Events
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We Move Together: Disability Justice and Trans Liberation
Patty Berne, Tourmaline, Kiyaan Abadani, and Malcolm Shanks
>Watch the Livestream here. How are organizers and artists building cross-movement solidarity from an understanding that no one is disposable? How can we reclaim bodily autonomy, our right to exist in public space, and our liberatory visions of a world where all bodyminds are valued? As disabled and/or trans people whose bodies are pathologized and […]
Read MorePoetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand
BCRW is thrilled to host Poetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand, moderated by BCRW Associate Director Tami Navarro, on the power and necessity of poetry in resisting the contemporary manifestations of racism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy. This event is very much a response to the current political moment in the […]
Read MoreWhat is the Future of Black Lives Under a Kleptocracy?
Alicia Garza
DESCRIPTION On Tuesday, April 11, BCRW is thrilled to host “What is the Future of Black Lives Under a Kleptocracy?” a lecture by Alicia Garza focusing on the first 100 days of the new administration and what’s at stake for the movement.. SPEAKER BIO Alicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer, writer, public speaker and freedom […]
Read MoreOur Voices: Trans Stories, Trans Justice, Trans Resiliency
Sasha Alexander, Giselle Bleuz, Luce Lincoln, Devin Lowe, Olympia Perez, and Marin Watts
Featuring: I Am (HEAR), Islan (Won’t You Celebrate), and Interview with Juan Evans (excerpt) by Sasha Alexander and Olympia Perez, Black Trans Media Over Stigmatized, a short film by Giselle Bleuz and Devin Lowe with Luce Lincoln, Global Action Project From the Ground to the Sky (excerpts) by Marin Watts, Trans Justice Funding Project In a time […]
Read MoreHearing the Hidden Stories: Walking as a Signature and Interpretation
Garnette Cadogan
Our public spaces are repositories of stories, many of which reveal both the nature of public life and the particularities of the lives that move through them. But in our attempt to understand public life, we tend to immerse ourselves in data, too often sidelining the rich variety of stories that helps us understand what […]
Read MoreErotic As Power: Audre Lorde Project 20th Anniversary Celebration
“The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor […]
Read MoreThe Real Sister Act: Black Catholic Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate U.S. Religious Life
Shannen Dee Williams
The Religion Department at Barnard College is thrilled to host a lecture with Shannen Dee Williams, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, on the epic journey of Black Catholic sisters in the United States from their fiercely contested beginnings in the 19th century to the present day. In this lecture, Williams will […]
Read MoreHarmattan Winds, Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment
Belinda Archibong
Research on gender-based educational disparities in the Global South has focused on differential investment in the education of boys versus girls, higher costs and lower educational attainment among girls, and factors leading to these realities. In this lunchtime lecture, Belinda Archibong will extend this conversation to share her research on ways that public health and […]
Read MoreA Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives: Resistance and the U.S. Left Reimagined
Barbara Ransby
Award-winning historian, writer, and longtime activist Barbara Ransby joins BCRW to give the 2017 Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture in Feminist Criticism and History, “A Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives: Resistance and the U.S. Left Reimagined.” Ransby is Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History […]
Read MoreAccountable Bystander/Upstander Training
Bystander intervention and de-escalation involve a series of tools that can be consciously employed to defuse volatile situations. In this interactive workshop, bystander intervention and de-escalation will be presented in the context of self-defense and harm reduction. Students will identify verbal and non-verbal techniques and tactics to de-escalate conflict. Students will also learn the four […]
Read MoreHaptic Bodies: Perception, Touch, and the Ethics of Being
DESCRIPTION PROGRAM PARTICIPANT BIOS DESCRIPTION hap·tic ˈhaptik/ adjective technical of or relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the senses of touch and proprioception [relative perception]. How are we, as global citizens, accountable to each other? This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference explores the haptic—the […]
Read MoreShades of Intimacy: Women in the Time of Revolution
Hortense Spillers
Hortense Spillers considers the aftermath of the notion of partus sequitur ventrem—the “American ‘innovation’ that proclaimed that the child born of an enslaved mother would also be enslaved.” In her fall lecture, “Shades of Intimacy: Women in the Time of Revolution,” she deepens this ongoing exploration by engaging the idea of the “shadow” family as […]
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