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From Black Lives Matter to the White Power Presidency: Race and Class in the Trump Era
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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 current research examines race and public policy including American housing policies.
Read MoreBresha Meadows: Survived and Punished
Bresha Meadows is a young Black girl incarcerated for defending her life against domestic violence. She is one of tens of thousands of girls and young women locked up behind bars across the United States facing violence at the hands of the criminal punishment system. #FreeBresha, free them all!
Read More#FreeBresha, Free Them All
Dec 5, 2017
Bresha Meadows learned to fear her father and fear for her life. Throughout her young life, she endured years of his relentless physical and verbal abuse. On countless occasions he threatened to kill her and her family. Years of faded bruises, police reports, orders of protection, stories from neighbors, and allegations of sexual violence attest […]
Read MoreS&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence
Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade
This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state’s demands for constant access in the name of “security” and public order.
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 MoreInvisible No More: Criminalizing Webs
Featuring Kassandra Frederique (New York State Director, Drug Policy Alliance), Joo-Hyun Kang (Director, Communities United for Police Reform), Mizue Aizeki (Deputy Director, Immigrant Defense Project), and Chaumtoli Huq (Law@TheMargins)
Read MoreInvisible No More: Policing Girls
Featuring Cedra Sebastien (Associate Director, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Firdaws Roufai (Youth Leader, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Miaija Jawara (Urban Youth Collaborative), and Octavia Y. Lewis (Trans Health Activist & Young Women's Initiative). Moderated by Joanne Smith (Girls for Gender Equity)
Read MoreInvisible No More: Policing Motherhood
Featuring Erin Cloud (Team Leader, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders), Victoria Law (author), Dorothy Roberts (Professor, University of Pennsylvania), Jeanne Flavin (Professor, Fordham University), and Dinah Ortiz (Parent Advocate Supervisor, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders). Moderated by Monifa Bandele (Vice-President, MomsRising)
Read MoreInvisible No More: Policing Gender and Sex
Featuring Gabriel Arkles (Senior Staff Attorney, LGBT & HIV Project of the ACLU), Dean Spade (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kate Mogulescu (Professor, Brooklyn Law School), Bianey Garcia (Lead Organizer, Make the Road NY), and LaLa Zanell (Lead Organizer, NYC Anti-Violence Project)
Read MoreInvisible No More: From Combahee to Stonewall to Say Her Name & Beyond
Featuring Barbara Smith (Founder, Combahee River Collective), Reina Gossett (Filmmaker and Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (Professor, Columbia University School of Law), Mariame Kaba (Co-Founder, Survived and Punished and Project NIA), and Robyn Maynard (author, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present). Moderated by Tina Campt (Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women)
Read MoreSocial Justice Institute History
Sep 28, 2017
Since 2005, BCRW deepened its commitment to scholar-feminist praxis through series of collaborative partnerships with activists, activist-scholars, and community-based organizations and coalitions in New York City and beyond. Our collaborations with these groups and our projects’ outcomes have provided crucial legitimacy for campaigns in their earliest stages. These collaborative projects draw on the resources that BCRW […]
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