{"id":2918,"date":"2025-09-12T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/volume-17-issue-1-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:15:58","slug":"volume-17-issue-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/volume-17-issue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 17, Number 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Volume 17, Number 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feature 1: African Feminist Initiative<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-994\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/254\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-21-at-10.50.18-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-994\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>\u00a0Image courtesy of Penn State<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/afi.la.psu.edu\/\">website<\/a> details the work of the African Feminist Initiative (AFI), established by Gabeba Baderoon and Alicia C. Decker, the Issue Editors of Volume 17, No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>African Feminist Initiative (AFI) at Pennsylvania State University was established in April 2015 &nbsp;to advance research and teaching about African feminisms at Penn State and to build partnerships between Penn State faculty and feminist scholars, activists, and institutions in Africa and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AFI is governed by an external Advisory Board, consisting of influential feminist scholars from around the world, as well as an internal Steering Committee made up of feminist scholars of Africa at Penn State. With generous funding from the College of the Liberal Arts, as well as numerous other units across campus, they have organized several international workshops and conferences, as well as an African Feminist Lecture Series. They also host a vibrant listserv and regularly facilitate virtual Feminist Dialogues on significant African issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/afi.la.psu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> to read more about the African Feminist Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\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-17-issue-1\/\">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\/volume-18-issue-1\/\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume 17, Number 2 Feature 1: African Feminist Initiative This website details the work of the African Feminist Initiative (AFI), established by Gabeba Baderoon and Alicia C. Decker, the Issue Editors of Volume 17, No. 2. African Feminist Initiative (AFI) at Pennsylvania State University was established in April 2015 &nbsp;to advance research and teaching about [&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-2918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918","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=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918\/revisions\/2954"}],"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=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}