Critical Caribbean Feminisms

Literary Series

Reading and Discussion with Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
February 11, 2020

Staceyann Chin, author of Crossfire: A Litany For Survival, the critically acclaimed memoir The Other Side of Paradise, among other critically acclaimed works, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs ’04, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: Finding Ceremony, was joined in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College.

Roxane Gay in conversation with Katia D. Ulysse
November 8, 2018

Roxane Gay, award-winning author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017), Difficult Women (2017), and Bad Feminist (2014) and Katia D. Ulysse, Haitian poet, essayist and author of Drifting (2014) joined us for a reading and conversation with Tami Navarro, Associate Director of BCRW.

Reading and Discussion with Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn 
October 9, 2018

Literary writers Erna Brodber, author of Nothing’s Mat (2014) and The Rainmaker’s Mistake (2007), among other works, and Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun (2016), shared an evening of reading and discussion moderated by Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College.

Poetics of Justice: A Conversation between Dionne Brand and Claudia Rankine
April 25, 2017

Dionne Brand, author of The Blue Clerk, Ossuaries, A Map to the Door of No Return, among many other critically acclaimed works, and Claudia Rankine, author if Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, among many renowned works, joined for a reading and discussion on anti-Blackness, white supremacy, tyranny, brutality, and how to resist, whether and how to wrestle with the notion of justice.

Reading and Conversation with Gloria Joseph and Naomi Jackson
March 24, 2016

Distinguished writer Gloria Joseph, author of bio/anthology The Wind is Spirit: The Life, Love, and Legacy of Audre Lorde, and debut novelist Naomi Jackson, author of The Star Side of Bird Hill, joined for a reading and conversation.

Reading and Conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown
September 17, 2015

Edwidge Danticat, 2009 MacArthur fellow and is the author of several books, including Brother, I’m Dying, among other critically acclaimed works, joined novelist Victoria Brown, author of Minding Ben (released in paperback as Grace in the City), for a reading and conversation feminism, diaspora, and method.

Reading and Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid and Tiphanie Yanique
April 16, 2015

Distinguished writer Jamaica Kincaid, author of Lucy, A Small Place, Autobiography of My Mother, and many other critically acclaimed books, joined debut novelist Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning, for a reading and conversation with Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College.