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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…

Dean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture

December 9, 2016

"When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability"

January 31, 2016

This issue of S&F Online looks at the nonprofit and the university as two key sites in which neoliberal social and economic formations are…

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…

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…

Red River Women’s Clinic

June 23, 2014

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 12) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, Carly Crane '15 interviews 27-year-old Caitlin O'Connell, site…

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…

Tourmaline + Dean Spade: “No One is Disposable” Online Discussion

February 7, 2014

Online discussion exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue for those committed to supporting trans and gender-nonconforming people.

Tourmaline + Dean Spade (Part 4): Gun Control + Producing Dangerousness

January 7, 2014

Part of the series "No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition," exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue…

Tourmaline + Dean Spade (Part 3): What About the Dangerous People?

January 7, 2014

Part of the series "No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition," exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue…

Tourmaline + Dean Spade (Part 2): Practicing Prison Abolition Everyday

January 7, 2014

Part of the series "No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition," exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue…

Tourmaline + Dean Spade (Part 1): Prison Abolition + Prefiguring the World You Want to Live In

January 7, 2014

Part of the series "No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition," exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue…

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…

New Feminist Solutions: Social Justice Approaches to Ending Domestic Violence

Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sally MacNichol, Angela Moreno

December 19, 2013

Between 2011-2012, Sakhi for South Asian Women convened two meetings of grassroots organizers to address the challenges of building a broader anti-violence movement. These…

No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition

Tourmaline and Dean Spade '97

December 18, 2013

REGISTER EVENT INFORMATION VIDEOS QUESTIONS RESOURCES Event Informaton In a series of four short online videos produced by BCRW, activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade…

Paradoxes of Neoliberalism

August 12, 2013

Featuring Sealing Cheng, Lisa Duggan, Dean Spade, Elizabeth Bernstein, Miranda Joseph, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Kate Bedford.

What is Neoliberalism?

August 12, 2013

Featuring Lisa Duggan, Miranda Joseph, Sealing Cheng, Elizabeth Bernstein, Dean Spade, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Ana Amuchástegui.

Rights, Religion, and Secularity Salon with Tanika Sarkar

April 16, 2013

Conversation featuring Tanika Sarkar, Neferti Tadiar, Winnifred Sullivan, and Abosede George. Moderated by Anupama Rao.

Backtalk/Crosstalk: Gendered Stories, Colonial Archives and Sexualized Subjects

Marisa J. Fuentes, Jennifer Morgan, and Yvette Christiansë

March 22, 2013

Backtalk/Crosstalk is a series of dialogues initiated by the Africana Studies Program to set members of the Africana faculty in conversation with diasporic scholars,…

Rights, Religion, and Secularity Salon

Tanika Sarkar, Neferti Tadiar, Anupama Rao, Winnifred Sullivan, and Abosede George

January 3, 2013

Acclaimed scholar of history, gender and colonialism Tanika Sarkar joins BCRW for the third event in the annual Salon Series, which offers an opportunity…

Dorothy Roberts: Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

October 15, 2012

Full-length video of Dorothy Roberts' lecture, "Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen."

Dorothy Roberts

October 15, 2012

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s…

Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen

Dorothy Roberts

June 20, 2012

Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year’s…

What You Can Do to Stop the War Against Women

Senator Liz Krueger, Jessica Valenti, Joe Rollins, Jamia Wilson, and Amy Richards

April 24, 2012

There is a war against women raging across the country. Presidential candidates are speaking out in opposition to basic contraception. Anti-woman legislators around the…

Is it Time for a 5th World Conference on Women?

Yvonne Maingey, Rosemary Williams, Anele Heiges, and Shazia Z. Rafi

April 17, 2012

Photo Credit: UN Women/Ryan Brown Join leaders from several NGOs to discuss the past and future of the World Conference on Women. What have…
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