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The Bronx Fire: Financial Predation, City Neglect, Community Power
Feb 10, 2022
We continue to mourn with the survivors of a catastrophic fire in the Bronx that killed eight adults and nine children on January 9th, 2022. Barnard students and alums are among the people who lost relatives and neighbors in a disaster that rippled beyond New York and throughout communities living with the realities of precarious […]
Read MoreS&F Online Launch Party: Unraveling Criminalizing Webs
Andrea J. Ritchie
Celebrating the newest issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, "Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures," guest edited by BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske (BC '18), which invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what?
Read MoreCapturing the Flag: Anne de Mare
Exploring themes that are constantly sensationalized and manipulated by the media, “Capturing The Flag” offers deeply personal, often surprising perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election and its aftermath.
Read More“its known and unknown powers / to bind and dissociate”: Forensic Surveillance and the Policing of Biology
Featuring Shoshana Magnet, Cara Page, Rori Rohlfs, and Harriet Washington, moderated by Anthony Ureña at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."
Read MoreUndoing the Future: Troubling Time/s, and Ecologies of Nothingness: Re-turning, Re-membering, and Facing the Incalculable
Karen Barad
Karen Barad will consider the ways in which quantum physics troubles modernist conceptions of time, and asks whether quantum temporalities might offer radical political imaginaries for cohabiting this planet more justly.
Read MoreAbleism is the Bane of My Motherfuckin’ Existence
Activists Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern expand on the disability justice framework and the need for a politicized understanding of ableism within a context of racism, classism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.
Read MoreMy Body Doesn’t Oppress Me, Society Does
Disability justice activists Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern discuss social models of accessibility and the social, economic, and physical barriers that render physical impairments disabling in an ableist society.
Read MorePoetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand
BCRW is thrilled to host Poetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand, moderated by BCRW Associate Director Tami Navarro, on the power and necessity of poetry in resisting the contemporary manifestations of racism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy. This event is very much a response to the current political moment in the […]
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