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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 […]
Read MoreIntroductory 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, […]
Read More“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.
Read MoreEngaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule
A conversation featuring La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro.
Read MoreBlack 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.
Read MoreAfrican 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.
Read MoreAfrican 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.
Read MoreCritical 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.
Read MoreCaribbean 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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