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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

Film screening: Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build

Marc Dones, Gregory Jost, Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Fitzroy Christian

May 30, 2019

In “Decade of Fire,” Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires that consumed the South Bronx in the 1970s, uncovering policies…

Resisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island: Cross-Border Solidarity Against Anti-Blackness

Robyn Maynard, author of best-selling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

November 19, 2018

Robyn Maynard will discuss similarities and differences in histories, tactics, modes, and consequences of state violence targeting Black communities in the U.S., Canada and…

“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

February 17, 2018

Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Tina Campt at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting…

“in this time of siege for me and mine, mi raza”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

February 17, 2018

Featuring Rachel Ida Buff, Inderpal Grewal, Arun Kundnani, and Marlene Nava Ramos, moderated by Manu Vimalassery at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference,…

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…

Invisible No More: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color in Troubled Times

Barbara Smith, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Tourmaline, Mariame Kaba & others

August 7, 2017

This conference is the first in a series of events taking place in the midwest, south, and west coast to explore and support ongoing…

Homes for All, Cages for None: Housing Justice in an Age of Abolition

Christina Heatherton and Craig Willse

August 7, 2017

In 2016, the Barnard Center for Research on Women assembled a Poverty Working Group to examine the state’s neglect and abandonment of poor people,…

Working at the Limits: State and Structural Violence

February 28, 2016

Panel discussion featuring Charmaine Crawford, Deanna James, and Alison Swartz, moderated by Tami Navarro at The Scholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities.
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