Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues

BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project co-convened a conference called Queer Dreams and Non-Profit Blues to examine the critiques emerging from queer and feminist activists and scholars about the impact of funding on social movement agendas and formations. During the conference, Hope Dector from BCRW and Dean Spade from The Engaging Tradition Project conducted interviews with many of the speakers about their analysis and strategies related to the conference themes. These interviews were edited into 30 short videos that aim to bring these critical perspectives into an accessible format for use in activist spaces and classrooms. These videos highlight the type of knowledge production that is possible when the boundaries between activism and the academy are actively traversed.

 

Released Jul 18, 2019
Tags: Che Gossett, HIV/AIDS, Imani Henry, Jason Walker, Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues, social services

Who Leads the Fight Against HIV/AIDS?

Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry discuss how professionalization of the fight against HIV/AIDS leaves out the people most impacted.

Released Jul 18, 2019
Tags: Che Gossett, grassroots movement, grassroots organizing, HIV/AIDS, Imani Henry, Jason Walker, JD Davids

Building a Powerful Grassroots HIV/AIDS Movement

JD Davids, Che Gossett, Imani Henry, and Jason Walker discuss what it looks like to build a truly grassroots movement around HIV/AIDS that centers the people most impacted.

Released Jul 18, 2019
Tags: Che Gossett, HIV/AIDS, Imani Henry, Jason Walker, Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues, social services

Social Service Or Social Change: Building Political Power for People with HIV/AIDS

Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry offer a view of how nonprofitization of the fight against HIV/AIDS created a divide between service provision and movements for social change.

Released Jun 26, 2019
Tags: N'Tanya Lee, Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues

N’Tanya Lee: Grassroots Organizing Builds Power

N'Tanya Lee discusses why base-building is fundamental to all social justice work and the need for a new left with a vision for longterm social change.

Released Jun 26, 2019
Tags: activism, Left Roots, N'Tanya Lee, queer dreams, Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues

N’Tanya Lee: Building Real Coalitional Queer Struggle

N'Tanya Lee discusses the shortfalls of single-issue queer organizing, reflecting on her work in the 90s, and how she carries those lessons into her current work through base-building and grassroots organizing within working-class communities of color.

Released Nov 20, 2015
Tags: activism, neoliberalism, nonprofit, queer

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Part 1: What are We Fighting For?

Featuring N’Tanya Lee, Dean Spade, Trishala Deb, Reina Gossett, and Kenyon Farrow. This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, “Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond.” In October 2013, BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project at The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School co-convened a […]

Released Nov 20, 2015
Tags: activism, neoliberalism, nonprofit, queer

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 2: How Do Rich People Control Our Movements?

Featuring Urvashi Vaid, Dean Spade, and Christine Ahn This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, “Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond.” In October 2013, BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project at The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School co-convened a conference called Queer Dreams and Non-Profit blues […]

Released Nov 20, 2016
Tags: activism, neoliberalism, nonprofit, queer

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 3: The Nonprofit Hamster Wheel

Featuring Urvashi Vaid, Craig Willse, Andrea Ritchie, Amber Hollibaugh, and Shira Hassan. This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, “Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond.” In October 2013, BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project at The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School co-convened a conference called Queer […]

Released Nov 20, 2015
Tags: activism, neoliberalism, nonprofit, queer

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 4: Who’s In Charge?

Featuring N’Tanya Lee, Urvashi Vaid, Jason Walker, Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Craig Willse, Dean Spade, and Imani Henry This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, “Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond.” In October 2013, BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project at The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School co-convened […]

Released Nov 20, 2015
Tags: activism, neoliberalism, nonprofit, queer

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 5: Basebuilding

Featuring Dean Spade, N’Tanya Lee, and Amber Hollibaugh   This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, “Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond.” In October 2013, BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project at The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School co-convened a conference called Queer Dreams and Non-Profit […]

Released Nov 20, 2015
Tags: activism, neoliberalism, nonprofit, queer

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 6: Where Do We Go From Here

Featuring Andrea Ritchie, Dean Spade, Craig Willse, and Amber Hollibaugh This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, “Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond.” In October 2013, BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project at The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School co-convened a conference called Queer Dreams and […]

Released Oct 30, 2015
Tags: activism, gender, history, intersectionality, queer, race, transgender

Reina Gossett: Historical Erasure as Violence

Reina Gossett talks about learning and sharing histories of trans women of color, including Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), as a strategy to transform and heal from historical isolation and erasure.

Released Oct 30, 2015
Tags: activism, class, gender, history, intersectionality, politics, prisons, queer, race, transgender, violence

Dean Spade: History of Queers Against Police

Dean Spade talks about the dramatic shifts in queer and trans movements over the last 50 years with the emergence in the 1990s of a highly visible and well-funded gay rights movement whose demand for inclusion in hate crime legislation and police protection goes against queer and trans community-based grassroots organizing to end police and state violence since the 1960s.

Released Oct 30, 2015
Tags: activism, class, economic justice, gender, intersectionality, politics, queer, race, sexuality

Amber Hollibaugh: A Movement for Liberation

Amber Hollibaugh talks about a the importance of a liberation framework centering low-income people and people of color for LGBTQ organizing.