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“I Am Queen Mary”: Public Art and the Politics of Representation

La Vaughn Belle and Jeanette Ehlers with Ariana Gonzalez Stokas and Mabel O. Wilson, moderated by Monica L. Miller

In October 2019, an historic sculpture entitled “I Am Queen Mary” co-created by artists LaVaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers arrived at Barnard College on a long-term loan. Speakers will discuss how “I Am Queen Mary” contributes to and challenges the politics of public art, depictions of Black women in public art, and the history of Black women and representations of Black women in art at Barnard College.

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Ariana Gonzalez Stokas, art and representation, Black Women, Caribbean, I Am Queen Mary, Jeannette Ehlers, La Vaughn Belle, Mabel O. Wilson, Monica L. Miller, public art

S&F Online Launch Party: Unraveling Criminalizing Webs

Andrea J. Ritchie

Celebrating the newest issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, "Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures," guest edited by BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske (BC '18), which  invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what?

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anti-violence, Black Women, criminalization, femmes, gender nonconforming, gender-based violence, policing, racism, trans, transformative justice, transgender, women of color

Radical Black Women of Harlem: A Walking Tour

Asha Futterman and Mariame Kaba

Learn about radical Black women who contributed to making Harlem a center of cultural innovation, radical politics and sustained activism throughout the twentieth century.

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Amy Ashwood Garvey, audre lorde, Black radicalism, Black Women, Claudia Jones, Ella Baker, Eslanda Robeson, Harlem, Lorraine Hansberry, Louise Thompson Patterson, Madame C.J. Walker, Mae Mallory, Pauli Murray, Radical history, Regina Andrews, Williana Burroughs, Zora Neale Hurston