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Caste, Gender, Diaspora
Gaiutra Bahadur and Yashica Dutt in conversation with Anupama Rao
The transnational resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement has incited communities across the globe to raise their voices against discrimination and inequality and to work across demographics and colonial histories to reflect more broadly on shared affinities and political solidarities. The resonances between caste and race have been an especially important site for rethinking […]
Read MoreThe Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law
Lila Abu-Lughod, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Karen Engle, Janet R. Jakobsen, Vasuki Nesiah, and Rafia Zakaria
Contributors to The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke 2023) discuss how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs.
Read MoreGender Without Identity
Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini
Rooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, in queer and trans of color critique, and in the authors’ extensive clinical experience with queer and trans people, Gender Without Identity presents a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations.
Read MoreCrafting Objects, Crafting Community: Gender and Material Culture in American Religion
Jodi Eichler-Levine, Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada
Jodi Eichler-Levine and Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada will be in conversation about their new books examining the role of material culture in shaping gender, memory, community, and identity in American Judaism and Catholicism.
Read MorePast as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to the Brutality of Incarceration
Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier. Moderated by Mariame Kaba.
Live transcription available at http://bit.ly/pastasprologue2020 Register here. This event will take place online from 4pm – 6pm ET on 5/8/20. Live captions will be provided. Contact bcrw@barnard.edu with any questions. For centuries incarcerated people and others have painted a grim and gruesome picture of conditions inside prisons and jails. There have been countless reports, testimonies, […]
Read MoreTrans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium
Elliot Montague, Emma Frankland, Texas Isaiah, Tourmaline, and Vick Quezada
#TransRevolutions Live captioning is available here. During the event, you can send questions for the Q&A by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu or via Twitter @bcrwtweets #TransRevolutions Trans*Revolutions is a virtual symposium featuring artist-activists whose work is inspired by and engaged in imagining trans* and genderqueer histories, performances, identities, and aesthetics. Elliot Montague (film), Emma Frankland (performance), Texas Isaiah […]
Read MoreA Gendered Brain? Shattering Sexist Science
Gina Rippon, Daphna Joel, and Giordana Grossi, moderated by Beck Jordan-Young
Neuroscientist Gina Rippon will discuss the historical and political conditions that produced ideas of binary gender differences in our brains, how and why these misperceptions have persisted into the 21st century, and how the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience dispel these fallacies.
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 MoreWomen and Community in Early Modern Europe: Approaches and Perspectives
Laurie Postlewate, Lori J. Walters, and Christine McWebb
The latest issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, entitled "Women and Community in Early Modern Europe: Approaches and Perspectives," explores how we can broaden our study and understanding of the roles and identities women forged for themselves within social collectives.
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