{"id":18,"date":"2024-10-07T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians25thanniversary\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:35:01","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center is-style-default\" style=\"padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;grid-template-columns:auto 51%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-prata-regular-font-family has-medium-font-size wp-elements-11e51db5d63669b0e7f9dcbcc62fe041 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#f7f2ea;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px\"><em>Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism<\/em>&nbsp;is an intersectional feminist journal based at Smith College. Our goal is to make scholarship by and about women of color central to US and global economic conditions; political practices; articulation of histories, geographies, cultures, and sexualities; and forms and meaning of resistance and activist strategies.&nbsp;<em>Meridians<\/em>&nbsp;is a peer-reviewed journal with the mission\u2014still unique among scholarly journals\u2014of publishing cutting edge scholarship and creative work at the intersection of race, gender, ethnicity and nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:52px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-b0be8b0e wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians25thanniversary\/about-us\/\" style=\"color:#592e66;background-color:#ffdb8d;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">About Us<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"981\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians25thanniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-09-at-4.56.36-PM-1024x981.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-09-at-4.56.36-PM-1024x981.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-09-at-4.56.36-PM-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-09-at-4.56.36-PM-768x736.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-09-at-4.56.36-PM.png 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-text-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#03081e;background-color:#592e66;margin-top:0px;padding-top:35px;padding-right:100px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:100px;font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.498), 1.13rem);font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.4\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter is-light\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-contrast-background-color has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-44\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians25thanniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2024\/10\/19.1.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-cover-is-layout-91efcdcd wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color has-background\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;color:#fdfdfd;background-color:#592e66;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);font-size:clamp(3.037rem, 3.037rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 5.781), 6rem);font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Our Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-88c01e81 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-issuu wp-block-embed-issuu\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Meridians Catalog with links - last update May 2025 (3)\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?u=meridiansjournal&#038;d=meridians_catalog_with_links_-_last_update_may_202\" style=\"border:none; 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Creative Works<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-prata-regular-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#ffffff;margin-top:0rem;font-size:clamp(14.642px, 0.915rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.897), 22px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6\"><em>Meridians<\/em>&nbsp;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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ba34fb1f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-2a171413 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:2.51rem\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 has-custom-font-size is-style-fill has-prata-regular-font-family\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.488), 18px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/submissions\/\" style=\"color:#592e66;background-color:#ffdb8d;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submission Guidelines <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-text-color has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-203e4206 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"color:#3e3e3e;margin-top:0rem;padding-right:1rem;padding-left:1rem;font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.498), 1.13rem);font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.5\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-text-color has-link-color has-prata-regular-font-family wp-elements-46f4059b74493fc187e14eb7be43e59e\" id=\"we-re-a-studio-in-berlin-with-an-international-practice-in-architecture-urban-planning-and-interior-design-we-believe-in-sharing-knowledge-and-promoting-dialogue-to-increase-the-creative-potential-of-collaboration\" style=\"color:#f7f2ea;margin-top:5px;margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:5px;font-size:clamp(20px, 1.25rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.463), 32px);font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"985\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians25thanniversary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2025\/01\/150-seal-white-3-985x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-radius:100px;width:61px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2025\/01\/150-seal-white-3-985x1024.png 985w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2025\/01\/150-seal-white-3-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2025\/01\/150-seal-white-3-768x799.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2025\/01\/150-seal-white-3.png 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-text-align-right has-text-color has-link-color has-prata-regular-font-family wp-elements-9d30a55048c973d06455eb133e28164e\" id=\"we-re-a-studio-in-berlin-with-an-international-practice-in-architecture-urban-planning-and-interior-design-we-believe-in-sharing-knowledge-and-promoting-dialogue-to-increase-the-creative-potential-of-collaboration\" style=\"color:#f7f2ea;font-size:clamp(17.371px, 1.086rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.174), 27px);font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;text-transform:capitalize\">&#8211; Dr. Ruth J. 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