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Resources 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, […]
Read MoreCalling all Barnard students: Come work at BCRW!
Applications for the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s fall 2015 Research Assistant positions are OPEN! CLICK HERE TO APPLY! About the Barnard Center for Research on Women: Since our founding in 1971, BCRW has built collaborative feminist activist-academic projects, programs, and publications on subjects ranging from domestic worker organizing to prison abolition, trans feminism to the […]
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading at BCRW
Last week, BCRW Program Manager Avi asked me, resignedly and with despair, “Did you see the new #SayHerName? The news of another trans woman of color’s murder?” The body of Shade Schuler, 22-year-old trans woman, had just been found (August 12) in Dallas. In that moment last week, she was the 13th trans person murdered in […]
Read MoreGetting Real About Allyship
Image from SJWiki, copyrighted but used with Fair Use rationale, see here for details. Each spring, ROOTEd (Respecting Ourselves and Others Through Education) holds a series of events about allyship in social justice, otherwise known as Allies Series. The programming usually consists of an allyship 101 teach-in, a discussion, and a panel featuring activists and community organizers. Having been a ROOTEd […]
Read MoreNo Such Thing as Neutral
On November 8, 2014, members of the Flex and Lite Feet dance communities joined Ali Rosa-Salas ’13 for a lecture demonstration and discussion. NO SUCH THING AS NEUTRAL highlights movement-based artists who engage notions of subjectivity and materiality of the body in their work while utilizing the technical formalities of Abstraction. The project celebrates Flex and Lite Feet, […]
Read MoreInvisible Lives, Targeted Bodies: The Conference
Amber Hollibaugh’s project Queer Survival Economies took the form of a conference “Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies” on January 23rd and 24th. Queer Survival Economies (QSE) is a project that aims to organize poor and working class people around economic justice and immigration issues, particularly problems that impact LGBTQ+ people. The project works with various organizational partners and includes conferences, […]
Read MoreTransformative Justice Workshop Resources
On Friday, February 27th, BCRW Research Assistants and Ejeris Dixon (Founding Director of Vision Change Win Consulting) will facilitate “Transformative Justice Approaches to Sexual Violence on Campus and Beyond”, a workshop at the 40th Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference on education. We (BCRW Research Assistants) have compiled a resources guide to concepts that will be explored at the workshop […]
Read MoreNYC to Ferguson: A Reflection
Last Tuesday night, thousands of protestors filled Union Square and marched throughout New York City, shouting “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” and “No justice, no peace!” in response to the Michael Brown verdict. The day before, history was repeated as the grand jury in St. Louis County, Missouri failed to indict Darren Wilson, and yet another […]
Read MoreRemembering Leslie Feinberg
I remember first encountering an article by Leslie Feinberg in Workers World where zie wrote about the legacy of queer and/or trans activists of color who participated in left, black power, queer, trans liberation, and AIDS activist movements. It was in this article that I learned about Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a Japanese American AIDS activist who was born […]
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