Our Work

BCRW has for decades worked to respond to violence at all scales — interpersonal and international — and to contribute long histories of global feminist efforts to build a world of justice, peace, and freedom.

Some of our work on behalf of these values of social justice feminism includes:

Responding to Violence, Rethinking Human Secularity with Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams

Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism 49th Scholar & Feminist Conference

Roundtable Discussion on Feminism and Palestine with the Institute for Sexuality and Gender Studies, Barnard and Columbia Faculty

Ella Baker for the 21st Century A National One-Day Symposium

Valuing Domestic Work with Domestic Workers United

Feminist Freedom School

RECOMMENDED STORIES

Jan 9, 2026

The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

Join us for an exciting book salon in celebration of Barnard Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies Marisa Solomon’s The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life with J.T. Roane (Geography, Rutgers) and Mon M. (Survived & Punished), moderated by C. Riley Snorton (English & Comparative Literature and ISSG, Columbia).

Dec 17, 2025

Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction

Guest editors Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma gather contributions that examine how gendered, racialized, and classed forms of life are both sustained and constrained by carceral systems, and how abolitionist praxis reimagines and rebuilds the reproduction of the social otherwise. Abolition feminism here operates as analytic and an ethic: a refusal of state violence with a commitment to building alternative infrastructures of care, safety, and survival.

Dec 4, 2025

A Conversation with the Editors: Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction

Join guest editors Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma, S&F Online Senior Editor Sandra Moyano-Ariza, and S&F Online Executive Editor Rebecca Jordan-Young to mark the release of the Fall 2025 issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, “Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction.” This conversation will focus on the issue’s development and key questions and […]