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For 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 […]
Read MoreBroken Histories Are Never Permanent
History classes have been a struggle for me. Growing up, I was required to read textbooks dominated by a white narrative, and regurgitate “facts” that did not sit right in my mind. I recall how in fifth and eighth grades, whenever my teachers taught the class about African slave revolts, they focused on how many […]
Read MoreBCRW Activists-in-Residence CeCe McDonald and Cara Page Selected for Soros Fellowships
CeCe McDonald and Cara Page, Activists-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), have been selected as a 2019 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 Soros Equality Fellow, respectively. The highly competitive Soros Fellowship program, which is supported by the Open Society Foundations, provides living expenses and project-related funding for activists working to advance […]
Read MoreAccompanying a friend to immigration court
I did my first accompaniment to immigration court one morning a couple of weeks ago as a volunteer with the New Sanctuary Coalition. I can’t say anything about the particular case, but I can say some things about the experience in some random order of observations: First, there’s the sense of scale. Our group–family members of […]
Read MoreOral histories, collaborations, and what we're reading
News from the Center Celebrating 50 Years: Oral History and Archives This summer, BCRW Post-Baccalaureate Fellow Eve Marie Kausch ’18 participated in the 2019 Summer Oral History Institute organized by the Columbia Center for Oral History Research and the Columbia Journalism School. This year’s program was called “From the Margins to the Center: Narrating the Politics of […]
Read MoreNews from the Interrupting Criminalization Initiative, plus fall events preview
Updates from the Social Justice Institute This spring, Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action, an initiative organized by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie hosted a series of timely convenings aimed at shaping an agenda for interrupting, reducing, and ending criminalization, incarceration, and the deportation of women, girls, and trans and gender nonconforming people. In March of 2019, […]
Read MoreGenealogy of a Walking Tour
I first met Asha in Detroit in June 2018 at the Allied Media Conference. She attended a workshop about Lifting as They Climbed, a guidebook mapping the histories of Black women on Chicago’s South Side that I co-wrote with Essence McDowell. At the end of the workshop, we exchanged information after I learned that Asha […]
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