{"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\" 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-03627597 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-c8431ee3 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-23441af8 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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