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News 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 […]
Read MoreBecause of Them, I Am Not Alone: Radical Black Women of Harlem
A particularly evil thing about racism is its ability to make Black women feel alone. For my whole life I’ve been taught that I’m alone, that I will be one of the first or one of the only, that Black people haven’t existed in the places that I exist, but it’s all a lie. There […]
Read MoreAnnouncing the Release of “Salacia,” a New Film by Tourmaline
For Immediate Release Tourmaline, artist, filmmaker, and Barnard Center for Research on Women Activist-in-Residence (2014-2018), is set to release two new 16mm short films: Salacia, a 6-minute looping film, and Mary of Ill Fame, a 25-minute short, starring Rowin Amone (previously DeJayé Joseph) as Mary Jones. Salacia and Mary of Ill Fame tell the stories of […]
Read MoreJoin the Barbara Smith Caring Circle
“Black feminist organizing built a political environment in which one could assert the importance of [Black women’s] work and not necessarily just lose everything—one’s sanity, one’s job, one’s status, one’s credibility. We were building a real life context in which Black women could, if not be free, at least be free to express what we […]
Read MoreUpdates from Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action
The Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action initiative at BCRW kicked off a series of Spring convenings on March 1st with Research Across the Walls, a day-long training on using the recently released toolkit of the same name to conduct participatory research with incarcerated and criminalized survivors of violence, coauthored with Survived and Punished. Researchers in Residence Mariame Kaba and […]
Read MoreShirley Chisholm Monument Finalist: La Vaughn Belle
La Vaughn Belle, Artist in Residence in BCRW’s Social Justice Institute, is one of five finalists to design a New York City monument dedicated to Shirley Chisholm. Chisholm (1924-2005) was a political pioneer; she became the first black woman elected to Congress, where she represented New York’s 12th Congressional District for seven terms (1969 […]
Read MoreUpcoming events on transforming the medical industrial complex, Black feminism, and more
Join BCRW this March and April in a series of critical events from our collaborators and partners. All events are free and open to the public. More information and RSVP links are below. Lecture Mapping the Sacred: Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex Featuring Cara Page Thursday, March 7, 6–8 PM The Graduate Center, 365 5th […]
Read MoreBCRW Newsletter: Spring 2019
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Fall semester was BCRW’s first semester in our new space on the sixth floor of the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning, and we’ve definitely made ourselves at home. In addition to settling into offices, student research rooms, and work spaces for Social Justice Institute affiliates, we also inaugurated the Denise […]
Read MoreBCRW is Hiring a Post Baccalaureate Fellow!
Update as of 1/23/19: BCRW has filled the position of post baccalaureate fellow. BCRW is thrilled to be expanding our team. We’re seeking a post baccalaureate fellow who shares a commitment to intersectional feminist praxis, activist-academic collaborations, and public programming. About BCRW Founded in 1971, the Barnard Center for Research on Women brings together scholars and […]
Read MoreHey students, stop by BCRW Wednesday 9/12!
Join BCRW for an open house to usher in the new year! Stop by to hear from staff and current Research Assistants and volunteers to learn about BCRW’s history, current projects, and ways to get involved, including supporting BCRW’s activist-academic collaborations, working with Social Justice Institute activists and artists, archiving, blogging, and lots more! Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. When: […]
Read MoreFall 2018 Newsletter
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR For those of us in academic life, the year really begins in September. The new semester promises the arrival of new students and colleagues, and the turn of the season marks the promise of change and new possibilities. For BCRW, the new year also comes with a number of milestones. After […]
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