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The Fun of the Story
Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel
How can humor be feminist? How can humor help us tell the hard truths?
Read MoreMarissa Alexander: Survived and Punished
Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence who was sentenced to a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for firing a single warning shot into the ceiling. Learn about her story and the creative organizing that successfully fought for her freedom.
Read MoreJoan Little: Survived and Punished
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 global organizing that successfully fought for her freedom.
Read MoreNevertheless, She Persisted: Barnard Students Read Coretta Scott King’s Letter
Barnard students read the letter by Coretta Scott King that Senator Elizabeth Warren was blocked from reading during the Senate confirmation hearing of Trump Attorney General Jefferson Sessions.
Read MoreHortense Spillers – Shades of Intimacy: Women in the Time of Revolution
Full length lecture.
Read MoreIn the Wake: A Salon in Honor of Christina Sharpe
Christina Sharpe in conversation with Hazel Carby, Kaiama Glover, Saidiya Hartman, Arthur Jafa, and Alex Weheliye.
Read MoreDon’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks
Bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.
Read MoreDean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture
"When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability"
Read MoreThe Personal Things
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 the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Read MoreDreams are Colder than Death: Screening & Talk with Arthur Jafa
Featuring Arthur Jafa, Christina Sharpe, Reina Gossett, and Tavia Nyong'o.
Read MoreTraversing Technologies
Patrick Keilty and Leslie Regan Shade
In “Traversing Technology,” scholars drawn primarily from the arts and humanities offer close readings of the multifaceted histories, consequences, potential adaptations and mutilations of scientific and technical productions. Uniting these diverse sites of inquiry is the necessity of movement in order to understand or act—the refusal of a god’s eye view frozen in one all seeing perspective. The authors refuse a physical/virtual division, as they map the monstrous meanings of suburban homes, dive into scatalogical biopolitical governmentalities, surface the long gendered pre-history of selfie culture, celebrate trans people of color’s poetic stitching of social wounds, trace the frequent construction of Asian Americans as racialized machines, link the prescient wisdom of the Combahee River Collective to the ways internet architecture imperils black lives, generate new opportunities to infect technology with viral feminist knowledges, and offer up the parasite as a model for our relationship to social networks.
Read MoreShades of Intimacy: Women in the Time of Revolution
Hortense Spillers
Hortense Spillers considers the aftermath of the notion of partus sequitur ventrem—the “American ‘innovation’ that proclaimed that the child born of an enslaved mother would also be enslaved.” In her fall lecture, “Shades of Intimacy: Women in the Time of Revolution,” she deepens this ongoing exploration by engaging the idea of the “shadow” family as […]
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