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The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean

Kim Hall, Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

August 18, 2025

Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Africana Studies Kim Hall’s new book The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Annette Gordon-Reed – Without Cover of the Law: Writing the History of Enslaved Women

March 24, 2015

Drawing on her work about slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, luminary legal historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the way law influences the portrayal of enslaved…
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Without Cover of the Law: Writing the History of Enslaved Women

Annette Gordon-Reed

January 9, 2015

Drawing on her work about slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, luminary legal historian Annette Gordon-Reed will discuss the way law influences the portrayal of…
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Action on Education

January 9, 2015

REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sfedu Speakers include Ujju Aggarwal, Lalaie Ameeriar, Abigail Boggs, The Black Youth Project, Nuala Cabral, Natalia Cecire, Jaz Choi, Tressie…
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Ai-jen Poo: Justice in the Home Keynote

October 17, 2014

Keynote from Ai-jen Poo at Justice in the Home conference.
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Domestic Worker Organizing: Historical Context and Current Strategies: Justice in the Home Panel #4

October 17, 2014

Panel from Justice in the Home featuring Janice Fine, Fish Ip, Andrea Cristina Mercado, Premilla Nadasen, chaired by Claire Hobden.
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Labor Migration and the Transnational Demand for Domestic Labor: Justice in the Home Panel #3

October 17, 2014

Panel from Justice in the Home featuring Tamara Mose, Rhacel Parreñas, Saskia Sassen, Martina Vandenberg, chaired by Grace Chang.
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Evolutions of Household Labor: Justice in the Home Panel #2

October 17, 2014

Panel from Justice in the Home featuring Eva Kittay, Jennifer Klein, Cecilia Rio, Peggie Smith, chaired by Nik Theodore.
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Domestic Work and Domestic Workers: Justice in the Home Opening Panel

October 16, 2014

Opening from Justice in the Home featuring Eileen Boris, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Tera Hunter, and Mary Romero, chaired by Linda Burnham.
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Tina Campt: Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity

October 7, 2014

Full-length video of Tina Campt's lecture, "Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity."
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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…
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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…
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Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity

Tina Campt

August 28, 2014

What kinds of ‘practice’ create possibilities for new feminist futures? How do our everyday engagements with power complicate how we understand feminist struggle? This…
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Justice in the Home: Domestic Work Past, Present, and Future

Eileen Boris, Tamara Mose Brown, Linda Burnham, Grace Chang, Janice Fine, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Claire Hobden, Tera Hunter, Fish Ip, Eva Kittay, Jennifer Klein, Elizabeth Clark Lewis, Andrea Cristina Mercado, Premilla Nadasen, Rhacel Parrenas, Ai-jen Poo, Cecilia Rio, Mary Romero, Saskia Sassen, Peggie Smith, Nik Theodore, and Martina Vandenberg

May 13, 2014

DESCRIPTION PROGRAM REGISTER Description Link to Justice in the Home Wikispaces Click here to register online. Research about domestic work, domestic workers, and domestic…
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Podcasts

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…
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Historical Perspectives on Domestic Worker Organizing

April 16, 2014

Conversation featuring Elizabeth Quay Hutchison and Premilla Nadasen. Moderated by Nara Milanich.
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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…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates – Black Boy Interrupted: American Plunder and the Incomplete Life of Jordan Davis

March 28, 2014

Keynote address at the For the Public Good Conference.
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Perfection

October 30, 2013

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 7) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, we focus on the idea of perfection. Barnard…
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Publications

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…
Publications

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…
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Paradoxes of Neoliberalism

August 12, 2013

Featuring Sealing Cheng, Lisa Duggan, Dean Spade, Elizabeth Bernstein, Miranda Joseph, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Kate Bedford.
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What is Neoliberalism?

August 12, 2013

Featuring Lisa Duggan, Miranda Joseph, Sealing Cheng, Elizabeth Bernstein, Dean Spade, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Ana Amuchástegui.
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