Spring 2024 Event Highlights
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) will be joined by Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss her new book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2023), a powerful critique of capitalist care relations and the economic profit extracted from care.
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Applications are open for the 2024 Feminist Freedom School! Apply at https://bit.ly/combahee50 by March 29. Decisions will be sent on April 15. 2024 Feminist FREEDOM SCHOOL: LESSONS FROM COMBAHEE 50 YEARS ON In 1974, a group of Black feminists formed the Combahee River Collective and together theorized foundational elements of Black feminist praxis. Three years […]
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Transnational Black Feminisms
Transnational Black Feminisms was initiated by Premilla Nadasen and Celia Naylor as a working group at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) in 2019. In 2023, Tami Navarro joined Premilla as project co-director, Anna Reumert joined as project assistant, and the working group partnered with BCRW. The podcast and the conference are supported by CSSD and BCRW. […]
Read MoreCare, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction
This project, led by Premilla Nadasen (BCRW C0-Director and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History), brings together scholars, organizers, and artists to consider the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change.
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BCRW has for decades worked to respond to violence at all scales — interpersonal and international — and to contribute long histories of global feminist efforts to build a world of justice, peace, and freedom. Some of our work on behalf of these values of social justice feminism includes: Responding to Violence, Rethinking Human Secularity with […]
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Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice
From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities. Analyzing the complexities of the current political moment in different geographic regions, this book addresses the paradoxical persistence of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the pursuit of a more just world.
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