On Thursday evening, the Barnard Center for Research on Women, in collaboration with the Dartmouth Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality, hosted a discussion with Professor Janet R. Jakobsen to promote her new book, The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics. Professor Jakobsen and NYU Professor Ann Pellegrini explored the inextricable […]

This week, while everyone was busy trying to get off the waitlist, Bwog’s newborn and junior staff writer, Layla Alexander, went to an art event on photography, Listening to Images. This past Thursday evening, I entered the Diana Center in anticipation of an engaging presentation on how black people had been portrayed in photography throughout […]

How well do you understand disabilities, seen or unseen? Bwog sent staffer Jessa Nootbaar to V-Day’s performance of student narratives about disability, and her response is loud and clear: whether you are familiar or unfamiliar with disabilities (especially the later, perhaps), you should attend V-Day’s Respectability tonight or tomorrow. The moment the 17-person cast stood […]

Barnard-Columbia V-Day, the group that organizes an annual production of The Vagina Monologues on campus, has decided that the cast for this year’s production will be made up of the stories of self-identified women of color. The announcement was accompanied by a statement which explained the ideas of allyship and empowerment which shaped the decision: […]