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Building Accountable Communities
Kiyomi Fujikawa, Shannon Perez-Darby, and Mariame Kaba
Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing of those who do harm?
Read MoreLiterary Salon: History, Memory, Craft
Zinzi Clemmons and Crystal Hana Kim
Award-winning writers Zinzi Clemmons author of What We Lose (2017), and Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me (2018), will read from their novels and discuss related themes in their work.
Read MoreCritical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
Join us for a reading and conversation between authors Erna Brodber (Nothing’s Mat and The Rainmaker’s Mistake, among others) and Nicole Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun) in the expanded series Critical Caribbean Feminisms.
Read MoreGlobal Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures
Mary Helen Washington, Vijay Prashad, and others
Scholar-activists and organizers will discuss the hidden legacies of internationalist movements and reveal the potentials of decolonized feminist futures.
Read MoreThe Second Bi-Annual Black Lesbian Conference: Work as Memoir
This will be the second bi-annual gathering for Black/African Descent Lesbians* and supporters to responsibly consider and engage important issues that can strengthen and support our individual and collective community work.
Read MoreEnd of Year Celebration
A celebration of BCRW's work, appreciation for our incredible Director Tina Campt, and welcoming incoming Interim Director Elizabeth Castelli.
Read MoreEmma Goldman’s Struggles for Utopia: Feminism and Ambivalence
Clare Hemmings
Clare Hemmings will explore 20th century anarchist Emma Goldman conflicting views on gender, sexuality, race, and the means to bring about a political revolution. Hemmings shows that these are not contradictions but offerings for means of thinking through current dilemmas and power relations, and living through uncertainties.
Read MoreFree Them All: A Mass Commutations Convening
Andrea Bible, Victoria Law, Andrea James, Valerie Seeley & Julia Shaw
The Survived and Punished NYC Mass Commutation Organizing Campaign is working to pressure NY State to commute the sentences of survivors of intimate partner violence and other racialized, gender-based violence who are in prison throughout the state.
Read MoreUndoing the Future: Troubling Time/s, and Ecologies of Nothingness: Re-turning, Re-membering, and Facing the Incalculable
Karen Barad
Karen Barad will consider the ways in which quantum physics troubles modernist conceptions of time, and asks whether quantum temporalities might offer radical political imaginaries for cohabiting this planet more justly.
Read More1968 and Its Afterlives: Reflecting on Campus Activism Past, Present and Future
Elizabeth Langer '68, Nancy Biberman (SDS) '69, Karla Spurlock-Evans (SAS) '71, DaMonique Ballou '17, and Krish Bhatt '18
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the historic 1968 protests at Barnard and Columbia, BCRW will host a conversation reflecting on the role of Barnard students in these transformative events and the history of campus activism that converged in 1968 and continue into the present.
Read MoreFrom Black Lives Matter to the White Power Presidency: Race and Class in the Trump Era
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016), an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor’s current research examines race and public policy including American housing policies.
Read MoreS&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence
Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade
This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state’s demands for constant access in the name of “security” and public order.
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