Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism is an intersectional feminist journal based at Smith College. Our goal is to make scholarship by and about women of color central to U.S. and global economic conditions; political practices; articulation of histories, geographies, cultures, and sexualities; and forms and meaning of resistance and activist strategies. Meridians is a peer-reviewed journal with the mission—still unique among scholarly journals—of publishing cutting edge scholarship and creative work at the intersection of race, gender, ethnicity and nation.
Our Work
Our newly published Meridians catalog features the cover art and table of contents of every published issue since the fall of 2000.
Call for Papers & Creative Works
Meridians seeks to publish work that is grounded in the particularities of history, economics, geography, class, and culture; that informs the contradictions and politics of women’s lives; illuminates the forms and meanings of resistance, migration and exile and artistic expressions; that provokes the critical interrogaton of the terms used to shape activist agendas, theoretical paradigms, and political coalitions; and that is substantive and readable, as well as relevant and useful to researchers, educators, students, and practitioners.
“Women of color have many histories, and those histories can be brought into full and useful relief by providing opportunities for those women to speak for themselves. However, this journal is not simply for women of color and their voices and perspectives. It is for anyone who takes seriously the scholarly and artistic questions that relate to these women. It is for all who would make them and their concerns breath among the statistics.”
– Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, president emerita
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