Activism and the Academy: Living and Working in the Borderlands

[audio:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcasts-bcrw/2011/BCRW40-Borderlands.mp3|titles=BCRW40 Living and Working in the Borderlands]

Gloria Anzaldua’s groundbreaking volume Borderlands/La frontera juxtaposes poetry and prose, and research and personal narrative, forming a bridge between activism and scholarship. This panel looks at Anzaldua’s work, along with the work of two border poets, Margaret Randall and Ruth Irupé Sanabria, to explore what poetry and other creative engagements can bring to activist practices. Panelists include Margaret Randall (poet, photographer, and activist), Ruth Irupé Sanabria (poet and activist), and Michelle Gonzalez (Bard College at Simon’s Rock). This discussion, moderated by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez (Bard College at Simon’s Rock), took place on the first day of Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action, a two-day conference held September 23-24, 2011 in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

Listen using the player above or visit us on iTunes to download and subscribe to BCRW’s podcasts.

More from this event:

EVENT: Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action
VIDEO: The Multiple Futures of Gender and Sexuality Studies
VIDEO: Writing, New Media, and Feminist Activism
VIDEO: Archives and Activism: The Contemporary Turn
VIDEO: Transnational Feminisms Across the Americas
VIDEO: Expanding Feminism: Collaborations for Social Justice
VIDEO: Mamphela Ramphele (keynote address)
VIDEO: Social Justice and Civic Engagement in the Classroom
VIDEO: Using Knowledge, Advancing Activism
VIDEO: Campus Activism
VIDEO: Activist Research: Working in Communities
VIDEO: Building and Rebuilding Societies in Africa
PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Opening Remarks by Janet Jakobsen
PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Sonia Alvarez
PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: The Multiple Futures of Gender and Sexuality Studies
PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Writing, New Media, and Feminist Activism
PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Women’s Literature and Feminist Learning
PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Archives and Activism – The Contemporary Turn
PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Transnational Feminisms Across the Americas
PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Expanding Feminism – Collaborations for Social Justice
PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Mamphela Ramphele

Tags

intersectionality

Archives

Stay in touch

Join our email list to receive event announcements in your inbox.

Follow Us

Join our email list to receive event announcements in your inbox.

Donate

Your donation will allow BCRW to continue to grow and develop programming and innovative collaborations rooted in intersectional feminist praxis.

Donate

RECOMMENDED STORIES

A View from Public Housing: Resident Histories, Perspectives and Hope

A View from Public Housing: Resident Histories, Perspectives and Hope When I was growing up there, we were proud to live in public housing. It was a great place to live. You got to really see a lot of family, community, playgrounds. It was so close to schools. Public housing is no different than […]

Architecture of Migration: An Interview with Anooradha Siddiqi

Anooradha Siddiqi is Assistant Professor of Architecture, Barnard College, and author of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2024). Sabrina Salam (BC ’24) is a Research Assistant at BCRW. Sabrina Salam: What critical problem do you look at in this book? Anooradha Siddiqi: I look at architecture and migration […]

Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Unveiling Feminist Perspectives on Global Crises

Launching the Scholar and Feminist issue 20.1 with guest editors Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican and contributors Gwyn Kirk and Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen.