Mar 27, 2020 | 2:00PM

Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium

Elliot Montague, Emma Frankland, Texas Isaiah, Tourmaline, and Vick Quezada

#TransRevolutions Live captioning is available here. During the event, you can send questions for the Q&A by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu or via Twitter @bcrwtweets #TransRevolutions Trans*Revolutions is a virtual symposium featuring artist-activists whose work is inspired by and engaged in imagining trans* and genderqueer histories, performances, identities, and aesthetics. Elliot Montague (film), Emma Frankland (performance), Texas Isaiah […]

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arts, film, gender, photography, queer, transgender

The View from Somewhere: Transgender Journalists Resisting Objectivity

Conversation featuring Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace

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journalism, trans, transgender

Ella Weed Room, 2nd Floor, Milbank Hall, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Oct 28, 2019 | 6:00PM

S&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?

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anti-violence, Black Women, criminalization, femmes, gender nonconforming, gender-based violence, policing, racism, trans, transformative justice, transgender, women of color

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Nov 19, 2019 | 6:30PM

The View From Somewhere: Transgender Journalists Resisting “Objectivity”

Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace

Transgender journalists will address the problems of "objectivity" for trans journalists and trans subjects, and discuss how to chart a path of rigor, conscious subjectivity, and community accountability in the worlds of journalism and non-fiction storytelling.

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journalism, Lewis Wallace, Meredith Talusan, transgender

Don’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks

Bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.

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activism, gender, prisons, queer, race, transgender, violence

Dean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture

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

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activism, economic justice, gender, policy, politics, prisons, queer, race, transgender, violence

The 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.

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activism, gender, history, queer, race, transgender

Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders

Video by Dean Spade + Hope Dector. Featuring Reina Gossett, Angélica Cházaro, CeCe McDonald, and Dean Spade.

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activism, gender, immigration, prisons, queer, race, transgender, violence

Reina Gossett: Making a Way Out of No Way

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

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activism, arts, disability, film, gender, history, queer, race, scholar & feminist, sexuality, transgender

Event Oval, Diana Center
Feb 27, 2016 | 10:00AM

Scholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities

Reina Gossett, Cara Page, Krystal Portalatin, Joo-Hyun Kang & more.

REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sf41 In the forty-first year of BCRW’s cornerstone conference, we are taking seriously the framework of sustainability to ask how we can sustain the material, financial, creative, cultural, spiritual, and communal resources necessary to maintain the vitality of our communities, movements, and critical feminist inquiries. The conference brings together feminist scholars, […]

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activism, disability, healing justice, housing, LGBT, policing, prisons, queer, race, racial justice, transgender, transnational

Reina Gossett: Historical Erasure as Violence

Reina Gossett talks about learning and sharing histories of trans women of color, including Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), as a strategy to transform and heal from historical isolation and erasure.

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activism, gender, history, intersectionality, queer, race, transgender

Dean Spade: History of Queers Against Police

Dean Spade talks about the dramatic shifts in queer and trans movements over the last 50 years with the emergence in the 1990s of a highly visible and well-funded gay rights movement whose demand for inclusion in hate crime legislation and police protection goes against queer and trans community-based grassroots organizing to end police and state violence since the 1960s.

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activism, class, gender, history, intersectionality, politics, prisons, queer, race, transgender, violence