Call for Submissions: Rage, Struggle, Freedom
Call for Submissions The Scholar and Feminist Online Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Politics of Hope and Love Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican, Guest Editors Deadline to Submit October 2, 2023 The Scholar and Feminist Online is pleased to invite you to submit your work to our first-ever open call for a special issue on transnational feminist […]
Erika Dickerson-Despenza to receive Career Achievement Honors at PEN America Literary Awards on March 2
Erika Dickerson-Despenza, creator and inaugural resident of the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency co-sponsored by BCRW, The Public Theater, and the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust, will receive the Career Achievement Honor at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on Thursday, March 2. Learn more about this recognition and Dickerson-Depsenza’s work. Congratulations to Erika! Don’t […]
Chache Konn Dwa W / Know Your Rights
BCRW’s Transnational Feminisms Initiative continues our collaboration with Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, a Brooklyn-based organization that has been working for over thirty years to respond to the needs of Haitian refugees and immigrants fleeing persecution. The organization combines direct service, organizing, and political education in the movement to defend Black migrants, stop anti-Black deportation, […]
COVID Safety Guidelines
We are looking forward to hosting a combination of in-person and hybrid events this semester. Guests are asked to follow COVID safety guidelines to make our events safe and accessible to our communities. Please review the current Barnard College policies and procedures for public events. Email bcrw@barnard.edu with questions about safety or accessibility. All attendees […]
Welcome from Co-Directors Premilla Nadasen and Janet Jakobsen
We are very excited to begin our new roles as co-directors of BCRW. We would first like to extend our deepest gratitude to Professor Elizabeth Castelli for leading BCRW over the last four years and a huge thanks to the staff for all their hard work. We are proud to be a part of a […]
Meet our Research Assistants
Student Research Assistants are an integral part of BCRW’s community, providing crucial support to its social justice programming and events. In the 2021-22 academic year, six students worked with BCRW staff and collaborators on a range of projects. These projects include processing the new collection of archives from the Coalition of Women Prisoners, working with […]
Farewell from Elizabeth Castelli, Director, 2018-2022
Dear Friends of BCRW, As many of you already know, I concluded my service as Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women on June 30. I became Interim Director of the Center in July 2018, and then served another three years as Director beginning in 2019. It has been a great privilege to […]
Remembering Quandra Prettyman, Teacher, Activist, Friend
Quandra Prettyman, beloved Barnard Professor of Africana Studies and English, is celebrated by her colleagues, friends, family, and students in this memorial, recorded on January 9, 2022. Get the memorial program here (PDF) Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Quandra Prettyman was the daughter of two school teachers. A curious, adventurous child, she saw the […]
Healing Histories Project is Hiring: Two Paid Summer Internships
The Healing Histories Project collaborates with healers, medical practitioners, organizers, media makers, cultural and memory workers who believe that all deserve care and support during times of crisis, vulnerability, and resistance. Collaborators come together to inform and shape a vision for collective care and safety while integrating models of wellness that seek to transform and intervene […]
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. […]
Farewell and Thank You, Interrupting Criminalization
Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is an initiative led by researchers Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie. The project aims to interrupt and end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense. The project pays special […]
Job Opportunity: Digital Project Manager for Healing Histories Project (HHP)
Sharing on behalf of Healing Histories Project (Short Term Contract) Digital Project Manager for Healing Histories Project (HHP) The Healing Histories Project is made up of healers, medical practitioners, organizers, media makers, cultural and memory workers who believe that all deserve care and support during times of crisis, vulnerability & resistance. We come together to […]
Performing Ourselves: An Interview with Sophie Kreitzberg
Last month, Sophie Kreitzberg (BC ‘19, BCRW Post Baccalaureate Fellow) and Miriam Neptune (BCRW Senior Associate Director) had a chat about Sophie’s journey to BCRW, from undergraduate project volunteer to student research assistant to integral staff member. Sophie’s recollections walk us through a few of the worlds in BCRW’s matrix of projects. Sophie shared her […]
BCRW Welcomes Miriam Neptune as Senior Associate Director
BCRW is delighted to welcome Miriam Neptune as our new Senior Associate Director! Over the last ten years, we have had the privilege of collaborating with Miriam on many of our core programs and projects, from the Transnational Feminisms project in its early days to the current Poverty and Housing Project. Miriam brings with her […]
Dismantling Eugenics Convening, Transnational Feminisms, and Writing Home
Co-Organized by BCRW Activist-in-Residence Cara Page and the Anti-Eugenics Projects: Legacies, Reckonings, Futures Dismantling Eugenics: A Convening September 26 – October 2, 2021 Online Dismantling Eugenics is a free, online convening that reckons with the history of eugenics and dares to imagine an anti-eugenics future. Over the course of seven days, artists, social justice organizers, […]
“They lived right around the corner from me”
News from the Center Asha Futterman (BC ’21) reflects on her three-year journey with BCRW, including her work creating the Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour with Mariame Kaba. “It was powerful to understand that so many women who have done amazing things, that still impact my life years and years later, lived right around the […]
Remembering Christina Crosby, beloved friend
We have been filled with grief since the loss of our beloved friend Christina Crosby, writer, scholar, teacher, and friend. She passed away on January 5. Christina is survived by a wealth of loved ones, both her family and her family of friends, including everyone involved in BCRW. For her, these connections embodied the purpose […]
For Immediate Release: TOURMALINE NAMED TO TIME’S ANNUAL TIME100 LIST OF THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
September 22, 2020, New York, NY — TIME named Tourmaline to the 2020 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Tourmaline is an artist and filmmaker whose work includes Salacia, Mary of Ill Fame, Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, The Personal Things, Lost in the Music and Happy […]
Videos from #unsilencedpast, plus BCRW in the media
Videos from #unsilencedpast, plus BCRW in the media. Stay tuned for upcoming events, or visit our events page for a preview. #unsilencedpast: Virtual Symposium Presented by the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College Co-Sponsored by BCRW July 2020 Taking as its point of departure Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s foundational work, Silencing the Past: Power and […]
Spring 2020 Newsletter
Letter from the Director In the fall semester, BCRW hosted an amazing array of artists, academics, and activists who taught us about the politics and poetics of memory, new horizons in brain science, the archival legacies of colonial rule, the still-urgent need to disrupt systems of mass incarceration and uproot the carceral state through resistance […]
Barnard Welcomes a 'Queen' to Campus
I Am Queen Mary, a human-scale monument memorializing resistance to Danish colonialism in the Caribbean, will be installed at Barnard College on Tuesday, October 15, 2019. The sculpture is part of a transnational collaboration between artists La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers and is intended to spark important dialogues about public art, representations of black […]
BCRW Activists-in-Residence CeCe McDonald and Cara Page Selected for Soros Fellowships
CeCe McDonald and Cara Page, Activists-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), have been selected as a 2019 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 Soros Equality Fellow, respectively. The highly competitive Soros Fellowship program, which is supported by the Open Society Foundations, provides living expenses and project-related funding for activists working to advance […]
Oral histories, collaborations, and what we're reading
News from the Center Celebrating 50 Years: Oral History and Archives This summer, BCRW Post-Baccalaureate Fellow Eve Marie Kausch ’18 participated in the 2019 Summer Oral History Institute organized by the Columbia Center for Oral History Research and the Columbia Journalism School. This year’s program was called “From the Margins to the Center: Narrating the Politics of […]