September 2020

Annual Report 2019-2020

Report on BCRW accomplishments from 2019-2020.

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2019-2020 annual report

What is Accountability?

Featuring Mia Mingus, Priya Rai, RJ Maccani, Esteban Kelly, Sonya Shah, Shira Hassan, Elliott Fukui, adrienne marie brown, Stas Schmiedt, Lea Roth, kai lumumba barrow, Martina Kartman, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, nuri nusrat, and Mimi Kim

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accountability, transformative justice

Modern Roots of Transformative Justice

Featuring Mimi Kim and Shira Hassan

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anti-violence, movement history, transformative justice

Everyday Practices of Transformative Justice

Featuring Shira Hassan, Martina Kartman, Rachel Herzing, Mia Mingus, Priya Rai, Lea Roth, and Sonya Shah

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anti-violence, transformative justice, transforming harm

Nov 12, 2020 | 7:00PM

We Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity

Dean Spade, Mariame Kaba, and Ejeris Dixon

Dean Spade, Ejeris Dixon, and Mariame Kaba discuss mutual aid as an abolitionist project.

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The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics

Janet Jakobsen in conversation with Sydnie Mosley, Ann Pellegrini, Pamela Phillips, Dean Spade, and Tourmaline

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bcrw.barnard.edu
Oct 1, 2020 | 7:00PM

The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics

Janet Jakobsen in conversation with Sydnie Mosley, Ann Pellegrini, Pamela Phillips, Dean Spade, and Tourmaline

A conversation on The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics, a new book by Janet Jakobsen.

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Ann Pellegrini, Janet Jakobsen, politics, sex

BCRW Conference Room, 6th Floor Milstein, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Feb 26, 2020 | 4:00PM

What Does It Mean When We Say ‘Safety’?

Ariana Gonzalez Stokas and Mariame Kaba

What does it mean when we say 'safety'? You are invited to join a community project that explores this question through Barnard College and New York City archives.

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anti-violence, archives, safety

Barnard Center for Research on Women

Spring 2020 Newsletter

Jan 13, 2020

Letter from the Director  In the fall semester, BCRW hosted an amazing array of artists, academics, and activists who taught us about the politics and poetics of memory, new horizons in brain science, the archival legacies of colonial rule, the still-urgent need to disrupt systems of mass incarceration and uproot the carceral state through resistance […]

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BCRW

News from our partners working on criminalization, plus our walking tour featured in Fodor’s

Nov 19, 2019

Update: We shared details on a workshop on prison abolition organized by Critical Resistance, but the event was already sold out. We apologize for the confusion. For details on upcoming gatherings to support incarcerated survivors and the movement to abolish prisons, visit the Survived and Punished events page. Radical Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour […]

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Ella Weed Room, 2nd Floor, Milbank Hall, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Oct 28, 2019 | 6:00PM

S&F Online Launch Party: Unraveling Criminalizing Webs

Andrea J. Ritchie

Celebrating the newest issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, "Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures," guest edited by BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske (BC '18), which  invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what?

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anti-violence, Black Women, criminalization, femmes, gender nonconforming, gender-based violence, policing, racism, trans, transformative justice, transgender, women of color

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Oct 21, 2019 | 6:30PM

On the Road to Abolition: Archiving Resistance to the Carceral State

Simon Balto and Emily Thuma, moderated by Mariame Kaba

Emily Thuma and Simon Balto, in conversation with Mariame Kaba, will discuss histories of resistance to prisons and policing, offering roadmaps and lessons for contemporary struggles.

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Abolition, anti-policing, anti-prison, anti-violence, Black Power, policing, prison newsletters, prison-psychiatric state, prisons, self-defense