fall of 2000, readers were informed by the Smith-Wesleyan founding editorial collective that what they called “Counterpoints” would be one of several regularly ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In paying heed to recent calls being made for scholars of development studies to be more attentive to the ongoing influences of race and imperialism in their scholarship (Patel 2020; Rutzibwa 2019)—yet in still avowing that gender and power relations remain as influential as ever vis-à-vis orthodox development agendas and their aftermaths (Dutta 2021; LeBaron and Gore 2020)—this article offers a comprehensive overview of “feminist development justice.” First and foremost, feminist development justice is a transformative framework being advanced by Majority World women and grassroots organizers from the Global South, specifically, the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD). The remit of feminist ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In this article we explore the notion of compassionate consumption that positions consumption as “doing good” and fulfilling a socio-spiritual purpose beyond personal gratification and economic participation. This aspect of consumption can be understood as contributing to the greater common good. Through critical discourse analysis of public-facing information available on the websites of twelve corporations, we are investigating how their rhetoric of conscious and conscientious consumption uses the same set of keywords to do a kind of public relations damage control for global capitalism. We narrowed these twelve corporations based on their presence and publicity on social media, their large US consumer base, and ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The work of Central American writer Claribel Alegría has often been associated with constructions of Salvadoran female subjectivity, including portrayals of women as armed militants. Yet her writing also depicts women’s perspectives on capitalist catastrophe, by which I define transnational economic enterprises that undergird world-shattering military violence, if not imperialist war. This article focuses on two primary events in El Salvador: La Matanza (The 1932 Massacre), retold in the novel Ashes of Izalco (1966; trans. 1989), and the US-backed civil war (1980–92), recounted in the testimonio They Won’t Take Me Alive (1983; trans. 1987; hereafter Alive). These are both events of memory trouble, difficult recall ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I thank Rauna Kuokkanen (2022) for her critical reading of my master’s thesis on wind power development in Norway. My thesis (Ellingsen 2020) explored the uneven power dynamics between the Norwegian government and South Saami reindeer herders at Fovsen/Fosen in Trööndelage/Trøndelag County during the establishment of Europe’s largest onshore wind power facility.1 I argued that throughout the process of developing onshore wind power in Norway, the government has deliberately disregarded the knowledge held by the South Saami reindeer herders. This deliberate action resulted in a Supreme Court verdict in 2021 that declared the development at Fosen violated the South Saami reindeer herders’ right to practice their ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Recognizing that national borders did not limit the struggles for Black female dignity and human rights, in 1948 Zeta Phi Beta sorority became the first Greek-letter sorority to charter a chapter in Africa (Monrovia, Liberia). Two years later, in 1950, Delta Sigma Theta sorority established a chapter in the capital of the first free Black republic in the Western Hemisphere— Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the second half of the twentieth century, Black sororities continued to establish chapters and social programs across the globe, an intentional social action that I conceptualize as the Black sorority movement (hereafter BSM).1 The BSM had grown its influence beyond US borders to promote basic literacy, reproductive ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: We, the dehumanized living under colonial humanity, struggle with the colonially given names that wrongly define, ossifyingly fix, and violently erase us. We are socially dissected, amputated, and murdered, sometimes by others, sometimes suicidally, in order to fit into those names of intended misnaming invented not for us but for the sake of colonizers’, imperialists’, and modernity embracers’ calculation, manipulation, and exploitation. We, the dehumanized, need new names that do name something new. The request is not for a new name within teleological modernity but for a transformative journey toward a revitalized self, embracing resilient cosmologies and ancestral memories to embody each present moment.This ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I arrived at the Sagrado Corazón train station parking lot in Santurce, Puerto Rico, early in the morning of March 8, 2018. The sun’s first rays cut through the night sky as I got out of the car and saw at least twenty people clad in purple shirts that read “Anti-patriarcal, feminista, lesbiana, trans, caribeña, latinoamericana.”1 I was there to observe and take part in an International Working Women’s Day demonstration led by Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (La Cole), a Black feminist political organization mainly based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We were waiting for two busses to take us to the Capitol building for a demonstration. Before we left one of the founders and spokespeople of La Cole, Shariana Ferrer ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On June 8, 1989, approximately eighty women gathered at the Women’s Building in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District to attend a community forum, “The Palestinian Uprising and the Lesbian Community: An Evening for Lesbians about Palestine” (Jadallah 1990: 5). Cosponsored by the activist groups Lesbians in Solidarity with the Palestinian People (LISPP) and the Arab Lesbian Network (ALN), the forum was hosted by ALN founder Huda Jadallah and another Bay Area feminist activist (ALN and LISPP 1989b). According to the flyer that advertised the event (see fig. 1), the forum set out to cover four interrelated issues: “the roots of the intifada, the role of women in the intifada, anti-Arab racism in the lesbian ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What does it mean to be both Black and Tunisian, Black and Maghrebi, when the two identities are defined as different from each other, and in opposition with each other, in both Maghreb (North Africa) and its diaspora'1 This article is an annotated conversation with Dr. Maha Abdelhamid, a Tunisian Black activist and scholar who has been crucial to the creation of the Black movement in Tunisia and Tunisian diaspora.2The conversation with Abdelhamid, which forms the core of this article, examines the construction and negotiation of Tunisian-Black and Maghrebi-Black identities through Abdelhamid’s experiences of living in and working against racism in both Tunisia and France. It details Abdelhamid’s trajectory in ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: It was widely believed by whites that slave women gave birth more easily and quickly than white women, and thus needed less attention during pregnancy and labor.In May 1934 my maternal grandmother Grandma Rickey was delivered into the world in the security of her parents’ Alpoca, West Virginia, home. In my late teens, to fill in a memory book, I once asked her if she knew any details about her birth. She recalled the name, Dr. Penn. As an adult, once I obtaineda copy of Grandma Rickey’s birth certificate I would find the name Frank H. Penn, MD, inked onto the signature line.Under his signature, on a dotted line labeled, “physician, midwife, parent,” Dr. Penn wrote Covel, WVa. The W and V, both uppercase, are ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the 1992 documentary Black Sci-Fi, Octavia Butler describes the contrast between the freedom that speculative fiction allows and the constraints on genres more closely associated with canonicity: “Science fiction is a wonderful way to think about possibilities There are all sorts of walls around other genres. Romances, mysteries, westerns. There are no real walls around science fiction. We can build them, but they’re not there naturally.” Building from this contrast, this essay explores the ways Speculative fiction allows Black writers to inject narratives regarding allegories of freedom and liberation into more traditional genres like the Bildungsroman to blur and complicate their boundaries. Using Colson ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “Now, girls, pay attention!” Mrs. Vafai tapped twice on the whiteboard with her forefinger knuckle, protruding and plump in her long carbon cotton glove that ebbed into her soot-colored manteau sleeves. “When you get married, you are wedded to the entire family. Remember, the man you love today may be educated in Europe, but his mother, his sister, could be the ruin of you at some point. Even an intellectuel man is an instinctive being. So, get that certificate before anything, even if the groom’s family doesn’t demand it. Get it. Fold it or frame it. Trust me, it will do you a lot of good.”It was one of those early morning sessions, 7:30 sharp to 9. No one should have to put up with such an upbeat timbre and ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Taking the first line of Audre Lorde’s poem, “A Litany for Survival,” this work explores the relationship between the body, landscape, history, and memory. The topography is constructed by blending plant species that grow specifically at the coastline and function to both hold in and feed the soil. Species such as sea purslane, sea grape, manchineel, and mangroves are the keepers of boundary, constructing a kind of living archive as the root systems hold in the erosion of memory and time. They also protect, filter, and some even poison as they are a part of dynamic marginal ecosystems. For those of us who live at the shoreline, at the liminal spaces between subject and citizen, our survival is based on the crucial ... Read More PubDate: 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
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