Events
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Black Feminist Ethnographies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Darlène Dubuisson, Prisca Gayles, Amelia Simone Herbert, and Maricarmen Hernandez
Join us for an engaging joint-book discussion with Professors Darlène Dubuisson (University of California - Berkeley) and Prisca Gayles (University of Nevada - Reno) as they explore the intersecting themes of their recent books, Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures and Pain into Purpose.
Read MoreMilisuthando: Intimacy, Race, and Belonging in Apartheid South Africa
Milisuthando Bongela and Amelia Herbert
MILISUTHANDO is a deeply intimate portrait of filmmaker, writer and poet Milisuthando Bongela’s youth in South Africa. The self-titled documentary explores love, friendship and belonging in a South Africa stratified by racism, proving that only if we understand its tentacles, can we begin to extricate ourselves from its clutches.
Read MoreFreedom and Insurgence: Recalling Fanon
Dylan Rodríguez and Ezekiel Dixon-Román
Organized on the occasion of the centennial of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon, Freedom and Insurgence brings together Dylan Rodríguez and Ezekiel Dixon-Román for a conversation about capacious and generative approaches to mass intellectuality. The speakers approach the global legacies of Fanon’s thought on ‘archives of the possible,’ which illuminate approaches to the problem of democratic education and the crisis of the university in our times.
Read MoreYou Only Get What You’re Organized to Take
The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back in conversation with Aaron Scott & Ciara Taylor
Drawing from personal experience, history, religion, political strategy, and more, Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back argue that American poverty will through a mass movement open to all and led by the poor.
Read MoreBotany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism
Banu Subramaniam (Wellesley College), Rebecca Jordan-Young (Barnard College), and Natali Valdez (Fordham University)
Banu Subramanian, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Natali Valdez will discuss how botany’s foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial rule and its extractive ambitions.
Read MoreMissionary Women and the Imperial Roots of White Evangelical Feminism
Gale L. Kenny
Exploring the origins of a new world order in Christian imperial feminism.
Read MoreLove in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
Dean Spade (author) and Thảo Nguyễn (Thao and the Get Down Stay Down)
Around the globe people are faced with spiraling crises from the pandemic and ecological crisis to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, genocide, racist policing, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. More and more of us feel mobilized to fight back. But even those of us who long for change seem to have trouble […]
Read MoreThe Way You Make Me Funny
Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel
How can humor be feminist? How can humor help us tell the hard truths?
Read MoreRage, Struggle, Freedom: Unveiling Feminist Perspectives on Global Crises
Margo Okazawa-Rey, Elif Sarican, Gwyn Kirk, Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen
Launching the Scholar and Feminist issue 20.1 with guest editors Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican and contributors Gwyn Kirk and Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen.
Read MoreCare: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) and Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) will be joined by Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss her new book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2023), a powerful critique of capitalist care relations and the economic profit extracted from care.
Read MoreWith Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism
Anna Elena Torres, Kenyon Zimmer, and Samuel Brody, moderated by Janet Jakobsen
Live transcription is available here. Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. in With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (AK Press, 2023), co-editors Anna Elena Torres (University of Chicago) and Kenyon Zimmer (University of Texas, Arlington) will be joined by contributor Samuel Brody (University of Kansas) to […]
Read MoreArchitecture of Migration
Anooradha Siddiqi (Assistant Professor of Architecture, Barnard College)
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking history or architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrations in Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2024), a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes–even if born out of emergency–reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics. She identifies forces of colonial and humanitarian […]
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