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Erika Dickerson-Despenza to receive Career Achievement Honors at PEN America Literary Awards on March 2
Erika Dickerson-Despenza, creator and inaugural resident of the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency co-sponsored by BCRW, The Public Theater, and the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust, will receive the Career Achievement Honor at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on Thursday, March 2. Learn more about this recognition and Dickerson-Depsenza’s work. Congratulations to Erika! Don’t […]
Read MoreChache Konn Dwa W / Know Your Rights
BCRW’s Transnational Feminisms Initiative continues our collaboration with Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, a Brooklyn-based organization that has been working for over thirty years to respond to the needs of Haitian refugees and immigrants fleeing persecution. The organization combines direct service, organizing, and political education in the movement to defend Black migrants, stop anti-Black deportation, […]
Read MoreThis Flame Within: An Interview with Manijeh Moradian
In November, Manijeh Moradian (Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College) published This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press), a new book on the radical organizing efforts of US-based Iranian students in the 1960-70s. The book arrives at an extraordinary moment as Iranians protest the killing of Mahsa […]
Read MoreErika Dickerson-Despenza Named Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency’s Inaugural Playwright
BCRW, The Public Theater, and The Ntozake Shange Literary Trust partner to establish the first residency of its kind for distinguished women, femme, trans, or non-binary playwrights of the African Diaspora. The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director and Patrick Willingham, Executive Director), the Barnard Center for Research on Women (Premilla Nadasen, Claire Tow Professor […]
Read MoreCOVID Safety Guidelines
We are looking forward to hosting a combination of in-person and hybrid events this semester. Guests are asked to follow COVID safety guidelines to make our events safe and accessible to our communities. Please review the current Barnard College policies and procedures for public events. Email bcrw@barnard.edu with questions about safety or accessibility. All attendees […]
Read MoreWelcome from Co-Directors Premilla Nadasen and Janet Jakobsen
We are very excited to begin our new roles as co-directors of BCRW. We would first like to extend our deepest gratitude to Professor Elizabeth Castelli for leading BCRW over the last four years and a huge thanks to the staff for all their hard work. We are proud to be a part of a […]
Read MoreChoice or Chance?
Driving is a form of intimate service work and reproductive labor that extracts the liveliness of drivers for the benefit of the passengers who become consumers of their labor. Even more importantly, this labor is ultimately accumulated as national and corporate wealth, under historical regimes of gender, race, class, nation, work and ableism. Spent Behind […]
Read MoreMeet our Research Assistants
Student Research Assistants are an integral part of BCRW’s community, providing crucial support to its social justice programming and events. In the 2021-22 academic year, six students worked with BCRW staff and collaborators on a range of projects. These projects include processing the new collection of archives from the Coalition of Women Prisoners, working with […]
Read MoreFarewell from Elizabeth Castelli, Director, 2018-2022
Dear Friends of BCRW, As many of you already know, I concluded my service as Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women on June 30. I became Interim Director of the Center in July 2018, and then served another three years as Director beginning in 2019. It has been a great privilege to […]
Read MoreRemembering Quandra Prettyman, Teacher, Activist, Friend
Quandra Prettyman, beloved Barnard Professor of Africana Studies and English, is celebrated by her colleagues, friends, family, and students in this memorial, recorded on January 9, 2022. Get the memorial program here (PDF) Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Quandra Prettyman was the daughter of two school teachers. A curious, adventurous child, she saw the […]
Read MoreHealing Histories Project is Hiring: Two Paid Summer Internships
The Healing Histories Project collaborates with healers, medical practitioners, organizers, media makers, cultural and memory workers who believe that all deserve care and support during times of crisis, vulnerability, and resistance. Collaborators come together to inform and shape a vision for collective care and safety while integrating models of wellness that seek to transform and intervene […]
Read MoreSign Petition in Support of Ana Belique and Michelle Ricardo
We stand in solidarity with Ana Belique and Michelle Ricardo, we reject the censorship and fascist threats during the International Book Fair of Santo Domingo. We write to denounce the terrorist threats received by our colleague and collaborator, human rights activist Ana Belique, author of La Muñeca de Dieula. Barnard College’s Digital Humanities Center team […]
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