Indigenous feminisms against settler colonialism (introducing a special issue of Meridians): Basuli Deb, Ginetta E. B. Candelario, ‘Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 1’, Meridians, 23, 1, 2024, pp. 1-13 | settler colonial studies blog

Indigenous feminisms against settler colonialism (introducing a special issue of Meridians): Basuli Deb, Ginetta E. B. Candelario, ‘Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 1’, Meridians, 23, 1, 2024, pp. 1-13

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Excerpt: Several years ago Meridians joined many academic organizations and institutions in the United States by acknowledging that our Western Massachusetts–based offices are on Nonotuck land. In this we formed part of a wave of solidarity with Indigenous peoples that necessarily begins with recognition of how settler colonialism is deeply ingrained, embedded, and naturalized in every way, from place-naming conventions to thought structures. Further, as a first step toward moving from acknowledging to acting in the spirit of redress and forum building, Meridians undertook an audit of the content we have published in the twenty-four years of our existence. We found a shocking (if all too common) lack of Indigenous feminists and/or Indigenous feminist work in our oeuvre to date. As a result of this data-driven insight, and by way of beginning to transform our archive, we have endeavored to increase the participation of Indigenous feminist scholars and knowledge producers as peer reviewers and contributors to the Meridians project. Editor Candelario’s preliminary efforts yielded several publishable submissions focused largely on the Americas. Rather than intersperse these among other issues, we decided to devote an entire issue to Indigenous feminisms across the world.

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