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Freedom and Insurgence: Recalling Fanon

Dylan Rodríguez and Ezekiel Dixon-Román

August 29, 2025

Organized on the occasion of the centennial of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon, Freedom and Insurgence brings together Dylan Rodríguez and Ezekiel Dixon-Román for…

We Will Not Be Erased: Queer Archives, Trans Histories

Steven Watson and Tourmaline

August 18, 2025

For over forty years, cultural historian Steven Watson has documented the stories and artwork at the leading edge of artistic and cultural movements, including…

MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

Tourmaline in conversation with C. Riley Snorton

August 18, 2025

For the Helen Pond McIntyre ‘48 Lecture, Tourmaline will join C. Riley Snorton for a discussion of her new biography of Marsha P. Johnson.…

Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to the Brutality of Incarceration

Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier. Moderated by Mariame Kaba.

May 5, 2020

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…

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…

Nevertheless, She Persisted: Barnard Students Read Coretta Scott King’s Letter

February 28, 2017

Barnard students read the letter by Coretta Scott King that Senator Elizabeth Warren was blocked from reading during the Senate confirmation hearing of Trump…

Hortense Spillers – Shades of Intimacy: Women in the Time of Revolution

February 16, 2017

Full length lecture.

In the Wake: A Salon in Honor of Christina Sharpe

February 2, 2017

Christina Sharpe in conversation with Hazel Carby, Kaiama Glover, Saidiya Hartman, Arthur Jafa, and Alex Weheliye.

The Personal Things

November 20, 2016

Short featuring Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. Directed by Tourmaline with art by Micah Bazant and animation by Pamela Chavez. Produced by Tourmaline, Hope Dector, and…

Tourmaline: Making a Way Out of No Way

February 27, 2016

Keynote address at The Scholar & Feminist Conference 41: Sustainabilities.

BCRW Archive Fever

Che Gossett

December 8, 2015

In this lecture BCRW Community Archivist Che Gossett will discuss the history and emerging future of the BCRW archives and their digitization. BCRW archives holds…

Black Light: Tom Lloyd, Lorraine O’Grady, and the Effect of Art Historical Disappearance

Krista Thompson

December 3, 2015

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Tourmaline: Historical Erasure as Violence

October 30, 2015

Tourmaline talks about learning and sharing histories of trans women of color, including Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries),…

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…

September 1, 2015

Report of BCRW accomplishments from Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.

Annette Gordon-Reed – Without Cover of the Law: Writing the History of Enslaved Women

March 24, 2015

Drawing on her work about slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, luminary legal historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the way law influences the portrayal of enslaved…

February 5, 2015

Supporting trans-inclusive admissions at Barnard.

Love and Flames: Legacies of Black Queer and Prison Abolitionist Solidarity with Palestinian Struggle

Che Gossett

January 9, 2015

In this paper, Community Activist and Student Coordinator Che Gossett examines the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle by excavating June Jordan…

Without Cover of the Law: Writing the History of Enslaved Women

Annette Gordon-Reed

January 9, 2015

Drawing on her work about slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, luminary legal historian Annette Gordon-Reed will discuss the way law influences the portrayal of…

Tina Campt: Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity

October 7, 2014

Full-length video of Tina Campt's lecture, "Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity."

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…

Birthright Crisis: The Power and Paradoxes of Media Advocacy

Miriam Neptune

August 28, 2014

After a September 2013 court ruling stripped citizenship from thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent, long-term efforts to critique human rights conditions in the…

Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity

Tina Campt

August 28, 2014

What kinds of ‘practice’ create possibilities for new feminist futures? How do our everyday engagements with power complicate how we understand feminist struggle? This…

The Closet

Henry Abelove

August 28, 2014

Henry Abelove, Willbur Fisk Osborne Emeritus Professor of English at Wesleyan University, will ask and try to answer this question: How and why and…

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…

Historical Perspectives on Domestic Worker Organizing

April 16, 2014

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

Intergenerational Organizing Panel

March 12, 2014

Panel at "African Women’s Rights and Resilience." Panelists include Simidele Dosekun, Spectra, Hakima Abbas, and Leymah Gbowee. Moderated by Jimmy Briggs and introduced by…

African Men and Feminisms Panel

March 12, 2014

Panel at "African Women’s Rights and Resilience." Panelists include Samuel B. Doe, Kennedy Odede, and Mohamed Yahya. Moderated by Abena Busia and introduced by…

Women’s Rights and Transnational Feminisms Panel

March 12, 2014

Panel at "African Women’s Rights and Resilience." Panelists include Abigail Disney, Amina Mama, Sylvia Tamale, and Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi. Moderated and introduced by Tina Campt.