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

The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
February 8-9, 2019

Scholar and Feminist Conference: The Politics and Ethics of the Archive

Akwaeke Emezi, Jarrett Drake, Chinelo Okparanta, C. Riley Snorton, and more.

The S&F Conference will bring together archivists, librarians, artists, activists, and scholars to discuss the particular political and ethical challenges that reside in the project of creating archives for communities and social justice movements.

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Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Apr 11, 2019 | 6:30PM

Resisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island: Cross-Border Solidarity Against Anti-Blackness

Robyn Maynard, author of best-selling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Robyn Maynard will discuss similarities and differences in histories, tactics, modes, and consequences of state violence targeting Black communities in the U.S., Canada and at the border, articulating critical questions and strategies for cross-border solidarity, organizing, and resistance in the current political moment.

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Black Lives Matter, borders, Canada, cross-border solidarity, organizing strategy, policing, Robyn Maynard, state violence, Turtle Island, United States

Barnard Center for Research on Women

Fall 2018 Newsletter

Sep 6, 2018

LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR For those of us in academic life, the year really begins in September. The new semester promises the arrival of new students and colleagues, and the turn of the season marks the promise of change and new possibilities. For BCRW, the new year also comes with a number of milestones. After […]

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Sep 4, 2018

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.

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Farewell to the Inaugural Social Justice Institute Cohort

Aug 28, 2018

BCRW extends our warmest thanks to the inaugural cohort of the Social Justice Institute, Activist-in-Residence Tourmaline Gossett, Activist-in-Residence Cara Page, Activist-in-Residence Tarso Ramos, Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie, and Activist-in-Residence Dean Spade ’97. Stay tuned for an announcement about the incoming 2018-2020 cohort! Project Highlights Video Invisible No More: Racial Profiling and Police Brutality Against Women […]

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New Feminist Solutions: Volume 10
September 1, 2018

Responding 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 […]

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Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action

Aug 16, 2018

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. Combining participatory research, data analysis, and systemic advocacy, Ritchie and Kaba will work in partnership with local campaigns to identify primary pathways, policing practices, charges, and […]

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New videos: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Simone Browne, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and more

Jul 24, 2018

Videos: Watch and Share Scholars and activists thinking and working through major historical and contemporary issues, from surveillance to colonialism to the day-to-day practices of political resistance from BCRW’s spring 2018 events. The 43rd Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence February 16-17, 2018 “they said in the name of […]

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The People's Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018
Sep 22, 2018 | 10:00AM

Global Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures

Mary Helen Washington, Vijay Prashad, and others

Scholar-activists and organizers will discuss the hidden legacies of internationalist movements and reveal the potentials of decolonized feminist futures.

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decolonization, feminist futures, internationalism

1968 and Its Afterlives

May 3, 2018

1968 and Its Afterlives is a curatorial collaboration between staff and research assistants at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the Barnard Library and Archives, and members of Barnard Alumni Class of 1971. Its aim is to illustrate how the flashpoint of student and popular uprisings and politicization on issues of social justice were not discrete events, but instead reflect an important convergence of activist movements with broad social reverberations that continue shape our current political moment.

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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 […]

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#BlackLivesMatter, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor