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Challenged to Change Ourselves
This post by Dr. Laura Brumberg is part of a series of reflections on the 37th annual Scholar & Feminist conference, held March 3rd, 2012 at Barnard College. This year’s theme was “Vulnerability: the Human and the Humanities.” At the lunchtime workshop on Environmental Justice, someone asked about how those of us living in less vulnerable […]
Read MoreSmart Girls Have More Fun
This month, actress, writer, and comedian Amy Poehler continues to explore the intersection of new media and feminism with Season Two of her tween-oriented digital series, Smart Girls at the Party. Poehler uses a traditional talk show format to interview pre-teen girls “who are changing the world by being themselves,” featuring “bite-sized and positive” episodes that highlight passionate young ladies discussing […]
Read MoreHome-Care Workers Aren’t Just ‘Companions’
On July 1, The New York Times published an Op-Ed by Barnard Alumna and BCRW contributor Jennifer Klein about domestic workers’ rights in America. Klein and her co-author Eileen Boris historicize the legislative marginalization of in-home work and address President Obama’s proposal to revise Labor Department regulations on home attendants and aides by placing domestic help under the Fair Labor Standards Act: Establishing the legitimacy of care […]
Read MoreAmber Hollibaugh and Laura Flanders on Making Desire Political
Over at GRITtv, Laura Flanders interviews Queers for Economic Justice Co-Director Amber Hollibaugh about politics, desire and activism. Amber shares her radical vision for re-setting the agenda around sexuality: “Being respectful of the extraordinary work that’s happened in the last 30 years is not the same thing as it reflecting my values…I didn’t want us to have wars, […]
Read MoreFeminist Zines at the Barnard Zine Library
Did you know that Barnard has a Zine library? BCRW Advisory Board Member Jenna Freedman, the Director of Reference and Instruction Services at Barnard, posted a few months ago about new zines the library picked up at the Feminist Zine Fest. One new acquisition from 2008 includes a definition of feminism from Kathleen Hanna: “…I think of feminism as a radical […]
Read MoreThe Democratic Promise of Academia?
“…and then I realized I was wrong.” The speaker here is Assistant Professor of Political Science Michelle Smith, delivering a presentation on her past work to a roomful of Alain Locke scholars, American history professors, experts on the Harlem Renaissance, political theorists, and sundry undergraduates (myself among them) – and she’s just admitted she was wrong. I exchange […]
Read MoreKPFA Interview with Amber Hollibaugh & Kenyon Farrow
On June 21, Amber Hollibaugh and Kenyon Farrow, Scholar & Feminist Online Guest Editors from Queers for Economic Justice, discussed A New Queer Agenda, why sex matters, and asking a different set of questions about gay liberation on 94.1 KPFA “Behind the News” with Doug Henwood. Audio of the interview is available starting at 26:43 on the June 21st podcast. The disucssion began […]
Read MoreNew Sex Testing Policies Significantly Flawed
BCRW Advisory Board member Rebecca Jordan-Young has co-authored a new report on sex testing policies of the International Olympic Committee, “Out of Bounds? A Critique of the New Policies on Hyperandrogenism in Elite Female Athletes.” From the abstract: In May 2011, more than a decade after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the International Olympic […]
Read MoreBefore I was a Patient, I was a Person: On Navigating the Health Care System as a Singleton
This post by Rachel A. R. Bundang, PhD, is part of a series of reflections on the 37th annual Scholar & Feminist conference, held March 3rd, 2012 at Barnard College. This year’s theme was “Vulnerability: the Human and the Humanities.” Struggling with life-threatening illness and undergoing treatment for it is, undoubtedly, a prime situation of precarity: […]
Read MoreA Time for Radical Thinking: Discussing the 5th World Conference on Women
“Don’t call it a women’s conference,” Dr. Anele Heiges remembers Gertrude Mongellainsisting, in the lead up to what would come to be know as the 1st World Conference on Women. “Everyone should be in on it.” That year, 1975, was the UN International Women’s Year, and the Mexico City based conference focused on women’s contributions to development […]
Read MoreThe Bishops, the Sisters, and Religious Freedom
BCRW Acting Director and Chair of the Barnard Religion Department Elizabeth Castellioffers her take on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops‘s published stance on the Affordable Care Act: Framing their opposition to the health care mandate in terms of religious freedom, it needs to be emphasized, is a strategic move that narrows the terrain significantly: to […]
Read MoreReflections on Vulnerability and Disability
This post by Ynestra King is part of a series of reflections on the 37th annual Scholar & Feminist conference, held March 3rd, 2012 at Barnard College. This year’s theme was “Vulnerability: the Human and the Humanities.” What I was most struck by at this conference is the complexity of vulnerability from the perspective of disability, […]
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