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The City and the University: A Symposium

Anupama Rao and C. Riley Snorton

May 2, 2026

Student-led symposium exploring universities’ roles in society, examining social inequality, segregation, and education through critical research, archives, and activism, connecting campus histories with broader…

The City and the University: A Symposium

Anupama Rao and C. Riley Snorton

March 5, 2026

REGISTER The University in/and Crisis Working Group invites you to attend a symposium featuring research and activism by students at Barnard College, Teachers College,…

Marissa Alexander: Survived and Punished

June 20, 2017

Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence who was sentenced to a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for firing a single warning shot…

Joan Little: Survived and Punished

June 20, 2017

Joan Little was the first woman acquitted of murder on the grounds of of self-defense against sexual violence. Learn about her story and the…

Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies: Queer Precarity and the Myth of Gay Affluence

Amber Hollibaugh

December 8, 2015

Queer precarity is a reality. As the wealth gap continues to grow, LGBT/Q people struggle with increasing hardships and economic crisis, alongside the majority…

Amber Hollibaugh: A Movement for Liberation

October 30, 2015

Amber Hollibaugh talks about a the importance of a liberation framework centering low-income people and people of color for LGBTQ organizing.

Dean Spade: History of Queers Against Police

October 30, 2015

Dean Spade talks about the dramatic shifts in queer and trans movements over the last 50 years with the emergence in the 1990s of…

Policing the Crises: Thinking It Forward – Panel at Stuart Hall Conference

September 26, 2015

Panel featuring Ben Carrington, Karla FC Holloway, Barnor Hesse, and chair Tina Campt from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice…

September 1, 2015

Report of BCRW accomplishments from Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.

Easy Money and Respectable Girls: Neoliberalism and Expectation in the US Virgin Islands

Tami Navarro

July 9, 2015

[su_button url="https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=17796787671" background="#ef8e2d" center="yes"]Register now! [/su_button] ABOUT THE EVENT: In St. Croix, a disproportionate number of young women from middle and upper-middle class backgrounds…

Action on Education

January 9, 2015

REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sfedu Speakers include Ujju Aggarwal, Lalaie Ameeriar, Abigail Boggs, The Black Youth Project, Nuala Cabral, Natalia Cecire, Jaz Choi, Tressie…

October 7, 2014

This issue is organized around continuing the conversations that took place between scholars, activists, and scholar/activists at these conferences. In their writing, the contributors…

Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies: Impacts of Economic Injustice on LGBTQ Communities

August 28, 2014

As part of the ongoing Queer Survival Economies project spearheaded by Amber Hollibaugh, this conference works to make visible queer economic realities and survival…

No Such Thing as Neutral

Ali Rosa-Salas

August 28, 2014

Countless forms of dance created and performed in public spaces are bundled under the umbrella of “vernacular” or “street.” These diverse methods have been…

Justice in the Home: Domestic Work Past, Present, and Future

Eileen Boris, Tamara Mose Brown, Linda Burnham, Grace Chang, Janice Fine, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Claire Hobden, Tera Hunter, Fish Ip, Eva Kittay, Jennifer Klein, Elizabeth Clark Lewis, Andrea Cristina Mercado, Premilla Nadasen, Rhacel Parrenas, Ai-jen Poo, Cecilia Rio, Mary Romero, Saskia Sassen, Peggie Smith, Nik Theodore, and Martina Vandenberg

May 13, 2014

DESCRIPTION PROGRAM REGISTER Description Link to Justice in the Home Wikispaces Click here to register online. Research about domestic work, domestic workers, and domestic…

“I Use My Love to Guide Me”: Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Impossible Situations

April 21, 2014

A conversation with CeCe McDonald, Tourmaline, and Dean Spade.

Prisons Aren’t Safe for Anybody

April 21, 2014

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the…

Historical Perspectives on Domestic Worker Organizing

April 16, 2014

Conversation featuring Elizabeth Quay Hutchison and Premilla Nadasen. Moderated by Nara Milanich.

Police + Prisons Don’t Keep Us Safe–We Keep Each Other Safe

April 7, 2014

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the…

Fighting the Isolation and Dehumanization of Prisons and Policing

March 31, 2014

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the…

I Use My Love to Guide Me–Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Impossible Situations

March 31, 2014

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the…

New York City in the World

March 28, 2014

Panel at the For the Public Good Conference. Panelists include Ana Amuchástegui, Sealing Cheng, Louis Graham, Kerwin Kaye, Mark Padilla, and Mario Pecheny. Moderated…

Exploring the Public Good in NYC

March 28, 2014

Panel at the For the Public Good Conference. Panelists include John Blasco, Nico Fonseca, Ede Fox, and Robert Hawkins. Moderated by Gail Cooper. Introduced…

Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City

March 27, 2014

Pre-conference panel to the For the Public Good Conference. Panelists include Kate D'Adamo, Tourmaline, Amber Hollibaugh, Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sydnie Mosley, and Penelope Saunders. Moderated…

“I Use My Love to Guide Me”: Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Impossible Situations

CeCe McDonald, Tourmaline, and Dean Spade

March 27, 2014

EVENT INFORMATION VIDEOS ASK A QUESTION RESOURCES Event Informaton In 2011, CeCe McDonald was a fashion design student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College…

Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City: A Special Pre-Conference Panel

Kate D'Adamo, Reina Gossett, Amber Hollibaugh, Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sydnie Mosley, and Penelope Saunders

March 11, 2014

How do contemporary social conditions affect activism on behalf of gender and sexual justice in New York City? Have economic shifts since the financial…

Radical Doulas

February 3, 2014

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 9) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, we speak with Miriam Zoila Pérez, one of…

For the Public Good Conference

Ana Amuchástegui, Lee Anne Bell, Elizabeth Bernstein, Sealing Cheng, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Gail Cooper, Nico Fonseca, Kerwin Kaye, Mark Padilla, Mario Pecheny, and more

December 19, 2013

DESCRIPTION PROGRAM VIDEOS Description Register online. Special pre-conference panel on Thursday, March 27: Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City. Education. Healthcare. Policing.…

Historical Perspectives on Domestic Worker Organizing

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison and Premilla Nadasen

December 19, 2013

The history of domestic worker organizing illustrates how domestic workers have mobilized to transform their working lives and, in the process, have built a…
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