Upcoming and Recent Events
Missionary Women and the Imperial Roots of White Evangelical Feminism
Postpone - new date will be posted here soon. Exploring the origins of a new world order in Christian imperial feminism.
Read MoreYou Only Get What You’re Organized to Take
Drawing from personal experience, history, religion, political strategy, and more, Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back argue that American poverty will through a mass movement open to all and led by the poor.
Read MoreBotany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism
Banu Subramanian will discuss how botany’s foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial rule and its extractive ambitions.
Read MoreRecent Writing
It Has to Be Imperfect
An interview with Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown * Nina Sharma is a writer, performer, and adjunct professor of English at Barnard College. Her writing has been featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Literature, Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Margins, and Longreads. Last fall […]
Read MoreIf We Can Imagine a Feminist World, We Can Build One
A Conversation with Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican, guest editors of “Rage, Struggle, Freedom,” a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online On December 4th, The Scholar and Feminist Online released its newest issue “Rage, Struggle, Freedom” guest edited by feminist scholars and activists Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican. Okazawa-Rey and Sarican together make […]
Read MoreA View from Public Housing: Resident Histories, Perspectives and Hope
A View from Public Housing: Resident Histories, Perspectives and Hope When I was growing up there, we were proud to live in public housing. It was a great place to live. You got to really see a lot of family, community, playgrounds. It was so close to schools. Public housing is no different than […]
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Rage, Struggle, Freedom
Contributions by Nagihan Akarsel (Jineolojî Academy), Electra B., Azza Basarudin, Loren Cahill. Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草, Livia de Souza Vidal, J. D. Harlock, The International Women's Network Against Militarism (IWNAM), Iida Käyhkö, Bramsh Khan, Youree Kim, Arianne Napier-White, Şervîn Nûdem (Jineolojî Academy), Ximena Keogh Serrano, Loan Tran, Fadwa Tuqan, Helena Wacko, and the YVE Collective.
Read MoreTo Make Visible Everywhere: Our Bold, Beautiful, Aging Bodies
In this special issue "To Make Visible," guest editors Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio have curated a selection of essays, videos, interviews, and visual art by women of color on race, performance, embodiment, and aging.
Read MoreParadoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice
From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities. Analyzing the complexities of the current political moment in different geographic regions, this book addresses the paradoxical persistence of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the pursuit of a more just world.
Read MoreProjects
Transnational Black Feminisms
Transnational Black Feminisms was initiated by Premilla Nadasen and Celia Naylor as a working group at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) in 2019. In 2023, Tami Navarro joined Premilla as project co-director, Anna Reumert joined as project assistant, and the working group partnered with BCRW. The podcast and the conference are supported by CSSD and BCRW. […]
Read MoreCare, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction
This project, led by Premilla Nadasen (BCRW C0-Director and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History), brings together scholars, organizers, and artists to consider the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change.
Read MoreOur Work
BCRW has for decades worked to respond to violence at all scales — interpersonal and international — and to contribute long histories of global feminist efforts to build a world of justice, peace, and freedom. Some of our work on behalf of these values of social justice feminism includes: Responding to Violence, Rethinking Human Secularity with […]
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