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A celebration of BCRW's work, appreciation for our incredible Director Tina Campt, and welcoming incoming Interim Director Elizabeth Castelli.
Andrea Bible, Victoria Law, Andrea James, Valerie Seeley & Julia Shaw
The Survived and Punished NYC Mass Commutation Organizing Campaign is working to pressure NY State to commute the sentences of survivors of intimate partner violence and other racialized, gender-based violence who are in prison throughout the state.
This will be the second bi-annual gathering for Black/African Descent Lesbians* and supporters to responsibly consider and engage important issues that can strengthen and support our individual and collective community work.
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.
Clare Hemmings
Clare Hemmings will explore 20th century anarchist Emma Goldman conflicting views on gender, sexuality, race, and the means to bring about a political revolution. Hemmings shows that these are not contradictions but offerings for means of thinking through current dilemmas and power relations, and living through uncertainties.
Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
Join us for a reading and conversation between authors Erna Brodber (Nothing’s Mat and The Rainmaker’s Mistake, among others) and Nicole Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun) in the expanded series Critical Caribbean Feminisms.