Exploring the Academy-Activist Connection: Storytelling & the BCRW 2012 Commencement Day Panel
When I tell someone I work as a student Research Assistant at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the response I often receive is something like, “Sounds great! But exactly what does the Center do?”
The diverse role of BCRW as a national conversation-starter, historic intellectual resource, dynamic programmer, and hub for international activism can be hard to articulate. So I usually encapsulate it all by explaining how the Center performs invaluable work at the rich intersection of feminist social justice and scholarship. It’s a junction of two worlds I found to be painfully separate when I first entered college: the heady, removed theory of the academic and the on-the-street action of the activist. But this was before I started my work at BCRW. Now, I am spending my time exploring and promoting the Center’s fruitful activism-academy partnerships with the BCRW Blog. The ways BCRW acts as a facilitator for collaboration at this critical crossroads continues to surprise and delight me.
For example, in May, BCRW hosted Social Justice Feminism: Where Scholarship and Activism Meet for our 2012 Commencement Day Panel. The annual event aims to introduce the work of the Center to the family and friends of Barnard’s graduating class. This year’s panel featured several women working towards social justice within three different initiatives of the Center: Disability Justice, Transnational Feminisms, and Digital Feminisms.
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