Web Resources

Our Work

BCRW has for decades worked to respond to violence at all scales–interpersonal and international–and to contribute long histories of global feminist efforts to build a world of justice, peace, and freedom.

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Online Event

Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Unveiling Feminist Perspectives on Global Crises

Launching the Scholar and Feminist issue 20.1 with guest editors Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican and contributors Gwyn Kirk and Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen | | Wednesday 12/4 7 p.m. EST

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Lecture

The Fun of the Story

Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown, will join us to talk about humor as a feminist tool. How can it be illuminating? How can it help us tell the hard truths?

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Upcoming and Recent Events

Dec 4, 2024 | 7:00PM

Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Unveiling Feminist Perspectives on Global Crises

Launching the Scholar and Feminist issue 20.1 with guest editors Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican and contributors Gwyn Kirk and Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen.

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Feb 13, 2025 | 12:00PM

The Fun of the Story

How can humor be feminist? How can humor help us tell the hard truths?

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Mar 22, 2024 | 3:00PM

The Scholar and Feminist Conference 49: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism

The 49th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference will explore transnational Black feminism in the context of “third world” liberatory movements since the 1940s.

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Featured Projects

Jun 13, 2023

Transnational Black Feminisms

Transnational Black Feminisms was initiated by Premilla Nadasen and Celia Naylor as a working group at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) in 2019. In 2023, Tami Navarro joined Premilla as project co-director, Anna Reumert joined as project assistant, and the working group partnered with BCRW. The podcast and the conference are supported by CSSD and BCRW. […]

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Dec 27, 2023

Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction

This project, led by Premilla Nadasen (BCRW C0-Director and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History), brings together scholars, organizers, and artists to consider the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change.

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Apr 16, 2024

Our Work

BCRW has for decades worked to respond to violence at all scales — interpersonal and international — and to contribute long histories of global feminist efforts to build a world of justice, peace, and freedom. Some of our work on behalf of these values of social justice feminism includes: Responding to Violence, Rethinking Human Secularity with […]

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Featured Publications

Fall 2023

Reproductive Injustice

Guest edited by the Editorial Board with contributors Dána-Ain Davis, Virginia R. Dominguez, Ugo F. Edu, Nessette Falu, Sarah Haley, Frances M. Howell, Janet Jakobsen, Kelly Marshall, Devika Maulik, Premilla Nadasen, Miriam Neptune, Cara Page, and Hakima Payne

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Summer 2023

To Make Visible Everywhere: Our Bold, Beautiful, Aging Bodies

In this special issue "To Make Visible," guest editors Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio have curated a selection of essays, videos, interviews, and visual art by women of color on race, performance, embodiment, and aging.

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2022

Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice

From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities. Analyzing the complexities of the current political moment in different geographic regions, this book addresses the paradoxical persistence of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the pursuit of a more just world.

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Featured Videos

Released Aug 12, 2013
Tags: activism, class, economic justice, gender, labor, policy

What is Neoliberalism?

Featuring Lisa Duggan, Miranda Joseph, Sealing Cheng, Elizabeth Bernstein, Dean Spade, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Ana Amuchástegui.

Recorded Dec 9, 2021
Tags: Abolition, Dean Spade, mutual aid

Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 3): Skills for Abolitionist Practice

A workshop with Dean Spade on giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.