Young Feminists Take on Activism and Organizing
In this panel, young feminist activists discuss their areas of interest, what they see as the major challenges for feminist movements, how organizing ...
Barnard Center for Research on Women
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The Barnard Center for Research on Women hosts a programming series that explores a wide range of feminist and social justice issues like women's rights, gender and sexuality, democracy and voting, immigration and economics. Featured speakers include Angela Davis, Estelle Freedman, Lani Guinier, Josephine Ho, Naomi Klein and Dean Spade. Fusing scholarship with activism, highlights from these events are now available as podcasts.
Sonia Pierre and the Struggle for Citizenship in the Dominican Republic
Sonia Pierre (1963-2011), mobilized communities in the Dominican Republic to advocate for citizenship and human rights for Dominicans of Haitian desce...
Ntozake Shange on Stage and Screen
The 2012-13 Africana Distinguished Alumna Series honors one of Barnard’s most distinguished African American alumnae: Ntozake Shange '70. A playwright...
Janice Haaken
Since visual images invoke the spectator's experience of unmediated access to the inner world of the subject, the evocative power of photographic imag...
Staking Our Claim: Trans Women's Literature in the 21st Century
Celebrating the release of The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard (Topside Press, 2012), four of the volume's contributors, Ryka ...
Dorothy Roberts
Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular leve...
Feminist Knowledge Production in Digital Communities
Feminist writers discuss what the new digital landscape means for them - how to deal with a constant barrage of critiques and suggestions, how race an...
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a legal anthropologist specializing in Islamic law, gender, and development. She is currently Professorial Research Associate...
Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway
The second event in BCRW's newly inaugurated Salon Series features Karla FC Holloway, Tina Campt, Farah Griffin, Saidiya Hartman, Rebecca Jordan-Young...
The Scholar and Feminist 2012: Theorizing Vulnerability Studies
How does a shift from focusing on the 'autonomous and independent subject' to a framework of shared vulnerability transform intellectual, legal, and a...