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Scholar 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 MoreResisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island: Cross-Border Solidarity Against Anti-Blackness
Robyn Maynard, author of best-selling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Robyn Maynard will discuss similarities and differences in histories, tactics, modes, and consequences of state violence targeting Black communities in the U.S., Canada and at the border, articulating critical questions and strategies for cross-border solidarity, organizing, and resistance in the current political moment.
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.
Read MoreFarewell to the Inaugural Social Justice Institute Cohort
Aug 28, 2018
BCRW extends our warmest thanks to the inaugural cohort of the Social Justice Institute, Activist-in-Residence Tourmaline Gossett, Activist-in-Residence Cara Page, Activist-in-Residence Tarso Ramos, Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie, and Activist-in-Residence Dean Spade ’97. Stay tuned for an announcement about the incoming 2018-2020 cohort! Project Highlights Video Invisible No More: Racial Profiling and Police Brutality Against Women […]
Read MoreResponding to Violence, Restoring Justice
Tiloma Jayasinghe and Erin Ward
Table of Contents Introduction Feminist anti-violence movement development towards incarceration Criminalization and the feminist anti-violence movement The neoliberal carceral state Prison abolition Community-based alternatives Intersectionality and the feminist anti-violence movement Organizational directory Introduction At a promising moment in the history of the feminist anti-violence movement, a number of activist organizations are carving new means to […]
Read MoreInterrupting Criminalization: Research in Action
Aug 16, 2018
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. Combining participatory research, data analysis, and systemic advocacy, Ritchie and Kaba will work in partnership with local campaigns to identify primary pathways, policing practices, charges, and […]
Read MoreNew videos: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Simone Browne, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and more
Jul 24, 2018
Videos: Watch and Share Scholars and activists thinking and working through major historical and contemporary issues, from surveillance to colonialism to the day-to-day practices of political resistance from BCRW’s spring 2018 events. The 43rd Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence February 16-17, 2018 “they said in the name of […]
Read MoreGlobal Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures
Mary Helen Washington, Vijay Prashad, and others
Scholar-activists and organizers will discuss the hidden legacies of internationalist movements and reveal the potentials of decolonized feminist futures.
Read More1968 and Its Afterlives
May 3, 2018
1968 and Its Afterlives is a curatorial collaboration between staff and research assistants at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the Barnard Library and Archives, and members of Barnard Alumni Class of 1971. Its aim is to illustrate how the flashpoint of student and popular uprisings and politicization on issues of social justice were not discrete events, but instead reflect an important convergence of activist movements with broad social reverberations that continue shape our current political moment.
Read MoreKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: From #BlackLivesMatter to the White Power Presidency
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016), an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor’s research examines race and public policy including American housing policies. Dr. Taylor is currently […]
Read MoreBCRW Spring 2018 Newsletter
Jan 17, 2018
Director’s Note When we don’t know what’s coming, we watch. When we sense danger, we watch out. When we feel uneasy at the edges of our world, we look back. We are watched. We look for the eyes watching us. These are the themes on our minds as we move into the spring semester with […]
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