Barnard Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

12/03/2014

Updated IRWGS Spring 2015 Class List, including a new course "Theorizing Activism" and a grad level number addition to "Memoir and Embodiment"

11/21/2014

Responding to the “Using Knowledge, Advancing Activism” panel at the 2011 Activism & the Academy Conference, Abigail Boggs writes about "tactical hope" and the power of "imagining otherwise". Read more at S&F Online: Activism & the Academy:

A response to the panel “Using Knowledge, Advancing Activism” at the conference Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action. Watch the video here: As I was writing my comments for the Campus Activism panel at the 2011 Activism and the Academy Conference, I was a…

11/19/2014

Research Assistant Emma Schuster writes a thoughtful post on Professor and BCRW Co-Director Tina Campt's lecture: "She defines fugitivity not simply as an opposition to power, but as a refusal to even acknowledge the terms of power." She takes up Professor Campt's challenge, asking how do we think beyond "resistance"? Read more on the BCRW Blog:

Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity Written by Emma S 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 Co-Director. Emma Schuster, a Barnard…

11/13/2014

Dean Spade on trans equality in the military

"Trans people, trans organizations, the trans movement did not choose this battle," Dean Spade says. The law professor says rich donors chose the issue, and maintains the focus will hurt ...

11/06/2014

Join us this Saturday 11/8 at 2:30pm for Alumnae Fellow Ali Rosa-Salas' event, NO SUCH THING AS NEUTRAL, a lecture demonstration, discussion, and performance celebrating Flex and Lite Feet in contemporary dance. For more info: http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/no-such-thing-as-neutral/

11/05/2014

10/31/2014

Please join us for the Spanish Film Festival on Nov 13-16 organized by the Department of Spanish & Latin American Cultures in Barnard College!

6:00 pm Wilaya. Dir. Pedro Pérez Rosado. Spain (2012). Introduced by Prof. José Montoya, Forum on Migration.http://www.pragda.com/spanishfilmclub/films/wilaya

05/02/2013

Liz Gipson, "Kissing In, Acting Up and Coming Out: Performing Radical Vulnerability in Gran Fury's Kissing Doesn't Kill" (WGSS-IRWGS Joint Senior Thesis Presentation)

05/02/2013

Kelli Foxx-Gonzalez, "Virtually Normal: Grindr as a Technology of Homonormativity and Homonationalism" (WGSS-IRWGS Joint Senior Thesis Presentation)

05/02/2013

Liza Roisman, "Q***r Time, White Femininity and the Uncanny: Trans Embodiment on YouTube" (WGSS-IRWGS Joint Senior Thesis Presentation)

05/02/2013

Jackie Rossiter, "Many-Headed Monsters: Subject Formation, Hybridity, and Non-Representational Politics" (WGSS-IRWGS Joint Senior Thesis Presentation)