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Sep 5, 2018

Announcing the 2018-2020 Social Justice Institute Cohort

The BCRW Social Justice Institute is thrilled to welcome the 2018-2020 cohort, with Artist-in-Residence La Vaughn Belle, Researcher-in-Residence Mariame Kaba, Activist-in-Residence CeCe McDonald, and returning Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie. Social Justice Institute 2018-2020 Cohort  La Vaughn Belle Artist-in-Residence Belle is best known for working with the coloniality of the Virgin Islands, both in its past […]

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Aug 28, 2018

Farewell to the Inaugural Social Justice Institute Cohort

BCRW extends our warmest thanks to the inaugural cohort of the Social Justice Institute, Activist-in-Residence Tourmaline Gossett, Activist-in-Residence Cara Page, Activist-in-Residence Tarso Ramos, Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie, and Activist-in-Residence Dean Spade ’97. Stay tuned for an announcement about the incoming 2018-2020 cohort! Project Highlights Video Invisible No More: Racial Profiling and Police Brutality Against Women […]

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Jul 24, 2018

New videos: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Simone Browne, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and more

Videos: Watch and Share Scholars and activists thinking and working through major historical and contemporary issues, from surveillance to colonialism to the day-to-day practices of political resistance from BCRW’s spring 2018 events. The 43rd Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence February 16-17, 2018 “they said in the name of […]

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May 4, 2018

Announcing leadership transitions

Dear Friends, As the semester draws to a close, we are reflecting on another inspiring year of lectures, conferences and informal gatherings, publications, curricular initiatives, and scholar-activist collaborations that have pushed us to consider, respond to and engage in practices of critical intervention as well as community care. It’s been a momentous year of many […]

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Jan 17, 2018

BCRW Spring 2018 Newsletter

Director’s Note When we don’t know what’s coming, we watch. When we sense danger, we watch out. When we feel uneasy at the edges of our world, we look back. We are watched. We look for the eyes watching us. These are the themes on our minds as we move into the spring semester with […]

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Dec 5, 2017
Barnard Center for Research on Women

#FreeBresha, Free Them All

Bresha Meadows learned to fear her father and fear for her life. Throughout her young life, she endured years of his relentless physical and verbal abuse. On countless occasions he threatened to kill her and her family. Years of faded bruises, police reports, orders of protection, stories from neighbors, and allegations of sexual violence attest […]

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Sep 25, 2017
Emma May, BCRW Research Assistant

What Next?: Resources to Respond to Trump’s Muslim Ban

On Wednesday, January 25, President Trump signed an Executive Order calling for the construction of a “impassable physical barrier” between the United States and Mexico. Throughout his campaign, Trump has stated that he would force the Mexican government pay for the wall, due to funds ostensibly lost from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). On Friday, […]

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Sep 14, 2017

Thursday 9/28: BCRW Open House for Students

Join BCRW Staff and Research Assistants at the BCRW Open House for undergraduate students of the Barnard/Columbia communities on Thursday 9/28 from 7-9 PM in 101 Barnard Hall. This will be the perfect opportunity to learn how you can get more involved in BCRW’s work and goals as an intersectional feminist center committed to research, scholarship, activism, […]

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Aug 24, 2017

BCRW Fall 2017 Newsletter: Upcoming events with Tina Campt, Barbara Smith, Sara Ahmed, and more

Director’s Note At the flash of a crisis, we rush, panic, act; we pool the resources at our disposal; we stall the tide or we fight. Then we pause. Maybe we collapse from exhaustion or hesitate or question ourselves. There is a staggered intake of breath. We come to see, again, the scale of the […]

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May 22, 2017

BCRW’s newly digitized archives of feminist history

The Feminist Origins of the Barnard Center for Research on Women As the 1960s drew to a close, a growing chorus of voices within the Barnard community began calling for an official College response to the changes wrought and challenges posed by the Women’s Liberation Movement. After months of impassioned, contentious discussion among students, faculty-members, administrators, […]

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Mar 9, 2017

In the Wake: A Salon in Honor of Christina Sharpe

On February 2nd, 2017, Christina Sharpe, Hazel Carby, Kaiama Glover, Arthur Jafa, and Alex Weheliye gathered on a panel to discuss Sharpe’s new book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016). Below are the stills from the event:    http://www.tb-credit.ru/news.html http://www.tb-credit.ru/zaim-online.html

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Jan 19, 2017

Courses in the Spring 2017 Harlem Semester Initiative

About the Harlem Semester Organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women and the Department of Africana Studies and launched in 2016, the Harlem Semester Program is an ambitious public humanities initiative that explores the complexities of Harlem’s social, political, and intellectual histories, its leaders, its culture, and its artists. The curriculum of the […]

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