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Freedom Dreaming and Worldmaking: Tourmaline and Hope Dector on Marsha P. Johnson’s Inspiring Life

October 20, 2025

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…

The Scholar and Feminist: Fifty Years of Meeting the Moment

Keynote by Judith Butler, Performance by Toshi Reagon

September 25, 2025

For half of a century, The Scholar and Feminist Conference has provided a mutually activating space for scholars, activists, and artists to confront the…

Black Feminist Ethnographies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Darlène Dubuisson, Prisca Gayles, Amelia Simone Herbert, and Maricarmen Hernandez

August 18, 2025

Join us for an engaging joint-book discussion with Professors Darlène Dubuisson (University of California - Berkeley) and Prisca Gayles (University of Nevada - Reno)…

MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

Tourmaline in conversation with C. Riley Snorton

August 18, 2025

For the Helen Pond McIntyre ‘48 Lecture, Tourmaline will join C. Riley Snorton for a discussion of her new biography of Marsha P. Johnson.…

You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take

The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back in conversation with Aaron Scott & Ciara Taylor

February 10, 2025

Drawing from personal experience, history, religion, political strategy, and more, Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back argue that American poverty will through a mass movement open to…

Teach In: Money-Handling and Taxes for Mutual Aid Groups

Mike Haber and Dean Spade

January 22, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q43G0ml4Z4c&feature=youtu.be Click here to access Mike's powerpoint slides from this event. This online teach-in is for mutual aid groups facing nuts and bolts issues…

Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to the Brutality of Incarceration

Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier. Moderated by Mariame Kaba.

May 5, 2020

Live transcription available at http://bit.ly/pastasprologue2020 Register here. This event will take place online from 4pm - 6pm ET on 5/8/20. Live captions will be…

N’Tanya Lee: Building Real Coalitional Queer Struggle

June 26, 2019

N'Tanya Lee discusses the shortfalls of single-issue queer organizing, reflecting on her work in the 90s, and how she carries those lessons into her…

Marissa Alexander: Survived and Punished

June 20, 2017

Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence who was sentenced to a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for firing a single warning shot…

Joan Little: Survived and Punished

June 20, 2017

Joan Little was the first woman acquitted of murder on the grounds of of self-defense against sexual violence. Learn about her story and the…

Don’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks

January 18, 2017

Bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.

Dean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture

December 9, 2016

"When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability"

The Personal Things

November 20, 2016

Short featuring Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. Directed by Tourmaline with art by Micah Bazant and animation by Pamela Chavez. Produced by Tourmaline, Hope Dector, and…

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 3: The Nonprofit Hamster Wheel

November 20, 2016

Featuring Urvashi Vaid, Craig Willse, Andrea Ritchie, Amber Hollibaugh, and Shira Hassan. This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, "Navigating Neoliberalism in…

Activism In Context: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Organizing in the Shadow of the 2016 Elections

Katherine Brewster ‘71 and Janet Price ‘71, moderated by BCRW Senior Activist Fellow Katherine Acey

July 12, 2016

This year’s historic 2016 election casts a long shadow over the history of feminist activism across different generations. The first in a series of…

Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders

June 23, 2016

Video by Dean Spade + Hope Dector. Featuring Tourmaline, Angélica Cházaro, CeCe McDonald, and Dean Spade.

Tourmaline: Making a Way Out of No Way

February 27, 2016

Keynote address at The Scholar & Feminist Conference 41: Sustainabilities.

January 31, 2016

This issue of S&F Online looks at the nonprofit and the university as two key sites in which neoliberal social and economic formations are…

Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies: Queer Precarity and the Myth of Gay Affluence

Amber Hollibaugh

December 8, 2015

Queer precarity is a reality. As the wealth gap continues to grow, LGBT/Q people struggle with increasing hardships and economic crisis, alongside the majority…

BCRW Archive Fever

Che Gossett

December 8, 2015

In this lecture BCRW Community Archivist Che Gossett will discuss the history and emerging future of the BCRW archives and their digitization. BCRW archives holds…

Scholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities

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

December 7, 2015

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…

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 6: Where Do We Go From Here

November 20, 2015

Featuring Andrea Ritchie, Dean Spade, Craig Willse, and Amber Hollibaugh

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 5: Basebuilding

November 20, 2015

Featuring Dean Spade, N'Tanya Lee, and Amber Hollibaugh

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 4: Who’s In Charge?

November 20, 2015

Featuring N'Tanya Lee, Urvashi Vaid, Jason Walker, Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Craig Willse, Dean Spade, and Imani Henry

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 2: How Do Rich People Control Our Movements?

November 20, 2015

Featuring Urvashi Vaid, Dean Spade, and Christine Ahn

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Part 1: What are We Fighting For?

November 20, 2015

Featuring N'Tanya Lee, Dean Spade, Trishala Deb, Tourmaline, and Kenyon Farrow.

Tourmaline: Historical Erasure as Violence

October 30, 2015

Tourmaline talks about learning and sharing histories of trans women of color, including Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries),…

Amber Hollibaugh: A Movement for Liberation

October 30, 2015

Amber Hollibaugh talks about a the importance of a liberation framework centering low-income people and people of color for LGBTQ organizing.

Dean Spade: History of Queers Against Police

October 30, 2015

Dean Spade talks about the dramatic shifts in queer and trans movements over the last 50 years with the emergence in the 1990s of…
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