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Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action
Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is a new initiative of the BCRW Social Justice Institute led by Researchers in Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba, launched in fall 2018.
Read MoreTheorizing Activisms
Nov 13, 2017
This course explores contemporary forms of activism that situate the politics of gender and sexuality in terms of broader economic and political currents addressed by social justice feminism. Readings, conversations, and student projects trace the connections between the reallocation of various forms of capital, state agendas of incarceration and social reform, the politics of immigration, labor, and housing, new forms of gender inequality, and emergent forms of sexual violence and regulation.
Read MoreDean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture
"When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability"
Read MoreAction on Education
REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sfedu Speakers include Ujju Aggarwal, Lalaie Ameeriar, Abigail Boggs, The Black Youth Project, Nuala Cabral, Natalia Cecire, Jaz Choi, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Kandice Chuh, Antonia Darder, Dána-Ain Davis, Ejeris Dixon, Tadashi Dozono, Melanie Duch, Rod Ferguson, Cindy Gao, Jamaica Gilmer, Dana Goldstein, Che Gossett, Karen Gregory, Zareena Grewal, Ileana Jiménez, Shenila […]
Read MoreCare, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction
This conference will bring together scholars, organizers, and artists to think together about the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change. The conference will draw on the long history of organizing, study, thinking, and praxis forged by feminist activists, organizers, scholars, and artists who have expanded our political analysis […]
Read More46th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Art and Political Imagination
Feb 9, 2021
avFilm screening and conversation with filmmaker Cauleen Smith, lecture by art historian and curator Nicole R. Fleetwood, reading of June Jordan’s poetry by Asha Futterman, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Evie Shockley, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, conversation with artists Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi, and a live music performance by Rhiannon Giddens Conference Description The […]
Read MoreBCRW Activists-in-Residence CeCe McDonald and Cara Page Selected for Soros Fellowships
Sep 30, 2019
CeCe McDonald and Cara Page, Activists-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), have been selected as a 2019 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 Soros Equality Fellow, respectively. The highly competitive Soros Fellowship program, which is supported by the Open Society Foundations, provides living expenses and project-related funding for activists working to advance […]
Read MoreAnnouncing the Release of “Salacia,” a New Film by Tourmaline
Apr 26, 2019
For Immediate Release Tourmaline, artist, filmmaker, and Barnard Center for Research on Women Activist-in-Residence (2014-2018), is set to release two new 16mm short films: Salacia, a 6-minute looping film, and Mary of Ill Fame, a 25-minute short, starring Rowin Amone (previously DeJayé Joseph) as Mary Jones. Salacia and Mary of Ill Fame tell the stories of […]
Read MoreResponding to Violence, Restoring Justice
Tiloma Jayasinghe and Erin Ward
Table of Contents Introduction Feminist anti-violence movement development towards incarceration Criminalization and the feminist anti-violence movement The neoliberal carceral state Prison abolition Community-based alternatives Intersectionality and the feminist anti-violence movement Organizational directory Introduction At a promising moment in the history of the feminist anti-violence movement, a number of activist organizations are carving new means to […]
Read MoreWomen's Rights and Transnational Feminisms: Panel Reflection
Apr 17, 2014
Contemporarily, aligning with “feminism” is not simply supporting “equity for women.” While this stance might be perceived on a superficial level as the unifying force behind this notion of universal feminism, a more critical approach reveals the ways in which we should not be speaking about feminism, but feminisms. Even within localized Western communities, feminisms […]
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