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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…

New York City in the World

March 28, 2014

Panel at the For the Public Good Conference. Panelists include Ana Amuchástegui, Sealing Cheng, Louis Graham, Kerwin Kaye, Mark Padilla, and Mario Pecheny. Moderated…

Exploring the Public Good in NYC

March 28, 2014

Panel at the For the Public Good Conference. Panelists include John Blasco, Nico Fonseca, Ede Fox, and Robert Hawkins. Moderated by Gail Cooper. Introduced…

Radical Doulas

February 3, 2014

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 9) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, we speak with Miriam Zoila Pérez, one of…

For the Public Good Conference

Ana Amuchástegui, Lee Anne Bell, Elizabeth Bernstein, Sealing Cheng, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Gail Cooper, Nico Fonseca, Kerwin Kaye, Mark Padilla, Mario Pecheny, and more

December 19, 2013

DESCRIPTION PROGRAM VIDEOS Description Register online. Special pre-conference panel on Thursday, March 27: Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City. Education. Healthcare. Policing.…

October 14, 2013

Like the symposium, this special issue foregrounds scholarship at the intersections of science and technology studies, feminist and queer studies, and race and postcolonial…

Food Activism

September 3, 2013

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 5) This episode of Dare to use the F-Word is all about food activism in the South Bronx.…

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…

Dorothy Roberts: Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

October 15, 2012

Full-length video of Dorothy Roberts' lecture, "Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen."

Dorothy Roberts

October 15, 2012

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s…

A New Queer Agenda

Lisa Duggan, Kenyon Farrow, Amber Hollibaugh, and Richard Kim

August 7, 2012

Join contributors to the recently launched issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, “A New Queer Agenda,” for an evening of politics, discussion, and…

Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

Dorothy Roberts

June 20, 2012

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s…

May 31, 2012

With this issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, the Barnard Center for Research on Women celebrates our ongoing collaboration with Queers for Economic…

“Predictable Failures” in the Trayvon Martin Story: Excerpts from The Private Bodies, Public Texts Salon

March 21, 2012

Excerpts from Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway, featuring Alondra Nelson, Karla FC Holloway, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Tina…

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

March 21, 2012

The second event in BCRW’s newly inaugurated Salon Series features Karla FC Holloway, Tina Campt, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson.…

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

Karla FC Holloway, Tina Campt, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson

March 21, 2012

For the second event in BCRW’s newly inaugurated Salon Series, we have assembled a group of scholars whose expertise lies at the cross-section of…

Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway

March 21, 2012

Panel discussion featuring Karla FC Holloway, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson. Moderated by Tina Campt.

Tanya Fields: Community Organizing for Food Justice in the Bronx

March 3, 2012

Excerpts from the Environmental Justice Workshop at The Scholar & Feminist 2012.

Marion Nestle: What to Eat – Science vs. Politics

March 1, 2012

Full-length video of Marion Nestle's lecture "What to Eat: Science vs. Politics."

What to Eat: Science vs. Politics

Marion Nestle

March 1, 2012

Advice about diet and health is extraordinarily controversial for reasons of science and politics. Human nutritional science is difficult to conduct and interpret. Advice…

Marion Nestle

March 1, 2012

Advice about diet and health is extraordinarily controversial for reasons of science and politics. Human nutritional science is difficult to conduct and interpret. Advice…

Lauren Porsch: Removing Barriers to Healthcare for Trans People

February 15, 2012

Excerpt from the discussion "Voices of a Women's Health Movement."

Voices of a Women’s Health Movement

February 15, 2012

Panel discussion featuring Laura Eldridge ’01, Helen Lowery, Lauren Porsch ’01, Leonore Tiefer, and Irene Xanthoudakis ’01.

Voices of a Women’s Health Movement

February 15, 2012

The recently published anthology Voices of A Women's Health Movement (Seven Stories Press, 2012), co-edited by women's health advocate Barbara Seaman (1935-2008) and her…

Voices of a Women’s Health Movement

Laura Eldridge ’01, Helen Lowery, Lauren Porsch ’01, Leonore Tiefer, and Irene Xanthoudakis ’01

February 15, 2012

Science journalist Barbara Seaman (1935-2008) spent the last forty years of her life on the front lines as a women’s health advocate. Throughout her…

What’s on Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food

Hilary Callahan, Kim F. Hall, Deborah Valenze, and Paige West

November 1, 2011

How much do you know about the food you eat? Food production and the politics surrounding it have an enormous impact on our environment…

What’s On Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food

November 1, 2011

Panel discussion featuring Hilary Callahan, Kim F. Hall, Deborah Valenze and Paige West. Moderated by Elizabeth Castelli.

What’s On Your Plate? The History and Politics of Food

November 1, 2011

How much do you know about the food you eat? Food production and the politics surrounding it have an enormous impact on our environment…

Rebecca Jordan-Young

October 11, 2011

Since the women's health movement blossomed in the 1970s, there has been an ever-increasing trend toward examining all aspects of human health for evidence…
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