Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making Barnard Center for Research on Women 2021-11-12 | A workshop with Dean Spade on planning and making decisions together in mutual aid groups.This workshop is part of a multi-session series. Participants will be asked to contribute questions upon registration. Participation in all four sessions is recommended but not required. ResourcesDean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups - youtu.be/Kcc1xK0vsBUBuilding Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes! - youtu.be/qp-Iw978WnYConsensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street) - youtu.be/6dtD8RnGaRQNeighborhood Anarchist Collective Facilitation Guide - neighborhoodanarchists.org/facilitationOn Conflict and Consensus - theanarchistlibrary.org/library/c-t-butler-and-amy-rothstein-on-conflict-and-consensus-a-handbook-on-formal-consensus-decisionmadrienne maree brown, Holding Change - akpress.org/holding-change.htmlPeter Gelderloos, Consensus - goodreads.com/book/show/926132.ConsensusExample of a membership proposal - docs.google.com/document/d/1jhKteHT5RtLaDLSUecc7bHHvaZHXgOVaDRnW-93U4xg/edit?usp=sharingExample of a decision making proposal - docs.google.com/document/d/1wvVOBrJKGR0tRRPC8BFUfBX5wqGkO2OCXp74pvDLVdA/edit?usp=sharingSlides: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Vp67XtvY4B5cXQbqN8u7USsxMCmfQPUqny6FbV4nTDA/edit?usp=sharingPoll results: static.mentimeter.com/screenshot/pdfs/2nd%20Building%20Capacity%20workshop.pdf?seriesId=f98e848a45279d96dc055c93d57f2e2c&screenshotTargetUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentimeter.com%2Fpreview&_gl=1*mxkeo8*_ga*NTEyMDQ4NjI5LjE2MzU0NjA2ODI.*_ga_5V8GZ3NSZE*MTYzNjczODU5Mi44LjEuMTYzNjczODYzNC4w&_ga=2.108249857.28018359.1636672912-512048629.1635460682More information about the series is available here:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/building-capacity-for-mutual-aid-workshop-2-decision-making/Accessibility:Live transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to skreitzb@barnard.edu.This event has a suggested registration fee of $5. 100% of funds raised will be donated to a mutual aid organization. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All are welcome.Co-sponsored by Fireweed Collective (fireweedcollective.org) and Survived & Punished NY (survivedandpunishedny.org/).
With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism Barnard Center for Research on Women 2024-04-17 | Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer in conversation with Samuel BrodyLive transcription is available here:streamtext.net/player?event=BCRW_Captions Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. in With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (AK Press, 2023), co-editors Anna Elena Torres (University of Chicago) and Kenyon Zimmer (University of Texas, Arlington) will be joined by contributor Samuel Brody (University of Kansas) to discuss this work, recovering many aspects of this erased tradition. With Freedom in Our Ears brings together more than a dozen scholars and translators to write the first collaborative history of international, multilingual, and transdisciplinary Jewish anarchism. Contributors bring to light the presence and persistence of Jewish anarchism throughout histories of radical labor, women’s studies, political theory, multilingual literature, and ethnic studies. These essays reveal an ongoing engagement with non-Jewish radical cultures, including the translation practices of the Jewish anarchist press. Jewish anarchists drew from a matrix of secular, cultural, and religious influences, inventing new anarchist forms that ranged from mystical individualism to militantly atheist revolutionary cells. Co-sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies, Barnard College.
Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction Keynote with Linda Oalican and Riya Ortiz Barnard Center for Research on Women 2024-04-07 | This keynote conversation featuring Linda Oalican and Riya Ortiz and moderated by Premilla Nadasen is part of the Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction Conference. ASL will be provided. For more information, visit: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/care-racial-capitalism-and-social-reproduction/ This conference will bring together scholars, organizers, and artists to think together about the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change. The conference will draw on the long history of organizing, study, thinking, and praxis forged by feminist activists, organizers, scholars, and artists who have expanded our political analysis to include the dimensions of paid and unpaid domestic, emotional, and reproductive labor as well as those who have taught us about how social reproduction can expand how we understand and build transformative organizing for liberatory futures. At this conference, we will consider the following questions: How can we consider the relationships among social reproduction, racial capitalism, and the state? How have these relationships shifted over time? In considering this question, we want to problematize assumptions about the “care crisis” and map new locations and strategies of radical political possibility. What does care mean in the context of our organizing? How can we radically reimagine a collective, egalitarian, nonhierarchical, anti-capitalist politics of care as the basis for the world that is rooted in visions and praxis of mutuality and non-disposability? What does care offer as method, politics, and praxis to building transformative organizing against the carceral, capitalist, and imperialist state and for liberatory futures? Our intention is to generate a space for critical dialogue, inquiry, and collective learning that will inform organizing and grounded scholarship that advances social justice. This conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University.
The Politics and Praxis of Care Barnard Center for Research on Women 2024-04-07 | A Panel discussion featuring Asmaa AbuMezied, Anna Romina Guevarra, Jina Kim, Joyce McMillan, and Paula X. Rojas Moderated by Ujju Aggarwal with poetry reading by Christine Yvette Lewis This panel discussion is part of the Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction Conference. ASL will be provided. For more information, visit: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/care-racial-capitalism-and-social-reproduction/ This conference will bring together scholars, organizers, and artists to think together about the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change. The conference will draw on the long history of organizing, study, thinking, and praxis forged by feminist activists, organizers, scholars, and artists who have expanded our political analysis to include the dimensions of paid and unpaid domestic, emotional, and reproductive labor as well as those who have taught us about how social reproduction can expand how we understand and build transformative organizing for liberatory futures. At this conference, we will consider the following questions: How can we consider the relationships among social reproduction, racial capitalism, and the state? How have these relationships shifted over time? In considering this question, we want to problematize assumptions about the “care crisis” and map new locations and strategies of radical political possibility. What does care mean in the context of our organizing? How can we radically reimagine a collective, egalitarian, nonhierarchical, anti-capitalist politics of care as the basis for the world that is rooted in visions and praxis of mutuality and non-disposability? What does care offer as method, politics, and praxis to building transformative organizing against the carceral, capitalist, and imperialist state and for liberatory futures? Our intention is to generate a space for critical dialogue, inquiry, and collective learning that will inform organizing and grounded scholarship that advances social justice. This conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University.
Social Reproduction, Racial Capitalism, and the State Barnard Center for Research on Women 2024-04-07 | A Panel discussion featuring Tithi Bhattacharya, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Selma James, and Gabriel Winant Moderated by Premilla Nadasen This panel discussion is part of the Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction Conference. ASL will be provided. For more information, visit: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/care-racial-capitalism-and-social-reproduction/ This conference will bring together scholars, organizers, and artists to think together about the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change. The conference will draw on the long history of organizing, study, thinking, and praxis forged by feminist activists, organizers, scholars, and artists who have expanded our political analysis to include the dimensions of paid and unpaid domestic, emotional, and reproductive labor as well as those who have taught us about how social reproduction can expand how we understand and build transformative organizing for liberatory futures. At this conference, we will consider the following questions: How can we consider the relationships among social reproduction, racial capitalism, and the state? How have these relationships shifted over time? In considering this question, we want to problematize assumptions about the “care crisis” and map new locations and strategies of radical political possibility. What does care mean in the context of our organizing? How can we radically reimagine a collective, egalitarian, nonhierarchical, anti-capitalist politics of care as the basis for the world that is rooted in visions and praxis of mutuality and non-disposability? What does care offer as method, politics, and praxis to building transformative organizing against the carceral, capitalist, and imperialist state and for liberatory futures? Our intention is to generate a space for critical dialogue, inquiry, and collective learning that will inform organizing and grounded scholarship that advances social justice. This conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University.
Intellectual and Activist Interventions in Contemporary Movements Barnard Center for Research on Women 2024-03-24 | A conversation with Layla Brown, Tao Leigh Goffe, Zifeng Liu, and Gabriella Muasya Moderated by Tami Navarro Part of The Scholar and Feminist Conference 49: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism For more information or to attend in-person: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/anti-colonialism-black-radicalism-and-transnational-feminism/ The 49th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference will explore transnational Black feminism in the context of “third world” liberatory movements since the 1940s. At the height of struggles for anti-colonial independence in the African subcontinent and diasporic communities during the 1960s and 1970s, the praxis of Black feminist alliances proved to be foundational to global anti-racist and anti-imperial radicalism. We aim to consider how Black feminist solidarity was forged across a broader geopolitical frame that includes the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, strengthening local mobilizations and generating new transnational liberatory possibilities. We will also chronicle the evolution of transnational Black feminism since then, and how the shift from anti-colonialism to neoliberalism impacted the radical possibilities embedded in attempts at self-determination and collaboration across geographic divides. Co-sponsored by The Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group and the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University
The Colonial Legacy, Gender, and Economic Empowerment Barnard Center for Research on Women 2024-03-24 | A conversation with Yolande Bouka, Jennifer Fish, Natasha Lightfoot, and Keisha-Khan Perry Moderated by Tami Navarro Part of The Scholar and Feminist Conference 49: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism For more information or to attend in-person: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/anti-colonialism-black-radicalism-and-transnational-feminism/ The 49th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference will explore transnational Black feminism in the context of “third world” liberatory movements since the 1940s. At the height of struggles for anti-colonial independence in the African subcontinent and diasporic communities during the 1960s and 1970s, the praxis of Black feminist alliances proved to be foundational to global anti-racist and anti-imperial radicalism. We aim to consider how Black feminist solidarity was forged across a broader geopolitical frame that includes the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, strengthening local mobilizations and generating new transnational liberatory possibilities. We will also chronicle the evolution of transnational Black feminism since then, and how the shift from anti-colonialism to neoliberalism impacted the radical possibilities embedded in attempts at self-determination and collaboration across geographic divides. Co-sponsored by The Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group and the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University
Black Women and Anti-Colonialism 1940s-1980s Barnard Center for Research on Women 2024-03-24 | A conversation with Lynette Jackson, Laurie Lambert, and Paula Marie Seniors Moderated by Imaobong Umoren Part of The Scholar and Feminist Conference 49: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism For more information or to attend in-person: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/anti-colonialism-black-radicalism-and-transnational-feminism/ The 49th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference will explore transnational Black feminism in the context of “third world” liberatory movements since the 1940s. At the height of struggles for anti-colonial independence in the African subcontinent and diasporic communities during the 1960s and 1970s, the praxis of Black feminist alliances proved to be foundational to global anti-racist and anti-imperial radicalism. We aim to consider how Black feminist solidarity was forged across a broader geopolitical frame that includes the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, strengthening local mobilizations and generating new transnational liberatory possibilities. We will also chronicle the evolution of transnational Black feminism since then, and how the shift from anti-colonialism to neoliberalism impacted the radical possibilities embedded in attempts at self-determination and collaboration across geographic divides. Co-sponsored by The Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group and the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University
Marxism and Transnational Black Feminist Liberation Barnard Center for Research on Women 2024-03-23 | A conversation with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Dayo Gore, Robyn Spencer-Antoine, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Moderated by Premilla Nadasen Part of The Scholar and Feminist Conference 49: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism For more information or to attend in-person: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/anti-colonialism-black-radicalism-and-transnational-feminism/ The 49th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference will explore transnational Black feminism in the context of “third world” liberatory movements since the 1940s. At the height of struggles for anti-colonial independence in the African subcontinent and diasporic communities during the 1960s and 1970s, the praxis of Black feminist alliances proved to be foundational to global anti-racist and anti-imperial radicalism. We aim to consider how Black feminist solidarity was forged across a broader geopolitical frame that includes the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, strengthening local mobilizations and generating new transnational liberatory possibilities. We will also chronicle the evolution of transnational Black feminism since then, and how the shift from anti-colonialism to neoliberalism impacted the radical possibilities embedded in attempts at self-determination and collaboration across geographic divides. Co-sponsored by The Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group and the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University
Caste, Gender, Diaspora: Gaiutra Bahadur and Yashica Dutt in conversation with Anupama Rao Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-12-19 | Gaiutra Bahadur and Yashica Dutt in conversation with Anupama RaoRecorded November 9, 2023 at Barnard CollegeThe transnational resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement has incited communities across the globe to raise their voices against discrimination and inequality and to work across demographics and colonial histories to reflect more broadly on shared affinities and political solidarities. The resonances between caste and race have been an especially important site for rethinking global activism and political praxis: comparative and historical studies of caste societies, that is, societies characterized by durable forms of heritable hierarchy has provoked impassioned debate across the South Asian diaspora.A recent wave of caste protections has swept across the country with universities like Harvard, Brown, Brandeis, the California State University system adding caste as a protected category under their non-discrimination policies. The Columbia University Senate added caste to its non-discrimination policy on April 28, 2023, arguing that “there was no conversation about caste on university campuses.” Barnard announced the inclusion of caste in its anti-discrimination policy on September 14, 2023. Meanwhile, Seattle became the first city to outlaw caste discrimination details, while SB403 seeks to put California on the map as the first state to recognize the ongoing harms of caste. In 2023, Barnard’s Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture draws on the rich legacy of connected histories and diasporic activism to honor scholarship on caste in diaspora with special focus on the relationship of sexual reproduction and social distinction in making global caste. How might the experience of indenture and migration reshape our understanding of the complex relationality of caste and race? How does caste continue to frame social relations of intimacy and exclusion? What are the perils and potentials of anticaste organizing in the diaspora? These are just a few questions that animate our effort to address emergent perspectives for complicating our approach to the study of caste in diaspora.More information about this event is available at: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/caste-gender-diaspora/
Dorothy Roberts: Reproductive Injustice Symposium Keynote Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-12-15 | Dorothy Roberts delivers the keynote address at the Reproductive Injustice Symposium. Recorded on October 20, 2023 at Barnard College.About the symposium:This symposium is a celebration of the newly published issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online that foregrounds the importance of Black women’s maternal health and obstetric racism, taking Dána-Ain Davis’ recent book Reproductive Injustice (NYU Press, 2019) as its starting point. The issue is available here:https://sfonline.barnard.edu/reproductive-injustice/At the symposium, as in the journal issue, we aim to think expansively about reproduction, race, gender, sexuality, and personal autonomy. The symposium will open with a keynote by Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022) whose work on reproduction, the Black body, and anti-Black racism has powerfully shaped the landscape of scholarship and organizing. The keynote will be followed by a series of simultaneous workshops by Sister Song, Collective Power, the Reproductive Justice Collective, and the Design Center at Barnard College. To close the symposium, scholars and activists Amaryah Armstrong, Ash Williams, Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond, and moderator Beck Jordan-Young will join on a panel to share some of the important takeaways from their research and organizing work, address the current moment of reproductive in/justice in the United States, and offer ways that we can collectively move forward. Additional event information is available at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/reproductive-injustice-symposium/This event is made possible in part by a Barnard Reproductive Health Grant supported by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Health & Wellness, and the Office of the Provost, Barnard College.
Reproductive Injustice Symposium: Dána-Ain Davis, Ash Williams, Toni Bond, and Amaryah Armstrong Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-12-07 | Panel discussion featuring Dána-Ain Davis, Ash Williams, Toni Bond, and Amaryah Armstrong; moderated by Beck Jordan-Young and Janet Jakobsen. Recorded on October 20, 2023 at Barnard College at the Reproductive Injustice Symposium.About the symposium:This symposium is a celebration of the newly published issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online that foregrounds the importance of Black women’s maternal health and obstetric racism, taking Dána-Ain Davis’ recent book Reproductive Injustice (NYU Press, 2019) as its starting point. The issue is available here:https://sfonline.barnard.edu/reproductive-injustice/At the symposium, as in the journal issue, we aim to think expansively about reproduction, race, gender, sexuality, and personal autonomy. The symposium will open with a keynote by Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022) whose work on reproduction, the Black body, and anti-Black racism has powerfully shaped the landscape of scholarship and organizing. The keynote will be followed by a series of simultaneous workshops by Sister Song, Collective Power, the Reproductive Justice Collective, and the Design Center at Barnard College. To close the symposium, scholars and activists Amaryah Armstrong, Ash Williams, Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond, and moderator Beck Jordan-Young will join on a panel to share some of the important takeaways from their research and organizing work, address the current moment of reproductive in/justice in the United States, and offer ways that we can collectively move forward. Additional event information is available at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/reproductive-injustice-symposium/This event is made possible in part by a Barnard Reproductive Health Grant supported by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Health & Wellness, and the Office of the Provost, Barnard College.
Ella Baker for the 21st Century: Barbara Ransby and Angela Davis Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-12-01 | Livestream of keynote conversation featuring Barbara Ransby (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Angela Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz), introduced by Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) Ella Baker for the 21st Century - Event Infomation: In honor of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Ella Baker and the Black Radical Tradition by Barbara Ransby, this day-long symposium will feature a keynote conversation by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception with music, poetry, and refreshments. Join us for a robust celebration of Ella Baker and her legacy and a rich conversation about Black radicalism. More information is available at: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/ella-baker-for-the-21st-century-national-one-day-symposium/
Ella Baker for the 21st Century: What Ella Baker’s Legacy Means for the Freedom Movement Today Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-12-01 | Livestream of panel featuring Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party), Leena Odeh (Ella’s Daughters), Karissa Lewis (M4BL), and Asha Ransby-Sporn (BYP100), moderated by Cathy Cohen (University of Chicago) Ella Baker for the 21st Century - Event Infomation: In honor of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Ella Baker and the Black Radical Tradition by Barbara Ransby, this day-long symposium will feature a keynote conversation by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception with music, poetry, and refreshments. Join us for a robust celebration of Ella Baker and her legacy and a rich conversation about Black radicalism. More information is available at: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/ella-baker-for-the-21st-century-national-one-day-symposium/
Ella Baker for the 21st Century: Teaching Ella Baker Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-12-01 | Livestream of panel featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton University), Robyn Spencer (Wayne State University), and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman College), moderated by Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University) Ella Baker for the 21st Century - Event Infomation: In honor of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Ella Baker and the Black Radical Tradition by Barbara Ransby, this day-long symposium will feature a keynote conversation by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception with music, poetry, and refreshments. Join us for a robust celebration of Ella Baker and her legacy and a rich conversation about Black radicalism. More information is available at: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/ella-baker-for-the-21st-century-national-one-day-symposium/
Ella Baker for the 21st Century: Black Women and the Black Radical Tradition Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-12-01 | Livestream of panel featuring Robin D.G. Kelley (University of California, Los Angeles), Dayo Gore (Georgetown University), Mariame Kaba (Project Nia), and Barbara Smith (Combahee River Collective), moderated by Gina Dent (University of California, Santa Cruz) Ella Baker for the 21st Century - Event Infomation: In honor of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Ella Baker and the Black Radical Tradition by Barbara Ransby, this day-long symposium will feature a keynote conversation by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception with music, poetry, and refreshments. Join us for a robust celebration of Ella Baker and her legacy and a rich conversation about Black radicalism. More information is available at: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/ella-baker-for-the-21st-century-national-one-day-symposium/
Ella Baker for the 21st Century: Opening Remarks Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-12-01 | Livestream of opening remarks by Premilla Nadasen Ella Baker for the 21st Century - Event Infomation: In honor of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Ella Baker and the Black Radical Tradition by Barbara Ransby, this day-long symposium will feature a keynote conversation by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception with music, poetry, and refreshments. Join us for a robust celebration of Ella Baker and her legacy and a rich conversation about Black radicalism. More information is available at: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/ella-baker-for-the-21st-century-national-one-day-symposium/
Gender as Goodness of Fit: Transness, Trauma, and Translation Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-11-28 | In this excerpt from the conversation about their book Gender Without Identity, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini discuss the idea of gender as goodness of fit and the ways that trauma plays a role in the development of all gender identities.The full-length conversation is available at:youtu.be/MdgEZvn5i0AIn Gender Without Identity (Unconscious in Translation Press, 2023), psychoanalysts Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini challenge the argument widely embraced by rights activists and many members of the LGBTQ+ community that gender identity is innate and immutable. Saketopoulou and Pellegrini chart another path towards the flourishing of queer and trans life. Positing that the idea of an innate core gender identity is simplistic, problematic, and, even, potentially harmful to LGBTQ+ people, they instead argue that gender is something all subjects acquire. Trauma, they provocatively propose, sometimes has a share in that acquisition. In their way of thinking, lived trauma as well as structural and intergenerationally transmitted traumatic debris may become a resource for transness and queerness. Such a suggestion importantly counters conservative accounts that identify trauma as disrupting or “warping” some putatively “normal” gender. Rooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, in queer and trans of color critique, and in the authors’ extensive clinical experience with queer and trans people, Gender Without Identity presents a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations.This discussion was recorded on September 28, 2023 at Barnard College. Co-sponsored by BCRW and Barnard Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Gender Without Identity: Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-11-21 | In Gender Without Identity (Unconscious in Translation Press, 2023), psychoanalysts Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini challenge the argument widely embraced by rights activists and many members of the LGBTQ+ community that gender identity is innate and immutable. Saketopoulou and Pellegrini chart another path towards the flourishing of queer and trans life. Positing that the idea of an innate core gender identity is simplistic, problematic, and, even, potentially harmful to LGBTQ+ people, they instead argue that gender is something all subjects acquire. Trauma, they provocatively propose, sometimes has a share in that acquisition. In their way of thinking, lived trauma as well as structural and intergenerationally transmitted traumatic debris may become a resource for transness and queerness. Such a suggestion importantly counters conservative accounts that identify trauma as disrupting or “warping” some putatively “normal” gender. Rooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, in queer and trans of color critique, and in the authors’ extensive clinical experience with queer and trans people, Gender Without Identity presents a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations.This discussion was recorded on September 28, 2023 at Barnard College. Co-sponsored by BCRW and Barnard Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Feminist Revolution in Iran (Part 6): Audience Q&A Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-11-14 | Part 6 of 6This video is an excerpt from the event, “Feminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year One, ” recorded on September 23, 2023 at Barnard College. This video features audience questions and comments. Additional videos from this event are available on Feminists for Jina - NYC’s social media and at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/feminist-revolution-in-iran-reflections-on-year-one/Co-organized by Feminists for Jina-NYC and co-sponsored by The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College. Event description:Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran. Triggered by the September 16, 2022 murder in police custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a multiethnic uprising led by young women and girls quickly swept across Iran, gaining widespread support from many men. For the first time, explicitly feminist demands for women’s bodily autonomy from the state and for gender and sexual equality in all aspects of life was at the center of a movement that called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Marginalized ethnic and religious populations, as well as queer and trans Iranians, have been at the forefront of this uprising. The Iranian state has responded with tremendous brutality, killing hundreds of protesters in the streets, arresting thousands, torturing prisoners, and carrying out official executions. Yet, the protests, reflecting broader social and cultural transformations, continue in different forms, including in daily acts of mass civil disobedience in which women refuse to wear mandatory hijab. Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion with Bahareh Badiei, Kiana Karimi, N. of the Begoo Collective, and Fatemeh Shams, moderated by Manijeh Moradian. These activists, scholars and artists have been involved in building transnational feminist solidarity and who will talk about the impact of the women, life, freedom (jin, jiyan, azadi) movement on Iranian society, on the Iranian diaspora, and on their own lives.
Feminist Revolution in Iran (Part 5): What do you imagine for the future of this movement? Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-10-25 | Part 5 of 6This video is an excerpt from the event, “Feminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year One, ” recorded on September 23, 2023 at Barnard College. In this video, speakers respond to the question, "What do you imagine for the future of this movement?" Additional videos from this event are available on Feminists for Jina - NYC’s social media and at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/feminist-revolution-in-iran-reflections-on-year-one/Co-organized by Feminists for Jina-NYC and co-sponsored by The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College. Event description:Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran. Triggered by the September 16, 2022 murder in police custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a multiethnic uprising led by young women and girls quickly swept across Iran, gaining widespread support from many men. For the first time, explicitly feminist demands for women’s bodily autonomy from the state and for gender and sexual equality in all aspects of life was at the center of a movement that called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Marginalized ethnic and religious populations, as well as queer and trans Iranians, have been at the forefront of this uprising. The Iranian state has responded with tremendous brutality, killing hundreds of protesters in the streets, arresting thousands, torturing prisoners, and carrying out official executions. Yet, the protests, reflecting broader social and cultural transformations, continue in different forms, including in daily acts of mass civil disobedience in which women refuse to wear mandatory hijab. Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion with Bahareh Badiei, Kiana Karimi, N. of the Begoo Collective, and Fatemeh Shams, moderated by Manijeh Moradian. These activists, scholars and artists have been involved in building transnational feminist solidarity and who will talk about the impact of the women, life, freedom (jin, jiyan, azadi) movement on Iranian society, on the Iranian diaspora, and on their own lives.
Feminist Revolution in Iran (Part 4): How can we understand this movement and build solidarity? Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-10-25 | Part 4 of 6This video is an excerpt from the event, “Feminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year One, ” recorded on September 23, 2023 at Barnard College. In this video, speakers respond to the questions, "What do we want people to understand about this movement and what do we do to build solidarity?" Additional videos from this event are available on Feminists for Jina - NYC’s social media and at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/feminist-revolution-in-iran-reflections-on-year-one/Co-organized by Feminists for Jina-NYC and co-sponsored by The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College. Event description:Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran. Triggered by the September 16, 2022 murder in police custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a multiethnic uprising led by young women and girls quickly swept across Iran, gaining widespread support from many men. For the first time, explicitly feminist demands for women’s bodily autonomy from the state and for gender and sexual equality in all aspects of life was at the center of a movement that called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Marginalized ethnic and religious populations, as well as queer and trans Iranians, have been at the forefront of this uprising. The Iranian state has responded with tremendous brutality, killing hundreds of protesters in the streets, arresting thousands, torturing prisoners, and carrying out official executions. Yet, the protests, reflecting broader social and cultural transformations, continue in different forms, including in daily acts of mass civil disobedience in which women refuse to wear mandatory hijab. Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion with Bahareh Badiei, Kiana Karimi, N. of the Begoo Collective, and Fatemeh Shams, moderated by Manijeh Moradian. These activists, scholars and artists have been involved in building transnational feminist solidarity and who will talk about the impact of the women, life, freedom (jin, jiyan, azadi) movement on Iranian society, on the Iranian diaspora, and on their own lives.
Feminist Revolution in Iran (Part 3): What is the lasting significance of the uprising? Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-10-19 | Part 3 of 6This video is an excerpt from the event, “Feminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year One, ” recorded on September 23, 2023 at Barnard College. In this video, speakers respond to the second question asked by moderator Manijeh Moradian, "What is the lasting significance of the uprising?" Additional videos from this event are available on Feminists for Jina - NYC’s social media and at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/feminist-revolution-in-iran-reflections-on-year-one/Co-organized by Feminists for Jina-NYC and co-sponsored by The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College. Event description:Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran. Triggered by the September 16, 2022 murder in police custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a multiethnic uprising led by young women and girls quickly swept across Iran, gaining widespread support from many men. For the first time, explicitly feminist demands for women’s bodily autonomy from the state and for gender and sexual equality in all aspects of life was at the center of a movement that called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Marginalized ethnic and religious populations, as well as queer and trans Iranians, have been at the forefront of this uprising. The Iranian state has responded with tremendous brutality, killing hundreds of protesters in the streets, arresting thousands, torturing prisoners, and carrying out official executions. Yet, the protests, reflecting broader social and cultural transformations, continue in different forms, including in daily acts of mass civil disobedience in which women refuse to wear mandatory hijab. Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion with Bahareh Badiei, Kiana Karimi, N. of the Begoo Collective, and Fatemeh Shams, moderated by Manijeh Moradian. These activists, scholars and artists have been involved in building transnational feminist solidarity and who will talk about the impact of the women, life, freedom (jin, jiyan, azadi) movement on Iranian society, on the Iranian diaspora, and on their own lives.
The Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-10-11 | A discussion with Lila Abu-Lughod, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Karen Engle, Janet R. Jakobsen, Vasuki Nesiah, and Rafia Zakaria ASL interpretation and live transcription will be provided. For additional accessibility needs please email skreitzb@barnard.edu. Co-Sponsors: Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Center for the Study of Muslim Societies, Columbia University The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke 2023) focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violence against women and gender-based violence constitutes a highly visible and powerful agenda enshrined in international governance and law and embedded in state violence and global securitization. Case studies on Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Turkey as well as on UN and US policies trace the silences and omissions, along with the experiences of those subjected to violence, to question the rhetoric that claims the agenda as a “feminist success story.” Because religion and racialized ethnicity, particularly “the Muslim question,” run so deeply through the institutional structures of the agenda, the contributions explore ways it may be affirming or enabling rationales and systems of power, including civilizational hierarchies, that harm the very people it seeks to protect. For more information and to register: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-cunning-of-gender-violence-feminism-and-geopolitics/
Feminist Revolution in Iran (Part 2): How have you experienced this revolution from the diaspora? Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-10-11 | Part 2 of 6This video is an excerpt from the event, “Feminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year One, ” recorded on September 23, 2023 at Barnard College. In this video, speakers respond to the first question asked by moderator Manijeh Moradian, "What has been your personal experience of the Jina Revolution and supporting it from the diaspora?" Additional videos from this event are available on Feminists for Jina - NYC’s social media and at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/feminist-revolution-in-iran-reflections-on-year-one/Co-organized by Feminists for Jina-NYC and co-sponsored by The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College. Event description:Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran. Triggered by the September 16, 2022 murder in police custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a multiethnic uprising led by young women and girls quickly swept across Iran, gaining widespread support from many men. For the first time, explicitly feminist demands for women’s bodily autonomy from the state and for gender and sexual equality in all aspects of life was at the center of a movement that called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Marginalized ethnic and religious populations, as well as queer and trans Iranians, have been at the forefront of this uprising. The Iranian state has responded with tremendous brutality, killing hundreds of protesters in the streets, arresting thousands, torturing prisoners, and carrying out official executions. Yet, the protests, reflecting broader social and cultural transformations, continue in different forms, including in daily acts of mass civil disobedience in which women refuse to wear mandatory hijab. Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion with Bahareh Badiei, Kiana Karimi, N. of the Begoo Collective, and Fatemeh Shams, moderated by Manijeh Moradian. These activists, scholars and artists have been involved in building transnational feminist solidarity and who will talk about the impact of the women, life, freedom (jin, jiyan, azadi) movement on Iranian society, on the Iranian diaspora, and on their own lives.
Feminist Revolution in Iran (Part 1): Introduction and Feminists for Jina Video Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-10-10 | Part 1 of 6This video is an excerpt from the event, “Feminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year One, ” recorded on September 23, 2023 at Barnard College. In this video, Manijeh Moradian offers introductory comments and shows a video by Feminists for Jina. Additional videos from this event are available on Feminists for Jina - NYC’s social media and at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/feminist-revolution-in-iran-reflections-on-year-one/ Co-organized by Feminists for Jina-NYC and co-sponsored by The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College. Event description:Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran. Triggered by the September 16, 2022 murder in police custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a multiethnic uprising led by young women and girls quickly swept across Iran, gaining widespread support from many men. For the first time, explicitly feminist demands for women’s bodily autonomy from the state and for gender and sexual equality in all aspects of life was at the center of a movement that called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Marginalized ethnic and religious populations, as well as queer and trans Iranians, have been at the forefront of this uprising. The Iranian state has responded with tremendous brutality, killing hundreds of protesters in the streets, arresting thousands, torturing prisoners, and carrying out official executions. Yet, the protests, reflecting broader social and cultural transformations, continue in different forms, including in daily acts of mass civil disobedience in which women refuse to wear mandatory hijab. Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion with Bahareh Badiei, Kiana Karimi, N. of the Begoo Collective, and Fatemeh Shams, moderated by Manijeh Moradian. These activists, scholars and artists have been involved in building transnational feminist solidarity and who will talk about the impact of the women, life, freedom (jin, jiyan, azadi) movement on Iranian society, on the Iranian diaspora, and on their own lives.
M. Murphy: With and Against Technoscience in the Aftermath Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-09-28 | What relations can technoscience make with radical politics in the aftermaths of environmental violence, racial capitalism, heteronormativity, and settler colonialism? Can epistemologies and practices built out of violence ever be remade towards justice? Does technoscience have a role in remaking our worlds out of the long aftermath? Professor M. Murphy takes up a more than pessimistic and less than optimistic posture towards developing tactics for engaging the politics of technoscience. With Indigenous feminisms and queer leanings, Murphy draws out place-based tactics from environmental justice on Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territories to navigate towards an Indigenous feminist anti-colonial politics with and against technoscience for the F/ISTS Keynote and Silver Science Lecture, “With and Against Technoscience in the Aftermath.”M Murphy is a Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, where they hold a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice at the University of Toronto. Their research is concerned with feminist, decolonial, and queer approaches to environmental justice, reproduction, Indigenous science and technology studies, transecologies, and data studies. They are Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, as well as direct an Indigenous lab focused on environmental data justice. They are the author of The Economization of Life (2017), Seizing the Means of Reproduction (2012), and Sick Building Syndrome and the Politics of Uncertainty (2006), all with Duke University Press. Murphy’s current research concerns relationships between chemical pollution, colonialism, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes, as well as the question of whether AI can be collaborated with towards Indigenous and anti-racist futures. They are Red River Métis from Winnipeg.About F/ISTSThe inaugural Feminist/Intersectional Science and Technology Studies Conference (F/ISTS) homes in on the reciprocal relations between techno-scientific knowledge and practices, on the one hand, and gender, race, class, and other intersecting axes of power, on the other. The interplay among technical and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine is central to addressing many of the most pressing problems of our times, such as climate justice and environmental racism, health disparities, digital surveillance, and the growing mistrust in “science” as a domain of authority.
Unsilencing Slavery: Celia E. Naylor Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-07-26 | Celia E. Naylor in conversation with Natasha LightfootRecorded April 19, 2023 at Barnard CollegePopular references to the Rose Hall Great House in Jamaica often focus on the legend of the “White Witch of Rose Hall.” Over one hundred thousand people visit this plantation every year, many hoping to catch a glimpse of Annie Palmer’s ghost. After experiencing this tour with her daughter in 2013 and leaving Jamaica haunted by the silences of the tour, Celia E. Naylor resolved to write a history of Rose Hall about those people who actually had a right to haunt this place of terror and trauma—the enslaved. Naylor deftly guides us through a strikingly different Rose Hall. She introduces readers to the silences of the archives and unearths the names and experiences of the enslaved at Rose Hall in the decades immediately before the abolition of slavery in Jamaica. She then offers a careful reading of Herbert G. de Lisser’s 1929 novel, The White Witch of Rosehall—which gave rise to the myth of the “White Witch”—and a critical analysis of the current tours at Rose Hall Great House.Naylor’s interdisciplinary examination engages different modes of history making, history telling, and truth telling to excavate the lives of enslaved people, highlighting enslaved women as they navigated the violences of the Jamaican slavocracy and plantationscape. Moving beyond the legend, she examines iterations of the afterlives of slavery in the ongoing construction of slavery museums, memorializations, and movements for Black lives and the enduring case for Black humanity. Alongside her book, she and a small group of collaborators have created a website as another way for readers to explore the truths of Rose Hall: rosehallproject.columbia.edu or unsilencing-slavery.org
Disappearing Acts @ 50 by LaTasha Diggs Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-07-26 | Disappearing Acts @ 50 is a multimedia performance that first premiered in 2018 at The 8th Floor Gallery as part of the celebration of Elia Alba’s The Supper Club exhibit. The performance, inspired by ageism in the art world as experienced by women of color, is both testimony and ode to antidotes, ointments, stretch marks, remedies shared between mature women and those acquired in secrecy. When I was invited to revise Disappearing Acts in 2020, I was turning 50, a milestone for many in the midst of the COVID pandemic. Notions of self-care and mutual-care took on broader meaning. The piece was presented for a third time at the Movement Lab at Barnard College and features North African dancer and educator Esraa Warda. These are excerpts from the hour-long text.Published in The Scholar and Feminist Online Issue 19.1, "To Make Visible," guest edited by Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio, summer 2023.
Saraswathi singing “Yoga Yogeswari” by Oothukadu Venkata Subbiar Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-07-26 | Saraswathi singing “Yoga Yogeswari” by Oothukadu Venkata Subbiar Featured in "Constructing an Aesthetic Selfhood: Interiority, Community and Cultural Identity in the Aging Self" by Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram and SriSriVidhiya KalyanasundaramPublished in The Scholar and Feminist Online Issue 19.1, "To Make Visible," guest edited by Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio, summer 2023.
Saraswathi is singing the Tiruppukaḻ Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-07-26 | Saraswathi is singing the "Tiruppukaḻ"Featured in "Constructing an Aesthetic Selfhood: Interiority, Community and Cultural Identity in the Aging Self" by Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram and SriSriVidhiya KalyanasundaramPublished in The Scholar and Feminist Online Issue 19.1, "To Make Visible," guest edited by Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio, summer 2023.
Saraswathi singing the Tevāram Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-07-26 | Saraswathi singing the TevāramFeatured in "Constructing an Aesthetic Selfhood: Interiority, Community and Cultural Identity in the Aging Self" by Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram and SriSriVidhiya KalyanasundaramPublished in The Scholar and Feminist Online Issue 19.1, "To Make Visible," guest edited by Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio, summer 2023.
Sajda: A Celebration Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-07-25 | Sajda: A CelebrationA short film by Gabri Christa Sajda Musawwir Ladner was one of the people who appeared in the film Sheila.Gabri Christa filmed her joyful dancing for Sheila , but most of the material couldn’t be used in the film, so a short film dedicated to the 80 year old Sajda dancing was in order. Read more about Sajda here: silive.com/news/2021/08/pioneer-of-staten-island-arts-and-culture-sadja-musawwir-ladner-dies-at-80.htmlCredits:Dancer: Sajda Musawwir Ladner Camera and direction: Gabri ChristaEditor: Guy deLanceyMusic: excerpts of John ColtranePublished in The Scholar and Feminist Online Issue 19.1, "To Make Visible," guest edited by Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio, summer 2023.
Sheila: A Short Experimental Documentary by Gabri Christa Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-07-25 | Sheila is a short experimental documentary about Sheila Rohan, one of the founding members of Dance Theater of Harlem.The film takes place during a moment of contemplation when Sheila Rohan, alone in the dark, dances and remembers her past life through body memory. Memory in this film comes through the hands that touch the body and reach into space and bring memories alive. The photo and film footage of Sheila as a young dancer is projected onto Sheila’s body and into space. The entire piece was filmed live; no post production was used. Thus the aliveness of the images is the result of rehearsal and the work of figuring out how to achieve the right placement of the projections so the memories are as real and, at the same time, as magical as possible. Sheila remains a strong, inspiring presence to those around her of all ages.Sheila has been screened as jury selection at festivals worldwide and has won several prizes. The film is the winner of the best experimental short at the Pure Magic International Film Festival (2022), winner of the Experimental Film Odyssey Festival Surreel Award (2022), winner of best Screendance film at the Denton Black Film Festival, Denton, Texas (2023), and winner of best film at the Greensboro Dance Film Festival, Greensboro, North Carolina (2023). It was jury selected as one of the “Best of the Fest” at the renowned CINEDANS festival in Amsterdam. More information about Sheila: gabrichrista.com/work/sheilaCreditsSheila: Sheila Rohan Additional Dancers: Sajda Musawwir Ladner, Makeda Thomas, Nyah Love Thomas, Idea Reid, Malasia Bell, Niyah BellCreator, Writer, Director, and Producer: Gabri ChristaCinematographer: Guy de LanceyEditor: Abby LeeCamera: Gabri Christa and Manuel Molina MartagonAssociate Producer: Allison CostaSet Assistant Producer: Nkima StephensonComposer: Mazz SwiftSound Design: Eve CuyenPublished in The Scholar and Feminist Online Issue 19.1, "To Make Visible," guest edited by Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio, summer 2023.
A Duration of Care: A short film by Sumedha Bhattacharyya Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-07-25 | A Duration of Care: A short film by Sumedha BhattacharyyaPublished in The Scholar and Feminist Online Issue 19.1, "To Make Visible," guest edited by Gabri Christa and Sheril Antonio, summer 2023.
Remaindered Life: Neferti Tadiar in conversation with Erica Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir Puar Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-05-02 | In Remaindered Life (Duke, 2022) Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending. Through this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of the surplus life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. She also examines artists and filmmakers in the Global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Retelling the story of globalization from the side of those who reach beyond dominant protocols of living, Tadiar demonstrates how attending to remaindered life can open up another horizon of possibility for a radical remaking of our present global mode of life.This conversation between Tadiar, Erica Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir Puar was recorded on April 11, 2023 at Barnard College. This event was co-sponsored by BCRW and Barnard Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
It’s All Policing, It’s All War: Chicago Organizers on Connecting Abolition and Demilitarization Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-04-26 | Featuring Benji Hart, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and Timmy Châu, moderated by Dean Spade The prison and police abolition movement and the anti-war movement are often thought of as separate, siloed formations. However, in practice, organizers working to end racist, colonial, imperialist, patriarchial, ecocidal violence understand these to be the same fight. Join us for a conversation with Benji Hart, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and Timmy Châu, three Chicago-based organizers who have been working in anti-war and abolition work in various organizations including Dissenters, People’s Response Team, and Assata’s Daughters. We’ll discuss lessons learned in the Chicago context, what it means to do work on abolition in the US from an internationalist perspective, how this work is changing in the current moment, and what we anticipate will be needed in the coming struggles. The conversation will be moderated by Dean Spade.This event is made possible by the Patricia Wismer Professorship in Gender and Diversity at Seattle University.Image credit: Alec Dunn, from DE-MIL-I-TA-RISE | Dissenters portfolio and booklet by Justseeds Artists Cooperative.More info + register at: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/its-all-policing-its-all-war-chicago-organizers-on-connecting-abolition-and-demilitarization/
Essential to the Public: Libraries at the End of the World Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-03-22 | Featuring Emily DrabinskiLive transcription is available at: streamtext.net/player?event=BCRW_Captions ASL provided. Libraries are among the last funded public spaces open to the public. Anyone can enter a library and borrow a book, join a storytime, learn to read, meet with a friend, use the bathroom, warm up in the winter and cool down in the summer, among the many other resources and services available in the building. Libraries are also under attack by organized extremists who use censorship as a bludgeon against one of the few public institutions still standing. From Florida to California, Michigan to New York, book ban attempts are swiftly followed by efforts to defund the library. As progressives, we must be as organized as they are, putting libraries on the top of our organizing agenda. Emily Drabinski is Critical Pedagogy Librarian at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She publishes and presents widely on power and politics in libraries with a focus on organized labor. Drabinski’s term as President of the American Library Association will begin in June 2023. This event is co-sponsored by Project NIA, the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), and the Barnard Library.
Housing Justice / Housing Futures Keynote with Keisha-Khan Perry and Rhonda Y. Williams Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-03-09 | Keynote at the 48th Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference: Housing Justice/Housing Futures, featuring Keisha-Khan Perry and Rhonda Y. Williams in a conversation moderated by Miriam Neptune.About the conference:This conference brings together housing scholars, city planners, tenant organizers, architects, designers, and artists and creatives whose work centers on the creation, preservation, and distribution of land and housing as a response to community needs. Drawing on years of collaborations facilitated by BCRW’s Housing and Poverty Working Group and the Undesign the Redline Exhibition project at Barnard, we will explore visionary models of housing that foster and support the continuation of health and wellbeing, cultural heritage, intergenerational relationships, and shared resources. We will highlight foundational projects that nourish creativity and thriving among Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, immigrant and LGBTQ+, disabled, poor and houseless populations who have resisted exclusionary policies and practices. From concept to demonstration, we hope to inspire imagination and action toward the dream of sustainable, equitable forms of housing for all people.More info at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/housing-justice-housing-futures/
Survival and Mobilization: Mutual Aid in Migrant Justice Struggles Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-03-08 | A conversation with Nikki Marín Baena and Dean Spade In 2019, a news story broke nationally of a Tennessee man who had been protected from an ICE arrest when his neighbors surrounded his van and waited hours for ICE to leave. This demonstration of solidarity is connected to tactics being used in many states by people seeking to protect their communities from immigration enforcement. Alerting each other about police checkpoints, supporting people who are currently in ICE detention and their families, assisting deportees and their families, and collaborating on mutual aid projects related to housing and transportation needs are just some of the mutual aid projects people working for migrant justice are pursuing. In this conversation with Dean Spade, Nikki Marín Baena will share her experiences working for migrant justice with Mijente and Siembra NC, discussing how this work is unfolding, how it relates to ongoing shifts and changes in immigration enforcement, and how mutual aid work fits into the broader project of ending immigration enforcement. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Nikki Marín Baena is Co-Director at Siembra NC, and has helped coordinate Mijente’s Sin El Estado work with activists in the US, Puerto Rico and other parts of latinoamérica. Dean Spade has been working in movements to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law and the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book is Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). This event is made possible by the Patricia Wismer Professorship in Gender and Diversity at Seattle University.
Dreaming of Housing Justice Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-03-03 | Featuring Oksana Mironova, Tela Troge, Elora Lee Raymond, Akira Drake Rodriguez, Jacqueline Paul Sims, and Lisa Yun Lee; moderated by Mary RoccoOpening Plenary at the 48th Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference: Housing Justice/Housing Futures. This video also contains the conference's welcoming remarks by Pamela Phillips and Miriam Neptune, and a remembrance of housing scholar and tenant advocate, Barnard professor Tom Waters.About the conference:This conference brings together housing scholars, city planners, tenant organizers, architects, designers, and artists and creatives whose work centers on the creation, preservation, and distribution of land and housing as a response to community needs. Drawing on years of collaborations facilitated by BCRW’s Housing and Poverty Working Group and the Undesign the Redline Exhibition project at Barnard, we will explore visionary models of housing that foster and support the continuation of health and wellbeing, cultural heritage, intergenerational relationships, and shared resources. We will highlight foundational projects that nourish creativity and thriving among Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, immigrant and LGBTQ+, disabled, poor and houseless populations who have resisted exclusionary policies and practices. From concept to demonstration, we hope to inspire imagination and action toward the dream of sustainable, equitable forms of housing for all people.More info at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/housing-justice-housing-futures/
Manijeh Moradian: This Flame Within Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-02-13 | Manijeh Moradian joined by Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai to discuss her new book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022)In This Flame Within, Manijeh Moradian recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Association, Moradian traces what she calls “revolutionary affects” from encounters with empire and dictatorship in Iran to joint organizing with other student activists in the United States. Moradian theorizes “affects of solidarity” that facilitated Iranian student participation in a wide range of antiracist and anticolonial movements and analyzes gendered manifestations of revolutionary affects within the emergence of Third World feminism. Arguing for a transnational feminist interpretation of the Iranian Student Association’s legacy, Moradian demonstrates how the recognition of multiple sources of oppression in the West and in Iran can reorient Iranian diasporic politics today.Manijeh Moradian is assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States, was published by Duke University Press in 2022. Her essays and articles have appeared in Hyperallgeric, American Quarterly, Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties, Scholar & Feminist online, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Comparative Studies of South Asian, Africa, and the Middle East, Social Text online, jadaliyya.com, and Callaloo. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and a member of the editorial board of the Jadaliyya.com Iran Page.Nadine Naber is a scholar-activist and Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Dr. Naber is the author/co-author of five books: Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (2012); Race and Arab Americans (2008); Arab and Arab American Feminisms (2010); The Color of Violence (2006); and Towards the Sun. She is co-founder of the organization Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity and founder of Liberate Your Research. She is the recipient of the American Studies Association’s 2022 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Lifetime Achievement Award.Mae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. She is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in the histories of immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and the Chinese diaspora. She is author of the award-winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004); The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010); and The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021). Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, the Nation, and Dissent. Before becoming a historian she was a labor-union organizer and educator in New York City, working for District 65-UAW and the Consortium for Worker Education. She is now writing Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an Idea (under contract with Princeton University Press).
Chache Konn Dwa W: Videyo pou nou defann tèt nou reyalize pa Fanm Ayisyen pou Refijye Ayisyen Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-02-04 | In English: youtu.be/4q63ShBtEpQSe òganizasyon HWHR (Fanm Ayisyen pou Refijye Ayisyen) ki fè videyo "Chache Konn Dwa w" sila a ansanm ak BCRW (Sant Barnard pou Rechèch sou Fanm). Òganizasyon "Take Root Justice" bay bon kou kolaborasyon ak sipò nan travay la. Pwojè a se yon resous pou mete zouti nan men refijye ki travèse fwontyè Meksik pou rantre Ozetazini san otorizasyon pou yo ka defann tèt yo nan chimen pou yo jwenn azil oswa regilarize estati imigrasyon yo. "Take Root Justice" ak Fanm Ayisyen pou Refijye Ayisyen te travay ansanm pou ateri yon tèks ki kout epi anmenm tan kòrèk ki chita sou atelye 2 òganizasyon sa yo ap fè pou ede refijye yo depi plizyè lannen. Se yon videyo ki fèt pou refijye Ayisyen. Pou respekte lang refijye Ayisyen sa yo, videyo an fèt nan lang Kreyòl epi nan lang Angle ak prezantatè ki konnen reyalite refijye Ayisyen k ap aplike pou azil yo ap konfwonte.Pou plis enfòmasyon, ale nan sit entènèt: haitianrefugees.org
Know Your Rights: A Self-Advocacy Video for Haitian Asylum-Seekers Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-02-01 | by Haitian Women for Haitian RefugeesAn Kreyòl: youtu.be/Ybfv8jG_SBgHaitian Women for Haitian Refugees’ Know Your Rights video is co-produced by Barnard Center for Research on Women, with extensive collaboration and support from Take Root Justice. This project is a self-advocacy resource for refugees navigating asylum or attempting to access formal immigration status after crossing the U.S./Mexico border without authorization. Take Root Justice and HWHR worked together to create a short, comprehensive script based on the in-person workshops they have offered over the past several years. To center language justice, the video was produced in both Kreyòl and English, with presenters who have first-hand knowledge of the barriers Haitian asylum seekers currently face. For more information, please visit haitianrefugees.org
Dean Spade: Should Social Movement Work be Paid? Barnard Center for Research on Women 2023-01-06 | The COVID pandemic and George Floyd/Breanna Taylor rebellion of 2020 brought new attention to the role of mutual aid work in surviving crises and organizing resistance. People started thousands of projects giving out food, rent money, and bail money, doing errands for each other, providing childcare, emotional support, transportation, and other essentials. Many people learned more about the histories of mutual aid in social movements as vectors of survival and mobilization. The long-time critique of non-profitization of social movements reached newly politicized people as debates surfaced about whether to register mutual aid projects as non-profits.In this talk, Dean Spade will explore a vexing question being discussed in many movement groups: should people be paid to do this work? Should groups should seek funding to create staff positions or stipends for people participating in the work? Is it a matter of racial, economic, gender and disability justice to pay people to be part of movement groups? Does the process of raising money tie groups too closely to philanthropists or governments? Does paying participants limit the potential growth of movements? Is payment the best way to recognize labor in groups? Is paying people a good way to reduce barriers to participation? How does paying people impact the culture of social movement work? Does it institutionalize the work? These questions have immediate practical significance, and also unearth larger themes about what it means to do resistance organizing within capitalism where people are demobilized, isolated, and struggling to meet basic needs.This event is a continuation of the Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups workshop series, which started as a series of four online workshops led by Dean Spade:Workshop 1 – No Masters, No Flakes! (October 28, 2021)youtu.be/qp-Iw978WnYWorkshop 2 – Decision-Making (November 11, 2021)youtu.be/DrzlZVTQU3IWorkshop 3 – Skills for Abolitionist Practice (December 9, 2021)youtu.be/2s9OJ1G7-wAWorkshop 4 – Bringing New People into the Work (January 20, 2022)youtu.be/JL1zcV0BqDkACCESSIBILITYASL and live transcription will be provided. This event is made possible by the Patricia Wismer Professorship in Gender and Diversity at Seattle University.
The Beginning of a Dream: A Film by Tourmaline for Trans Justice Funding Project Barnard Center for Research on Women 2022-12-13 | In 2022, the Trans Justice Funding Project and BCRW released “The Beginning of a Dream,” a new short film by Tourmaline. The film depicts a community of artists and activists who, over the last decade, have built a new funding model led by trans people to support trans artists and activists with trust in their vision and commitment to their living legacies–as people and change-makers. The Trans Justice Funding Project moves money to trans-led grassroots groups across the United States and U.S. territories, prioritizing Black, Indigenous, and people of color-led groups, groups in rural areas, and other typically under-resourced communities, and grant-making decisions are made by a panel of community members. As former grant-makers and grantees, the artists and activists featured in this film reflect powerfully on the work of dreaming and materializing a community’s future and carrying its collective past through the present. To learn more about the Trans Justice Funding Project, visit:transjusticefundingproject.orgCREDITS___________________________Director TOURMALINEProducer HOPE DECTORDirector of Photography MATT HARVEYAssistant Director LUCE CAPCO LINCOLN1st AC KAROLINE IVERSONGrip MARK ARCE2nd Grip LEON ISZAKSound HATIM MOHAMEDProduction Design ALI TICHAVSKYPA SOPHIE KREITZBURGPA MARGARITA KRUCHINSKAYAPA DAVID LEE SIERRAEditor HOPE DECTORAssistant Editor MARGARITA KRUCHINSKAYAColorist MARIKA LITZRe-Recording Mixer ISAAC DERFELMusic TENDER BOIS CLUB—-----Thank you:BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDENSCRISTINA HERRERAELIZABETH REINA-LONGORIAJANET JAKOBSENJEN MAYERJEN RHEENICO AMADORNORA CARVAJALPREMILLA NADASEN
Erika Dickerson-Despenza: Keynote Remarks on Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency Barnard Center for Research on Women 2022-12-08 | Recorded on October 13, 2022 at Barnard CollegeThe Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director and Patrick Willingham, Executive Director), the Barnard Center for Research on Women (Premilla Nadasen, Claire Tow Professor of History, and Janet Jakobsen, Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Co-Directors), and the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust have announced the establishment of The Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency. Conceived by inaugural playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza, this rotating two-year playwriting residency is named in honor of Public Theater artist and Barnard alumna (Class of 1970) Ntozake Shange, one of the world’s most revered writers and a fierce advocate for women and the dignity of humankind. Awarded to a distinguished woman, femme, trans, or non-binary playwright of the African Diaspora, the residency will provide a salary with benefits and full support to pursue their creative work as a playwright. “Despite the many debuts of Shange’s works at The Public Theater, there was nothing named for her; there was no enduring evidence of her legacy within the institution. Part of the work of my work, a la Toni Cade Bambara, is ancestral elevation and reverence. Ntozake Shange is my literary mother and creating the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Playwriting Residency allows me to cement her legacy in the cultural memory of The Public Theater, NYC, and the American Theater at large while also building my own,” said playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza.Dickerson-Despenza continued, “I have crafted a residency that will outlast me; one that will enable women, femmes, and non-binary scholar-playwrights of the African Diaspora who help shape the future by writing about and beyond the crises of their time to have a comfortable salary, healthcare, and access to the most prestigious and resourced Off-Broadway theaters and Barnard College, home of Shange’s archives and the groundbreaking Barnard Center for Research on Women.”Literary Trustee Donald S. Sutton said, “Establishment of the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Playwright Residency realizes the often-articulated dream of Ntozake Shange that her work would serve as an inspiration and a platform for the creativity and talent of other women of color.” For more information visit:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/the-public-theater-the-barnard-center-for-research-on-women-and-the-ntozake-shange-revocable-trust-announce-inaugural-ntozake-shange-social-justice-theater-residency-with-playwright-erika-dickerson/
The Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency: Honoring Erika Dickerson-Despenza Barnard Center for Research on Women 2022-12-08 | Recorded October 13, 2022 at Barnard CollegeThe Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director and Patrick Willingham, Executive Director), the Barnard Center for Research on Women (Premilla Nadasen, Claire Tow Professor of History, and Janet Jakobsen, Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Co-Directors), and the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust have announced the establishment of The Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency. Conceived by inaugural playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza, this rotating two-year playwriting residency is named in honor of Public Theater artist and Barnard alumna (Class of 1970) Ntozake Shange, one of the world’s most revered writers and a fierce advocate for women and the dignity of humankind. Awarded to a distinguished woman, femme, trans, or non-binary playwright of the African Diaspora, the residency will provide a salary with benefits and full support to pursue their creative work as a playwright. “Despite the many debuts of Shange’s works at The Public Theater, there was nothing named for her; there was no enduring evidence of her legacy within the institution. Part of the work of my work, a la Toni Cade Bambara, is ancestral elevation and reverence. Ntozake Shange is my literary mother and creating the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Playwriting Residency allows me to cement her legacy in the cultural memory of The Public Theater, NYC, and the American Theater at large while also building my own,” said playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza.Dickerson-Despenza continued, “I have crafted a residency that will outlast me; one that will enable women, femmes, and non-binary scholar-playwrights of the African Diaspora who help shape the future by writing about and beyond the crises of their time to have a comfortable salary, healthcare, and access to the most prestigious and resourced Off-Broadway theaters and Barnard College, home of Shange’s archives and the groundbreaking Barnard Center for Research on Women.”Literary Trustee Donald S. Sutton said, “Establishment of the Ntozake Shange Social Justice Playwright Residency realizes the often-articulated dream of Ntozake Shange that her work would serve as an inspiration and a platform for the creativity and talent of other women of color.”
Meditation on Abolition: Zine Release Event Barnard Center for Research on Women 2022-12-08 | Ashon Crawley in conversation with Mariame Kaba and Derecka Purnell, in celebration of the release of Ashon Crawley’s Meditation on Abolition, a new zine published by Sojourners for Justice Press. Conceived by Mariame Kaba, Meditation on Abolition is a rumination on spirituality, Black pentecostalism, and abolitionist gestures in the mundane. Limited edition copies printed and assembled by Lucky Risograph Press and Neta Bomani are available via Haymarket Books. Read more at: sojourners4justice.com/publications/#meditation-on-aboliton ------------------------ Ashon Crawley is an associate professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at University of Virginia. His work is about alternatives to normative function and form, otherwise possibility. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, curator, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and co-director of SJP. Derecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, researcher, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training in community based organizations through an abolitionist framework. Kathryn-kay Johnson is a designer and art director. She designed the Meditation on Abolition zine by Ashon Crawley for Sojourners for Justice Press. Sponsors This Sojourners for Justice Press event is co-sponsored by Project NIA and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Combat Trauma: Nadia Abu El-Haj in Conversation with Anjali Kamat Barnard Center for Research on Women 2022-12-07 | Recorded on October 25, 2022 at Barnard College in NYC.Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans’ psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve? As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues in her new book, Combat Trauma: War, Citizenship, and Post-9/11 America (2022), in the American public’s imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in for destructive wars abroad, with decisive ramifications in the post-9/11 era. Across the political spectrum the language of soldier trauma is used to discuss American warfare, producing a narrative in which traumatized soldiers are the only acknowledged casualties of war, while those killed by American firepower are largely sidelined and forgotten.In this wide-ranging and fascinating study of the meshing of medicine, science, and politics, Abu El-Haj explores the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder and the history of its medical diagnosis. While antiwar Vietnam War veterans sought to address their psychological pain even as they maintained full awareness of their guilt and responsibility for perpetrating atrocities on the killing fields of Vietnam, by the 1980s, a peculiar convergence of feminist activism against sexual violence and Reagan’s right-wing “war on crime” transformed the idea of PTSD into a condition of victimhood. In so doing, the meaning of Vietnam veterans’ trauma would also shift, moving away from a political space of reckoning with guilt and complicity to one that cast them as blameless victims of a hostile public upon their return home. This is how, in the post-9/11 era of the Wars on Terror, the injunction to “support our troops,” came to both sustain US militarism and also shields American civilians from the reality of wars fought ostensibly in their name.In this compelling and crucial account, Nadia Abu El-Haj challenges us to think anew about the devastations of the post-9/11 era.
No borders! No prisons! No cops! No war! No state? Barnard Center for Research on Women 2022-11-16 | A conversation with Harsha Walia, William Anderson, Gord Hill, and Dean SpadeMany new people are thinking together about what their lives and communities might look like without the violent apparatuses of their governments caging, deporting, and deploying people. Among abolitionists an important question lurks: are we trying to take over our governments, or get rid of them? When we imagine a world without cops, soldiers and cages, do we still imagine having nation states? Is this question different for people who are living under settler colonial governments, such as those in the US and Canada, versus for others? Some people imagine that the state can become a source of care-taking (distributing healthcare, education, housing), and worry that the state is the only thing that can do such care-taking “to scale.” Others argue that state care-taking programs are racialized and gendered, structured to stabilize extractive systems, and should be replaced with decentralized mutual aid networks. This event gathers three leading thinkers whose work questions the desire to take over the state, to discuss the stakes of this question for abolitionist work right now.Additional info at:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/no-borders-no-prisons-no-cops-no-war-no-state/ASL and live transcription will be provided.This event is made possible by the Patricia Wismer Professorship in Gender and Diversity at Seattle University.
