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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 […]
Read MoreCite 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 […]
Read MoreFarewell 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 […]
Read MoreJob 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 […]
Read MorePerforming 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 […]
Read MoreIntroductory 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, […]
Read MoreBCRW 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 […]
Read MoreDismantling 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, […]
Read MoreDefend 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 […]
Read More46th 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 […]
Read More“They lived right around the corner from me”
News from the Center Asha Futterman (BC ’21) reflects on her three-year journey with BCRW, including her work creating the Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour with Mariame Kaba. “It was powerful to understand that so many women who have done amazing things, that still impact my life years and years later, lived right around the […]
Read MoreRemembering Christina Crosby, beloved friend
We have been filled with grief since the loss of our beloved friend Christina Crosby, writer, scholar, teacher, and friend. She passed away on January 5. Christina is survived by a wealth of loved ones, both her family and her family of friends, including everyone involved in BCRW. For her, these connections embodied the purpose […]
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