2020-2021 BFI Fellowship Recipients

The CSW Black Feminism Initiative (BFI) offers two fellowships…
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An African Leader: Graça Machel Fights for Women and Children

By Kathleen Sheldon I am writing a biography of Graça…

Diary of a Sundance Gate Crasher

By Tyrrell Shaffner UCLA MFA student and film director,…
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On Student-Centered Feminist Writing Spaces

By Zizi Li In late October 2019, I brought my paper “Transnational…

Mask-ulinity and Feminicide: Argentine Collective Activism During Covid-19

By Madison Felman-Panagotacos During the ongoing pandemic,…
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A Series of Reflections on Rupture

By Kali Tambreé I step into the glass passage where air conditioning…
A Black Lives Matter sign was hoisted up the flagpole at the Justice Center

Portland Protests For Black Lives: An On-the-Ground Report (July 24, 2020)

By J. Davis "A Black Lives Matter sign was hoisted…