Building from the Left: Strategies to Disrupt the Right
In the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections, Cara Page, Tarso Luís Ramos, and Pooja Gehi discuss intersectional strategies to build and sustain long-term resistance on the left.
Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Roxane Gay in Conversation with Katia D. Ulysse
Roxane Gay is joined by Katia D. Ulysse for a reading and conversation.
Capturing the Flag: Anne de Mare
Exploring themes that are constantly sensationalized and manipulated by the media, “Capturing The Flag” offers deeply personal, often surprising perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election and its aftermath.
Building Accountable Communities: Online Event
Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby joined us for an online discussion moderated by Mariame Kaba to explore models for building accountable communities for the purpose of healing and repair.
History, Memory, Craft: Zinzi Clemmons and Crystal Hana Kim
This reading and discussion features award-winning writers Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose (2017), and Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me (2018), whose works explore the intimate legacies of political upheaval, race, migration, sexuality, motherhood, trauma and loss, and the malleability of memory.
Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
Erna Brodber, author of Nothing’s Mat (2014) and The Rainmaker’s Mistake (2007), among other works, and Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun (2016), join us for a reading, followed by a discussion moderated by Kaiama L. Glover.
People Who do Harm are not Monsters
Building Accountabile Communities // Part 4
Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby
Self-Accountability and Survivors
Building Accountabile Communities // Part 3
Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby
What is Self-Accountability?
Building Accountabile Communities // Part 2
Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby
What is Accountability?
Building Accountabile Communities // Part 1
Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby
Mary Helen Washington: Afterlives: Legacies of the Black Literary Left
Mary Helen Washington delivers the lecture, “Afterlives: Legacies of the Black Literary Left,” a keynote at the conference Global Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures held on September 22, 2018 at The People’s Forum in NYC.
Black Feminist Left Internationalism
Featuring Cheryl Higashida, Mariame Kaba, and John Munro, this panel examines the radical anti-racist, anti-colonial, socialist internationalist, and feminist visions of social change, that Mary Helen Washington terms “Black Left Feminism.”
Recovering Global Radicalism
Lisa Armstrong, S. Ani Mukherji, and Margaret Stevens recover lost and forgotten histories of shared global struggle
Vijay Prashad: What is the Meaning of the Left?
Vijay Prashad delivers the lecture, “What is the Meaning of the Left?” a keynote at the conference Global Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures held on September 22, 2018 at The People’s Forum in NYC.
Clare Hemmings: Emma Goldman’s Struggles for Utopia
In the annual Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture in Feminist Criticism and History, Clare Hemmings delivers a lecture titled “Emma Goldman’s Struggles for Utopia: Feminism and Ambivalence.” Emma Goldman (anarchist activist and thinker) was a life-long believer in anarchist revolution and the importance of prefigurative engagement with utopian ways of living that such revolution would […]
Valerie Seeley: Interview by Victoria Law
Seeley discusses being criminalized for self defense, being granted clemency after 17 years in prison, and why she’s fighting for the freedom of women and girls still inside.
Eli Clare: Gawking, Gaping, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies
Disabled people, trans people, fat people, and people of color all know what it’s like to be stared at. Through words and images, Eli explores the internal experiences of living in marked bodies and the external meanings of oppression and bodily difference.
Trans Liberation, Not U.S. Invasion!
Speakers explore queer and trans resistance to militarism and the racist, sexist, transphobic, and environmental violence of U.S. imperialism.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Trans Ban? Let’s Ban Everyone from the Military!
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses the reality that the U.S. military is the largest source of violence and environmental racism in the world.
Nikkita Oliver: Black Anti-Militarism and the Trans Ban
NIkkita Oliver discusses Black anti-militarism, the reality that the U.S. military is the largest source of violence and environmental racism in the world, and the ways activists should resist the trans military ban, not by fighting for more inclusive military service but by banning it for all.
Queer Anti-Militarism Townhall: Trans Liberation Not U.S. Invasion
In this video, speakers at a town hall in Seattle explore queer and trans resistance to militarism and the racist, sexist, transphobic, and environmental violence of U.S. imperialism.
Matt Remle: Militarism and Environmental Racism Against Indigenous People
In this video, Matt Remle discusses the adverse environmental and health consequences of war and militarism on indigenous communities, and the ugency of anti-war resistance.
Karen Barad: Undoing the Future
The indeterminacy of time-being at the core of quantum theory troubles the scalar distinction between the world of subatomic particles and that of social phenomena such as colonialism, capitalism, militarism, racism, nationalism and environmental destruction – all of which are entangled with nuclear and particle physics research. Quantum physics is a material-discursive practice with direct […]
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: From #BlackLivesMatter to the White Power Presidency
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016), an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor’s research examines race and public policy including American housing policies. Dr. Taylor is currently […]
Simone Browne: Keynote at Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence
Keynote lecture at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”
Psalm for the Mismeasured and Unfit
“Psalm for the Mismeasured and Unfit” (Trailer), a performance installation on the medical industrial complex at the 43rd annual Scholar and Feminist Conference
“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons
Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Tina Campt at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”
“its known and unknown powers / to bind and dissociate”: Forensic Surveillance and the Policing of Biology
Featuring Shoshana Magnet, Cara Page, Rori Rohlfs, and Harriet Washington, moderated by Anthony Ureña at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”
“in this time of siege for me and mine, mi raza”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons
Featuring Rachel Ida Buff, Inderpal Grewal, Arun Kundnani, and Marlene Nava Ramos, moderated by Manu Vimalassery at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”
“they said in the name of self-defense”: Technologies of Surveillance and the Selling of the In/Security State
Featuring Rabab Abdulhadi, Dylan Rodríguez, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade, moderated by Craig Willse, at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.”