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BCRW Archive Fever
Che Gossett
ABOUT THE EVENT In this lecture BCRW Community Archivist Che Gossett will discuss the history and emerging future of the BCRW archives and their digitization. BCRW archives holds a remarkable record of the organization’s life/work and Gossett will be discussing some of the most fascinating material and the changing meanings of social justice feminism. This event […]
Read MoreThe Worlds of Ntozake Shange
Kim F. Hall, Monica L. Miller, and Yvette Christiansë
“The Worlds of Ntozake Shange” highlights Shange’s centrality to black feminism and the continuing impact of her work both within and outside the academy. In addition to working as a poet, novelist, and choreographer, Shange created the choreopoem, a form that links the physicality of dancing and music to the written word. The contributors in this issue examine Shange’s continuing impact on literature, theatre, popular culture, feminist, afrodiasporic and queer movements, with many pointing to her linguistic innovations (for instance, her fluid movement across languages, prominent use of both slashes and lowercase letters) as tools that have proven vital to feminist practice. The “Worlds of Ntozake Shange” draws necessary attention to the fact that this artist has long been a creative force, providing new language and possibilities for both intellectual and artistic productions.
Read MoreFeminism, Gender Justice, and Trans-Inclusion
Supporting trans-inclusive admissions at Barnard.
Read MoreWhy Sex? Why Gender?: Activist Research for Social Justice
A Symposium in Honor of Janet Jakobsen
REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM Description Click here to register. At BCRW’s “Activism and the Academy” conference in 2011, Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, pointed out that if those who are dedicated to human rights and social justice continue to organize their efforts in silos “we will never have the power… to […]
Read MoreActivism and the Academy
Janet R. Jakobsen and Catherine Sameh
This issue is organized around continuing the conversations that took place between scholars, activists, and scholar/activists at these conferences. In their writing, the contributors take up the discussions begun at the panels and included here in video, so as to shed light on the complexity of oppressions in the current moment—and remind those committed to a more just world to celebrate the good times we’ve had, and imagine those we might create.
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