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We Move Together: Disability Justice and Trans Liberation
Patty Berne, Reina Gossett, Kiyaan Abadani, and Malcolm Shanks
>Watch the Livestream here. How are organizers and artists building cross-movement solidarity from an understanding that no one is disposable? How can we reclaim bodily autonomy, our right to exist in public space, and our liberatory visions of a world where all bodyminds are valued? As disabled and/or trans people whose bodies are pathologized and […]
Read MoreBCRW Launches the Social Justice Institute
Nov 21, 2016
The Barnard Center for Research on Women is thrilled to announce the launch of the Social Justice Institute building on the success of the 2014-16 Activist Fellows Program and BCRW’s history of activist-academic collaborations. The inaugural Social Justice Institute Activists-in-Residence are Reina Gossett, Cara Page, Tarso Ramos, Andrea Ritchie, and Dean Spade. Taking seriously the critiques of the academic […]
Read MoreBlack Escapism in Arthur Jafa's "Dreams are Colder than Death"
Oct 13, 2016
The escape artist flashed by on a metallic blue motorcycle, pursued by a blur of pulsing red and blue lights. Drawn together by a sentiment exceeding mutual compassion, the sidewalk spectators stood inert, breaths and bodies taut with anticipation. For a moment, parts of us took flight alongside the fugitive, our lives reaching beyond the […]
Read MoreBCRW Fall 2016 Newsletter
Sep 6, 2016
DIRECTOR’S NOTE As a feminist theorist trained as an historian, I believe in the time honored adage that we must know our histories to build the world we need. In that spirit, BCRW’s fall programs will explore our collective feminist archives, some more literal than others, using these histories to take inspiration from our past […]
Read MoreSpeaker Comments from “The Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson”
Aug 9, 2016
The Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson from BCRW Videos on Vimeo. View more videos from BCRW here. Featuring Maggie Nelson in conversation with Christina Crosby, Saidiya Hartman, Sam Huber, and Heather Love. Moderated by Tina Campt. In her widely acclaimed memoir, The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson writes, “There is much to be learned from wanting something both ways.” […]
Read MoreQueer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders
Video by Dean Spade + Hope Dector. Featuring Reina Gossett, Angélica Cházaro, CeCe McDonald, and Dean Spade.
Read MoreThe Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson
Featuring Maggie Nelson in conversation with Christina Crosby, Saidiya Hartman, Sam Huber, and Heather Love. Moderated by Tina Campt.
Read MoreYou are SO Brave: Disability Studies vs. Disability Justice at #SF41
Mar 8, 2016
“You are SO BRAVE” is a statement most disabled people are used to hearing. Able-bodied and able-minded people frequently infantilize our experiences and lives for their own inspiration fetishes. But you might be shocked to hear these words coming from the mouths of disabled people at a conference surrounding disability studies and scholarly work, what […]
Read MoreSchedule for Scholar and Feminist Conference: Sustianabilities
Feb 19, 2016
This year we at BCRW are implementing the framework of sustainability for our 41st Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference. As a community of activists and scholars, we would like to ask and discuss how we can sustain the material, creative, cultural and critical resources necessary to maintain the vitality of our communities, movements, and scholarship. The conference […]
Read MoreHonoring Resistance and Survival: The Miss Major-Jay Toole Building Giving Circle
Feb 3, 2016
The Miss Major Jay Toole Building for Social Justice (MMJT), located at 147 W. 24th Street, is the birthplace of resistance and home to survival. MMJT houses organizations for and by people of color, centering on the experiences of queer, trans, and gender nonconforming folks, especially those who are low or no-income and homeless. Entering the […]
Read MoreNew S&F Online: Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond
Jan 26, 2016
Guest Edited by Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse Contributors include Ujju Aggarwal, Gabriel Arkles, Maile Arvin, Myrl Beam, Alisa Bierria, Avi Cummings, Hope Dector, Treva Ellison, Pooja Gehi, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Lani Hanna, Gillian Harkins, Priya Kandaswamy, Paul Kivel, Soo Ah Kwon, Colby Lenz, Edwin Mayorga, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Vero Ordaz, Dylan Rodríguez, Rori Rohlfs, […]
Read MoreBCRW Spring 2016 Newsletter
Jan 19, 2016
DIRECTOR’S NOTE This spring, BCRW will host an exciting array of events pivoting on a complex engagement with the ethics and politics of life-making. Framing these events is a central question: What are the challenges we face as feminist scholars, activists, writers, artists, and thinkers fashioning, fighting for, and building a world for lives worth living […]
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