Videos from #unsilencedpast, plus BCRW in the media
Videos from #unsilencedpast, plus BCRW in the media. Stay tuned for upcoming events, or visit our events page for a preview.
#unsilencedpast: Virtual Symposium
Presented by the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College
Co-Sponsored by BCRW
July 2020
Taking as its point of departure Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s foundational work, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995), the Barnard Digital Humanities Center hosted a series of four online conversations in July 2020 among Black women scholars who use digital humanities and/or social and other media to make historically grounded interventions in our contemporary moment. The anti-racist imperative that animates these scholars’ work is anchored in a too-often silenced past of refusal and struggle on the part of those who’ve been most marginalized by white supremacy and other structures of domination.
Participants: Marlene Daut (University of Virginia), Kim Gallon (Purdue College), Jessica Marie Johnson (John Hopkins University), Martha Jones (John Hopkins University), Annette Joseph-Gabriel (University of Michigan), Mame-Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University),Marisa Parham (Amherst College), and Maboula Soumahoro (Université de Tours).
Watch/listen to the conversations here.
BCRW in the media
Tourmaline Reflects on the Power and Possibility of Black Art, W Magazine
by Maxine Walley
June 25, 2020
Black Trans Lives Must Be Front and Center, The Nation
by Kali Holloway,
July 13, 2020
‘‘It does become an issue for me when your belief system tramples on my existence and my survival’: Activist CeCe McDonald spoke in most recent UI Black Lives Matter Speaker Series lecture, The Argonaut
by Anteia McCollum,
July 15, 2020
What is ‘Healing Justice’?, Good Morning America, ABC News
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and activist Cara Page explain the theory and communal benefits
July 24, 2020
Trans Liberation Can’t Happen Until We Abolish Prisons, DailyXtra
by Alex V. Green
July 27, 2020
Liberation Library, Which Sends Books To Incarcerated Children, Goes Viral With Child’s Thank-You Letter, Block Club Chicago
by Siri Chilukuri
July 28, 2020
How Shame Blocks Accountability, Yes! Magazine
by Ayu Sutriasa
July 29, 2020
More Updates
In early July, Eve Marie Kausch BC ‘18, BCRW Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, co-facilitated a community-wide campus assembly on alternatives to policing, with Barnard College students Lena Harris ’22 and Denise Mantey ’21. This assembly is part of an ongoing series of assemblies for racial justice and is open to Barnard staff, faculty, and students, and was co-sponsored with Barnard Library and Information Science and the Council on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.