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Speaker Comments from “The Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson”
The Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson from BCRW Videos on Vimeo. View more videos from BCRW here. Featuring Maggie Nelson in conversation with Christina Crosby, Saidiya Hartman, Sam Huber, and Heather Love. Moderated by Tina Campt. In her widely acclaimed memoir, The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson writes, “There is much to be learned from wanting something both ways.” […]
Read MorePolice Out of Pride
Share this GIF: http://gph.is/28U3BeM Police out of Pride, out of our lives & out of business now! GIFS by Dean Spade + Hope Dector. Featuring art by Micah Bazant. Share this GIF: thttp://gph.is/28WOgLI More on queer liberation and resistance to police & prisons: Police + Prisons Don’t Keep Us Safe – We Keep Each Other Safe […]
Read MoreBCRW is Hiring: Managing Editor for the Scholar and Feminist Online (PT)
The Barnard Center for Research on Women seeks a part-time Managing Editor for our journal, The Scholar and Feminist Online. S&F Online is an online peer-reviewed journal published three times per year that focuses on research and activism related to intersectional feminisms and social justice. Ideally, we prefer someone with experience managing a feminist and/or academic journal. Responsibilities of […]
Read MoreVIDEO: Challenges and Strategies for Anti-Violence Movements
In 2015, BCRW Activist Fellow Dean Spade and BCRW Creative Director Hope Dector produced a video series on historical challenges and strategies for anti-violence movementsbased on interviews conducted at the 2013 Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference, co-sponsored by BCRW and the Engaging Tradition Project at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia […]
Read MorePHOTOS from The Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson
On April 14, 2016, Christina Crosby, Saidiya Hartman, Sam Huber, Heather Love, and Maggie Nelson joined us for a conversation at The Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson, moderated by Tina Campt. Watch a recording from the event below: The Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson from BCRW Videos on Vimeo. And check out photos […]
Read MoreWhat’s Next at BCRW, Plus Videos from our Events
A NOTE FROM OUR DIRECTOR: Thank you to everyone who joined BCRW at our lectures and conversations, our salon, and the annual Scholar and Feminist Conference on feminist sustainabilities. Your thoughtful questions, insights, and contributions generated critical dialogues and planted seeds for ongoing work here at BCRW and beyond. Though the semester has wound down, BCRW has […]
Read MoreCaribbean Feminisms: From the Page to our Lives, Across Borders and Communities
Victoria Brown and Edwidge Danticat at Barnard College In hosting a series of events that featured conversations between Caribbean woman writers, the Barnard Center for Research on Women sought to centralize the importance of developing a transnational feminist dialogue. This year, the debut event for the BCRW’s Caribbean Feminisms on the Page series featured a conversation between Edwidge Danticat and […]
Read MoreGreat News: Paid Family News has come to NY!
BCRW is thrilled to share this news from A Better Balance, which helped lead the successful campaign for Paid Family Leave in New York: From A Better Balance: New York has passed the strongest paid family leave program in the nation, becoming the fourth state in the country to guarantee paid leave for workers welcoming […]
Read MoreReading on 4/19 with Karen Tei Yamashita
Please join BCRW and friends at a reading with National Book Award Finalist Karen Tei Yamashita on Tuesday, April 19 at 6 PM in Altshul Hall, Room 503. Yamashita will be reading from I-Hotel & Anime Wong. This event is sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (CCIS). Image credit: Carolyn […]
Read MoreFashioning New Methods of Survival: A Conversation with Alok Vaid-Menon of DarkMatter
Alok Vaid-Menon is one-half of the New York City-based performance duo Darkmatter. The pair, who met while studying at Stanford, have been making waves internationally with their thought-provoking poetry, accessible activism, and spectacular fashion. I was able to talk to Alok about the Internet, deconstructing binaries, and apathy as a political act. Why were you […]
Read MoreQueer Survival Economies: Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies at #SF41
At the Scholar & Feminist Conference 41: Sustainabilities conference, I attended a panel entitled “Queer Survival Economies: Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies.” BCRW Senior Activist Fellow Amber Hollibaugh was joined by Kate D’Adamo, Hamid Khan, and Ola Osaze to discuss issues impacting low-income and immigrant LGBTQ people and their experiences with ongoing changes in the neoliberal […]
Read MoreArt, Community, and Activism: Beyond our Lines of Vision at #SF41
Sustaining Harlem: Art, Community Activism and Black Women’s Leadership from BCRW Videos on Vimeo. At this year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference, Sade Lythcott, Virginia Johnson, Pat Cruz, and Thelma Golden were invited to speak on the importance of art in considering the sustainability of Harlem as a community that centers Black cultural, political, and social innovation. As self-identified Black […]
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