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

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“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…

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…

Beyond the Shores: Tamara J. Walker on Black Americans Abroad

June 30, 2025

Barnard Professor of Africana Studies Tamara J. Walker is an experienced storyteller of elsewheres. As a historian she tells stories of the past; as…

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…

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…

Policing the Crises: Thinking It Forward – Panel at Stuart Hall Conference

September 26, 2015

Panel featuring Ben Carrington, Karla FC Holloway, Barnor Hesse, and chair Tina Campt from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice…

New Media: Encoding, Decoding, Coding – Panel at Stuart Hall Conference

September 26, 2015

Panel featuring featuring Henry Jenkins, Nicholas Mirzoeff, and chair Rob King from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique."

September 1, 2015

Report of BCRW accomplishments from Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality? Religion and the Burdens of Black Sexual Politics

Anthea Butler, Kenyon Farrow, Darnell Moore, Alondra Nelson, Emilie Townes, and more

August 28, 2014

Registration and full schedule available here. We are living through a moment of tremendous change at the intersection of race, religion, and sexuality, which…

Redefining Realness: A Salon in honor of Janet Mock

April 23, 2014

Conversation featuring Janet Mock, Brittney Cooper, Che Gossett, Tourmaline, CeCe McDonald, and Mey Valdivia Rude.

Redefining Realness: A Salon in honor of Janet Mock

Janet Mock, Brittney Cooper, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, CeCe McDonald, and Mey Valdivia Rude

December 19, 2013

This year’s salon focuses on a 
new memoir by writer Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path 
to Womanhood, Identity, Love &
 So Much More,…

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference Summary

October 5, 2013

Closing plenary at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference featuring comments, critiques, and feedback from conference participants. Moderated by Janet Jakobsen and Dorian Warren.

The Coming (and Present) Funding Crisis in LGBT Work

October 5, 2013

Plenary III at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference featuring Ben Francisco Maulbeck, Mara Keisling, Trishala Deb, and Sangeeta Budhiraja. Moderated by Frances Kunreuther.

Queer Dreams: Building Alternative Queer/Trans Social Justice Infrastructure

October 4, 2013

Plenary II at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference featuring Elana Redfield, Paulina Helm-Hernandez, and Maria Carolina Morales. Moderated by Dean Spade.

Non-Profit Blues: Building Movements Within Neoliberalism

October 4, 2013

Opening Plenary at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference featuring Urvashi Vaid, Dean Spade, Andrea Smith, and N’Tanya Lee. With opening remarks by moderator…

#FemFuture: Online Revolution

April 8, 2013

In this report, Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti build on a 2012 convening where 21 writers, activists, and educators who work in the online…

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…

Backtalk/Crosstalk: Gendered Stories, Colonial Archives and Sexualized Subjects

Marisa J. Fuentes, Jennifer Morgan, and Yvette Christiansë

March 22, 2013

Backtalk/Crosstalk is a series of dialogues initiated by the Africana Studies Program to set members of the Africana faculty in conversation with diasporic scholars,…

Utopia Afternoon Keynotes Questions and Answers

March 2, 2013

Responses by Jennifer Miller and Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius.

Utopia Morning Keynotes Questions and Answers

March 2, 2013

Responses by Melanie Cervantes, Elandria Williams, Shaowen Bardzell, and Youngsuk Altieri.

Building Utopia: Stitching the Lessons from Stories and Visions of Women in Our Lives

March 2, 2013

Presentations by Melanie Cervantes and Elandria Williams.

Wildness: Discussion with the Filmmakers

March 1, 2013

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