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HollaBack!: Feminist Responses to Street Harassment
Shannon Lynberg, Emily May, Oraia Reid, and Chai Shenoy
Street harassment, or sexual harassment in public spaces, is an issue with which just about every woman has some experience. Activists from New York City and Washington, DC will discuss new, innovative ways to combat street harassment using technology, mapping, and community organizing. Through online activism, public policy and advocacy, and outreach, these activists have […]
Read MoreHollaback! Feminist Responses to Street Harassment
Panel discussion featuring Shannon Lynberg, Emily May, Oraia Reid and Chai Shenoy. Moderated by Catherine Sameh.
Read MorePolyphonic Feminisms: Acting in Concert
Mandy Van Deven and Julie Kubala
Contributors include Sara Ahmed, Anida Yoeu Ali, Moya Bailey, Lina Bertucci, Adrienne Maree Brown, brownfemipower, Nuala Cabral, Lindsay Caplan, Joy Castro, Lisa Factora-Borchers, Daniel Horowitz Garcia, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Duchess Harris, Jessica Hoffmann, Julie Kubala, Nomy Lamm, Noemi Y. Molitor, Felicia "Fe" Montes, Jennifer C. Nash, Adele Nieves, Lesleigh J. Owen, Cara Page, Jasmeen Patheja, Marta Sanchez, Larissa Sansour, Lamont Sims, SPEAK! Radical Women of Color Media Collective, Mandy Van Deven, and Mary Jane Villamor.
Read MoreNew Feminist Activism
Mia Herndon, Ai-jen Poo, and Rinku Sen
BCRW has long been interested in supporting social justice movements that reach beyond the limits of traditional feminist activism. In past semesters, we have hosted programs that have taken up a variety of intersectional projects that join feminist activism and analysis with other progressive movements, including reproductive justice, workplace rights across the economic spectrum, and […]
Read MoreNew Feminist Activism
Recorded Sep 16, 2009
BCRW has long been interested in supporting social justice movements that reach beyond the limits of traditional feminist activism. In past semesters, we have hosted programs that have taken up a variety of intersectional projects that join feminist activism and analysis with other progressive movements, including reproductive justice, workplace rights across the economic spectrum, and the links between sexual and economic justice, to name a few. This panel on New Feminist Activism will explore how young feminist activists are engaging with struggles for justice in areas such as education, the environment, and race and class. By using new forms of media and building alliances, these activists (and many others like them) are creating a strand of feminist activism that is fundamentally concerned with social justice and social change. Panelists include: Mia Herndon, Executive Director of the Third Wave Foundation, a feminist, activist foundation that works nationally to support young women and transgender youth; Debra Cole, a member of Domestic Workers United, an organization working for fair labor standards for nannies, housekeepers, and other domestic workers in New York; and Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center, a racial justice think tank and home for media and activism, publisher of Color Lines magazine, and the author of Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization.
ListenRewriting Dispersal: Africana Gender Studies
Christine Cynn and Kim F. Hall
Contributors include Nafeesah Allen, Christina Ama Ata Aidoo, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Makini Boothe, Gabri Christa, Yvette Christiansë, Christine Cynn, Angela Davis, Lani Guinier, Kim F. Hall, Werewere Liking, Amina Mama, Celia E. Naylor, Tavia Nyong'o, Hiram Perez, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, and Kathryn Tobin.
Read MoreAngela Davis: On Activism (Excerpt)
An excerpt from the lecture "Abolition Democracy and Global Politics."
Read MoreYoung, Queer, and Organized
Q-Team and FIERCE!
FIERCE! and Q-team may be located on opposite sides of the country, but they couldn’t be closer in working to empower young queer and trans youth of color and building broader, more inclusive social justice movements. On Thursday, October 4, members from each of these impressive grassroots organizations, including Q-team’s Ned del Callejo, come together […]
Read MoreBlogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance
Gwendolyn Beetham and Jessica Valenti
Contributors include Gwendolyn Beetham, Tracy L. M. Kennedy, Hosu Kim, Patricia G. Lange, Mary C. Matthews, Shireen Mitchell, Chris Nolan, Tedra Osell, Clancy Ratliff, Deborah Siegel, Shira Tarrant, Rebecca Traister, Jessica Valenti, Marie Varghese and Gillian Youngs.
Read MoreThe Scholar & Feminist XXX: Past Controversies, Present Challenges, Future Feminisms
Janet Jakobsen & David Hopson
Contributors include Meena Alexander, Dorothy Allison, Amrita Basu, Alison Bernstein, Elizabeth Bernstein, Siobhan Brooks, Leslie Calman, Tammy Rae Carland, Staceyann Chin, Ann Cvetkovich, Leslie Feinberg, Rebecca Haimowitz, Amber Hollibaugh, Janet Jakobsen, Temma Kaplan, Surina Khan, Jenny Kern, Elaine Kim, Rachel Maddow, Terry O’Neill, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Barbara Ransby, Kumkum Sangari, Heisoo Shin, Lateefah Simon, and Faye Wattleton.
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