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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 […]
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 […]
Read MoreFor Immediate Release: TOURMALINE NAMED TO TIME’S ANNUAL TIME100 LIST OF THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
September 22, 2020, New York, NY — TIME named Tourmaline to the 2020 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Tourmaline is an artist and filmmaker whose work includes Salacia, Mary of Ill Fame, Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, The Personal Things, Lost in the Music and Happy […]
Read MoreVideos from #unsilencedpast, plus BCRW in the media
Videos from #unsilencedpast, plus BCRW in the media. Stay tuned for upcoming events, or visit our events page for a preview. #unsilencedpast: Virtual Symposium Presented by the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College Co-Sponsored by BCRW July 2020 Taking as its point of departure Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s foundational work, Silencing the Past: Power and […]
Read MoreUpdate on spring 2020 programming
BCRW has been following the rapidly changing circumstances of the novel coronavirus outbreak with heavy hearts. In light of this public health crisis and in order to support efforts to minimize the spread of the virus, we have adjusted our public programming for the remainder of the spring semester. A number of events will be moved online, […]
Read MoreSpring 2020 Newsletter
Letter from the Director In the fall semester, BCRW hosted an amazing array of artists, academics, and activists who taught us about the politics and poetics of memory, new horizons in brain science, the archival legacies of colonial rule, the still-urgent need to disrupt systems of mass incarceration and uproot the carceral state through resistance […]
Read MoreNews from our partners working on criminalization, plus our walking tour featured in Fodor’s
Update: We shared details on a workshop on prison abolition organized by Critical Resistance, but the event was already sold out. We apologize for the confusion. For details on upcoming gatherings to support incarcerated survivors and the movement to abolish prisons, visit the Survived and Punished events page. Radical Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour […]
Read MoreBarnard Welcomes a 'Queen' to Campus
I Am Queen Mary, a human-scale monument memorializing resistance to Danish colonialism in the Caribbean, will be installed at Barnard College on Tuesday, October 15, 2019. The sculpture is part of a transnational collaboration between artists La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers and is intended to spark important dialogues about public art, representations of black […]
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