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Erika Dickerson-Despenza Named Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency’s Inaugural Playwright
BCRW, The Public Theater, and The Ntozake Shange Literary Trust partner to establish the first residency of its kind for distinguished women, femme, trans, or non-binary playwrights of the African Diaspora. The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director and Patrick Willingham, Executive Director), the Barnard Center for Research on Women (Premilla Nadasen, Claire Tow Professor […]
Read MoreCOVID Safety Guidelines
We are looking forward to hosting a combination of in-person and hybrid events this semester. Guests are asked to follow COVID safety guidelines to make our events safe and accessible to our communities. Please review the current Barnard College policies and procedures for public events. Email bcrw@barnard.edu with questions about safety or accessibility. All attendees […]
Read MoreWelcome from Co-Directors Premilla Nadasen and Janet Jakobsen
We are very excited to begin our new roles as co-directors of BCRW. We would first like to extend our deepest gratitude to Professor Elizabeth Castelli for leading BCRW over the last four years and a huge thanks to the staff for all their hard work. We are proud to be a part of a […]
Read MoreChoice or Chance?
Driving is a form of intimate service work and reproductive labor that extracts the liveliness of drivers for the benefit of the passengers who become consumers of their labor. Even more importantly, this labor is ultimately accumulated as national and corporate wealth, under historical regimes of gender, race, class, nation, work and ableism. Spent Behind […]
Read MoreMeet our Research Assistants
Student Research Assistants are an integral part of BCRW’s community, providing crucial support to its social justice programming and events. In the 2021-22 academic year, six students worked with BCRW staff and collaborators on a range of projects. These projects include processing the new collection of archives from the Coalition of Women Prisoners, working with […]
Read MoreFarewell from Elizabeth Castelli, Director, 2018-2022
Dear Friends of BCRW, As many of you already know, I concluded my service as Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women on June 30. I became Interim Director of the Center in July 2018, and then served another three years as Director beginning in 2019. It has been a great privilege to […]
Read MoreRemembering Quandra Prettyman, Teacher, Activist, Friend
Quandra Prettyman, beloved Barnard Professor of Africana Studies and English, is celebrated by her colleagues, friends, family, and students in this memorial, recorded on January 9, 2022. Get the memorial program here (PDF) Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Quandra Prettyman was the daughter of two school teachers. A curious, adventurous child, she saw the […]
Read MoreHealing Histories Project is Hiring: Two Paid Summer Internships
The Healing Histories Project collaborates with healers, medical practitioners, organizers, media makers, cultural and memory workers who believe that all deserve care and support during times of crisis, vulnerability, and resistance. Collaborators come together to inform and shape a vision for collective care and safety while integrating models of wellness that seek to transform and intervene […]
Read MoreSign Petition in Support of Ana Belique and Michelle Ricardo
We stand in solidarity with Ana Belique and Michelle Ricardo, we reject the censorship and fascist threats during the International Book Fair of Santo Domingo. We write to denounce the terrorist threats received by our colleague and collaborator, human rights activist Ana Belique, author of La Muñeca de Dieula. Barnard College’s Digital Humanities Center team […]
Read MoreUkraine Solidarity Event: (getting beyond) Doomsday Scrolling
Saturday, March 19, 7:00pm (EST) The Center at West Park 165 W 86th St, New York, NY 10024 AnomalousCo, an international transdisciplinary theatre collective based in New York City, is planning an urgent evening of solidarity with Ukraine and its refugees in New York. All proceeds from the benefit will go towards refugee assistance.Tickets can […]
Read MoreRemembering Janet Axelrod ’73, BCRW student co-founder
BCRW marks with sadness the passing of Janet Axelrod (Barnard Class of 1973), one of the Center’s student founders. Axelrod passed away on December 26, 2021, at the age of 70. Janet Axelrod was a leader in the student movement at Barnard and a founding member of the Women’s Center, as BCRW was first known. […]
Read MoreThe Bronx Fire: Financial Predation, City Neglect, Community Power
We continue to mourn with the survivors of a catastrophic fire in the Bronx that killed eight adults and nine children on January 9th, 2022. Barnard students and alums are among the people who lost relatives and neighbors in a disaster that rippled beyond New York and throughout communities living with the realities of precarious […]
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