The Bronx Fire: Financial Predation, City Neglect, Community Power

Feb 10, 2022

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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anti-poor, housing justice, housing policy, racism

Ella Weed Room, 2nd Floor, Milbank Hall, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Oct 28, 2019 | 6:00PM

S&F Online Launch Party: Unraveling Criminalizing Webs

Andrea J. Ritchie

Celebrating the newest issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, "Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures," guest edited by BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske (BC '18), which  invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what?

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anti-violence, Black Women, criminalization, femmes, gender nonconforming, gender-based violence, policing, racism, trans, transformative justice, transgender, women of color

Capturing the Flag: Anne de Mare

Exploring themes that are constantly sensationalized and manipulated by the media, “Capturing The Flag” offers deeply personal, often surprising perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election and its aftermath.

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Anne de Mare, Capturing the Flag, disenfranchisement, elections, racism, voter suppression

“its known and unknown powers / to bind and dissociate”: Forensic Surveillance and the Policing of Biology

Featuring Shoshana Magnet, Cara Page, Rori Rohlfs, and Harriet Washington, moderated by Anthony Ureña at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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biology, eugenics, policing, policing biology, race science, racism, Scholar and Feminist Conference, surveillance

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Mar 19, 2018 | 6:00PM

Undoing the Future: Troubling Time/s, and Ecologies of Nothingness: Re-turning, Re-membering, and Facing the Incalculable

Karen Barad

Karen Barad will consider the ways in which quantum physics troubles modernist conceptions of time, and asks whether quantum temporalities might offer radical political imaginaries for cohabiting this planet more justly.

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capitalism, colonialism, militarism, military industrial complex, quantum physics, racism

Ableism is the Bane of My Motherfuckin’ Existence

Activists Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern expand on the disability justice framework and the need for a politicized understanding of ableism within a context of racism, classism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.

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ableism, capitalism, classism, criminalization, disability, disability justice, heteropatriarchy, incarceration, institutionalization, medical industrial complex, misogyny, prison industrial complex, racism, white supremacy

My Body Doesn’t Oppress Me, Society Does

Disability justice activists Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern discuss social models of accessibility and the social, economic, and physical barriers that render physical impairments disabling in an ableist society.

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ableism, capitalism, disability justice, heteropatriarchy, racism, white supremacy

James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Apr 25, 2017 | 6:00PM

Poetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand

BCRW is thrilled to host Poetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand, moderated by BCRW Associate Director Tami Navarro, on the power and necessity of poetry in resisting the contemporary manifestations of racism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy. This event is very much a response to the current political moment in the […]

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African diaspora, anti-blackness, Black diaspora, Caribbean diaspora, Caribbean feminisms, Claudia Rankine, Dionne Brand, racism