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BCRW Spring 2016 Newsletter

Jan 19, 2016

DIRECTOR’S NOTE This spring, BCRW will host an exciting array of events pivoting on a complex engagement with the ethics and politics of life-making. Framing these events is a central question: What are the challenges we face as feminist scholars, activists, writers, artists, and thinkers fashioning, fighting for, and building a world for lives worth living […]

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Event Oval, Diana Center
Feb 27, 2016 | 10:00AM

Scholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities

Reina Gossett, Cara Page, Krystal Portalatin, Joo-Hyun Kang & more.

REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sf41 In the forty-first year of BCRW’s cornerstone conference, we are taking seriously the framework of sustainability to ask how we can sustain the material, financial, creative, cultural, spiritual, and communal resources necessary to maintain the vitality of our communities, movements, and critical feminist inquiries. The conference brings together feminist scholars, […]

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activism, disability, healing justice, housing, LGBT, policing, prisons, queer, race, racial justice, transgender, transnational

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New Video Release: BCRW Activist Fellows on Queer and Trans Movement Visions and Legacies

Oct 30, 2015

As LGBTQTSGNCI History month draws to a close, BCRW is excited to share our newly released videos with Activist Fellows Reina Gossett, Dean Spade, and Amber Hollibaugh on challenges and strategies for transformative organizing in queer and trans movements. Reina Gossett talks about learning and sharing histories of trans women of color, including  Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and […]

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BCRW events on Caribbean writers and thinkers

Sep 9, 2015

Alongside powerful Black Lives Matter movement mobilizations, we are thrilled to be holding critical conversations focused on writers, thinkers, and political movements emerging from the Caribbean. On September 17, we will be holding a conversation between Edwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown. On September 24-26, we will be co-hosting a conference engaging Stuart Hall’s legacy in the current moment […]

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BCRW Fall 2015 Newsletter

Sep 2, 2015

A Note From BCRW Director Tina Campt I first set foot on the Barnard campus in 1982, at the tender age of 17, at a reception for admitted students. I entered Barnard Hall, gazing down that impressive hallway at the other young women assembled there. The next thing I remember was looking for a payphone, […]

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Barnard College and SUNY Stony Brook, Manhattan Campus
September 24-26, 2015

Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique

Gina Dent, Karla Holloway, David Scott, and more

ABOUT THE EVENT Described by Henry Louis Gates as ‘Black Britain’s leading theorist of Black Britain,’ Stuart Hall was the preeminent post-colonial intellectual of Great Britain from the 1960s until his death in 2014. One of the founders of ‘cultural studies,’ Hall’s influence extended across the intellectual spectrum of the Left, rocking political and academic […]

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economic justice, gender, policing, prisons, race

Sarah DeYoung

Transformative Justice Workshop Resources

Feb 26, 2015

On Friday, February 27th, BCRW Research Assistants and Ejeris Dixon (Founding Director of Vision Change Win Consulting) will facilitate “Transformative Justice Approaches to Sexual Violence on Campus and Beyond”, a workshop at the 40th Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference on education. We (BCRW Research Assistants) have compiled a resources guide to concepts that will be explored at the workshop […]

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Feminism, Gender Justice, and Trans Inclusion: Web Resources

Feb 4, 2015

In her announcement of a series of public forums on the question of what policy Barnard should adopt in relation to transgender admissions, President Spar indicated that resources are available on the web for those who want to educate themselves on the issue. BCRW has produced a number of resources over the past several years, […]

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Barnard College
Feb 27-28, 2015

Action 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 […]

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academy, activism, class, disability, education, gender, labor, race, scholar & feminist

Krish, BCRW Research Assistant and FIERCE! member

NYC to Ferguson: A Reflection

Dec 3, 2014

Last Tuesday night, thousands of protestors filled Union Square and marched throughout New York City, shouting “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” and “No justice, no peace!” in response to the Michael Brown verdict. The day before, history was repeated as the grand jury in St. Louis County, Missouri failed to indict Darren Wilson, and yet another […]

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Remembering Leslie Feinberg

Nov 25, 2014

I remember first encountering an article by Leslie Feinberg in Workers World where zie wrote about the legacy of queer and/or trans activists of color who participated in left, black power, queer, trans liberation, and AIDS activist movements. It was in this article that I learned about Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a Japanese American AIDS activist who was born […]

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Justice in the City: For the Public Good Conference

Jun 17, 2014

At this year’s For the Public Good Conference, which took place at Barnard College in April, participants in the morning panel on “Exploring the Public Good in New York City” addressed a range of issues from LGBTQ youth rights to gentrification. The panel provided a rare space in which activists, advocates, and academics alike came together to […]

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