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Dear BCRW Community, BCRW’s Executive Committee is delighted to welcome you to a new academic year of feminist research and public scholarship that meets the political and intellectual urgencies of this moment. We’re excited to

On the University in/and Crisis

The University in/and Crisis Working Group

June 22, 2026

This essay reflects on and extends the critical conversations and discussions that occurred in the meetings and public events of the University in/and Crisis working group in fall 2025. It was originally published on the

A Conversation with Marisa Solomon on The Elsewhere is Black

Nico Wright (BC '25)

February 5, 2026

Barnard Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Marisa Solomon’s new book, The Elsewhere Is Black, examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial

Freedom Dreaming and Worldmaking: Tourmaline and Hope Dector on Marsha P. Johnson’s Inspiring Life

Ana Sofia Harrison (BC ‘25)

October 20, 2025

Award-winning artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist Tourmaline has spent over two decades lovingly researching and preserving Marsha P. Johnson’s life. In two books published this past spring—MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson,

“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire

Tomisin Fasosin (BC '25)

October 6, 2025

Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Africana Studies Kim F. Hall’s new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean (The University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2025), centers the

Beyond the Shores: Tamara J. Walker on Black Americans Abroad

Kelsey Kitzke (BC '23)

June 30, 2025

Barnard Professor of Africana Studies Tamara J. Walker is an experienced storyteller of elsewheres. As a historian she tells stories of the past; as a Latin Americanist she writes from outside the global north (her

A quantum life: Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde

Margot Kotler

March 31, 2025

Last December, Margot Kotler sat down with Alexis Pauline Gumbs to discuss her most recent book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. They talked about the breadth of Lorde’s life and

It Has to Be Imperfect

Sydney Johnson (BC ’25)

February 11, 2025

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

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

by Kelsey Kitzke (BC ‘23)

January 30, 2025

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

Jina’s Uprising: A Feminist Look at Two Years of Struggle and Resistance, Developments and Dynamics

Feminists for Jina

December 2, 2024

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.

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

Pamela Phillips

November 14, 2024

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

Architecture of Migration: An Interview with Anooradha Siddiqi

Sabrina Salam (BC '24)

October 14, 2024

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

Imagining Collective Care in Our Future: A Conversation with Premilla Nadasen

Sydney Johnson (BC 2025)

June 18, 2024

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

Political Origins: An Interview with Johanna Fernández

Ana Sofia Harrison (BC '25)

February 2, 2024

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

Collective Reconnection: An Interview with Sophie Lewis

Ana Sofia Harrison (BC '25)

January 23, 2024

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

“Support the Troops”: the Solider, the Citizen, and Our Ongoing Attachment to Militarism in post-9/11 America

Kelsey Kitzke (BC '23, BCRW Post-Baccalaureate Fellow)

January 17, 2024

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

The Quest to “bring our people home”: A Conversation with Cara Page

Ashe Lewis (BC '24)

December 6, 2023

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

“Who do you want to talk to?”

Kelsey Kitzke (BC ’23)

July 24, 2023

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

Toward an Abolitionist Archival Practice

Eve Glazier (BC '23)

July 11, 2023

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

Piecing the Stories Together: An interview with Celia Naylor

Sabrina Salam (BC '24)

June 21, 2023

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