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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 […]
Read MoreDean Spade ’97
ABOUT Dean Spade ‘97 is Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law where he teaches Administrative Law, Poverty Law, and Law and Social Movements. He founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in 2002, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to low-income transgender, intersex and gender nonconforming people. SRLP also engages in litigation, […]
Read MoreAndrea J. Ritchie
Through research, writing, legal services, and organizing, Andrea J. Ritchie has dedicated the past two decades to challenging abusive and discriminatory policing against women, girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of color.
Read MoreCara Page
Cara Page's work focuses on historical and contemporary eugenic practices and medical experimentation. She is shaping a public discourse on the historical and contemporary role of eugenic violence as an extension of state control and surveillance on Black and immigrant communities; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming people; people with disabilities; and Women of Color.
Read MoreListening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt
Featuring Tina Campt, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, and Deborah Thomas
Read MoreBCRW Fall 2017 Newsletter: Upcoming events with Tina Campt, Barbara Smith, Sara Ahmed, and more
Aug 24, 2017
Director’s Note At the flash of a crisis, we rush, panic, act; we pool the resources at our disposal; we stall the tide or we fight. Then we pause. Maybe we collapse from exhaustion or hesitate or question ourselves. There is a staggered intake of breath. We come to see, again, the scale of the […]
Read MoreKy Peterson: Survived and Punished
Ky Peterson should be free, but right now he is in prison for defending his life against physical and sexual assault.
Read MoreListening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt
Tina Campt, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, and Deborah Thomas
What happens when we shift our way of engaging with photography? When we go beyond looking at images and, instead, listen to them? Tina Campt, director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, delves into lost archives of historically dismissed photographs to deepen our understanding of the lives of black subjects throughout the black […]
Read MoreParis Knox: Survived and Punished
Paris Knox is a 38-year-old Black mother sentenced to 40 years in prison for defending her life against an abusive ex-partner.
Read MoreAndrea Ritchie: Invisible No More (Preview)
Excerpt from a lecture by Andrea Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.
Read MoreWe Move Together: Disability Justice and Trans Liberation
A conversation with Patty Berne, Reina Gossett, Kiyaan Abadani, and Malcolm Shanks, moderated by India Harville.
Read MoreWhat is the Future of Black Lives Under a Kleptocracy?
Alicia Garza
DESCRIPTION On Tuesday, April 11, BCRW is thrilled to host “What is the Future of Black Lives Under a Kleptocracy?” a lecture by Alicia Garza focusing on the first 100 days of the new administration and what’s at stake for the movement.. SPEAKER BIO Alicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer, writer, public speaker and freedom […]
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