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Feb 2, 2024
Ana Sofia Harrison (BC '25)

Political Origins: An Interview with Johanna Fernández

At the end of May, BCRW hosted its first Feminist Freedom School on the subject of feminist abolition. The Freedom School was facilitated by Sarah Haley, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, and co-organized by Premilla Nadasen, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College and Co-Director of BCRW. I joined with ten […]

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Jan 23, 2024
Ana Sofia Harrison (BC '25)

Collective Reconnection: An Interview with Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis came to speak at the BCRW Feminist Freedom School in June. She brought an extraordinarily calm and humble demeanor as she entered the classroom. Her arrival was eagerly awaited by participants of the freedom school as many were familiar with her book, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso Press, […]

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Jan 17, 2024
Kelsey Kitzke (BC '23, BCRW Post-Baccalaureate Fellow)

“Support the Troops”: the Solider, the Citizen, and Our Ongoing Attachment to Militarism in post-9/11 America

Barnard Professor of Anthropology Nadia Abu El-Haj’s recently released book Combat Trauma elucidates the ways in which a rising focus on the psychological consequences of war on American combat personnel has dovetailed with ubiquitous calls to “support the troops” so as to undermine criticisms of US militarism in the post 9/11 era. Abu El-Haj tracks […]

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Dec 6, 2023
Ashe Lewis (BC '24)

The Quest to “bring our people home”: A Conversation with Cara Page

Cara Page (she, her, hers) is a Black, Queer artist, organizer, and cultural worker whose people came from the Southern US and all along the Eastern seaboard. Co-creator of the Kindred Southern Justice Collective, founder of the Changing Frequencies organizing project, and former BCRW Activist in Residence, Cara has dedicated most of her life to […]

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Jul 24, 2023
Kelsey Kitzke (BC ’23)

“Who do you want to talk to?”

A Conversation with Tami Navarro on Race and Gender within Neoliberal Financialization Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands, Tami Navarro’s (Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Drew University and former BCRW Associate Director) first book, is an ethnographic exploration of the Economic Development Commission (EDC), a finance agency that encourages […]

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Jul 11, 2023
Eve Glazier (BC '23)

Toward an Abolitionist Archival Practice

It was a fall day in September 2021. I was in Barnard College’s library sort of doing homework in my favorite green chair, when my phone buzzed with an email that piqued my interest. The email said that archivists at Barnard had just returned from a trip to New Jersey with a car full of […]

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Jun 21, 2023
Sabrina Salam (BC '24)

Piecing the Stories Together: An interview with Celia Naylor

The Rose Hall Great House Tour takes visitors through a historic slave plantation in Montego Bay, Jamaica, telling a version of history through the sensational legend of a white plantation mistress named Annie Palmer, known as the White Witch of Rose Hall. The tour is based on the 1929 novel by Herbert G. de Lisser […]

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Jun 13, 2023
Ashe Lewis BC '24

Beyond Housing Injustice: Expanding Community Connection Through Research

Research notes:  The interconnectedness of economic greed in the face of housing inaccessibility and environmental disaster Racism and the commodification of housing Hope for Resistance—chronicling women-led Resistance and the Black Power movement Foregrounding the role of Black and women-led movements of resistance in the legacy of housing justice organizing Centering the perspectives of low-income Black […]

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Jun 7, 2023

Call for Submissions: Rage, Struggle, Freedom

Call for Submissions The Scholar and Feminist Online Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Politics of Hope and Love Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican, Guest Editors Deadline to Submit October 2, 2023 The Scholar and Feminist Online is pleased to invite you to submit your work to our first-ever open call for a special issue on transnational feminist […]

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Mar 2, 2023

Erika Dickerson-Despenza to receive Career Achievement Honors at PEN America Literary Awards on March 2

Erika Dickerson-Despenza, creator and inaugural resident of the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency co-sponsored by BCRW, The Public Theater, and the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust, will receive the Career Achievement Honor at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on Thursday, March 2. Learn more about this recognition and Dickerson-Depsenza’s work. Congratulations to Erika! Don’t […]

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Feb 7, 2023

Chache Konn Dwa W / Know Your Rights

BCRW’s Transnational Feminisms Initiative continues our collaboration with Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, a Brooklyn-based organization that has been working for over thirty years to respond to the needs of Haitian refugees and immigrants fleeing persecution. The organization combines direct service, organizing, and political education in the movement to defend Black migrants, stop anti-Black deportation, […]

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Jan 16, 2023
Kelsey Kitzke (BC '23)

This Flame Within: An Interview with Manijeh Moradian 

In November, Manijeh Moradian (Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College) published This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press), a new book on the radical organizing efforts of US-based Iranian students in the 1960-70s. The book arrives at an extraordinary moment as Iranians protest the killing of Mahsa […]

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