Online
May 3, 2022 | 6:30PM

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

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

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 Taylor, BC ’22 will be in conversation with leading LGBTQ+ mobilizers who are creating networks of visibility and support for queer and trans life in Jamaica and beyond. Speakers include: Kymm […]

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Black, Caribbean, photography, queer, trans

Tamara K. Nopper

Introductory Remarks to “Virgin Capital: Tami Navarro and Tamara K. Nopper in Conversation”

Dec 1, 2021

In A Burst of Light and Other Essays, an account of her living with cancer, Audre Lorde concludes the epilogue with, “I work, I love, I rest, I see and learn. And I report. These are my givens. Not sureties, but a firm belief that whether or not living them with joy prolongs my life, […]

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audre lorde, Caribbean, Tamara K. Nopper, Tami Navarro

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Apr 27, 2020 | 6:30PM

“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

Engaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule

A conversation featuring La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro.

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archives, Caribbean, colonialism, Danish West Indes, U.S. Virgin Islands

Black Imaginaries, Scandinavian Diasporas: Imagining Race in Scandinavia

Artists discuss how their practices across different media are designed to provoke conversation about colonial legacies and contemporary racial politics on the ground in Sweden, Denmark, and St. Croix.

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AfroSwedish movement, artists, Caribbean, colonialism, Denmark, Scandinavia, Sr. Croix, Sweden

African Diasporic Countervisualities

Panelists discuss the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region.

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Caribbean, gender, photography, representation, visual culture

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
February 11, 2019, 6:30-8 PM

African Diasporic Countervisualities

La Vaughn Belle, Vanessa Valdes, and Dixa Ramirez, moderated by Tina Campt

This panel challenges the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region, highlighting inconvenient histories previously ignored, erased, silenced, ghosted.

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African diaspora, Caribbean, practicing refusal, visual culture

Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn

Erna Brodber, author of Nothing’s Mat (2014) and The Rainmaker’s Mistake (2007), among other works, and Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun (2016), join us for a reading, followed by a discussion moderated by Kaiama L. Glover.

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Caribbean, Erna Brodber, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Writers

Reid Hall, Paris, France
Mar 17, 2016 | 5:00PM

Caribbean Feminisms on the Page III: In Paris

Maryse Condé and Fabienne Kanor

ABOUT THE EVENT Taking place during Barnard’s 2016 Global Symposium in Paris, this conversation will feature esteemed writer and former Columbia University faculty member Maryse Condé and renowned contemporary Franco-Martinican novelist and filmmaker Fabienne Kanor. Speaking on a rich tradition of artists and writers moving between the French-speaking Caribbean and France, these writers will discuss […]

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africana, Caribbean, literature, transnational, writing