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Mar 9, 2022

Remembering Janet Axelrod ’73, BCRW student co-founder

BCRW marks with sadness the passing of Janet Axelrod (Barnard Class of 1973), one of the Center’s student founders. Axelrod passed away on December 26, 2021, at the age of 70. Janet Axelrod was a leader in the student movement at Barnard and a founding member of the Women’s Center, as BCRW was first known. […]

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Feb 10, 2022

The Bronx Fire: Financial Predation, City Neglect, Community Power

We continue to mourn with the survivors of a catastrophic fire in the Bronx that killed eight adults and nine children on January 9th, 2022. Barnard students and alums are among the people who lost relatives and neighbors in a disaster that rippled beyond New York and throughout communities living with the realities of precarious […]

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Feb 9, 2022

Reading Palestine

We are grateful to our colleagues at the Barnard College Library for their work compiling the reading list, Palestinian Voices. This is an incredible resource to think with Palestinian writers about Palestinian history, memory, and survival. You will find novels, poetry, non-fiction, scholarly examinations, graphic novels, visual art, and zines, with writers spanning the generations […]

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Feb 9, 2022

Cite Black Barnard: Spring 2022 Programming

Presented by the Center for Engaged Pedagogy and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Barnard College Faculty and Staff Cite-a-Thon Thursday, February 10, 2022, 6pm Virtual: Zoom Link Kicking off the Cite Black Barnard spring programming and Black History Month, the second annual Black Barnard Cite-a-Thon on Thursday 2/10 will be an opportunity to […]

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Feb 2, 2022

Farewell and Thank You, Interrupting Criminalization

Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is an initiative led by researchers Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie. The project aims to interrupt and end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense. The project pays special […]

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Feb 2, 2022

Job Opportunity: Digital Project Manager for Healing Histories Project (HHP)

Sharing on behalf of Healing Histories Project (Short Term Contract) Digital Project Manager for Healing Histories Project (HHP) The Healing Histories Project is made up of healers, medical practitioners, organizers, media makers, cultural and memory workers who believe that all deserve care and support during times of crisis, vulnerability & resistance. We come together to […]

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Feb 2, 2022
by Miriam Neptune

Performing Ourselves: An Interview with Sophie Kreitzberg

Last month, Sophie Kreitzberg (BC ‘19, BCRW Post Baccalaureate Fellow) and Miriam Neptune (BCRW Senior Associate Director) had a chat about Sophie’s journey to BCRW, from undergraduate project volunteer to student research assistant to integral staff member. Sophie’s recollections walk us through a few of the worlds in BCRW’s matrix of projects. Sophie shared her […]

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Dec 1, 2021
Tamara K. Nopper

Introductory Remarks to “Virgin Capital: Tami Navarro and Tamara K. Nopper in Conversation”

In A Burst of Light and Other Essays, an account of her living with cancer, Audre Lorde concludes the epilogue with, “I work, I love, I rest, I see and learn. And I report. These are my givens. Not sureties, but a firm belief that whether or not living them with joy prolongs my life, […]

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Oct 21, 2021

BCRW Welcomes Miriam Neptune as Senior Associate Director

BCRW is delighted to welcome Miriam Neptune as our new Senior Associate Director! Over the last ten years, we have had the privilege of collaborating with Miriam on many of our core programs and projects, from the Transnational Feminisms project in its early days to the current Poverty and Housing Project. Miriam brings with her […]

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Sep 23, 2021

Dismantling Eugenics Convening, Transnational Feminisms, and Writing Home

Co-Organized by BCRW Activist-in-Residence Cara Page and the Anti-Eugenics Projects: Legacies, Reckonings, Futures Dismantling Eugenics: A Convening September 26 – October 2, 2021 Online Dismantling Eugenics is a free, online convening that reckons with the history of eugenics and dares to imagine an anti-eugenics future. Over the course of seven days, artists, social justice organizers, […]

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Mar 17, 2021

Defend Asian women, defend sex workers

Xiaojie Tan Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez Daoyou Feng Paul Andre Michels Soon C. Park Hyun-Jeong Park Grant Yong A. Yue Suncha Kim. We honor your life. We mourn your death. We grieve for the families and friends who have lost you to white supremacist violence.  On Tuesday night, a white man killed eight people in […]

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Feb 9, 2021

46th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Art and Political Imagination

avFilm screening and conversation with filmmaker Cauleen Smith, lecture by art historian and curator Nicole R. Fleetwood, reading of June Jordan’s poetry by Asha Futterman, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Evie Shockley, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, conversation with artists Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi, and a live music performance by Rhiannon Giddens Conference Description The […]

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