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How to Support Harm Doers in Being Accountable
Featuring adrienne marie brown, Stas Schmiedt, Lea Roth, Mimi Kim, RJ Maccani, Priya Rai, Mia Mingus, Martina Kartman, Elliott Fukui, Sonya Shah, Rachel Herzing, Shira Hassan, and Ann Russo.
Read MoreOral histories, collaborations, and what we're reading
Aug 15, 2019
News from the Center Celebrating 50 Years: Oral History and Archives This summer, BCRW Post-Baccalaureate Fellow Eve Marie Kausch ’18 participated in the 2019 Summer Oral History Institute organized by the Columbia Center for Oral History Research and the Columbia Journalism School. This year’s program was called “From the Margins to the Center: Narrating the Politics of […]
Read MoreBuilding Accountable Communities: Addressing Harm
Panel featuring adrienne maree brown, Shira Hassan, Mimi Kim, Priya Rai, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, and Amita Swadhin, and moderated by Ejeris Dixon.
Read MoreNews from the Interrupting Criminalization Initiative, plus fall events preview
Jun 10, 2019
Updates from the Social Justice Institute This spring, Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action, an initiative organized by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie hosted a series of timely convenings aimed at shaping an agenda for interrupting, reducing, and ending criminalization, incarceration, and the deportation of women, girls, and trans and gender nonconforming people. In March of 2019, […]
Read MoreThe View From Somewhere: Transgender Journalists Resisting “Objectivity”
Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace
Transgender journalists will address the problems of "objectivity" for trans journalists and trans subjects, and discuss how to chart a path of rigor, conscious subjectivity, and community accountability in the worlds of journalism and non-fiction storytelling.
Read MoreUpdates from Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action
Apr 3, 2019
The Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action initiative at BCRW kicked off a series of Spring convenings on March 1st with Research Across the Walls, a day-long training on using the recently released toolkit of the same name to conduct participatory research with incarcerated and criminalized survivors of violence, coauthored with Survived and Punished. Researchers in Residence Mariame Kaba and […]
Read MoreScholar and Feminist Conference: The Politics and Ethics of the Archive
Akwaeke Emezi, Jarrett Drake, Chinelo Okparanta, C. Riley Snorton, and more.
The S&F Conference will bring together archivists, librarians, artists, activists, and scholars to discuss the particular political and ethical challenges that reside in the project of creating archives for communities and social justice movements.
Read MoreImmigrants and Refugees Are Welcome Here: A Resource Guide for Service Providers Working with Immigrants who are LGBTQ, Sex Workers, and/or HIV-Positive
Amber Hollibaugh, Queer Survival Economies
This resource guide is intended for service providers to improve their competency to better assist clients in these dangerous times, and reduce secondary traumas in their practice. It is intended as a living document to be used and adapted based on feedback from clients, community members, activists, and service providers, as well as changes to our political landscape.
Read MoreBuilding Accountable Communities: Online Event
Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby joined us for an online discussion moderated by Mariame Kaba to explore models for building accountable communities for the purpose of healing and repair.
Read MorePeople Who do Harm are not Monsters
Building Accountabile Communities // Part 4 Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby
Read MoreFall 2018 Newsletter
Sep 6, 2018
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR For those of us in academic life, the year really begins in September. The new semester promises the arrival of new students and colleagues, and the turn of the season marks the promise of change and new possibilities. For BCRW, the new year also comes with a number of milestones. After […]
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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