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Jina’s Uprising: A Feminist Look at Two Years of Struggle and Resistance, Developments and Dynamics
On the second anniversary of the “woman, life, freedom” uprising, Feminists for Jina, a transnational Iranian feminist network, held a panel discussion reflecting on the lessons and lasting impacts of this unprecedented, mass feminist revolt. While the events that precipitated the uprising are well known outside Iran, they nonetheless bear repeating because they crystallize the […]
Read MoreA 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 […]
Read MoreArchitecture of Migration: An Interview with Anooradha Siddiqi
Anooradha Siddiqi is Assistant Professor of Architecture, Barnard College, and author of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2024). Sabrina Salam (BC ’24) is a Research Assistant at BCRW. Sabrina Salam: What critical problem do you look at in this book? Anooradha Siddiqi: I look at architecture and migration […]
Read MoreImagining Collective Care in Our Future: A Conversation with Premilla Nadasen
Premilla Nadasen is a historian of social change. Nadasen’s work has focused on organizing among poor and working-class women of color and alternative labor movements in the US. Nadasen currently serves as the Anne Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College and Co-Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Care: The Highest […]
Read MorePolitical Origins: An Interview with Johanna Fernández
At the end of May, BCRW hosted its first Feminist Freedom School on the subject of feminist abolition. The Freedom School was facilitated by Sarah Haley, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, and co-organized by Premilla Nadasen, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College and Co-Director of BCRW. I joined with ten […]
Read MoreCollective Reconnection: An Interview with Sophie Lewis
Sophie Lewis came to speak at the BCRW Feminist Freedom School in June. She brought an extraordinarily calm and humble demeanor as she entered the classroom. Her arrival was eagerly awaited by participants of the freedom school as many were familiar with her book, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso Press, […]
Read More“Support the Troops”: the Solider, the Citizen, and Our Ongoing Attachment to Militarism in post-9/11 America
Barnard Professor of Anthropology Nadia Abu El-Haj’s recently released book Combat Trauma elucidates the ways in which a rising focus on the psychological consequences of war on American combat personnel has dovetailed with ubiquitous calls to “support the troops” so as to undermine criticisms of US militarism in the post 9/11 era. Abu El-Haj tracks […]
Read MoreThe Quest to “bring our people home”: A Conversation with Cara Page
Cara Page (she, her, hers) is a Black, Queer artist, organizer, and cultural worker whose people came from the Southern US and all along the Eastern seaboard. Co-creator of the Kindred Southern Justice Collective, founder of the Changing Frequencies organizing project, and former BCRW Activist in Residence, Cara has dedicated most of her life to […]
Read More“Who do you want to talk to?”
A Conversation with Tami Navarro on Race and Gender within Neoliberal Financialization Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands, Tami Navarro’s (Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Drew University and former BCRW Associate Director) first book, is an ethnographic exploration of the Economic Development Commission (EDC), a finance agency that encourages […]
Read MoreToward an Abolitionist Archival Practice
It was a fall day in September 2021. I was in Barnard College’s library sort of doing homework in my favorite green chair, when my phone buzzed with an email that piqued my interest. The email said that archivists at Barnard had just returned from a trip to New Jersey with a car full of […]
Read MorePiecing the Stories Together: An interview with Celia Naylor
The Rose Hall Great House Tour takes visitors through a historic slave plantation in Montego Bay, Jamaica, telling a version of history through the sensational legend of a white plantation mistress named Annie Palmer, known as the White Witch of Rose Hall. The tour is based on the 1929 novel by Herbert G. de Lisser […]
Read MoreBeyond Housing Injustice: Expanding Community Connection Through Research
Research notes: The interconnectedness of economic greed in the face of housing inaccessibility and environmental disaster Racism and the commodification of housing Hope for Resistance—chronicling women-led Resistance and the Black Power movement Foregrounding the role of Black and women-led movements of resistance in the legacy of housing justice organizing Centering the perspectives of low-income Black […]
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