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Choice or Chance?
Aug 18, 2022
Driving is a form of intimate service work and reproductive labor that extracts the liveliness of drivers for the benefit of the passengers who become consumers of their labor. Even more importantly, this labor is ultimately accumulated as national and corporate wealth, under historical regimes of gender, race, class, nation, work and ableism. Spent Behind […]
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 MoreThe Bronx Fire: Financial Predation, City Neglect, Community Power
Feb 10, 2022
We continue to mourn with the survivors of a catastrophic fire in the Bronx that killed eight adults and nine children on January 9th, 2022. Barnard students and alums are among the people who lost relatives and neighbors in a disaster that rippled beyond New York and throughout communities living with the realities of precarious […]
Read MorePerforming Ourselves: An Interview with Sophie Kreitzberg
Feb 2, 2022
Last month, Sophie Kreitzberg (BC ‘19, BCRW Post Baccalaureate Fellow) and Miriam Neptune (BCRW Senior Associate Director) had a chat about Sophie’s journey to BCRW, from undergraduate project volunteer to student research assistant to integral staff member. Sophie’s recollections walk us through a few of the worlds in BCRW’s matrix of projects. Sophie shared her […]
Read MoreAbolition on the Ground: Reporting from the Movement to #DefundthePolice
Angélica Cházaro, Erica Perry, and Andrea Ritchie, moderated by Dean Spade
Join us for a conversation with abolitionist organizers and lawyers leading this work to talk about lessons learned in #defundthepolice mobilizations, how this work fits into the larger abolitionist vision for a world without cages or borders, and the key strategic questions facing the movement now.
Read MoreDefend Asian women, defend sex workers
Mar 17, 2021
Xiaojie Tan Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez Daoyou Feng Paul Andre Michels Soon C. Park Hyun-Jeong Park Grant Yong A. Yue Suncha Kim. We honor your life. We mourn your death. We grieve for the families and friends who have lost you to white supremacist violence. On Tuesday night, a white man killed eight people in […]
Read MoreTransformative Justice in the Apocalypse: Beyond Survival One Year Later
Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, RJ Maccani, India Harris, YaliniDream, and Woods Ervin, moderated by Kenyon Farrow
What are the tools, conversations, and actions we need to take in this moment of transformative justice and abolition work?
Read MoreTaking Children: A History of American Terror
A conversation with Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Valeria Luiselli
Read MoreTaking Children: A History of American Terror
Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, Valeria Luiselli
The three panelists will address the long history of policies of family separation in light of the current anti-migrant federal policy on the southern border of the United States.
Read MoreInterrupting Criminalization: Research in Action
Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is a new initiative of the BCRW Social Justice Institute led by Researchers in Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba, launched in fall 2018.
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