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PHOTOS 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 […]
Read More#SF41 Keynote: “Making a Way Out of No Way” with Reina Gossett
Reina Gossett: Making a Way Out of No Way from BCRW Videos on Vimeo. “In a moment of heightened violence and increased visibility, which could also be called increased surveillance of our communities, how do we sustain ourselves? How do we make a way out of no way?” – Reina Gossett at the Scholar and Feminist 41: Sustainabilities […]
Read More“Taking Up Space and Making Art”: An Interview with Nia King
Nia King is a creative powerhouse whose work expands many different forms of media. King is a podcast producer, writer, zinester and self-publisher, and most importantly an artist and activist. In 2014, King published the collection of interviews Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives and is currently in the process of […]
Read MoreYou are SO Brave: Disability Studies vs. Disability Justice at #SF41
“You are SO BRAVE” is a statement most disabled people are used to hearing. Able-bodied and able-minded people frequently infantilize our experiences and lives for their own inspiration fetishes. But you might be shocked to hear these words coming from the mouths of disabled people at a conference surrounding disability studies and scholarly work, what […]
Read MoreThank you for joining BCRW at S&F 41: Sustainabilities
All of us at BCRW continue to feel the waves of inspiration that you have left in your collective wake. Thank you for joining us and participating in challenging and generative discussions on intergenerational activism, queer survival economies, disability justice, fat activism and intersectionality, community safety, resourcing and resilience in queer and trans liberation movements, […]
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