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Young, Gifted, Black, and Online: AfroSwedish Feminist Technologies of Blackness

In the last decade, young black feminists in Sweden have been the originators of online projects and social media platforms that have changed the landscape in terms of discourses of race, blackness, and (popular) culture. Due to their success online, many of these projects have had afterlives in print and performance: they form an archive […]

Ella Baker for the 21st Century: National One Day Symposium

Presented by BCRW and the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University In honor of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Ella Baker and the Black Radical Tradition by Barbara Ransby, this day-long symposium will feature a keynote conversation by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception with […]

The Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law

Contributors to The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke 2023) discuss how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs.

Reproductive Injustice Symposium

This symposium is a celebration of the forthcoming issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online that examines the multiple dimensions of Black feminist reproductive justice.

Gender Without Identity

Rooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, in queer and trans of color critique, and in the authors’ extensive clinical experience with queer and trans people, Gender Without Identity presents a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations.

Feminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year One

Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection with activists, artists, and scholars on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran.

The Scholar and Feminist Conference 49: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism

The 49th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference will explore transnational Black feminism in the context of “third world” liberatory movements since the 1940s.

Remaindered Life

In Remaindered Life (Duke, 2022) Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life […]

It’s All Policing, It’s All War: Chicago Organizers on Connecting Abolition and Demilitarization

ASL will be provided. Live transcription is available here. The prison and police abolition movement and the anti-war movement are often thought of as separate, siloed formations. However, in practice, organizers working to end racist, colonial, imperialist, patriarchial, ecocidal violence understand these to be the same fight. Join us for a conversation with Benji Hart, […]

Kweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference

Presented by Kweli Journal Kweli’s annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference is designed to help emerging writers hone their craft, introduce them to established authors willing to share their experiences and expertise, and connect them with editors, agents and publishers who can introduce their art to the world. Over the years, dozens of writers—including Angeline Boulley, […]

Survival and Mobilization: Mutual Aid in Migrant Justice Struggles

In conversation with Dean Spade, Nikki Marín Baena will share her experiences working for migrant justice with Mijente and Siembra NC.

Essential to the Public: Libraries at the End of the World

Live transcription is available here. Libraries are among the last funded public spaces open to the public. Anyone can enter a library and borrow a book, join a storytime, learn to read, meet with a friend, use the bathroom, warm up in the winter and cool down in the summer, among the many other resources […]

Abortion as Abolition

The goal of this event is to bring light to activists and scholars dealing with the increased criminalization of abortion care and pregnancy outcomes, and how the police state and criminal legal system works in conflict with the principles of reproductive justice. Importantly, we want to frame self-managed abortion as an abolitionist praxis. We also […]

Mother Country Radicals

Mother Country Radicals creator Zayd Ayers Dohrn (’06 GSAS) discusses the making of the podcast with Film professor Jamal Joseph and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.

Trans Literature Now

Organized by the National Book Critics Circle and co-sponsored by BCRW, a conversation about the world of trans literature today.

With and Against Technoscience in the Aftermath

Professor M. Murphy, author of The Economization of Life (Duke University Press, 2017), will deliver the BCRW Silver Science Lecture and F/ISTS Conference keynote.

Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration

“Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” organized by Annoradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee, is a multisited project consisting of articles and essays by authors around the world, published from 2019–2022 in the open-access online journals ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Aggregate.

Unsilencing Slavery: A Celebration of Celia E. Naylor’s New Book

Celia E. Naylor (Professor of Africana Studies and History, Barnard College) will be joined by Natasha Lightfoot (Associate Professor of History, Columbia University) to discuss Naylor’s new book, Unsilencing Slavery: Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica (University of Georgia Press, 2022, Gender and Slavery Series).

Boycott

Join us for a screening of Boycott, a 2022 film that examines laws requiring states to certify a non-boycott of Israel to receive federal funds, and their far-reaching implications.

Should Social Movement Work be Paid?

Explore a vexing question being discussed in many movement groups: Should people be paid to do this work?

The 48th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Housing Justice/Housing Futures

This conference brings together housing scholars, city planners, tenant organizers, architects, designers, and artists and creatives whose work centers on the creation, preservation, and distribution of land and housing as a response to community needs. Drawing on years of collaborations facilitated by BCRW’s Housing and Poverty Working Group and the Undesign the Redline Exhibition project […]