{"id":2536,"date":"2025-04-07T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/?page_id=2536"},"modified":"2025-05-02T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:59:10","slug":"volume-24-number-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/volume-24-number-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 24, Number 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Volume 24, Number 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feature 1: \u201c\u2018we were two ends of one taut rope\u2019: Audre Lorde and Black-Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands\u201d by Tatsiana Shchurko<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"839\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2025\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2543\" style=\"width:508px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2025\/04\/image.png 596w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/2025\/04\/image-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Read the booklet here: <a href=\"https:\/\/publuu.com\/flip-book\/361412\/825142\">https:\/\/publuu.com\/flip-book\/361412\/825142<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In &#8220;\u2018we were two ends of one taut rope\u2019: Audre Lorde and Black-Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands,&#8221; author <a href=\"https:\/\/wgss.osu.edu\/people\/shchurko.1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wgss.osu.edu\/people\/shchurko.1\">Tatsiana Shchurko<\/a> examines Audre Lorde\u2019s trip to the Soviet Union in 1976, and the relationships she forged with local Indigenous communities there. Shchurko examines these relationships and the knowledge production that can be forged between two Indigenous communists against the backdrop of transnational politics. This <a href=\"https:\/\/publuu.com\/flip-book\/361412\/825142\">booklet<\/a>, created in collaboration with many scholars to reimagine the legacies of feminist internationalism in Soviet Eurasia, continues to discuss how Black feminism has become transnational, and the forms of knowledge that emerge at the intersection of black feminist knowledge in Soviet and post-Soviet Eurasia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feature 2: \u201cStorytelling from the Heart: A Decolonial Feminist Humanism\u201d&nbsp;by Ashjan Ajour<br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y2dgrknykQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:34px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u201cStorytelling from the Heart: A Decolonial Feminist Humanism,\u201d author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcu.ac.uk\/business-law-and-social-sciences\/staff\/sociology-and-criminology\/ashjan-ajour\">Ashjan Ajour<\/a> crystallizes her lived experience as a Palestinian researcher studying Palestine, as part of a larger Palestinian suffering at the hands of the Israeli occupation. She describes in depth the process of interviewing the Palestinian hunger strikers, and her search for the \u2018language of the heart,\u2019 integrating her positionality as a researcher immersed in the colonized space, as well as a Palestinian shaped by the broader colonial oppression of the Israeli apparatus. She centers empathy in knowledge production, and her methodologies are shaped by her interactions with and ethnography about Palestinian hunger strikers. As a researcher embedded in the institutions that create the lived conditions of participants of her research, she centers reflexivity in her methodological approach, as well as her own political, emotional, and intellectual investment in the lives of her research participants. This podcast weaves stories about the Palestinian hunger strikers she met, and the subjectivity of their being as shaped by resistance.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-space-between is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-b2891da8 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/volume-23-issue-2\/\">Previous<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/\">Back to &#8220;On the Line&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume 24, Number 1 Feature 1: \u201c\u2018we were two ends of one taut rope\u2019: Audre Lorde and Black-Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands\u201d by Tatsiana Shchurko Read the booklet here: https:\/\/publuu.com\/flip-book\/361412\/825142 In &#8220;\u2018we were two ends of one taut rope\u2019: Audre Lorde and Black-Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands,&#8221; author Tatsiana Shchurko examines Audre Lorde\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6381,"featured_media":0,"parent":339,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-blank","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2536","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2536\/revisions\/2623"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}