Events
Engaging our communities
Scholar and Feminist Conference: The Politics and Ethics of the Archive
Akwaeke Emezi, Jarrett Drake, Chinelo Okparanta, C. Riley Snorton, and more.
The S&F Conference will bring together archivists, librarians, artists, activists, and scholars to discuss the particular political and ethical challenges that reside in the project of creating archives for communities and social justice movements.
Read MoreS&F Literary Spotlight: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi
Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi
Join award-winning writers Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness Like Water, and Akwaeke Emezi, author of Freshwater, in a conversation on literary approaches to history, archives, and memory, moderated by Yvette Christiansë.
Read MoreBuilding from the Left: Strategies to Disrupt the Right
Pooja Gehi, Cara Page, and Tarso Luís Ramos, moderated by Janet Jakobsen
How can the left develop more robust strategies to undermine and disrupt the powerful ascendance of the U.S. Right, and build a transformative intersectional social justice agenda?
Read MoreRoxane Gay in Conversation with Katia D. Ulysse
Roxane Gay and Katia D. Ulysse
These authors will discuss issues including the Caribbean and its diaspora, method, feminism, and gender in their work. The conversation with be followed by a moderated discussion.
Read MoreDocumentary Screening: Capturing the Flag
Filmmaker Anne de Mare with Flora Davidson
Exploring themes that are constantly sensationalized and manipulated by the media, “Capturing The Flag” offers deeply personal, often surprising perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election and its aftermath.
Read MoreBuilding 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.
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