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Taking Children: A History of American Terror

December 1, 2020

A conversation with Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Valeria Luiselli

Taking Children: A History of American Terror

Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, Valeria Luiselli

September 11, 2020

The three panelists will address the long history of policies of family separation in light of the current anti-migrant federal policy on the southern…

S&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence

Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade

November 17, 2017

This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance…

Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders

June 23, 2016

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

Queer Survival Economies: Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies

February 28, 2016

Panel discussion featuring Kate D'Adamo, Hamid Khan, and Ola Osaze, moderated by Amber Hollibaugh at The Scholar & Feminist 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…

How Does It Feel to Be Stateless?

October 1, 2014

Talk by Altagracia Jean Joseph on immigration laws against Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic.

How Does It Feel to Be Stateless?

Altagracia Jean Joseph

September 22, 2014

In September 2013, the Dominican Republic passed TC168/13, a law that permanently annulled the citizenship of children born to “undocumented parents,” going back to…

Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies: Impacts of Economic Injustice on LGBTQ Communities

August 28, 2014

As part of the ongoing Queer Survival Economies project spearheaded by Amber Hollibaugh, this conference works to make visible queer economic realities and survival…

Sakhi for South Asian Women

May 9, 2014

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 11) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, we interview Caritas Doha of Sakhi for South…

Historical Perspectives on Domestic Worker Organizing

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison and Premilla Nadasen

December 19, 2013

The history of domestic worker organizing illustrates how domestic workers have mobilized to transform their working lives and, in the process, have built a…

New Feminist Solutions: Social Justice Approaches to Ending Domestic Violence

Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sally MacNichol, Angela Moreno

December 19, 2013

Between 2011-2012, Sakhi for
 South Asian Women convened two meetings of grassroots organizers 
to address the challenges of 
building a broader anti-violence movement. These…

Gender, Labor, Healing: Irish Immigrant Experiences in 19th Century NYC

Meredith Linn

December 19, 2013

Meredith Linn, assistant professor of urban studies, shares her research into the experiences of illness, injury, and healing among 19th-century Irish immigrants in New…

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…

Feminist Constellations: Intercultural Paradigms in the Americas

March 28, 2013

The main objective of this participatory conference is to provide a platform for feminist scholars and activists to engage in a meaningful dialogue about…

Wildness: Discussion with the Filmmakers

March 1, 2013

Discussion featuring Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar. Moderated by Janet Jakobsen

Utopia Opening Night: Wildness

Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar

January 3, 2013

We’ll kick off this year's Scholar & Feminist Conference on Utopia with a screening of Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar’s film Wildness, a magical…

Minerva Leticia Pierre: Remembering Sonia Pierre and Her Legacy

December 6, 2012

Excerpt from the discussion, "Sonia Pierre and the Struggle for Citizenship in the Dominican Republic."

Manuela Pierre: Remembering Sonia Pierre and Her Legacy

December 6, 2012

Excerpt from the discussion, "Sonia Pierre and the Struggle for Citizenship in the Dominican Republic."

Sonia Pierre and the Struggle for Citizenship in the Dominican Republic

December 6, 2012

Sonia Pierre (1963-2011), mobilized communities in the Dominican Republic to advocate for citizenship and human rights for Dominicans of Haitian descent. As the director…

Sonia Pierre and the Struggle for Citizenship in the Dominican Republic

December 6, 2012

Discussion featuring Manuela (Solange) Pierre, Ninaj Raoul, Monisha Bajaj, and Minerva Leticia Solange. Moderated by Miriam Neptune.

Janice Haaken: Moving Images – Documenting the Lives of Women Migrants and Asylum-Seekers

October 23, 2012

Full-length video of Janice Haaken's lecture, "Moving Images: Documenting the Lives of Women Migrants and Asylum-Seekers."

Janice Haaken

October 23, 2012

Since visual images invoke the spectator's experience of unmediated access to the inner world of the subject, the evocative power of photographic images may…

Human Rights Day Panel: Sonia Pierre and the Struggle for Citizenship in the Dominican Republic

Miriam Neptune, Manuela Pierre, Ninaj Raoul, and Monisha Bajaj

August 8, 2012

Sonia Pierre (1963-2011), mobilized communities in the Dominican Republic to advocate for citizenship and human rights for Dominicans of Haitian descent. At age 13,…

Moving Images: Psychoanalytically-Informed Methods in Documenting the Lives of Women Migrants and Asylum-Seekers

Janice Haaken

August 8, 2012

Many contemporary feminist projects attempt to subvert the male gaze by “bearing witness” to female trauma through visual representation. Yet these projects have tended…

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…

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…

Politics of Care Workshop: The Scholar & Feminist 2012

March 3, 2012

Workshop featuring Ai-jen Poo, Miliann Kang, and Ynestra King.

Immigration Workshop: The Scholar & Feminist 2012

March 3, 2012

Workshop featuring Sunita Patel and Rachel Tiven.

States of Exception: Children’s Human Rights and the Humanities

Wendy S. Hesford

October 24, 2011

This year’s McIntyre lecturer, Wendy S. Hesford, integrates critical legal studies and feminist rhetorical criticism to examine the figure of the child as a…
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