“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 […]
Toward 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 […]
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 […]
This Flame Within: An Interview with Manijeh Moradian
In November, Manijeh Moradian (Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College) published This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press), a new book on the radical organizing efforts of US-based Iranian students in the 1960-70s. The book arrives at an extraordinary moment as Iranians protest the killing of Mahsa […]
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 is Hiring: Managing Editor for the Scholar and Feminist Online (PT)
The Barnard Center for Research on Women seeks a part-time Managing Editor for our journal, The Scholar and Feminist Online. S&F Online is an online peer-reviewed journal published three times per year that focuses on research and activism related to intersectional feminisms and social justice. Ideally, we prefer someone with experience managing a feminist and/or academic journal. Responsibilities of […]
New S&F Online: Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond
Guest Edited by Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse Contributors include Ujju Aggarwal, Gabriel Arkles, Maile Arvin, Myrl Beam, Alisa Bierria, Avi Cummings, Hope Dector, Treva Ellison, Pooja Gehi, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Lani Hanna, Gillian Harkins, Priya Kandaswamy, Paul Kivel, Soo Ah Kwon, Colby Lenz, Edwin Mayorga, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Vero Ordaz, Dylan Rodríguez, Rori Rohlfs, […]
Reading Life (Un)Ltd: Feminism, Bioscience, Race
The newest edition of the Scholar & Feminist Online is entitled Life (Un)Ltd: Feminism, Bioscience, Race and “is devoted to new scholarship at the intersection of science and technology studies (hereafter STS), race/postcolonial studies, and feminist and queer theory” (Rachel C. Lee, “Introduction”). In reading the articles in this issue, however, I noticed another critical concept that is central […]
NQA Journal Launch & Reception
Released this past spring, The Scholar and Feminist Online: A New Queer Agenda has already reached over 23,000 visits in over 100 different countries, record-breaking numbers for the publication. After working at BCRW as a Student Research Assistant this summer, I can attest to the fact that these figures served as validating, motivating reminders of the scope […]
Here and Queer: The Short List
At the heart of just about any agenda is a to-do list. In honor of S&F Online’s New Queer Agendaissue, here’s a “to-read-and-watch” list of just a few sources that document contemporary queer political perspectives. The titles draw on archives of the past, experiences of the present, and anticipations of the future. You can explore many of […]
‘Post-Civil Rights Era’ Gender Discrimination
As a volunteer for BCRW this summer, Dana Freshley explored BCRW’s publications. In this post, she summarizes some of the central issues in BCRW’s second New Feminist Solutions report. BCRW’s New Feminist Solutions report, Women, Work, and the Academyexplains that gender discrimination did not disappear with the civil rights movement. The many protests in the 1960s and the passage of the law […]
Call for Suggestions for The Scholar and Feminist 2013: Utopia
For over three decades, The Scholar & Feminist has taken a bold, critical look at the issues that matter most to feminist movements. Over the years, we have welcomed such visionary scholars, artists, and activists as Coco Fusco, Josephine Ho, Staceyann Chin, Majora Carter, Barbara Ehrenreich, Heidi Latsky Dance Company, and Lani Guinier, whose work […]
Redefining Women’s Leadership for the 21st Century
This week, Forbes published a potent article by celebrated feminist blogger and BCRW’s own Student Research Assistant Julie Zeilinger, examining the complex factors deterring talented young women from embracing their leadership potential. In the guest post, Zeilinger identifies the harsh scrutiny that comes with societal gender double-standards and the crushing psychological pressure to achieve perfection in the personal and public spheres as major factors in […]