Events
Engaging our communities
The 48th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Housing Justice/Housing Futures
Keynote by Rhonda Y. Williams (Vanderbilt University) and Keisha-Khan Perry (University of Pennsylvania), presentations by Ariana Allensworth (artist), Lisa Bates (Portland State University), April DeSimone (We Arch.), Sekiya Dorsett (filmmaker, I Love Bed-Stuy), Jenna Freedman (Barnard College), Nicole Greaves (Bridge Street Development Corporation),Renee Gregory (The Brownstoners), Lisa Lee (National Public Housing Museum), Oksana Mironova (Community Service Society of New York), Obden Mondésir (Barnard College), Sam Rabiyah (THE CITY and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project), Elora Lee Raymond (Georgia Tech), Mary Rocco (Barnard College), Akira Drake Rodriguez (University of Pennsylvania), Save Section 9, Jacqueline Paul Sims (Affordable Housing Resources, Inc.), Vanessa Thill (Barnard College), Tela Troge (Law Offices of Tela L. Troge), Michael Williams (Nostrand Willoughby Block Association), Stefani Zinerman (Assemblymember 56th District, New York), and a live performance by Sydnie L. Mosley Dances
This conference brings together housing scholars, city planners, tenant organizers, architects, designers, and artists and creatives whose work centers on the creation, preservation, and distribution of land and housing as a response to community needs. Drawing on years of collaborations facilitated by BCRW’s Housing and Poverty Working Group and the Undesign the Redline Exhibition project […]
Read MoreAbortion as Abolition
Rafa Kidvai (Repro Legal Defense Fund, founder)
The goal of this event is to bring light to activists and scholars dealing with the increased criminalization of abortion care and pregnancy outcomes, and how the police state and criminal legal system works in conflict with the principles of reproductive justice. Importantly, we want to frame self-managed abortion as an abolitionist praxis. We also […]
Read MoreTrans Literature Now
Kay Gabriel, Denne Michele Norris, Casey Plett, and C. Riley Snorton, moderated by Jo Livingstone
Organized by the National Book Critics Circle and co-sponsored by BCRW, a conversation about the world of trans literature today.
Read MoreBoycott
Julia Bacha (Director of Boycott), Ramya Krishnan (Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University), Alan Leveritt (Arkansas Times), and Lawrence Glickman (Professor of American Studies at Cornell University), moderated by Rozina Ali (The New York Times Magazine)
Join us for a screening of Boycott, a 2022 film that examines laws requiring states to certify a non-boycott of Israel to receive federal funds, and their far-reaching implications.
Read MoreShould Social Movement Work be Paid?
Dean Spade
Explore a vexing question being discussed in many movement groups: Should people be paid to do this work?
Read MoreTeaching with the Archive: Feminist Abolition
Malkia Okech
Join us for an archive and art workshop that considers grounding our resistance to police and prisons through history and art.
Read MoreThis Flame Within
Author Manijeh Moradian in Conversation with Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai
Manijeh Moradian will be joined by Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai to discuss her new book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022).
Read MoreNo borders! No prisons! No cops! No war! No state?
A conversation with Harsha Walia, William Anderson, and Dean Spade
This event gathers three leading thinkers whose work questions the desire to take over the state, to discuss the stakes of this question for abolitionist work right now.
Read MoreAbolish Mandatory Reporting and Family Policing
A conversation with Erin Miles Cloud, Jasmine Wali, and Shannon Perez-Darby moderated by Dean Spade
How do movements for abolition of mandatory reporting and family policing intersect with larger movements for abolition of the criminal legal system?
Read MoreAbolitionist Feminism in the Archive
Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma in conversation with Eve Glazier (BC '23)
Scholars, activists, and archivists will discuss the relationship between archives, the carceral state, and documenting resistance movements against prisons.
Read MoreCombat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America
Conversation with author Nadia Abu El-Haj and journalist Anjali Kamat
Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans’ psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve? As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues in her new book, Combat Trauma: War, Citizenship, and Post-9/11 America (2022), in the American public’s imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in for destructive wars abroad, with […]
Read MoreReproductive Injustice
The Helen Pond McIntyre '28 Lecture by Dana-Ain Davis, in conversation with Sarah Haley
Dana-Ain Davis will discuss her work on the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants.
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