Xhercis Méndez
Title
Xhercis Méndez
Rights
Image used with permission, all rights remain with the author. Photograph credit to Xhercis Méndez.
Birthplace
Puerto Rico, United States of America
Primary Sources
Méndez, X. (2020). Decolonial feminist movidas: A Caribeña rethinks “privilege,” the wages of gender, and building complex coalitions. In Medina, J., Ortega, M & Pitts, A. J. (Eds). Theories of the flesh: Latinx and Latin American feminisms, transformation, and resistance (pp. 74–94). Oxford University Press.
Méndez, X and Figueroa Y.C. (2019). Not your papa’s Wynter: Women of color contributions toward decolonial futures, In Drexler-Dreis, J. & Justaer, K. (Eds.), Beyond the doctrine of man: Decolonial visions of the human (pp. 60–88). Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823285884-004
Méndez, X. (2016). Which Black lives matter?: Gender, state-sanctioned violence, and “my brother’s keeper.” Radical History Review: Reconsidering Gender, Violence and the State, 126, 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3594445
Méndez, X. (2015). Notes toward a decolonial feminist methodology: Revisiting the race/gender matrix. Trans-Scripts 5, 41–59.
Méndez, X., & Oneonta, S. (2014). Transcending dimorphism: Afro-Cuban ritual praxis and the rematerialization of the body. The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 13(1), 101–121.
Méndez, X and Figueroa Y.C. (2019). Not your papa’s Wynter: Women of color contributions toward decolonial futures, In Drexler-Dreis, J. & Justaer, K. (Eds.), Beyond the doctrine of man: Decolonial visions of the human (pp. 60–88). Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823285884-004
Méndez, X. (2016). Which Black lives matter?: Gender, state-sanctioned violence, and “my brother’s keeper.” Radical History Review: Reconsidering Gender, Violence and the State, 126, 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3594445
Méndez, X. (2015). Notes toward a decolonial feminist methodology: Revisiting the race/gender matrix. Trans-Scripts 5, 41–59.
Méndez, X., & Oneonta, S. (2014). Transcending dimorphism: Afro-Cuban ritual praxis and the rematerialization of the body. The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 13(1), 101–121.
Extra Resources
#blackwomenlivesmatter short film, Oct 2, 2018,
Images to the intro poem to "For Colored Girls" by Ntozake Shange. Original Music by Ganessa James, Accessed Aug 15, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYiFdu-llfA
Images to the intro poem to "For Colored Girls" by Ntozake Shange. Original Music by Ganessa James, Accessed Aug 15, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYiFdu-llfA
Collection
Citation
“Xhercis Méndez,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed August 7, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/591.