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., & Figueroa, Y. C. (2020). Not Your Papa’s Wynter: Women of Color Contributions toward Decolonial Futures. In J. Drexler-Dreis & K. Justaert (Eds.), Beyond the Doctrine of Man: Decolonial Visions of the Human (1st ed., pp. 60–88). Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvsf1q4v.6
Méndez, X. (2020). Beyond Nassar: A Transformative Justice and Decolonial Feminist Approach to Campus Sexual Assault. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 41(2), 82–104. https://doi.org/10.5250/fronjwomestud.41.2.0082
Méndez, X. (2019). 5 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190062965.003.0006
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? Radical History Review, 2016(126), 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3594445
Méndez, X. (2016). Battling Silent Chaos: The Refrain and Decolonial Potentials. Deleuze Studies, 10(3), 367–378. https://doi.org/10.3366/dls.2016.0232
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. https://www.jcrt.org/archives/13.1/
Secondary Sources
Drexler-Dreis, J., & Justaert, K. (Eds.). (2020). Beyond the Doctrine of Man: Decolonial Visions of the Human (1st ed.). Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvsf1q4v
Extra Resources
#blackwomenlivesmatter short film (October 2, 2018). Xhercis Mendez. YouTube. Accessed August 15, 2022. https://youtu.be/XYiFdu-llfA
Images to the intro poem to "For Colored Girls" by Ntozake Shange. Original Music by Ganessa James, Accessed August 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 August 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 December 27, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/591.