Welcome from Co-Directors Premilla Nadasen and Janet Jakobsen

Sep 7, 2022

We are very excited to begin our new roles as co-directors of BCRW. We would first like to extend our deepest gratitude to Professor Elizabeth Castelli for leading BCRW over the last four years and a huge thanks to the staff for all their hard work. We are proud to be a part of a […]

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Kasturi Ray (Professor of Women and Gender Studies, San Francisco State University, BC '89) and Julietta Hua (Professor of Women and Gender Studies, San Francisco State University)

Choice or Chance?

Aug 18, 2022

Driving is a form of intimate service work and reproductive labor that extracts the liveliness of drivers for the benefit of the passengers who become consumers of their labor. Even more importantly, this labor is ultimately accumulated as national and corporate wealth, under historical regimes of gender, race, class, nation, work and ableism.  Spent Behind […]

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Online
Nov 15, 2022 / 7:00pm EST / 4:00pm PST

No borders! No prisons! No cops! No war! No state?

A conversation with Harsha Walia, William Anderson, and Dean Spade 

This event gathers three leading thinkers whose work questions the desire to take over the state, to discuss the stakes of this question for abolitionist work right now.

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Online
Nov 10, 2022 / 7:00pm EST / 4:00pm PST

Abolish Mandatory Reporting and Family Policing

A conversation with Erin Miles Cloud, Jasmine Wali, and Shannon Perez-Darby moderated by Dean Spade

How do movements for abolition of mandatory reporting and family policing intersect with larger movements for abolition of the criminal legal system?

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The Bronx Fire: Financial Predation, City Neglect, Community Power

Feb 10, 2022

We continue to mourn with the survivors of a catastrophic fire in the Bronx that killed eight adults and nine children on January 9th, 2022. Barnard students and alums are among the people who lost relatives and neighbors in a disaster that rippled beyond New York and throughout communities living with the realities of precarious […]

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anti-poor, housing justice, housing policy, racism

by Miriam Neptune

Performing Ourselves: An Interview with Sophie Kreitzberg

Feb 2, 2022

Last month, Sophie Kreitzberg (BC ‘19, BCRW Post Baccalaureate Fellow) and Miriam Neptune (BCRW Senior Associate Director) had a chat about Sophie’s journey to BCRW, from undergraduate project volunteer to student research assistant to integral staff member. Sophie’s recollections walk us through a few of the worlds in BCRW’s matrix of projects. Sophie shared her […]

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Online
Mar 1, 2022 | 7PM ET / 4PM PT

Abolition on the Ground: Reporting from the Movement to #DefundthePolice

Angélica Cházaro, Erica Perry, and Andrea Ritchie, moderated by Dean Spade

Join us for a conversation with abolitionist organizers and lawyers leading this work to talk about lessons learned in #defundthepolice mobilizations, how this work fits into the larger abolitionist vision for a world without cages or borders, and the key strategic questions facing the movement now. 

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Abolition, Defund police

Annual Report
2020-2021

Annual Report 2020-2021

Report on BCRW accomplishments from 2020-2021.

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annual report

Defend Asian women, defend sex workers

Mar 17, 2021

Xiaojie Tan Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez Daoyou Feng Paul Andre Michels Soon C. Park Hyun-Jeong Park Grant Yong A. Yue Suncha Kim. We honor your life. We mourn your death. We grieve for the families and friends who have lost you to white supremacist violence.  On Tuesday night, a white man killed eight people in […]

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AAPI, anti-asian violence, Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, sex workers, white supremacy

Tune in online
Mar 11, 2021 | 7:00PM

Transformative Justice in the Apocalypse: Beyond Survival One Year Later

Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, RJ Maccani, India Harris, YaliniDream, and Woods Ervin, moderated by Kenyon Farrow

What are the tools, conversations, and actions we need to take in this moment of transformative justice and abolition work?

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transformative justice

Taking Children: A History of American Terror

A conversation with Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Valeria Luiselli

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Deportation, immigration, mutual aid, prisons, state violence

Dec 1, 2020 | 6:30PM

Taking Children: A History of American Terror

Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, Valeria Luiselli

The three panelists will address the long history of policies of family separation in light of the current anti-migrant federal policy on the southern border of the United States.

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colonialism, family removal, family separation, immigration, immigration detention, Indian boarding schools, settler colonialism