Remembering Janet Axelrod ’73, BCRW student co-founder
BCRW marks with sadness the passing of Janet Axelrod (Barnard Class of 1973), one of the Center’s student founders. Axelrod passed away on December 26, 2021, at the age of 70. Janet Axelrod was a leader in the student movement at Barnard and a founding member of the Women’s Center, as BCRW was first known. […]
BCRW’s newly digitized archives of feminist history
The Feminist Origins of the Barnard Center for Research on Women As the 1960s drew to a close, a growing chorus of voices within the Barnard community began calling for an official College response to the changes wrought and challenges posed by the Women’s Liberation Movement. After months of impassioned, contentious discussion among students, faculty-members, administrators, […]
#fcg40: Calling for colored girls!
Forty years ago in September of 1976, for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow was enuf moved to the Booth Theater on Broadway, sparking new conversations about black womanhood, feminism and gender relations. BCRW’s Digital Shange Project and the Barnard Archives and Special Collections(home to the Ntozake Shange Collection) are celebrating Ntozake Shange (BC ‘70) and her […]
BCRW Fall 2016 Newsletter
DIRECTOR’S NOTE As a feminist theorist trained as an historian, I believe in the time honored adage that we must know our histories to build the world we need. In that spirit, BCRW’s fall programs will explore our collective feminist archives, some more literal than others, using these histories to take inspiration from our past […]
Oral History Collection: Barnard College Class of 1971
BCRW is excited to announce that the oral histories of the Barnard Class of 1971, held at the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, are now available for student and community researchers to view and utilize. These oral histories offer a window into the social and political lives of feminists who came of age in the 1960s […]
Interfering with the Status Quo: A Radical Documentation of History
This week I took some time off from archiving here at BCRW to visit the Interference Archive, an activist collection located in Gowanus, Brooklyn that is open to the public. The high-ceilinged industrial space houses a wide range of visually gripping materials on historical and contemporary social movements. Recently featured in the New York Times, the collection […]
BCRW Presents: The BCRW Ephemeral Archive (A Sneak Preview)
During my post as research assistant at the BCRW for the past couple of years, I’ve had the opportunity to delve into one of the best hidden historical collections on campus: the BCRW archive. The library at 101 Barnard Hall is home to a wide-ranging collection of ephemeral feminist documents, mainly materials from the 1980s and […]
Strategic Scrapbooks: Media Sharing in the 19th Century
How do you save and share media? Do you have a Pinterest page for pinning images you like? Perhaps a Tumblr for reblogging others’ posts? Maybe you just add links to articles you found particularly poignant to your Bookmarks on Google Chrome. Indeed, with today’s technology, there are myriad ways to experience, share and hold on to media, be […]