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 […]
News from the Interrupting Criminalization Initiative, plus fall events preview
Updates from the Social Justice Institute This spring, Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action, an initiative organized by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie hosted a series of timely convenings aimed at shaping an agenda for interrupting, reducing, and ending criminalization, incarceration, and the deportation of women, girls, and trans and gender nonconforming people. In March of 2019, […]
Updates from Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action
The Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action initiative at BCRW kicked off a series of Spring convenings on March 1st with Research Across the Walls, a day-long training on using the recently released toolkit of the same name to conduct participatory research with incarcerated and criminalized survivors of violence, coauthored with Survived and Punished. Researchers in Residence Mariame Kaba and […]
Shirley Chisholm Monument Finalist: La Vaughn Belle
La Vaughn Belle, Artist in Residence in BCRW’s Social Justice Institute, is one of five finalists to design a New York City monument dedicated to Shirley Chisholm. Chisholm (1924-2005) was a political pioneer; she became the first black woman elected to Congress, where she represented New York’s 12th Congressional District for seven terms (1969 […]
Announcing the 2018-2020 Social Justice Institute Cohort
The BCRW Social Justice Institute is thrilled to welcome the 2018-2020 cohort, with Artist-in-Residence La Vaughn Belle, Researcher-in-Residence Mariame Kaba, Activist-in-Residence CeCe McDonald, and returning Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie. Social Justice Institute 2018-2020 Cohort La Vaughn Belle Artist-in-Residence Belle is best known for working with the coloniality of the Virgin Islands, both in its past […]
BCRW Launches the Social Justice Institute
The Barnard Center for Research on Women is thrilled to announce the launch of the Social Justice Institute building on the success of the 2014-16 Activist Fellows Program and BCRW’s history of activist-academic collaborations. The inaugural Social Justice Institute Activists-in-Residence are Reina Gossett, Cara Page, Tarso Ramos, Andrea Ritchie, and Dean Spade. Taking seriously the critiques of the academic […]
“then I moved to Harlem”: The Worlds of Ntozake Shange
Barnard alumna Ntozake Shange (BC ’70) is both the perfect subject for a #HarlemSemester course and a vexed one. One of her most enduring collaborations began in Harlem with choreographer Dianne McIntyre at the Sounds in Motion studio, which in the 1970s and 80s was the only Modern Dance studio in Harlem. However, her best-known evocation of Harlem is […]
New Video Release: BCRW Activist Fellows on Queer and Trans Movement Visions and Legacies
As LGBTQTSGNCI History month draws to a close, BCRW is excited to share our newly released videos with Activist Fellows Reina Gossett, Dean Spade, and Amber Hollibaugh on challenges and strategies for transformative organizing in queer and trans movements. Reina Gossett talks about learning and sharing histories of trans women of color, including Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and […]