Award-winning artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist Tourmaline has spent over two decades lovingly researching and preserving Marsha P. Johnson’s life. In two books published this past spring—MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson,
Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Africana Studies Kim F. Hall’s new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean (The University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2025), centers the
Barnard Professor of Africana Studies Tamara J. Walker is an experienced storyteller of elsewheres. As a historian she tells stories of the past; as a Latin Americanist she writes from outside the global north (her
Last December, Margot Kotler sat down with Alexis Pauline Gumbs to discuss her most recent book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. They talked about the breadth of Lorde’s life and
An interview with Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown * Nina Sharma is a writer, performer, and adjunct professor of English at Barnard College. Her writing
A Conversation with Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican, guest editors of “Rage, Struggle, Freedom,” a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online On December 4th, The Scholar and Feminist Online released its newest issue
On the second anniversary of the “woman, life, freedom” uprising, Feminists for Jina, a transnational Iranian feminist network, held a panel discussion reflecting on the lessons and lasting impacts of this unprecedented, mass feminist revolt.
A View from Public Housing: Resident Histories, Perspectives and Hope When I was growing up there, we were proud to live in public housing. It was a great place to live. You got to
Anooradha Siddiqi is Assistant Professor of Architecture, Barnard College, and author of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2024). Sabrina Salam (BC ’24) is a Research Assistant at
Premilla Nadasen is a historian of social change. Nadasen’s work has focused on organizing among poor and working-class women of color and alternative labor movements in the US. Nadasen currently serves as the Anne Whitney
At the end of May, BCRW hosted its first Feminist Freedom School on the subject of feminist abolition. The Freedom School was facilitated by Sarah Haley, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, and co-organized
Sophie Lewis came to speak at the BCRW Feminist Freedom School in June. She brought an extraordinarily calm and humble demeanor as she entered the classroom. Her arrival was eagerly awaited by participants of the
Barnard Professor of Anthropology Nadia Abu El-Haj’s recently released book Combat Trauma elucidates the ways in which a rising focus on the psychological consequences of war on American combat personnel has dovetailed with ubiquitous calls
Cara Page (she, her, hers) is a Black, Queer artist, organizer, and cultural worker whose people came from the Southern US and all along the Eastern seaboard. Co-creator of the Kindred Southern Justice Collective, founder
A Conversation with Tami Navarro on Race and Gender within Neoliberal Financialization Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands, Tami Navarro’s (Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Drew University and former
It was a fall day in September 2021. I was in Barnard College’s library sort of doing homework in my favorite green chair, when my phone buzzed with an email that piqued my interest. The
The Rose Hall Great House Tour takes visitors through a historic slave plantation in Montego Bay, Jamaica, telling a version of history through the sensational legend of a white plantation mistress named Annie Palmer, known
Call for Submissions The Scholar and Feminist Online Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Politics of Hope and Love Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican, Guest Editors Deadline to Submit October 2, 2023 The Scholar and Feminist Online is
Erika Dickerson-Despenza, creator and inaugural resident of the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency co-sponsored by BCRW, The Public Theater, and the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust, will receive the Career Achievement Honor at the PEN
BCRW’s Transnational Feminisms Initiative continues our collaboration with Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, a Brooklyn-based organization that has been working for over thirty years to respond to the needs of Haitian refugees and immigrants fleeing
