The Africana Routes, Africana Migrations faculty research group interrogates the colonial and extractive roots of traditional international education models and works to reconstruct them through the lens of Africana Studies and transnational feminist solidarity. Rooted

About The Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) at Columbia University, the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), and the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study (Gordon Institute) at Teachers College

About The Gender Justice and Neoliberal Transformations Working Group studies the role of gender and sexuality in intertwined forms of political and economic injustice. For the past half-century, neoliberal policies and practices have transformed the

This project, led by Premilla Nadasen (BCRW C0-Director and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History), brings together scholars, organizers, and artists to consider the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory

Artist and writer Tourmaline has spent nearly two decades uncovering the history and uplifting the legacy of trans icon Marsha P. Johnson. Tourmaline is currently working with BCRW to catalog newly discovered film footage from

ABOUT THE FREEDOM SCHOOL Launched in 2023 and directed by Premilla Nadasen, the Feminist Freedom School is a week-long summer intensive bringing together students and a community of cutting-edge scholars and activists to debate, discuss,

Transnational Black Feminisms was initiated by Premilla Nadasen and Celia Naylor as a working group at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) in 2019. In 2023, Tami Navarro joined Premilla as

We are thrilled to announce the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency, a momentous partnership between BCRW, The Public Theater and the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust, established in July 2022. The program was conceived by

A project engaging feminist literature and research in the Caribbean and its diaspora.

Scholars and activists are working together to study, imagine, and build abolitionist approaches to resistance and social systems that offer safety and equal resources to all.

The Transnational Feminisms Initiative connects the work of Barnard faculty and students with feminist scholars and activists around the world. The project builds on faculty research, develops innovative curricula and methodologies in an age of

Critical Inquiry Labs are interdisciplinary courses at Barnard College designed to foster in-depth critical studies of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nation, and citizenship, making connections across real and imagined boundaries of theory and practice, historical