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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…

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…

We Will Not Be Erased: Queer Archives, Trans Histories

Steven Watson and Tourmaline

August 18, 2025

For over forty years, cultural historian Steven Watson has documented the stories and artwork at the leading edge of artistic and cultural movements, including…

MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

Tourmaline in conversation with C. Riley Snorton

August 18, 2025

For the Helen Pond McIntyre ‘48 Lecture, Tourmaline will join C. Riley Snorton for a discussion of her new biography of Marsha P. Johnson.…

A quantum life: Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde

March 31, 2025

Last December, Margot Kotler sat down with Alexis Pauline Gumbs to discuss her most recent book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of…

Black, Queer & Trans: Mobilizing in the Caribbean and Beyond

Amanda Taylor BC '22 in conversation with Kymm Foster, Emani Edwards, and Chaday Emmanuel

April 20, 2022

Live transcription is available here. Embracing the spirit of the recent publication, Beyond Homophobia: Centering LGBTQ experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean (2020), activist photographer Amanda…

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…

In the Wake: A Salon in Honor of Christina Sharpe

February 2, 2017

Christina Sharpe in conversation with Hazel Carby, Kaiama Glover, Saidiya Hartman, Arthur Jafa, and Alex Weheliye.

Don’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks

January 18, 2017

Bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.

Dean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture

December 9, 2016

"When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability"

The Personal Things

November 20, 2016

Short featuring Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. Directed by Tourmaline with art by Micah Bazant and animation by Pamela Chavez. Produced by Tourmaline, Hope Dector, and…

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 3: The Nonprofit Hamster Wheel

November 20, 2016

Featuring Urvashi Vaid, Craig Willse, Andrea Ritchie, Amber Hollibaugh, and Shira Hassan. This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, "Navigating Neoliberalism in…

Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders

June 23, 2016

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

The Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson

April 14, 2016

Featuring Maggie Nelson in conversation with Christina Crosby, Saidiya Hartman, Sam Huber, and Heather Love. Moderated by Tina Campt.

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.

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.

Tourmaline: Making a Way Out of No Way

February 27, 2016

Keynote address at The Scholar & Feminist Conference 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…

The Argonauts: A Salon in Honor of Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson, Christina Crosby, Saidiya Hartman, Sam Huber, and Heather Love

December 10, 2015

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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…

Scholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities

Tourmaline, Cara Page, Krystal Portalatin, Joo-Hyun Kang & more.

December 7, 2015

REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sf41 In the forty-first year of BCRW’s cornerstone conference, we are taking seriously the framework of sustainability to ask how…

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 6: Where Do We Go From Here

November 20, 2015

Featuring Andrea Ritchie, Dean Spade, Craig Willse, and Amber Hollibaugh

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 5: Basebuilding

November 20, 2015

Featuring Dean Spade, N'Tanya Lee, and Amber Hollibaugh

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 4: Who’s In Charge?

November 20, 2015

Featuring N'Tanya Lee, Urvashi Vaid, Jason Walker, Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Craig Willse, Dean Spade, and Imani Henry

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 2: How Do Rich People Control Our Movements?

November 20, 2015

Featuring Urvashi Vaid, Dean Spade, and Christine Ahn

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Part 1: What are We Fighting For?

November 20, 2015

Featuring N'Tanya Lee, Dean Spade, Trishala Deb, Tourmaline, and Kenyon Farrow.

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…

September 1, 2015

Report of BCRW accomplishments from Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
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