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, cultural workers, academic scholars, and others will engage in conversation and offer short presentations, readings, and artistic interventions, geared toward collective learning and imagination towards our non-eugenic futures. You can find a full agenda at the link here. Once registered, you can visit the space on your own time. Some of the programming will be pre-recorded and some will be live.
The Scholar and Feminist Online: Issue 17.1, Fall 2021
Transnational Feminisms: Contexts, Topics, Forms
Guest Edited by Attiya Ahmad and Catherine Sameh
Contributions from Azra Akšamija, Azza Basarudin, Abigail Boggs, Simten Coşar, Harjant Gill, Ferhan Güloğlu, Sherine Hafez, Neetu Khanna, Shweta Krishnan, Shayoni Mitra, Liz Montegary, and Khanum Shaikh
This issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, “Transnational Feminisms: Contexts, Topics, Forms,” co-edited by Attiya Ahmad and Catherine Sameh, emerged out of a 2014 conference held at Barnard College to mark the twentieth anniversary of Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan’s seminal work, Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices.
This issue captures the dynamism and major themes of the conference, reanimating the provocations of Scattered Hegemonies. Contributors locate the importance of this genealogy in feminist thought and elaborate upon its outgrowths. Through essays, visual materials, and videos, this issue demonstrates the rippling effects of transnational feminist frameworks on scholarship across time.
WRITING HOME: American Voices from the Caribbean
Podcast hosted by Kaiama L. Glover and Tami Navarro
Season 02 features interviews with four of today’s leading Caribbean writers, Marlon James, Edwidge Danticat, Tiphanie Yanique and Katia D. Ulysse.
WRITING HOME is an ode to the Americas very literally writ large. Each episode features an exceptional contemporary cultural actor in conversation with hosts Kaiama L. Glover and Tami Navarro and aims to trace the geographies of resistance that ground our feminist practices of diaspora. The beauty, humor, and hope that animate these encounters are a welcome antidote to the heartbreak of the present moment. The podcast is produced by Rachel James and Miriam Neptune.
This podcast is made possible with support from the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Solo Show at Praxis Gallery, New York
Stories of Wonder: When the Sea is my Land
Scherezade García-Vazquez
September 16 – November 13, 2021
With her exhibition history, from the Art Museum of the Americas to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, García’s work as an artist holds power to explore allegories of history, migration, collective and ancestral memory, and cultural colonization and politics. García’s work unveils the formation of stories important to the American experience, centered on the politics of inclusion.
As a Latinx artist, García employs allegorical narratives on the cultural encounters that shape views towards America, engaging the viewer in finding their own narratives behind each stroke of the brush.