Workshop

The Way You Make Me Funny

2/13: Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown, will lead a workshop on using humor as a feminist tool. How can it be illuminating? How can it help us tell the hard truths?

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Online Event

Love in a F*cked Up World

2/26: Dean Spade will be joined by Thảo Nguyễn to discuss his new book, Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together.

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S&F Online

Rage, Struggle, Freedom

Issue 20.1 | Guest Edited by Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican

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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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Upcoming and Recent Events

Feb 13, 2025 | 12:00PM

The Way You Make Me Funny

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

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Feb 26, 2025 | 7:00PM

Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

Around the globe people are faced with spiraling crises from the pandemic and ecological crisis to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, genocide, racist policing, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. More and more of us feel mobilized to fight back. But even those of us who long for change seem to have trouble […]

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Mar 13, 2025 | 12:00PM

Missionary Women and the Imperial Roots of White Evangelical Feminism

Exploring the origins of a new world order in Christian imperial feminism.

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Recent Writing

Feb 11, 2025
Sydney Johnson (BC ’25) 

It Has to Be Imperfect  

An interview with Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown * Nina Sharma is a writer, performer, and adjunct professor of English at Barnard College. Her writing has been featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Literature, Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Margins, and Longreads. Last fall […]

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Jan 30, 2025
by Kelsey Kitzke (BC ‘23)

If We Can Imagine a Feminist World, We Can Build One

A Conversation with Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican, guest editors of “Rage, Struggle, Freedom,” a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online On December 4th, The Scholar and Feminist Online released its newest issue “Rage, Struggle, Freedom” guest edited by feminist scholars and activists Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican. Okazawa-Rey and Sarican together make […]

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Nov 14, 2024
Pamela Phillips

A View from Public Housing: Resident Histories, Perspectives and Hope

A View from Public Housing: Resident Histories, Perspectives and Hope   When I was growing up there, we were proud to live in public housing. It was a great place to live. You got to really see a lot of family, community, playgrounds. It was so close to schools. Public housing is no different than […]

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S&F Online

Fall 2024

Rage, Struggle, Freedom

Contributions by Nagihan Akarsel (Jineolojî Academy), Electra B., Azza Basarudin, Loren Cahill. Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草, Livia de Souza Vidal, J. D. Harlock, The International Women's Network Against Militarism (IWNAM), Iida Käyhkö, Bramsh Khan, Youree Kim, Arianne Napier-White, Şervîn Nûdem (Jineolojî Academy), Ximena Keogh Serrano, Loan Tran, Fadwa Tuqan, Helena Wacko, and the YVE Collective.

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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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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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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.