Watch the video on YouTube.com From the press release on YuriLane.com: From Tel Aviv to Ramallah: A Beatbox Journey – a collaboration between Yuri Lane, a Jewish “human beatbox,” Rachel Havrelock, the religion scholar who happens to be his wife, and Sharif Ezzat, a Muslim video artist – is a genre-smashing, boundary-breaking “hip-hop travelogue of peace.” A production … Read more
Artist Statement A Space Exodus Larissa Sansour In A Space Exodus, Larissa Sansour quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern context. The film follows the artist herself on a phantasmagoric journey through the universe echoing Kubrick’s thematic concerns for human evolution, progress and technology. However, in her film, … Read more
‘When I look at my skin I see Earth. I see a perfect blend of massive oak tree trunks, Georgia red clay, muddy waters and all human skin tones, giving me [us] a strong, special connection with this planet we are spinning around on.’ Framed to the right, Danny’s face is in focus close up … Read more
“Arrest” is the first chapter of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, reprinted with permission from The New Press. Anthony was a slight and restless boy of ten with pale skin and huge brown eyes. In a nearly bare office adjacent to the room where his grandmother was attending a support group, he … Read more
“The academic diasporic or minority woman thinking transnationally must be literate enough to ask: cui bono, working for whom, in what interest?” – Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak This film is an unlikely collaboration across time and space, many years in the making. Its challenges highlight the difficulties of transnational collaboration. How to make it equitable? How … Read more
We are pleased to reprint The Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers’ remembrance of scholar and activist, Alison Bernstein, who died three years after the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s transnational feminisms initiative 2013 trip to South Africa. For this inaugural trip, Yvette Christiansë, Jane Bennett, and Catherine Sameh collaborated with Alison to bring … Read more
Twenty years after the publication of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices, the Barnard Center for Research on Women hosted a conference bringing together senior and junior scholars whose work animated – and continues to be animated by – its publication. During this video recorded plenary session, senior scholars Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Lydia … Read more
For several years before the Scholar & Feminist Conference XXXIX – “Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices,” activists and scholars had been exploring how, in the aftermath of movements like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, the distinctions between on the ground and online social movements were increasingly blurred. In this panel, scholars, writers, … Read more
From Birmingham, Alabama to Antwerp, Belgium, the recent removal and defacing of monuments to Confederate and imperialist leaders has marked the most recent wave in our long-lasting stream of struggles over haunting legacies. Some believe that removing these statues is an attempt to erase or cover up history. For others, it represents a means to … Read more
Introduction Rising vitriol against global Muslim communities cannot be simply understood as the result of what Muslims do, interpretations of Islam (however defined or understood), or the nature of Muslims as a community. Rather, growing anti-Muslim sentiment is directly linked to changing global economic and political conditions in the 21st century. “Islamophobia,” which is a … Read more
