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Getting Excited for: “BRIDGING THE GENERATIONS: CARRYING ON…” at #SF41
While events often feature folks from different generations, we don’t often hear conversations about the the challenges, experiences, and gifts of intentional intergenerational work. This Saturday’s #SF41 workshop, “Bridging the Generations: Carrying On…,” will do just that. Our featured guests, Trishala Deb, Frances Kunreuther, Krystal Portalatin and moderator, Katherine Acey, will address the challenges that arise due to generation differences and discuss […]
Read MoreConsidering Community in Black Art: Sustaining Harlem
Sustaining Harlem: Art, Community Activism and Black Women’s Leadership will be a panel presented by Pat Cruz, Thelma Golden, Virginia Johnson, and Sade Lythcott during the 41st annual Scholar & Feminist Conference this Saturday, February 27. This panel is presented by the Harlem Semester, a new public humanities initiative of the Barnard Center for Research on Women […]
Read More“Fearless in an Austere Way:” Activist in Residence Reina Gossett talks Intersectionality, Prisons, and Pinkwashing
Reina Gossett is an activist, writer, community organizer, and the 2014-2016 Activist in Residence at BCRW. She is also the co-writer and co-director of the upcoming film “Happy Birthday, Marsha.” “Happy Birthday, Marsha” tells the story of Black trans artist and activist Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson in the hours before the 1969 Stonewall Riots. In January, Reina […]
Read MoreSchedule for Scholar and Feminist Conference: Sustianabilities
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 MoreNext Saturday 2/27: Sustaining Harlem at #SF41
On Saturday, February 27, 2015, join Pat Cruz, Thelma Golden, Virginia Johnson, and Sade Lythcott on “Sustaining Harlem: Art, Community Activism, and Black Women’s Leadership.” Each of these visionary black women has made significant contributions to sustaining Harlem through their leadership in its signature arts institutions. They will offer their perspectives on what it means to work […]
Read MoreNational LGBTQ Leadership and Aging Award Recipient, Katherine Acey
BCRW Senior Activist Fellow Katherine Acey is being honored at this year’s Creating Change Conference in Chicago for her organizing on aging issues impacting LGBTQ people, particularly LGBTQ people of color. We are honored to work with such an incredible movement leader. To honor her steadfast work in fighting for equity and justice for LGBTQ […]
Read MoreEnvisioning and Transforming: A Dialogue Between Students and Faculty
At the request of the Barnard College Department Chairs, BCRW is hosting an open discussion between faculty and students on the future of diversity on our campus. This much-needed forum will provide an opportunity for open discussion and exchange between us as scholars, educators, and students, on issues we face together as a community. From this conversation […]
Read More“then I moved to Harlem”: The Worlds of Ntozake Shange
Barnard alumna Ntozake Shange (BC ’70) is both the perfect subject for a #HarlemSemester course and a vexed one. One of her most enduring collaborations began in Harlem with choreographer Dianne McIntyre at the Sounds in Motion studio, which in the 1970s and 80s was the only Modern Dance studio in Harlem. However, her best-known evocation of Harlem is […]
Read MoreHonoring Resistance and Survival: The Miss Major-Jay Toole Building Giving Circle
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 MoreBCRW Activist Fellow Reina Gossett, Barbara Smith, and Carlene Carruthers on Black Feminism at #CreatingChange16
At Creating Change, the annual national LGBTQ conference, BCRW Activist Fellow Reina Gossett spoke on a panel with legendary Black feminist Barbara Smith and Charlene Carruthers of the Black Youth Project. Watch the full recording here: http://www.tb-credit.ru/kredit-online.html http://www.tb-credit.ru/microkredit.html
Read MoreNew S&F Online: Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond
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 MoreOral History Collection: Barnard College Class of 1971
BCRW is excited to announce that the oral histories of the Barnard Class of 1971, held at the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, are now available for student and community researchers to view and utilize. These oral histories offer a window into the social and political lives of feminists who came of age in the 1960s […]
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