Events
Engaging our communities
Caste, Gender, Diaspora
Gaiutra Bahadur and Yashica Dutt in conversation with Anupama Rao
The transnational resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement has incited communities across the globe to raise their voices against discrimination and inequality and to work across demographics and colonial histories to reflect more broadly on shared affinities and political solidarities. The resonances between caste and race have been an especially important site for rethinking […]
Read MoreMarriage and Divorce in Colonial and Contemporary Philippines
Vina A. Lanzona
Presented by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College Issues of marriage and divorce remain contentious in the Philippines, but the history of marriage remains unexplored. When the Spanish established colonial rule and Catholicism in the 16th century, they also introduced new laws regulating marriage in the Philippines, and by the 19th […]
Read MoreReproductive Injustice Symposium
Dorothy Roberts, Amaryah Armstrong, Ash Williams, Dána-Ain Davis, and Toni Bond
This symposium is a celebration of the forthcoming issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online that examines the multiple dimensions of Black feminist reproductive justice.
Read MoreYoung, Gifted, Black, and Online: AfroSwedish Feminist Technologies of Blackness
Monica L. Miller
In the last decade, young black feminists in Sweden have been the originators of online projects and social media platforms that have changed the landscape in terms of discourses of race, blackness, and (popular) culture. Due to their success online, many of these projects have had afterlives in print and performance: they form an archive […]
Read MoreThe Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law
Lila Abu-Lughod, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Karen Engle, Janet R. Jakobsen, Vasuki Nesiah, and Rafia Zakaria
Contributors to The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke 2023) discuss how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs.
Read MoreGender Without Identity
Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini
Rooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, in queer and trans of color critique, and in the authors’ extensive clinical experience with queer and trans people, Gender Without Identity presents a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations.
Read MoreFeminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year One
Bahareh Badiei, Kiana Karimi, N. of the Begoo Collective, and Fatemeh Shams, moderated by Manijeh Moradian
Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection with activists, artists, and scholars on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran.
Read MoreWith and Against Technoscience in the Aftermath
M. Murphy (University of Toronto)
Professor M. Murphy, author of The Economization of Life (Duke University Press, 2017), will deliver the BCRW Silver Science Lecture and F/ISTS Conference keynote.
Read MoreIt’s All Policing, It’s All War: Chicago Organizers on Connecting Abolition and Demilitarization
Benji Hart, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Timmy Châu, and Dean Spade
ASL will be provided. Live transcription is available here. The prison and police abolition movement and the anti-war movement are often thought of as separate, siloed formations. However, in practice, organizers working to end racist, colonial, imperialist, patriarchial, ecocidal violence understand these to be the same fight. Join us for a conversation with Benji Hart, […]
Read MoreUnsilencing Slavery: A Celebration of Celia E. Naylor’s New Book
Celia Naylor (Barnard College) and Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia University)
Celia E. Naylor (Professor of Africana Studies and History, Barnard College) will be joined by Natasha Lightfoot (Associate Professor of History, Columbia University) to discuss Naylor’s new book, Unsilencing Slavery: Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica (University of Georgia Press, 2022, Gender and Slavery Series).
Read MoreRemaindered Life
Author Neferti Tadiar in Conversation with Erica Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir Puar
In Remaindered Life (Duke, 2022) Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life […]
Read MoreKweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference
Presented by Kweli Journal Kweli’s annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference is designed to help emerging writers hone their craft, introduce them to established authors willing to share their experiences and expertise, and connect them with editors, agents and publishers who can introduce their art to the world. Over the years, dozens of writers—including Angeline Boulley, […]
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