{"id":6815,"date":"2020-07-29T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T18:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?page_id=6815"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:18:08","slug":"critical-caribbean-feminisms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/projects\/critical-caribbean-feminisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Caribbean Feminisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

A project engaging feminist literature and research in the Caribbean and its diaspora.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Literary Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Staceyann Reading and Discussion with Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs<\/strong><\/a>
\nFebruary 11, 2020<\/p>\n

Staceyann Chin, author of Crossfire: A Litany For Survival<\/i>, the critically acclaimed memoir\u00a0The Other Side of Paradise<\/i>, among other critically acclaimed works, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs \u201904, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Dub: Finding Ceremony,<\/i> was joined in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College.<\/p>\n

\"Roxane Roxane Gay in conversation with Katia D. Ulysse<\/strong><\/a>
\nNovember 8, 2018<\/p>\n

Roxane Gay, award-winning author of\u00a0Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body<\/em>\u00a0(2017),\u00a0Difficult Women<\/em>\u00a0(2017), and\u00a0Bad Feminist<\/em>\u00a0(2014) and Katia D. Ulysse, Haitian poet, essayist and author of\u00a0Drifting<\/em> (2014) joined us for a reading and conversation with Tami Navarro, Associate Director of BCRW.<\/p>\n

\"ErnaReading and Discussion with Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn\u00a0<\/a>
\n<\/strong>October 9, 2018<\/p>\n

Literary writers Erna Brodber, author of\u00a0Nothing\u2019s Mat\u00a0<\/em>(2014) and\u00a0The Rainmaker\u2019s Mistake\u00a0<\/em>(2007), among other works, and Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of\u00a0Here Comes the Sun\u00a0<\/em>(2016), shared an evening of reading and discussion moderated by Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College.<\/p>\n

\"DionnePoetics of Justice: A Conversation between Dionne Brand and Claudia Rankine<\/strong><\/a>
\nApril 25, 2017<\/p>\n

Dionne Brand, author of The Blue Clerk,\u00a0<\/em>Ossuaries, A Map to the Door of No Return<\/em>, among many other critically acclaimed works, and Claudia Rankine, author if Citizen<\/em>: An American Lyric\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric<\/em>, among many renowned works, joined for a reading and discussion on anti-Blackness, white supremacy, tyranny, brutality, and how to resist, whether and how to wrestle with the notion of justice.<\/p>\n

\"\"Reading and Conversation with Gloria Joseph and Naomi Jackson<\/strong><\/a>
\nMarch 24, 2016<\/p>\n

Distinguished writer Gloria Joseph, author of bio\/anthology The Wind is Spirit: The Life, Love, and Legacy of Audre Lorde,<\/i> and debut novelist Naomi Jackson, author of\u00a0The Star Side of Bird Hill<\/em>, joined for a reading and conversation.<\/p>\n

\"\"Reading and Conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Victoria Brown<\/strong><\/a>
\nSeptember 17, 2015<\/p>\n

Edwidge Danticat, 2009 MacArthur fellow and is the author of several books, including\u00a0Brother, I\u2019m Dying<\/i>, among other critically acclaimed works, joined novelist Victoria Brown,\u00a0author of\u00a0Minding Ben<\/i>\u00a0(released in paperback as\u00a0Grace in the City)<\/i>, for a reading and conversation feminism, diaspora, and method.<\/p>\n

\"\"Reading and Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid and Tiphanie Yanique
\n<\/strong><\/a>April 16, 2015<\/p>\n

Distinguished writer Jamaica Kincaid, author of Lucy, A Small Place<\/em>,\u00a0Autobiography of My Mother<\/em>, and many other critically acclaimed books, joined debut novelist Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning<\/em>, for a reading and conversation with Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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