Barnard Center for Research on Women http://bcrw.barnard.edu Events, Publications, and Videos on Feminism and Social Justice Tue, 14 May 2013 19:03:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 One Billion Rising http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BCRW/~3/oWLJQeCVfLM/ http://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcasts/one-billion-rising/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:28:37 +0000 hope http://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=podcasts&p=1957 Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 2) This episode of Dare to Use The F-Word is all about the One Billion Rising movement to end gender-based violence. We have stories and voices from the rising at Washington Square Park; you'll hear an interview with the director of the Barnard-Columbia production of The Vagina Monologues; and we have performance of an original monologue about slut-shaming in the style of a slam poem.]]> (Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 2)
This episode of Dare to Use The F-Word is all about the One Billion Rising movement to end gender-based violence. We have stories and voices from the rising at Washington Square Park; you’ll hear an interview with the director of the Barnard-Columbia production of The Vagina Monologues; and we have performance of an original monologue about slut-shaming in the style of a slam poem.

Listen using the player above or visit us on iTunes to download and subscribe to Dare to Use the F-Word.

]]> http://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcasts/one-billion-rising/feed/ 0 http://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcasts/one-billion-rising/ Street Harassment http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BCRW/~3/4yPsWFTgucQ/ http://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcasts/street-harassment/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:28:15 +0000 hope http://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=podcasts&p=1955 Dare to Use the F-Word, Episode 1) In our first episode of Dare to Use The F-Word, we focus on the street harassment phenomenon. We have interviews and conversations with Emily May from Hollaback!; Sydnie Mosley of The Window Sex Project; and the creator of Catcalled, Sonia Saraiya.]]> (Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 1)
In our first episode of Dare to Use The F-Word, we focus on the street harassment phenomenon. We have interviews and conversations with Emily May from Hollaback!; Sydnie Mosley of The Window Sex Project; and the creator of Catcalled, Sonia Saraiya.

Listen using the player above or visit us on iTunes to download and subscribe to Dare to Use the F-Word.

]]> http://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcasts/street-harassment/feed/ 0 http://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcasts/street-harassment/ Rights, Religion, and Secularity Salon with Tanika Sarkar http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BCRW/~3/wfLqOaoTyB4/ http://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/rights-religion-and-secularity-salon-with-tanika-sarkar/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:30:08 +0000 hope http://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=videos&p=1961 Acclaimed scholar of history, gender and colonialism Tanika Sarkar joins BCRW for the third event in the annual Salon Series, which offers an opportunity to dive into the implications of texts that make a critical intervention in their field. In this conversation moderated by Anupama Rao, Neferti Tadiar, Winnifred Sullivan, and Abosede George respond to Sarkar’s latest work, “A Just Measure of Death? Hindu Ritual and Colonial Law in the Sphere of Widow Immolations,” which explores the relations among law, personhood and Hindu idioms of entangled selves in colonial India. The article discusses how gender and empire become entwined with religion and secularism as religious notions of ‘sacrifice’ and good widowhood interrupted British notions of the legal person.

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Get the report (PDF) / Get the report on Scribd / Excecutive Summary (PDF) / The Future of Online Feminism Infographic (PDF) / The Future of Online Feminism Infographic (Text-version) / Creating Change and Running on Empty Infographic (PDF)

In the spring of 2012, Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti approached BCRW with a message: the new digital environment, so critical to online organizing and feminist community in the last decade, was in crisis. As feminist writers focused on online spaces, they were increasingly alarmed by the severity of burnout they saw among their fellow feminist bloggers and online activists. They wanted to make sure the landscape that had given them so much would still be around a generation later. Martin and Valenti had a compelling vision to make the landscape of feminist writers and activists online stronger; to create a sustainable force that would build on existing alliances among feminist movements and between online feminists and their institutional counterparts; and to develop an infrastructure of support for these important voices.

In this report, Martin and Valenti build on a 2012 convening where 21 writers, activists, and educators who work in the online feminist landscape came together to discuss their needs, desires, and hopes for the online feminist future. Here they provide a cogent explanation of the power of online organizing, the risks and challenges of the current state of the field, and some possible solutions for creating a more sustainable system.

Join the conversation: #femfuture

Online Revolution Convening 2012 Participants

]]> http://bcrw.barnard.edu/publications/femfuture-online-revolution/feed/ 0 http://bcrw.barnard.edu/publications/femfuture-online-revolution/ Feminist Constellations: Intercultural Paradigms in the Americas http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BCRW/~3/ON_nts78vKY/ http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/feminist-constellations-and-intercultural-paradigms-in-the-americas/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:45:03 +0000 hope http://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=event&p=1934 Feminist Constellations Conference

The main objective of this participatory conference is to provide a platform for feminist scholars and activists to engage in a meaningful dialogue about their struggles from their positions at the forefront of contemporary debates on democracy, economic, cultural and racial justice. By inviting scholars and activists who bridge Latin American, Africana, Native American, Latino, Cultural and Women’s and Gender Studies, the conference highlights diversity, encouraging the possibilities of learning from one another.

Seating is limited, please RSVP here.

Part I, April 12, 9:30 AM – 7 PM

  • Indigenous Feminisms Hemispherically
  • Black Feminisms Diasporically
  • Decolonial and Anti-Racist Feminisms

Part II, April 13, 10 AM – 7:30 PM

  • Social Movements: Art, Social Media and Networks
  • Generational Connections
  • Economic Justice, Immigration, Labor and the Environment

Featuring:
Ochy Curiel (Dominican Republic), Dana Ain Davis (U.S.), Millaray Painemal (Chile), Julieta Paredes (Bolivia), Manuela Picq (Ecuador), Margareth Rago (Brazil), Matilde Ribeiro (Brazil), Guiomar Rovira (Mexico), Liliana Suarez-Navaz (Spain), Irma Alicia Velasquez Nimatuj (Guatemala), Gina Athena Ulysse (Haiti).

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Collectively written, produced by, and starring an all trans women cast, The Fully Functional Cabaret: Trans Women’s Secrets… REVEALED! is a self-described “love letter to and from trans womanhood.” Facilitated by Annie Danger and featuring the performances of Star Amerasu, Ryka Aoki, Annie Danger, Red Durkin, Bryn Kelly, and Shawna Virago, this vaudevillian style cabaret incorporates song, dance, puppetry, glitter, poetry, live Foley Art, and deep interactivity into a vibrant repertoire.

Fully equipped with cunning humor, wicked camp, and a sweet, penetrating earnestness, we take you well past the skin-deep secrets everybody knows and straight the bone-deep truths we live every day.

The Fully Functional isn’t just trans sisters telling it how it is, it’s a shining piece of community theater designed to read clearly to a diverse audience and, ultimately, to remind us: everybody’s Benjamin is hairy.

The Fully Functional Cabaret was produced in 2012 with assistance from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Queer Cultural Center, and the National Queer Arts Festival. The production premiered in July 2012 at the African American Arts and Culture Complex as the final act of the National Queer Arts Festival 2012.

Annie Danger (Emcee) is a multidisciplinary performing artist hunting the perfect hybrid. She is a trans woman born and raised in Albuquerque, NM and rooted in the SF Bay Area twelve years strong. Deeply interested in art that pulls its own weight, Danger tinkers with hearts and minds, using her razor wit to alter cultural archetypes and sidle profundity right up next to you before you ever see it coming. Her work is cunning in its use of humor and sweetness to put the ‘active’ back into ‘interactive art’. Danger has performed nationally and internationally in theaters, colleges, bars, galleries, and the streets. She has toured with Sister Spit, performed in The Fresh Meat Festival, and is a regular presence at the National Queer Arts Festival. In addition to the Fully Functional, she is working in collaboration with Keith Hennessy on Trojan X, a full-sized trojan horse to be unleashed on the streets of San Francisco this coming fall.

Star Amerasu (Vanessa, Specimen), like Aphrodite, rose from the sea in shower of foam. She has graced the people of this realm, with her talents of Singing, Dancing and Acting. From that moment, she has been seen in regional and community theatres around America. She is producer of 14 Black Poppies youth performance showcase.

Ryka Aoki (Selina, Doctor) is a writer, performer and musician who has worked with Fresh Meat, the Tranny Roadshow and the National Queer Arts Festival. Ryka is author of Sometimes Too Hot the Eye of Heaven Shines (RADAR Publications), and Seasonal Velocities (Trans-Genre Press). Her work also appears in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation and Transfeminist Perspectives. She is the writer/director/producer of In Search of Geishaghost, a solo show commissioned by the Morphologies Festival in Minneapolis, MN.

Brooklyn-based writer, vlogger and comedian Red Durkin (Harry Benjamin, Marge) is the managing editor of PrettyQueer.com. She has toured extensively with the Tranny Roadshow, written 9 zines, and performed nationwide. Her writing has been featured in Punk Planet magazine and also appears in Topside Press’s flagship release, The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard. Her work on YouTube has been translated into several languages and shown in college classrooms. Her first novel, Ready, Amy, Fire, will be released by Topside Press in the summer of 2013.

Bryn Kelly (Teddie, Daryl/Sarah) is a New-York based writer and performing artist of Appalachian extraction. She was a cofounder of the multimedia performance collective Theater Transgression, and regularly hosts the Gay Ole Opry, a queer country music showcase. Find out more about her current and past projects at brynkelly.com.

Shawna Virago (Cookie, Drill Sergeant) is celebrated for her striking lyric-based songs. She composed original music for choreographer Sean Dorsey’s acclaimed dance work Uncovered: The Diary Project. Virago’s writing appears in Gender Outlaws: Next Generation, Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica, and Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary. She is Artistic Director of the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival.

This event is free and open to the public. Venue is wheelchair accessible.

]]> http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-fully-functional-cabaret/feed/ 0 http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-fully-functional-cabaret/ Backtalk/Crosstalk: Gendered Stories, Colonial Archives and Sexualized Subjects http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BCRW/~3/h9IsmyfJsIs/ http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/backtalkcrosstalk-gendered-stories-colonial-archives-and-sexualized-subjects/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:06:51 +0000 hope http://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=event&p=1914 Backtalk Crosstalk

Backtalk/Crosstalk is a series of dialogues initiated by the Africana Studies Program to set members of the Africana faculty in conversation with diasporic scholars, artists and activists. The series highlights the gains of institutional recognition for Diaspora Studies, while encouraging and insisting on the impertinent, insolent and disruptive work that achieved such recognition. Backtalk/Crosstalk stages conversations between Barnard faculty and those of other academic institutions that traverse local and transnational historical contexts and locations, and link different political, cultural and scholarly agendas and aspirations.

This year’s forum features a lunchtime discussion between three scholars committed to finding disruptive modes of engaging the anonymous lives and gendered stories of enslaved women in the colonial archive. Our conversation will focus on a chapter from Marisa Fuentes’ forthcoming book on enslaved women in 18th Century urban Barbados, “Gendered Landscapes: Slavery, Space and the Archive in Colonial Bridgetown.” Please join us for this exciting event.

Marisa J. Fuentes completed her Ph.D. in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley in 2007. She is an assistant professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the departments of History and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her current book project explores the spatial, historical, and symbolic confinement enslaved women experienced in eighteenth century Bridgetown, Barbados. Grounded in archival research and recent scholarship on gender and enslavement, Fuentes investigates how the construction of legal, architectural and historical “spaces” marked enslaved women’s bodies and experiences, in life and death. She is the author of “Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen’s Troubled Archive” which appeared in Gender & History November 2010 and won the Andres Mattei Ramos/Neville Hall article prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians in 2012. Fuentes’ research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, Ford Foundation, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Life with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Jennifer L. Morgan is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in colonial America. She is currently at work on a project that considers colonial numeracy, racism, and the rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, tentatively titled Accounting for the Women in Slavery. She is Professor of History in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of History at New York University and lives in New York City.

Yvette Christiansë is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Barnard College. A poet and fiction writer, Christiansë was born in South Africa under apartheid and immigrated with her parents to Australia at age 18. Her work has been published internationally, and her poetry collection, Castaway, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN International Poetry Prize. Her acclaimed first novel, Unconfessed, is based on the life of a slave woman in the Cape Colony and was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway/PEN International Prize for First Fiction.

]]> http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/backtalkcrosstalk-gendered-stories-colonial-archives-and-sexualized-subjects/feed/ 0 http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/backtalkcrosstalk-gendered-stories-colonial-archives-and-sexualized-subjects/ Utopia Afternoon Keynotes Questions and Answers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BCRW/~3/0sWj7mld4gk/ http://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/utopia-afternoon-keynotes-questions-and-answers/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:45:08 +0000 hope http://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=videos&p=1932 Jennifer Miller and Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius respond to audience comments and questions following their afternoon keynote presentations at The Scholar & Feminist 2013: Utopia.

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]]> http://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/utopia-afternoon-keynotes-questions-and-answers/feed/ 0 http://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/utopia-afternoon-keynotes-questions-and-answers/ Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius: Tilting Pedagogies as Utopian Intervention – Outrage, Desire, and the Body in the Classroom http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BCRW/~3/mHr02MKvN2k/ http://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/marisa-belausteguigoitia-rius-tilting-pedagogies-as-utopian-intervention-outrage-desire-and-the-body-in-the-classroom/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:30:05 +0000 hope http://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=videos&p=1930 In her keynote presentation at The Scholar & Feminist 2013: Utopia, Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico explored the concept of tilting pedagogies in the classroom, in prisons, and in public spaces.

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