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Policing the Crises: Thinking It Forward – Panel at Stuart Hall Conference
Panel featuring Ben Carrington, Karla FC Holloway, Barnor Hesse, and chair Tina Campt from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique."
Read MoreNew Media: Encoding, Decoding, Coding – Panel at Stuart Hall Conference
Panel featuring featuring Henry Jenkins, Nicholas Mirzoeff, and chair Rob King from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique."
Read More2015 WAM!NYC Feminist Media Conference
REGISTER PROGRAM CONFERENCE PAGE Click here to register and buy your ticket. The 6th annual WAM!NYC Feminist Media Conference on June 20th at Barnard College is an all-day conference devoted to bringing issues of race, gender, class and social justice to the media. Following last year’s incredible Janet Mock keynote, this year’s conference is bringing […]
Read MoreZines
Released Mar 6, 2015
(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 13) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, Research Assistant Michelle Chen '15 interviews Barnard Zine Librarian Jenna Freedman and founder of As[I]Am Jordan Alam '13 on zines as a feminist project. The episode also features interviews with participants at the NYC Feminist Zine Fest 2014, held at Barnard College.
ListenRedefining Realness: A Salon in honor of Janet Mock
Conversation featuring Janet Mock, Brittney Cooper, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, CeCe McDonald, and Mey Valdivia Rude.
Read MoreDigital Engagement in Transnational Feminisms
Plenary at "Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices," Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh (Zanan TV), Tamura Lomax (The Feminist Wire), Laura Hale (Wikipedia), and Maria-Belén Ordóñez (FemTechNet). Moderated by Catherine Sameh (BCRW).
Read MoreRedefining Realness: A Salon in honor of Janet Mock
Janet Mock, Brittney Cooper, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, CeCe McDonald, and Mey Valdivia Rude
This year’s salon focuses on a new memoir by writer Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, which relates the author’s experience as a young trans woman of color working in mainstream media. In 2012, Mock, who served as a Staff Editor for People.com for five years, launched […]
Read MoreWendy Hui Kyong Chun: Habitual New Media
Full-length video of Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's lecture, "Habitual New Media: Exposing Empowerment."
Read MoreHabitual New Media: Exposing Empowerment
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
New media technologies provoke both anxiety and hope: anxiety over surveillance and hope for empowerment. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals that these two reactions complement rather than oppose each other by emphasizing how exposure is necessary in order for networks to work. Addressing the key ways that gender plays—and has historically played—into negotiating media exposure, […]
Read MoreMedia and Image
Released Jul 31, 2013
(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 4) This month on Dare to Use the F-Word, we focus on media representations of young women. We speak with Jamie Keiles of "The Seventeen Magazine Project" and you'll hear Alexandra Cale offer a feminist analysis of "Documented Instances of Public Eating."
Listen#FemFuture: Online Revolution
In this report, Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti build on a 2012 convening where 21 writers, activists, and educators who work in the online feminist landscape came together to discuss their needs, desires, and hopes for the online feminist future. Here they provide a cogent explanation of the power of online organizing, the risks and challenges of the current state of the field, and some possible solutions for creating a more sustainable system.
Read More“The Lady with the Whip”: Gendered Violence and Social Death in Manderlay and Django Unchained
Frank Wilderson
How do we conceptualize gender, violence and political organizing in Black life? What does it mean to understand slavery as an ongoing relationship? Join us for a talk by Frank Wilderson, Professor of African American Studies and Drama (UC-Irvine) and award-winning author of Incognegro and Red White and Black. Esther Armah (political commentator, playwright, and […]
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