Events
Engaging our communities
The Only Way To Survive Is By Taking Care of One Another: Reflections on Care Work
Ai-jen Poo, President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance
The inaugural Grace Lee Boggs ‘35 Lecture given by keynote speaker Ai-jen Poo, President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, followed by a conversation with Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History and co-Director of BCRW.
Read MoreParadoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice
Book launch with co-editors Janet Jakobsen and Elizabeth Bernstein and contributors
A conversation with contributors to a new book addressing the paradoxical persistence of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the pursuit of a more just world.
Read MoreChoice or Chance? Driver-labor and Reproductive Justice
Co-authors Kasturi Ray (BC '83) and Julietta Hua in conversation with Janet Jakobsen
Co-authors of Spent Behind the Wheel will discuss the ways traditional taxis and the gigged driving sector profit from unfettered access to drivers’ reproductive labor.
Read MoreListening to the Archives: Movements Against Women’s Imprisonment
A conversation with Anisah Sabur-Mumin, Andrea Williams, and Rhea Mallett, moderated by Obden Mondésir
A conversation between former members of the Coalition for Women Prisoners on archives, oral history, and organizing.
Read MoreLabor of Love: Performance and Politics in the South Asian Diaspora
A weekend symposium asking, "What is the work of the immigrant?"
Read MoreMother of Strangers
A reading with Suad Amiry and conversation with Rashid Khalidi
A reading with Suad Amiry from her new novel followed by a conversation with Rashid Khalidi
Read MoreRedlining, Section 9, and the Future of Public Housing
April De Simone, Samelys Lopez '01, and Ramona Ferreyra, moderated by Vanessa Thill '13
Join us for a panel discussion and closing event for Undesign the Redline @ Barnard, a year-long exhibition and event series exploring the continued impact of redlining and predatory real estate practices on communities in Northern Manhattan and beyond. Our panelists will discuss issues facing New York’s public housing – which provides affordable homes for […]
Read MoreBlack, Queer & Trans: Mobilizing in the Caribbean and Beyond
Amanda Taylor BC '22 in conversation with Kymm Foster, Emani Edwards, and Chaday Emmanuel
Live transcription is available here. Embracing the spirit of the recent publication, Beyond Homophobia: Centering LGBTQ experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean (2020), activist photographer Amanda Taylor, BC ’22 will be in conversation with leading LGBTQ+ mobilizers who are creating networks of visibility and support for queer and trans life in Jamaica and beyond. Speakers include: Kymm […]
Read MoreOrganizing Transformative Justice Responses to Gender-based Violence and Campus Sexual Violence
Xhercis Méndez in conversation with Dean Spade
Live transcription is available here. Resources mentioned during the conversation: – transformharm.org (online resource hub) – Fumbling Towards Repair (workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan) – Building Accountable Communities (transformative justice video series) – What is Transformative Justice? (video) – Podmapping Worksheet (by Mia Mingus for the BATJC) As university campuses struggle to meet […]
Read MoreThe Art of Madness: Catastrophe, Memory, Desire
Mimi Khúc, Jess X. Snow, and Bazeed, moderated by Vani Natarajan
Three multimedia artists whose work forges pathways to healing amid trauma and grief will present recent works and reflect in dialogue about their creative processes.
Read MoreMad Mapping: A Guide to Creating an Emotional Safety Plan
Antoinette Chen-See and Lilac Vylette Maldonado, Fireweed Collective
In Fireweed Collective's Mad Mapping workshop, we will explore anti-oppressive approaches to emotional wellbeing, as well as build strategies for coping with and transforming individual struggles, especially in the larger context of social injustice.
Read MoreThe Deep History of Incarceration
Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney
A lecture sketching the outlines of the prison in the ancient Mediterranean world, and how modern practices of incarceration are — and are not — unique.
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