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Justice in the Home: Domestic Work Past, Present, and Future
Eileen Boris, Tamara Mose Brown, Linda Burnham, Grace Chang, Janice Fine, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Claire Hobden, Tera Hunter, Fish Ip, Eva Kittay, Jennifer Klein, Elizabeth Clark Lewis, Andrea Cristina Mercado, Premilla Nadasen, Rhacel Parrenas, Ai-jen Poo, Cecilia Rio, Mary Romero, Saskia Sassen, Peggie Smith, Nik Theodore, and Martina Vandenberg
DESCRIPTION PROGRAM REGISTER Description Link to Justice in the Home Wikispaces Click here to register online. Research about domestic work, domestic workers, and domestic worker organizing is an abundant and growing field. The attention garnered by organizing efforts by and on behalf of domestic workers, both nationally and internationally, has served as a spur to […]
Read MoreBirthright Crisis: The Power and Paradoxes of Media Advocacy
Miriam Neptune
After a September 2013 court ruling stripped citizenship from thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent, long-term efforts to critique human rights conditions in the Dominican Republic gained traction while existing tensions between Dominican and Haitian diaspora groups also increased. Miriam Neptune will discuss the experience of screening her award-winning documentary Birthright Crisis as both an […]
Read MoreBlack Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity
Tina Campt
What kinds of ‘practice’ create possibilities for new feminist futures? How do our everyday engagements with power complicate how we understand feminist struggle? This talk uses a black feminist conception of practice to think beyond conventional notions of resistance as the primary model for understanding the relationship of marginalized subjects to power. Focusing on archival […]
Read MoreCensorship and Self-Censorship in India or: How Many Penguins Can Stand On a Book Before It Sinks?
Wendy Doniger
Since Penguin India, under legal attack by Dina Nath Batra, agreed, in February of this year, to cease publication of Wendy Doniger’s book, The Hindus: An Alternative History, much has happened in the world of letters in India (not to mention the election of Narenda Modi, in the world of politics). There have been massive […]
Read MoreHow Does It Feel to Be Stateless?
Altagracia Jean Joseph
In September 2013, the Dominican Republic passed TC168/13, a law that permanently annulled the citizenship of children born to “undocumented parents,” going back to 1929. This law directly impacted the children of Haitian immigrants who have been brought into to the Dominican Republic as laborers for the past 80 years, a practice initiated by the […]
Read MoreThe Closet
Henry Abelove
Henry Abelove, Willbur Fisk Osborne Emeritus Professor of English at Wesleyan University, will ask and try to answer this question: How and why and in what specific circumstances did the term “the closet”–as connoting a hidden life–first come into use among gay and lesbian Americans? Professor Abelove is the co-editor of The Lesbian and Gay […]
Read MoreDance Workshop with Lite Feet legend Chrybaby Cozie
Chrybaby Cozie
BCRW Alumnae Fellow Ali Rosa-Salas ’13 hosts Lite Feet legend Chrybaby Cozie at Barnard College for a dance class and discussion about this Harlem-founded dance form. For those who want to learn how to do the real Harlem Shake, this workshop is for you. The workshop will be held from 3 PM – 5 PM. This workshop is […]
Read MoreWomen and Community in the Ancien Régime: Traditional and New Media
REGISTER EVENT INFORMATION Event Informaton Click here to register. This three-day conference investigates how women participated in and contributed to different kinds of community in medieval and early modern Europe. Featuring presentations based on texts and images in traditional manuscript and print format, as well as work that employs new technology and media projects, the […]
Read MoreRedefining Realness: A Salon in honor of Janet Mock
Janet Mock, Brittney Cooper, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, CeCe McDonald, and Mey Valdivia Rude
This year’s salon focuses on a new memoir by writer Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, which relates the author’s experience as a young trans woman of color working in mainstream media. In 2012, Mock, who served as a Staff Editor for People.com for five years, launched […]
Read More“I Use My Love to Guide Me”: Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Impossible Situations
CeCe McDonald, Tourmaline, and Dean Spade
EVENT INFORMATION VIDEOS ASK A QUESTION RESOURCES Event Informaton In 2011, CeCe McDonald was a fashion design student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College when while walking to a grocery store, she and her friends were attacked by a group of white people shouting racist and transphobic slurs. When CeCe fatally stabbed one of their […]
Read MoreHistorical Perspectives on Domestic Worker Organizing
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison and Premilla Nadasen
The history of domestic worker organizing illustrates how domestic workers have mobilized to transform their working lives and, in the process, have built a movement with a distinctive approach to labor organizing. In this conversation, historians Elizabeth Hutchison (University of New Mexico) and Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) explore the contours of this history in the […]
Read MoreNew Feminist Solutions: Social Justice Approaches to Ending Domestic Violence
Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sally MacNichol, Angela Moreno
Between 2011-2012, Sakhi for South Asian Women convened two meetings of grassroots organizers to address the challenges of building a broader anti-violence movement. These events explored the intersections between domestic violence and issues like immigration, transphobia, incarceration, and reproductive justice. While communities of color have always been disproportionately affected by such kinds of violence, they […]
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