The View from Somewhere: Transgender Journalists Resisting Objectivity
Conversation featuring Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace
Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build
A film screening and conversation with Marc Dones, Gregory Jost, Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Fitzroy Christian.
Transforming Harm: Experiments in Accountability
Online event featuring Mariame Kaba, Stas Schmiedt, and Lea Roth
How Shame Can Block Accountability
Stas Schmiedt and Lea Roth talk about how coming from a framework of shame can shut us down and get in the way of authentic accountability.
Consent is Accountability
Stas Schmiedt and Lea Roth discuss why they see consent as transformative justice and how we can use consent to learn concrete tools to negotiate power dynamics.
How to Support Harm Doers in Being Accountable
Featuring adrienne marie brown, Stas Schmiedt, Lea Roth, Mimi Kim, RJ Maccani, Priya Rai, Mia Mingus, Martina Kartman, Elliott Fukui, Sonya Shah, Rachel Herzing, Shira Hassan, and Ann Russo.
What are Obstacles to Accountability?
Featuring Sonya Shah, nuri nusrat, Mimi Kim, Ann Russo, Esteban Kelly, adrienne marie brown, Rachel Herzing, Stas Schmiedt, Lea Roth, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mia Mingus.
Engaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule
A conversation featuring La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro.
Building Accountable Communities: Addressing Harm
Panel featuring adrienne maree brown, Shira Hassan, Mimi Kim, Priya Rai, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, and Amita Swadhin, and moderated by Ejeris Dixon.
Building Accountable Communities: What is Accountability?
Panel discussion featuring Shannon Perez-Darby, Esteban Kelly, RJ Maccani, Mia Mingus, Sonya Shah, and Leah Todd, and moderated by Piper Anderson.
Building a Powerful Grassroots HIV/AIDS Movement
JD Davids, Che Gossett, Imani Henry, and Jason Walker discuss what it looks like to build a truly grassroots movement around HIV/AIDS that centers the people most impacted.
Who Leads the Fight Against HIV/AIDS?
Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry discuss how professionalization of the fight against HIV/AIDS leaves out the people most impacted.
Social Service Or Social Change: Building Political Power for People with HIV/AIDS
Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry offer a view of how nonprofitization of the fight against HIV/AIDS created a divide between service provision and movements for social change.
N’Tanya Lee: Grassroots Organizing Builds Power
N’Tanya Lee discusses why base-building is fundamental to all social justice work and the need for a new left with a vision for longterm social change.
N’Tanya Lee: Building Real Coalitional Queer Struggle
N’Tanya Lee discusses the shortfalls of single-issue queer organizing, reflecting on her work in the 90s, and how she carries those lessons into her current work through base-building and grassroots organizing within working-class communities of color.
Black Imaginaries, Scandinavian Diasporas: Imagining Race in Scandinavia
Artists discuss how their practices across different media are designed to provoke conversation about colonial legacies and contemporary racial politics on the ground in Sweden, Denmark, and St. Croix.
Robyn Maynard: Resisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island
Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Fernwood 2017), in conversation with Andrea Ritchie.
Tina Neal: The Extraordinary 2018 Eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii
In the annual Roslyn Silver ’27 Science Lecture, Tina Neal describes the intense volcanic unrest and 2018 eruption at one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and the highest-threat volcano in the United States, Kīlauea Volcano on the Island of Hawaii.
Moving Mountains and Liberating Dialogues: Creating a Black Feminist Archaeology
Whitney Battle-Baptiste, describes her process of combining Black feminism and archaeology,
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: A Salon in Honor of Saidiya Hartman
Panel discussion featuring Saidiya Hartman, Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Alexander G. Weheliye, and Tina Campt.
Participatory Defense Campaigns as a Strategy for Freedom
Video from Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures panel featuring organizers, including criminalized survivors and their loved ones, exploring survivor defense campaigns as a strategy for freedom and decriminalization.
Organizing for Freedom Across Prison Walls
Video from a Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures workshop identifying strategies to build relationships and strengthen coalitions for freedom and safety across prison walls.
African Diasporic Countervisualities
Panelists discuss the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region.
Graveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging
Jarret Drake delivers the 2019 Scholar and Feminist Conference keynote, “Graveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging.”
S&F Conference: Building an Archive of Domestic Worker Organizing, Now and Before
Panel discussion featuring Jennifer Guglielmo, Michelle Joffroy, Premilla Nadasen, Monique Tú Nguyen, Riya Ortiz, Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra, moderated by Miriam Neptune
S&F Conference: Case Studies in Archiving for Activist Movements
S&F Conference panel featuring Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Laura McTighe, and Maria Cotera, moderated by Elizabeth Castelli
S&F Conference: Archiving Colonialism
Scholar and Feminist Conference panel featuring La Vaughn Belle, Justin Leroy, and Cameron Rowland, moderated by Saidiya Hartman
S&F Conference: The Politics and Ethics of the Archive: Introduction
Interim Director Elizabeth Castelli introduces the Scholar and Feminist Conference, The Politics and Ethics of the Archive.
S&F Literary Spotlight: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi
Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi joined BCRW for a conversation on literary considerations of history, archives, and memory.