Events
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Essential to the Public: Libraries at the End of the World
Emily Drabinski
Live transcription is available here. Libraries are among the last funded public spaces open to the public. Anyone can enter a library and borrow a book, join a storytime, learn to read, meet with a friend, use the bathroom, warm up in the winter and cool down in the summer, among the many other resources […]
Read MoreFeminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College), Armaghan Ziaee (California State University, San Marcos), Eunice Seng (The University of Hong Kong), Ross Exo Adams (Bard College), and S.E. Eisterer (Princeton University), moderated by members of GSAPPX+ and Bryony Roberts
“Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” organized by Annoradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee, is a multisited project consisting of articles and essays by authors around the world, published from 2019–2022 in the open-access online journals ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Aggregate.
Read MoreMother Country Radicals
Zayd Ayers Dohrn (CU GSAS '06, Mother Country Radicals creator), Jamal Joseph (Columbia University), and Carol Becker (Columbia University School of the Arts)
Mother Country Radicals creator Zayd Ayers Dohrn ('06 GSAS) discusses the making of the podcast with Film professor Jamal Joseph and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.
Read MoreSurvival and Mobilization: Mutual Aid in Migrant Justice Struggles
Nikki Marín Baena and Dean Spade
In conversation with Dean Spade, Nikki Marín Baena will share her experiences working for migrant justice with Mijente and Siembra NC.
Read MoreThe 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.
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