The Distorted Lens: Immigrant Maladies and Mythical Norms in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory [PDF]
, 2015 The immigrant experience is riddled with the complexities of uprooting, and the challenges of fitting into a new environment where the issue of difference plays an important role.
Valiela, Isabel
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Unmaking him : Lee Daniels' Empire and the potential black masculine [PDF]
, 2016 This paper uses Lee Daniels’ hit show Empire to examine the relationship between two fictional television brothers- Jamal and Hakeem Lyon. In examining this relationship, I employ black feminist and black queer theory to interrogate the ways in which Lee
Griffin, Jeremy O'Brian
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Breathing through the rage: Maternal refusal as ethnographic method
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article theorizes maternal rage as an ethnographic method and affective archive, drawing on interviews with birthing people of color navigating medical neglect, obstetric violence, and postpartum abandonment. Rather than treating rage as an excess or failure of care, I frame it as a form of witnessing and refusal, a bodily record of harm ...
Lalaie Ameeriar
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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Fresh Starts Behind Bars ... Teaching with the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 2018 I borrow from Audre Lorde’s introduction to her 1979 essay “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response” to introduce this piece. This article is not a theoretical discussion nor a how-to article.
Deanna Chappell Belcher
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Giving a new meaning to lives through education: feminist practices for a fairer world
Revista Eletrônica História em Reflexão, 2020 This article aims the reflection on libertarian practices of education to facing on structures that are not only sexist but racist and classist as well.
Michelle dos Santos +1 more
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Confronting the Concept of Intersectionality: The Legacy of Audre Lorde and Contemporary Feminist Organizations [PDF]
, 2006 Audre Lorde was one of many women to criticize second wave feminism for overlooking issues of intersectionality. This paper examines the ways in which Lorde introduced intersectionality into feminist discourse and how feminist organizations embrace this ...
Dudley, Rachel A.
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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[Review of] Gail Pellet and Stanley Nelson (producers and directors). Shattering the Silences [PDF]
, 1997 Our silence will not protect us, poet and feminist Audre Lorde has written, and broken silences recur with startling clarity in Shattering the Silences.
Acosta, Belinda
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STEM's Dirty Secret: How Grit and Resilience Mask Systemic Racism
Educational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 57-68, February 2026.ABSTRACT STEM fields perpetuate systemic racism under the guise of meritocracy, forcing Black, Latino, and Indigenous students—particularly women—to endure racialized stress, institutional exclusion, and the psychological toll of weathering and racial battle fatigue.
Ebony O. McGee, David O. Stovall
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