Engaging the Production of Violence
This post is part of a series of reflections on the interdisciplinary winter seminar, “Mumbai At Home and in the World: Gender, Sexuality and the Postcolonial City.” BCRW Associate Director Catherine...
View ArticleGuidelines to Prevent Abuse of Children with Disabilities: Report from New Delhi
While pursuing a major in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies I have studied the concept of intersectionality, an idea that states that different identities interact with one another to contribute...
View ArticleS&F: Digital Engagemet Panel
This Saturday at the annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices, speakers will discuss the ways feminist activists, writers, and thinkers around the...
View ArticleAfrican Women’s Rights and Resilience
To celebrate National Women’s Day, Barnard will host the African Women’s Rights and Resilience symposium with Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, co-sponsored by the Gbowee Peace Foundation,...
View ArticleWelcoming our new Associate Director, Tami Navarro
BCRW would like welcome Tami Navarro as our Associate Director. Tami holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Duke University and is also a proud graduate of Wesleyan University (’03). She is...
View ArticleHome Is Where the Heart Cannot Be: The Oppression of Haitians in the...
How does it feel to be a stranger in your own home? To be told that you don’t belong in the place you grew up? Activist and law student Altagracia Jean Joseph addressed these questions in her lecture...
View ArticleBlack Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity
On October 7, 2014, Professor Tina Campt gave the annual Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture. Professor Campt was introduced by BCRW Director Janet Jakobsen and publicly welcomed as the new BCRW...
View ArticleDigital Translations of Quisqueya
This semester, BCRW will host a plethora of events on transnational feminisms and activism in the Caribbean. Here you will find student-generated content on topics ranging from feminism to political...
View Article#DalitWomenFight
Content Warning: This piece contains descriptions and statistics concerning the physical and sexual violence against and the murders of Dalit people. Dalit women all over South Asia are starting and...
View ArticleCaribbean Feminisms: From the Page to our Lives, Across Borders and Communities
In hosting a series of events that featured conversations between Caribbean woman writers, the Barnard Center for Research on Women sought to centralize the importance of developing a transnational...
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