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Michelle Memran, filmmaker and Dasha Amsterdam Epstein Visiting Artist in Theatre, in conversation with Gabri Christa, moderated by Alice Reagan
A film celebrating the life and spirit of Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornes (1930-2018) by Michelle Memran, Dasha Amsterdam Epstein Visiting Artist in Theatre, Barnard College.
Read MoreThe View From Somewhere: Transgender Journalists Resisting “Objectivity”
Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace
Transgender journalists will address the problems of "objectivity" for trans journalists and trans subjects, and discuss how to chart a path of rigor, conscious subjectivity, and community accountability in the worlds of journalism and non-fiction storytelling.
Read MoreFilm screening: Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build
Marc Dones, Gregory Jost, Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Fitzroy Christian
In “Decade of Fire,” Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires that consumed the South Bronx in the 1970s, uncovering policies of racism and neglect that still shape our cities, and offering hope to communities on the brink today.
Read MoreTestosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis, moderated by Helena Hansen
In their new book, Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, sociomedical scientist Rebecca Jordan-Young and cultural anthropologist Katrina Karkazis write a debunking life story of a molecule, prying it loose from over a century of misconceptions that undermine science even as they make myths and legends about this hormone seem scientific.
Read MoreS&F Online Launch Party: Unraveling Criminalizing Webs
Andrea J. Ritchie
Celebrating the newest issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, "Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures," guest edited by BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske (BC '18), which invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what?
Read MoreTransforming Harm: Experiments in Accountability
Mariame Kaba, Stas Schmiedt, and Lea Roth
What do we mean when we talk about transformative justice and accountability? What does a survivor-centered response look like in practice?
Read MoreOn the Road to Abolition: Archiving Resistance to the Carceral State
Simon Balto and Emily Thuma, moderated by Mariame Kaba
Emily Thuma and Simon Balto, in conversation with Mariame Kaba, will discuss histories of resistance to prisons and policing, offering roadmaps and lessons for contemporary struggles.
Read MoreWhat We Mean When We Say Free Them All: Lessons from the Social Justice Initiative
La Vaughn Belle, Mariame Kaba, and CeCe McDonald
Join the BCRW Social Justice Institute residents La Vaughn Belle, Mariame Kaba, and CeCe McDonald for a discussion of their work as artists, organizers, scholars, and visionaries responding to histories and ongoing manifestations of state and interpersonal violence.
Read MoreEngaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule: A Conversation
La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro
This conversation will highlight engagements with the archival record of the Danish West Indies, the islands now known as the United States Virgin Islands, featuring speakers who work on archival practice, and who are working to address structural inequalities in the ways these documents are situated.
Read MoreA Gendered Brain? Shattering Sexist Science
Gina Rippon, Daphna Joel, and Giordana Grossi, moderated by Beck Jordan-Young
Neuroscientist Gina Rippon will discuss the historical and political conditions that produced ideas of binary gender differences in our brains, how and why these misperceptions have persisted into the 21st century, and how the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience dispel these fallacies.
Read More“If We Forget Ourselves, Who Will Be Left to Remember Us?”: A Conversation with Cherríe Moraga
Cherríe Moraga
Celebrated writer and activist Cherríe Moraga will speak to the issue of cultural amnesia in the United States and the recuperation of ancestral memory toward the radicalization of political consciousness and activism for the future.
Read MoreResisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island: Cross-Border Solidarity Against Anti-Blackness
Robyn Maynard, author of best-selling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Robyn Maynard will discuss similarities and differences in histories, tactics, modes, and consequences of state violence targeting Black communities in the U.S., Canada and at the border, articulating critical questions and strategies for cross-border solidarity, organizing, and resistance in the current political moment.
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