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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…

“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire

October 6, 2025

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…

Saul Williams on Black Experimentation, Fugitive Pedagogies, and the Art of Resistance

Saul Williams and Shana L. Redmond

September 30, 2025

Poet, musician, filmmaker, actor and intellectual Saul Williams discusses the relationships between aesthetic forms and political education in conversation with Dr. Shana Redmond, Director…

Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium

Elliot Montague, Emma Frankland, Texas Isaiah, Tourmaline, and Vick Quezada

March 18, 2020

#TransRevolutions Live captioning is available here. During the event, you can send questions for the Q&A by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu or via Twitter @bcrwtweets #TransRevolutions…

Dreams are Colder than Death: Screening & Talk with Arthur Jafa

September 29, 2016

Featuring Arthur Jafa, Christina Sharpe, Tourmaline, and Tavia Nyong'o.

Gloria Joseph and Naomi Jackson: Caribbean Feminisms on the Page

March 24, 2016

A conversation with Gloria Joseph and Naomi Jackson. Moderated by Kaiama L. Glover.

Tourmaline: Making a Way Out of No Way

February 27, 2016

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

Black Light: Tom Lloyd, Lorraine O’Grady, and the Effect of Art Historical Disappearance

Krista Thompson

December 3, 2015

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June 30, 2015

“The Worlds of Ntozake Shange” highlights Shange’s centrality to black feminism and the continuing impact of her work both within and outside the academy.…

Just Take the Mic: The Power of Feminist Comedy

Phoebe Robinson, Liz Miele, Emily Schorr Lesnick, Amanda Seales

May 15, 2015

To attend this panel, purchase Sunday Day Pass here. Just Take the Mic: The Power of Feminist Comedy explores the possibilities of and for…

Zines

March 6, 2015

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 13) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, Research Assistant Michelle Chen '15 interviews Barnard Zine…

Ebonie Smith: Learning STEM through Music Production and the Arts

February 28, 2015

Closing remarks at The Scholar & Feminist Conference XL - Action on Education.

Why Sex? Why Gender?: Activist Research for Social Justice

A Symposium in Honor of Janet Jakobsen

January 9, 2015

At BCRW’s “Activism and the Academy” conference in 2011, Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, pointed out that if those…

Love and Flames: Legacies of Black Queer and Prison Abolitionist Solidarity with Palestinian Struggle

Che Gossett

January 9, 2015

In this paper, Community Activist and Student Coordinator Che Gossett examines the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle by excavating June Jordan…

No Such Thing as Neutral: Lecture Demonstration with Flex & Lite Feet

November 8, 2014

Lecture demonstration and discussion with Flex and Lite Feet dancers, moderated by Ali Rosa-Salas.

October 7, 2014

This issue is organized around continuing the conversations that took place between scholars, activists, and scholar/activists at these conferences. In their writing, the contributors…

No Such Thing as Neutral

Ali Rosa-Salas

August 28, 2014

Countless forms of dance created and performed in public spaces are bundled under the umbrella of “vernacular” or “street.” These diverse methods have been…

Dance Workshop with Lite Feet legend Chrybaby Cozie

Chrybaby Cozie

June 27, 2014

BCRW Alumnae Fellow Ali Rosa-Salas '13 hosts Lite Feet legend Chrybaby Cozie at Barnard College for a dance class and discussion about this Harlem-founded dance form.…

Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City

March 27, 2014

Pre-conference panel to the For the Public Good Conference. Panelists include Kate D'Adamo, Tourmaline, Amber Hollibaugh, Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sydnie Mosley, and Penelope Saunders. Moderated…

The Revival

March 20, 2014

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 10) In this episode, we speak with Jade Foster, the creator of The Revival Poetry Tour. The salon-style…

Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City: A Special Pre-Conference Panel

Kate D'Adamo, Reina Gossett, Amber Hollibaugh, Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sydnie Mosley, and Penelope Saunders

March 11, 2014

How do contemporary social conditions affect activism on behalf of gender and sexual justice in New York City? Have economic shifts since the financial…

Remembering José Esteban Muñoz

January 29, 2014

Please join Tisch School of the Arts and the NYU Department of Performance Studies in remembering the life and work of José Esteban Muñoz.…

Women and Community in the Ancien Régime: Traditional and New Media

December 19, 2013

REGISTER EVENT INFORMATION Event Informaton Click here to register. This three-day conference investigates how women participated in and contributed to different kinds of community…

Roderick Ferguson – Socialism in Black Queer Time: The 1970s and the Erotic Potentials of Radical Politics

December 3, 2013

Full-length video of Roderick Ferguson's lecture, "Socialism in Black Queer Time: The 1970s and the Erotic Potentials of Radical Politics."

Maya Krishna Rao

October 24, 2013

Maya Krishna Rao performs Ravanama, an excerpt from her solo piece on an actor in search of a character, Ravana, and The Walk, an…

August 12, 2013

This issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online forges new ground by weaving together issues of gender and sexuality, usually sidelined in conversations about…

One Billion Rising

April 24, 2013

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 2) This episode of Dare to Use The F-Word is all about the One Billion Rising movement to…

Street Harassment

April 23, 2013

(Dare to Use the F-Word, Episode 1) In our first episode of Dare to Use The F-Word, we focus on the street harassment phenomenon.…

The Fully Functional Cabaret

Star Amerasu, Ryka Aoki, Annie Danger, Red Durkin, Bryn Kelly, and Shawna Virago

March 22, 2013

Collectively written, produced by, and starring an all trans women cast, The Fully Functional Cabaret: Trans Women’s Secrets… REVEALED! is a self-described “love letter…

Utopia Afternoon Keynotes Questions and Answers

March 2, 2013

Responses by Jennifer Miller and Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius.
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