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#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, […]
Read MoreGetting Excited for: “BRIDGING THE GENERATIONS: CARRYING ON…” at #SF41
While events often feature folks from different generations, we don’t often hear conversations about the the challenges, experiences, and gifts of intentional intergenerational work. This Saturday’s #SF41 workshop, “Bridging the Generations: Carrying On…,” will do just that. Our featured guests, Trishala Deb, Frances Kunreuther, Krystal Portalatin and moderator, Katherine Acey, will address the challenges that arise due to generation differences and discuss […]
Read MoreConsidering Community in Black Art: Sustaining Harlem
Sustaining Harlem: Art, Community Activism and Black Women’s Leadership will be a panel presented by Pat Cruz, Thelma Golden, Virginia Johnson, and Sade Lythcott during the 41st annual Scholar & Feminist Conference this Saturday, February 27. This panel is presented by the Harlem Semester, a new public humanities initiative of the Barnard Center for Research on Women […]
Read More“Fearless in an Austere Way:” Activist in Residence Reina Gossett talks Intersectionality, Prisons, and Pinkwashing
Reina Gossett is an activist, writer, community organizer, and the 2014-2016 Activist in Residence at BCRW. She is also the co-writer and co-director of the upcoming film “Happy Birthday, Marsha.” “Happy Birthday, Marsha” tells the story of Black trans artist and activist Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson in the hours before the 1969 Stonewall Riots. In January, Reina […]
Read MoreSchedule for Scholar and Feminist Conference: Sustianabilities
This year we at BCRW are implementing the framework of sustainability for our 41st Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference. As a community of activists and scholars, we would like to ask and discuss how we can sustain the material, creative, cultural and critical resources necessary to maintain the vitality of our communities, movements, and scholarship. The conference […]
Read MoreNext Saturday 2/27: Sustaining Harlem at #SF41
On Saturday, February 27, 2015, join Pat Cruz, Thelma Golden, Virginia Johnson, and Sade Lythcott on “Sustaining Harlem: Art, Community Activism, and Black Women’s Leadership.” Each of these visionary black women has made significant contributions to sustaining Harlem through their leadership in its signature arts institutions. They will offer their perspectives on what it means to work […]
Read MoreNational LGBTQ Leadership and Aging Award Recipient, Katherine Acey
BCRW Senior Activist Fellow Katherine Acey is being honored at this year’s Creating Change Conference in Chicago for her organizing on aging issues impacting LGBTQ people, particularly LGBTQ people of color. We are honored to work with such an incredible movement leader. To honor her steadfast work in fighting for equity and justice for LGBTQ […]
Read MoreEnvisioning and Transforming: A Dialogue Between Students and Faculty
At the request of the Barnard College Department Chairs, BCRW is hosting an open discussion between faculty and students on the future of diversity on our campus. This much-needed forum will provide an opportunity for open discussion and exchange between us as scholars, educators, and students, on issues we face together as a community. From this conversation […]
Read More“then I moved to Harlem”: The Worlds of Ntozake Shange
Barnard alumna Ntozake Shange (BC ’70) is both the perfect subject for a #HarlemSemester course and a vexed one. One of her most enduring collaborations began in Harlem with choreographer Dianne McIntyre at the Sounds in Motion studio, which in the 1970s and 80s was the only Modern Dance studio in Harlem. However, her best-known evocation of Harlem is […]
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