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FILM SCREENING: “I Remember Harlem”
We are excited to announce the launch of a BCRW and Africana Studies joint initiative: the Harlem Semester! The Harlem Semester offers a new way for students and faculty to be in closer dialogue with our Harlem neighbors and connect to the rich history of Harlem’s sociopolitical organizing and cultural legacy. Our opening Harlem Semester […]
Read MoreBCRW Spring 2016 Newsletter
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 […]
Read More#DalitWomenFight
Content Warning: This piece contains descriptions and statistics concerning the physical and sexual violence against and the murders of Dalit people. Dalit women all over South Asia are starting and leading historic movements to end caste-apartheid and caste-based sexual violence. The #DalitWomenFight United States tour began in September, and self-organized Dalit women like Anjum Singh, Manisha Mashaal, […]
Read MorePHOTOS from the Nina Ansary event: The Untold Story of Iranian Women
On November 5th, Nina Ansary ‘89 joined us to speak about her new book, Jewels of Allah. Ansary dismantles narratives of the subjugated post-revolutionary Iranian woman through story-telling of their feminist, anti-regime work within the public domain. Check out some photos from the event: See more photos of the event on the BCRW Facebook page. Sign up […]
Read MoreDigital Translations of Quisqueya
This semester, BCRW will host a plethora of events on transnational feminisms and activism in the Caribbean. Here you will find student-generated content on topics ranging from feminism to political economy on the island of Quisqueya, more commonly known as Hispaniola. I hope that they can serve as resources for research or just getting to know […]
Read MorePHOTOS of Caribbean Feminisms on the Page: Edwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown
On September 17, we were privileged to be joined by Caribbean writers Edwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown for the second event in our series, Caribbean Feminisms on the Page (video available here). Here are some photos from the night: Caribbean Feminisms on the Page places distinguished writers in conversation with emerging authors to discuss issues […]
Read MoreNew Video Release: BCRW Activist Fellows on Queer and Trans Movement Visions and Legacies
As LGBTQTSGNCI History month draws to a close, BCRW is excited to share our newly released videos with Activist Fellows Reina Gossett, Dean Spade, and Amber Hollibaugh on challenges and strategies for transformative organizing in queer and trans movements. Reina Gossett talks about learning and sharing histories of trans women of color, including Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and […]
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading at BCRW, the Throwback Edition
For our October edition of What We’re Reading at BCRW series, we have taken a nostalgic turn. All of our suggestions on books, movies, tv shows, music this time around are recommendations to our 18-year-old selves. What culture bites do we wish we’d been consuming as incoming college freshman or newly independent adults? Carly, Che and […]
Read MoreResources for Accessible Classrooms
BCRW—a collection of students, researchers, professors, activists, and the intellectually curious—is dedicated to enacting the feminist philosophies that compel our research, publications, events, and activism in Barnard and Columbia classrooms. A key and invaluable aspect of engaging feminist pedagogies is striving for accessibility of the classroom and education spaces. In the hope of making Barnard and Columbia […]
Read MoreBCRW events on Caribbean writers and thinkers
Alongside powerful Black Lives Matter movement mobilizations, we are thrilled to be holding critical conversations focused on writers, thinkers, and political movements emerging from the Caribbean. On September 17, we will be holding a conversation between Edwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown. On September 24-26, we will be co-hosting a conference engaging Stuart Hall’s legacy in the current moment […]
Read MoreChe Gossett: Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign
In “Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign,” a recent essay published to the VersoBooks Blog, BCRW’s very own Che Gossett explores the connection between “Blackness and animalization,” arguing that racialization is often enacted as animalization. Che, in engaging the writings of Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass, Frantz Fanon, Mel Chen and more, proposes an expanded understanding of abolitionism that considers Blackness in […]
Read MoreBCRW Fall 2015 Newsletter
A Note From BCRW Director Tina Campt I first set foot on the Barnard campus in 1982, at the tender age of 17, at a reception for admitted students. I entered Barnard Hall, gazing down that impressive hallway at the other young women assembled there. The next thing I remember was looking for a payphone, […]
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