Projects
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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. […]
Read MoreCare, 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.
Read MoreFeminist 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 […]
Read MorePreserving 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, […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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, its arts, and its artists.
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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.
Read MoreSocial 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.
Read MoreCritical 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.
Read MoreDigital 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.
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