Projects

Current

Jun 13, 2023

Transnational Black Feminisms

Transnational Black Feminisms was initiated by Premilla Nadasen and Celia Naylor as a working group at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) in 2019. In 2023, Tami Navarro joined Premilla as project co-director, Anna Reumert joined as project assistant, and the working group partnered with BCRW. The podcast and the conference are supported by CSSD and BCRW. […]

Dec 27, 2023

Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction

This project, led by Premilla Nadasen (BCRW C0-Director and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History), brings together scholars, organizers, and artists to consider the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change.

Nov 1, 2023

Feminist Freedom School

Applications are open for the 2024 Feminist Freedom School! Apply at https://bit.ly/combahee50 by March 29. Decisions will be sent on April 15. 2024 FEMINIST FREEDOM SCHOOL: LESSONS FROM COMBAHEE 50 YEARS ON In 1974, a group of Black feminists formed the Combahee River Collective and together theorized foundational elements of Black feminist praxis. Three years […]

Dec 20, 2023

Preserving Trans Histories: The Marsha P. Johnson Archival Film Project

Artist and writer Tourmaline has spent nearly two decades uncovering the history and uplifting the legacy of trans icon Marsha P. Johnson. Tourmaline is currently working with BCRW to catalog newly discovered film footage from Johnson’s life and to produce a new short film in collaboration with Johnson’s family. Prior to her time in NYC, […]

Sep 12, 2022

The Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency

We are thrilled to announce the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency, a momentous partnership between BCRW, The Public Theater and the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust, established in July 2022. The program was conceived by inaugural resident, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, to support distinguished women, femme, and non-binary scholar-playwrights of the African Diaspora for two-year terms, and […]

Feb 21, 2018

Poverty and Housing Project

Scholars and activists are working together to study, imagine, and build abolitionist approaches to resistance and social systems that offer safety and equal resources to all.

Past

Oct 2, 2017

Transnational Feminisms

The Transnational Feminisms Initiative connects the work of Barnard faculty and students with feminist scholars and activists around the world. The project builds on faculty research, develops innovative curricula and methodologies in an age of global learning, and generates new scholar-activist collaborations.

Sep 28, 2017

Social Justice Institute

The Social Justice Institute, initiated in 2016, marks the next chapter of BCRW's commitment to scholar-feminist praxis and accountable exchange with activists and organizations in New York City and beyond. The Social Justice Institute provides multi-year fellowships with financial, research, and other material support to visionary feminist activists and leaders to develop and disseminate their work.

Sep 25, 2017

Critical Inquiry Labs

Critical Inquiry Labs are interdisciplinary courses at Barnard College designed to foster in-depth critical studies of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nation, and citizenship, making connections across real and imagined boundaries of theory and practice, historical eras, and geographic borders.

Nov 20, 2017

Digital Feminist Archives

This archive offers a snapshot of feminist history in the 1960s and 1970s, the institutionalization of women’s centers and women’s studies as an academic discipline, and feminist struggles taking place at colleges and universities, in healthcare and social service centers, in political organizations and neighborhood meetings across the country.