“They lived right around the corner from me”
News from the Center
Asha Futterman (BC ’21) reflects on her three-year journey with BCRW, including her work creating the Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour with Mariame Kaba. “It was powerful to understand that so many women who have done amazing things, that still impact my life years and years later, lived right around the corner from me,” says Futterman. Read more on the Barnard College Blog.
Mariame Kaba, BCRW Researcher-in-Residence, has a book coming out this month. We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice edited by Tamara K. Nopper is published by Haymarket Press and available for pre-order here.
Last month, Kaba published “Police Abolition 101,” a collaborative zine made with Project NIA, Interrupting Criminalization, and illustrator Noah Jodice, and the curriculum “Against Punishment,” with contributions from adrienne maree brown, Santera Matthews, jackie sumell, Annie Terrell, and Umoja Student Development Corporation. Preview the resource here or fill out this survey to download your own copy.
Tourmaline, BCRW Activist-in-Residence and longtime collaborator, had an exhibition screening her short film “Salacia” along with a series of portraits of the artist at Chapter New York in December and January of this year. This exhibition was featured in The New Yorker’s “Goings on About Town” and was reviewed by Tiana Reid in FRIEZE. “The artist nurtures a blossoming archive,” Reid writes. Read more.
Andrea Ritchie, BCRW Researcher-in-Residence, co-authored Timothy Colman, Pascal Emmer, and Tiffany Wang “The data is in. People of color are punished more harshly for Covid violations in the US” in The Guardian (January 6, 2021), which links to a report by Ritchie and collaborators for the COVID-19 Policing Project, “UNMASKED: Impacts of Pandemic Policing.”
Tami Navarro, associate director of BCRW, published “‘EDC girls’ and Women’s Work: Race, Gender and Labor in the Financial Services Sector in the US virgin Islands” in Feminist Anthropology.
Madeleine Thien, novelist and author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016), and Avi Cummings, BCRW communications manager, interviewed Casey Plett about her debut novel, Little Fish (2018), which you can read in “What Does It Mean to Belong?” on Literary Hub.
Kaiama Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College and longtime BCRW collaborator, published her most recent book, A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being in January.
And Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University and BCRW’s 2020 Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecturer, is featured in The New York Times Magazine (Sunday, February 7). Read the essay, “He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?”
Upcoming Events
Cara Page, BCRW Activist-in-Residence, will speak at the 41st Marian Wright Thompson Lecture Series, One Begins Again: Organizing and the Historical Imagination, with organizers and scholars Barbara Ransby, Alicia Garza, and Bill Fletcher Jr. The conference takes place virtually on Saturday, February 20. Free and open to the public. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2009), published a new zine, “Resurrecting Ruby: A Modern Retelling,” with Mariame Kaba. A conversation on this story, Resurrecting Ruby: Criminalizing Black Women’s Survival, will take place on February 27. Click here to RSVP.