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Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to the Brutality of Incarceration
Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier. Moderated by Mariame Kaba.
Live transcription available at http://bit.ly/pastasprologue2020 Register here. This event will take place online from 4pm – 6pm ET on 5/8/20. Live captions will be provided. Contact bcrw@barnard.edu with any questions. For centuries incarcerated people and others have painted a grim and gruesome picture of conditions inside prisons and jails. There have been countless reports, testimonies, […]
Read MoreAbolition Feminism: Celebrating 20 years of INCITE!
Beth Richie, Mimi Kim, Nadine Naber, Cara Page, Shana M. Griffin, Kiri Sailiata, and Angela Y. Davis
Join founders and generations of leaders of INCITE! for a discussion of the origins, genealogies, and futures of abolition feminism. The conversation will be followed by a reception honoring INCITE!’s 20 year anniversary.
Read More“I Am Queen Mary”: Public Art and the Politics of Representation
La Vaughn Belle and Jeanette Ehlers with Ariana Gonzalez Stokas and Mabel O. Wilson, moderated by Monica L. Miller
In October 2019, an historic sculpture entitled “I Am Queen Mary” co-created by artists LaVaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers arrived at Barnard College on a long-term loan. Speakers will discuss how “I Am Queen Mary” contributes to and challenges the politics of public art, depictions of Black women in public art, and the history of Black women and representations of Black women in art at Barnard College.
Read MoreMoving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Justice and Transformative Justice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elliott Fukui
Join us online for a conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elliott Fukui on the intersections of disability justice and transformative justice.
Read More[Postponed] Queer Asylum in Germany: Between Queer Liberalisms and Colonial Sexualities
Mengia Hong Tschalaer
Taking several specific case studies as point of departure, the project illustrates the central role of Eurocentric sexual regimes in determining the parameters of asylum the il/legal.
Read MoreThe Color of Children’s Literature Conference
Debbie Reese, Jean Mendoza, Linda Sue Park, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Kacen Callender, Roshani Chokshi, Michaela Goade, Raul the Third, Nikki Grimes, Adib Khorram, Minh Le, Nilah Bagruder, Aida Salazar, Traci Sorell, Duncan Tonatiuh, Ibi Zoboi, and more
Join Kweli for the third annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference, a conference for Indigenous and People of Color writers and illustrators to learn and connect with others in the industry. This year’s conference will honor the legacy of Walter Dean Myers, an award-winning Black writer of children’s and young adult literature.
Read MoreTrans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium
Elliot Montague, Emma Frankland, Texas Isaiah, Tourmaline, and Vick Quezada
#TransRevolutions Live captioning is available here. During the event, you can send questions for the Q&A by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu or via Twitter @bcrwtweets #TransRevolutions Trans*Revolutions is a virtual symposium featuring artist-activists whose work is inspired by and engaged in imagining trans* and genderqueer histories, performances, identities, and aesthetics. Elliot Montague (film), Emma Frankland (performance), Texas Isaiah […]
Read More[POSTPONED] Reproductive Injustice: A Salon Honoring Dána-Ain Davis
Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond, Cara Page, and Dorothy Roberts
Dána-Ain Davis’s new book Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU 2019) is a prescient investigation into the high rates of premature birth among Black women, finding that this problem is not explained by economic factors but ideas about race and reproduction with a deeper historical context rooted in the era of slavery.
Read More[CANCELED] Race for Profit: How the Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor & Charles H. Mcilwain University Preceptor Department of African American Studies
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (UNC Press 2019) uncovers how the the story of the end of housing discrimination through the prohibition of redlining in the late 1960s and early 1970s belies the continuation of exploitative real estate practices and a new, disasterous phenomenon of predatory inclusion.
Read MoreThe Haunted House of Classics
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Drawing on the writings of Avery Gordon, Saidiya Hartman, and César Sánchez Beras, Dan-el Padilla Peralta hopes to generate some critical momentum around the premise that Classics is a ghostly matter, haunted by its participation in global projects of race-making but insistent on denying responsibility for the violences committed in its name.
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean When We Say ‘Safety’?
Ariana Gonzalez Stokas and Mariame Kaba
What does it mean when we say 'safety'? You are invited to join a community project that explores this question through Barnard College and New York City archives.
Read MoreCritical Caribbean Feminisms: Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover
Join us for an evening with Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
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