Education & Education Reform

Child Care

As part of its on-going commitment to low-income families, Legal Momentum has long focused on the need for child care. Legal Momentum is broaening its work into a campaign to provide a comprehensive system of quality, affordable child care for every family in America.

Poverty and Welfare Reform

Legal Momentum supports the State Advocacy Project, an initiative that promotes child care, reproductive rights, employment rights, and ending domestic violence for low-income women.

Recognizing that 90% of adult TANF recipients are female, Legal Momentum views welfare as a women's issue. Currently, our work has focused on ensuring that a fair and sensible welfare policy that addresses the barriers to women's economic security will be implemented upon Congressional reauthorization.

Employment

Legal Momentum supports placing women in non-traditional jobs, such as firefighting and law enforcement, as well as construction trades and technology fields. Following the World Trade Center disaster of 9/11/2001, Legal Momentum launched Women Rebuild NY/Women Rebuild America, a program designed to further training and job opportunities in these areas.

Immigration

Legal Momentum advocates on behalf of battered immigrant women and victims of trafficking. The organization's Immigrant Women Program, based in the Washington, DC office, has extensive contact with grass-roots organizations and works with federal legislators to ensure the rights and protections of immigrant survivors of violence and sexual abuse. We also advocate for immigrant women to receive economic benefits to which they are lawfully entitled.

Violence against Women

Legal Momentum crafted the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) and currently leads the fight for passage of the Victims Economic Security and Safety Act (VESSA).

Under our Economic Rights for Survivors of Abuse (ERSA) program, we are litigating cases on behalf of women whose careers and well-being are affected by domestic and sexual violence.

Law/Legal Issues

Legal Momentum's Project on Federalism monitors and seeks to educate the public about the Supreme Court's recent decisions limiting the federal government's ability to legislate such vital areas of national policy as violence in the home, guns in schools, protection of our environment, and many other civil and women's rights issues.

The National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts (NJEP), develops trainings, publications, and video curricula to educate judges and prosecutors on gender issues.

Child Care

Know Your Rights: Parents Receiving Public Assistance in New York City

Nowhere to Turn: New York City's Failure to Inform Parents on Public Assistance About Their Child Care Rights

Still Nowhere to Turn: New York City's Continuing Failure to Inform Parents on Public Assistance About Their Child Care Rights

Poverty and Welfare Reform

Legal Momentum. 2009. Ensuring the Economic and Personal Security of Women and Girls. 

www.legalmomentum.org/assets/pdfs/2009-legal-momentum-annual.pdf

Bonus for Building Real Opportunities for Poor Families: State Action Packet

Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973, Martha Davis (1993). Describes the emergence of welfare rights litigation in the 1960s and highlights the strategies of important constitutional cases.

Dangerous Indifference: New York City's Failure to Implement the Family Violence Option

Welfare Reform Information Packet (1998). Includes background on child exclusion (family cap) and illegitimacy ratio.

What Congress Didn't Tell You: This 50-state report begins to track state responses to welfare reform in the area of reproductive choice and specficially focuses on the illegitimacy bonus, the family cap, and the abstinence-only sex education funding.

Working First But Working Poor: The Need for Education & Training in Wefare Reform (Executive Summary and Full Report Available): A Study by Legal Momentum and the Institute for Women's Policy Research on how women welfare recipients are denied access to job training for good-paying jobs in fields traditionally populated by men.

Employment

Household Workers' Rights Under Federal Law Fact Sheet

Know Your rights: A Woman's Guide to Sexual Harassment and Workfare

Manual for Survival for Women in Nontraditional Employment

Nontraditional Employment for Low-Income Women: A Guide for Advocates

The Women of Ground Zero: A Documentary: A 12-minute film documenting the efforts of six women form various backgrounds who helped at the disaster site on and after 9/11.

Violence Against Women & ERSA:

Not Enough: What TANF Offers Family Violence Victims. 2010. 

The survey on which this report is based is a unique, comprehensive effort to understand when TANF successfully assists victims of family violence, and when the program falls short, leaving victims to fend for themselves. 

Action Packet: State Laws Can Help Domestic Violence Victims At Work

The Impact of Violence in the Lives of Working Women: Creating Solutions, Creating Change: Designed to aid employers, managers, supervisors, and human resource professionals, this guide explains how violence against women affects the workplace and how businesses can develop solutions that assist women employees who have suffered.

Protecting Women's Welfare in the Face of Violence: Critiques welfare reform proposals in light of data on the relationship between violence against women and poverty.

Report From the Front Lines: The Impact of Violence on Poor Women: This qualitative study demonstrates that domestic violence and poverty interact to keep women on public assistance. Also included is a copy of the Family Violence Amendment.

State-by-State Laws on Discrimination Against Domestic Violence Victims

State-by-State Laws on Domestic Violence Workplace Policies

State-by-State Laws on Employment Leave for Domestic Violence Victims

State-by-State Laws on Unemployment Insurance

Employment Rights for Survivors of Abuse (ERSA) General Brochure

Domestic Violence and Unemployment Insurance: A Manual for Clients and Advocates

Eligibility for Unemployment Benefits (also available in French)

Employment Rights of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Domestic Violence Survivors

Job Protections & Accommodations for Disabilities Caused by Domestic Violence

Safety Planning in the Workplace: Protecting Yourself and Your Job (also available in Chinese, French, Hindu, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)

Survivors' Right to Take Time from Work to Participae in Criminal Proceedings (also available in French)

Taking Leave from Work for a Family Member's Serious Condition

Taking Leave from Work for Your Own Serious Condition

Welfare-to-Work Programs

Welfare-to-Work Programs in New York

Workplace Discrimination Against Abused Women (also available in French)

Your Legal Rights When an Abuser Injures You at Work

Law/Legal Issues and NJEP:

National Judicial Education Program (NJEP)Publications List

Credibility in the Courts: Why is There a Gender Gap?

Implementation Resources Directory, a publication of the Gender Fairness Strategies Project: Provides an annotated list of actions taken and materials available to address gender bias in state courts that can be replicated or adapted in other jurisdictions.

Is the Law Male? Let Me Count the Ways: Illustrates the concept of the law as male by analogizing it to the medical community's treatment of the male body as the norm.

Overwhelming Evidence: Reports on Gender Bias in the Courts

There's No Accounting For Judges: Recounts recent cases in which judges imposed minimal sentences on wife beaters and murderers, the intense response of the communities in which these cases occurred, and the ways in which judicial selection, election, education, evaluation, and discipline can be used to prevent recurrence of this type of gender bias.

Women of Color in the Courts

NJEP curricula materials for judges and prosecutors also available.

Education

An Annotated Summary of the Regulations for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (1997). A summary and an analysis of Title IX regulations, including housing and facilities, counseling, scholarships, and athletics.

Public Education Programs for African-American Males: A Women's Educational Perspective, Walteen Grady Truely and Martha F. Davis (1995). Reviews educational research data and theories relevant to recent public school programs targeting African-American males and analyzes the programs from a gender equity perspective.

Reproductive Rights

Drawing the Line: A Handbook for Creating Residential Picketing and Buffer Zone Laws in Your Community: Explores the legal basics of how to enact and implement residential picketing and buffer zone ordinances to protect clinics and their staff from anti-choice violence and harassment. It covers legal standards, perovides an overview of recent court decisions, and offers guidelines for drafting municipal ordinances.

Stop the Terrorism: Understanding Your Rights Under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE): Explains how you can use FACE in your community to prevent, stop, and redress anti-abortion tactics including clinic blockades and invasions, and acts of violence, intimidation, and property damage directed at those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services.

Legal Resource Kits:

Collections of materials providing general legal information are available on the following topics:

Divorce

Domestic Violence and Child Custody

Employment Sexual Harassment & Discrimination

Filing a Judicial Complaint in State Courts

How to Find a Lawyer (also available in Spanish)

Incest and Child Abuse

Sexual Harassment in Housing

Sexual Harassment in the Schools

Stalking

Violence Against Women

NOW LDEF also distributes the following publications of the National Center on Women and Family Law, which is now closed:

Analysis and Policy Implications of the New Domestic Violence Police Studies (1994).

Battered Women - Procedure for Change of Name and Social Security Number (1995).

Batterer's Pathology: Questions and Implications (1993).

Defending a Battered Woman Accused of Parental Abduction (1992).

The Effect of Woman Abuse on Children, 2nd. ed. (1994).

Guide to Interstate Custody: A Manual for Domestic Violence Advocates, 2nd. ed. (1995).

Improving the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence Through Protocols and Policies (1994).

Mandatory Arrest Laws (1994).

Mandatory Arrest: Problems and Possibilities (1994).

Mediation - A Guide for Advocates and Attorneys Representing Battered Women (1990).

Mediation and You (1991).

Mediator's Guide to Domestic Abuse (1989).

Mediation of Domestic Violence Cases (1994).

Medical Domestic Violence Protocols and Standards (1994).

Mutual Orders of Protection (1994).

National Handbook on Teen Dating Violence and the Law. For teens and college-age students.

Non-Disclosure Laws: Protection for Domestic Violence Victims (1994).

State Domestic Violence Laws Regarding Firearms (1993).

State Laws Exempting Battered Women from Mediation (1992).

Status of Marital Rape Exemption Statutes in the United States (1996).

Suing the Police After DeShaney (1995).

Voter Address Confidentiality for Domestic Violence Victims (1995).

Woman Battering: A Major Cause of Homelessness (1991).

Back issues of The Women's Advocate newsletter also available.

The Girl Scouts have a program with age appropriate and progressive resources based on four program goals for girls. Every girl who particpates in Girl Scouting benefits from the following four program goals:

Developing to her full potential.

Relating to others with increasing understanding, skill and respect.

Developing values to guide her actions and to provide the foundation for sound decision-making.

Contributing to the improvement of society through the use of her abilities and leadership skills, working in cooperation with others.

Below is a sampling of the kinds of newer initiatives that are adjuncts to the core program:

Community Service

All Girl Scouts are encouraged to perform community service projects. Once girls reach the age of nine, and through the age of 17, they can take on projects of increasing complexity and can receive nationally-recognized awards for their achievements.

Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity

Thinking Day. Held annually on February 22, the Girl Scouts celebrates girls and the diverse cultures in which they live by learning more about sister Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from neighboring countries. Girls at every Girl Scout age level engage in many activities that foster respect for others and respect for themselves.

Environment

The Elliot Wildlife Values project is the environmental education unit of the organization. Under its umbrella, a variety of projects take place. Some examples are:

Linking Girls to the Land. In cooperation with various environmental agencies, Girl Scout Councils plan outdoor recreational activities and environmental education programs, including service projects in natural areas for local Girl Scouts groups.

EarthPACT (plant and animal conservation team) supports partnerships between Girl Scout councils and local environmental education, nature, or science-related institutions to involve girls in field conservation activities and provide career exporation activities.

From Sidewalks to Treetops- Neighborhood Environmental Exploration workshops in Spanish and English teach council staff and administrative volunteers how to use the streets of their own communities as outdoor learning centers for girls. The workshop is also available as a training video in English and Spanish for leaders.
As part of a collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, young adults are provided with ongoing ocean science and exploration experience, including working in the field with scientists, designing projects to continue at home, and an e-mentoring project between girls and NOAA ocean scientists.

Financial Literacy

A curriculum that promotes financial iteracy, an e-learning web site, and grants for locally-administered projects have been launched to teach girls the skills they need to become fiscally responsible.

Girls and Adolescents

The Girl Scout Research Institute (GSRI) is a center for research and public policy information on the healthy development of girls as they mature toward adulthood. The GSRI, through synthesis of original research and existing material, is building a body of knowledge on girls and key issues affecting them and encourages practical use of the information by policy makers, educators, youth-serving organizations, volunteers, parents, and girls. Girl Scouts has completed a national research study focused on girls ages 11-17 and, based on this research, has designed new ways for girls in this age range to participate in Girl Scout activities. With a new line of resources and new opportunities to connect with other girls and adults, this project gives girls the benefits of belonging to a larger youth organization while individualizing the program to suit specific needs and interests.

Health -- Sports and Fitness

GirlSports 2000. Initiated to encourage healthy living, GirlSports creates opportunities for girls to engage in various sporting events and to cooperate with others to develop leadership and healthy living habits. National participating organizations include the Ladies Professional Golf Association, American Youth Soccer Organization, Amateur Softball Association/USA Softball, US Swimming, United States Tennis Association, USA Volleyball, Women's National Basketball Association, Women's Sports Foundation, and the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport.

Literacy

Follow the Reader, a Girl Scout/White House Family Reading Project, is a series of activity books in Spanish and English that girls and families use together to explore the world of reading. Local community projects based on the activity books extend the scope of this initiative.

Mentoring

The Mentoring Girls Project, made possible by the Metropolitan Life Foundation, is specially designed to link adults with girls between 11 and 17 years of age.

Science and Technology

The Intel Fair Play Camp Initiative provides project mentoring, career exploration, and assistance with science fair projects to girls at sites across the country.

The Lockheed Martin Science Career Exploration Fund gives girls and young adults experiences in science, ranging from space journey simulations to paleontologist digs.

GirlFACTS (Girls, Families, and Communities Together in Science) encourages girls' interest in science by involving their families as well.

Violence Against Girls

Project Anti-Violence Education (PAVE the WAY). A major federally funded project for Girl Scouts to work with local communities on prevention and intervention to stem the tide of violence in children's lives on both a personal and community level. The project was started in Missouri, and extensive national development is planned to end the current trend of the violent victimization of youth.

The Girl Scout Research Institute produces original research studies, research reviews,and outcome measurement guides focused on issues for girls ages 5-17. For the latest information on these publications, see the GSRI (www.girlscouts.org/about/ResearchInstitute/GSRIMain.htm).

Other publications of interest include:

Girl Power! With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Girl Scouts offer constructive resource guides for 9-14 year olds and the adults who most influence them. These guides promote creative problem-solving techniques and practical communication strategies in order to influence positive and healthy decision-making (1998).

Just for Girls Web Pages (jfg.girlscouts.org). Receiving awards for excellence of content, these pages include the extremely popular "Ask Doctor M" column, in which girls can ask questions about their concerns and hear from both a developmental psychologist and her daughter. The web site also contains information on Girl Scouting, updated activities for girls, links to the Girl Scout Virtual Museum, badge work, and profiles of high-achieving contemporary career women.

Videos:

Valientes y Fuertes (Courageous and Strong). Produced in Spanish, the video is an effort to urge adults to support girl-adult interactive partnerships in Spanish-speaking communities (1998).

Grants/Scholarships

2012-13 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar
Center for Feminist Research

The Center For Feminist Research is pleased to announce that the 2012-13 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar, directed by Professor Karen Tongson, will focus on "Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of Popular Music."  In addition to Tongson, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, next year's seminar will include the following group of faculty and graduate students:

1. Edwin Hill, Assistant Professor of French, Italian, Comparative Literature and American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). His project "La Rage: Losing it in the French Peripheries," explores anti-colonial discourses of rage in French hip-hop culture and literature, in order to offer a timely intervention into debates about the 2005 and 2007 riots in the French banlieus, or urban peripheries, and France's "ultra-peripheries"--its colonial territories in the West Indies.

2. Kara Keeling, Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), and African American Studies in American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). Her project, "'Electric Feel': Transduction, Errantry and the Refrain" ascertains what logics inherited from particular popular musics might offer ongoing efforts to renegotiate bonds, institutions and political possibilities shaped by the violences characteristic of capitalism, white supremacy, neoliberal multiculturalism and contemporary geopolitics.

3. Josh Kun, Associate Professor of Communication (Annenberg) and American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). His project, titled "The World Begins Here: Love and Death and Music in Tijuana" tracks the transnational flows of culture from Tijuana's founding as a family-owned cattle ranch in the aftermath of the 19th century creation of a US-Mexico border, to its current state as a chaotic urban sprawl of well over two million people. In these histories, Kun hears what he calls the 'aural border': a bi-national territory of sonic performance and listening; of melodic convergence and dissonant clashing. 

4. Shana Redmond, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). Her project, "Timing is Everything: The Feminine Antiphonies in 'We are the World'" revisits this anthem of global "relief"--particularly its redeployment in the wake of the 2010 earthquake disaster in Haiti--in order to expose the feminized musical tropes that organize conditions of aid and aid occupation, which developed in post-disaster sites like Ethiopia in 1985, and Haiti in 2010. 

5. Mina Yang, Assistant Professor of Music (Thornton). Her project, "Dancing into Visibility: Asian-American B-Boys and the Hip-Hop Trans-Nation," situates her extensive research on b-boying in Asia and Asian America within the context of racial discourses in the United States and hip-hop history, and against the backdrop of emergent transpacific economies and cultural geographies.

6. Micha Cardenas, Ph.D. student in Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (SCA); artist and theorist. Her project, titled "Femme Disturbance," combines scholarship, poetry and performance components to explore how musicality and figures like Janelle Monae and Ke$ha (among others) help foster antirationalist theories of genderqueer solidarity, politics and action. 

The CFR's "New Directions in Feminist Research" is organized annually around a particular theme.  The seminar offers participants an opportunity to work collectively on thematically linked projects, and also creates public events--invited speakers, panels, conferences--that engage the broader feminist community of faculty and students at USC.  Stay tuned for announcements for such events in 2012-13.

The Center for Feminist Research Newsletter

Our Spring 2012 newsletter is now available online! Please follow the link below and click on Spring 2012. Past issues available here as well.

Issues Available Online>>

Graduate Fellowships:

Diana Meehan Fellowship in Feminism and Communications

The Center for Feminist Research will award two $2000 Fellowships to two advanced graduate students working in the general area of feminism and communication. Applicants should be advanced students who are working either on a dissertation or on an original creative project.

Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:

·       a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified

·       a curriculum vita

·       a three-page, 750-word description of your dissertation/creative project, and/or a sample of your creative work (e.g. a script or film)

·       two letters of recommendation

·       an unofficial transcript

Cagney and Lacey Fellowship

The Center for Feminist Research will award one $2000 fellowship to a returning woman student who is enrolled in a graduate program in the USC School of Cinema/Television. The student may be in any year of study except her final year. Please note, a returning student is one who has had a break of several years between her undergraduate training and matriculation in graduate school; she is usually of non-traditional school age.

Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:

• a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified
• a curriculum vita, which should reflect your circumstances as a woman student who has returned to academia
• a three-page, 750-word description of your dissertation/creative project, and/or a sample of your creative work (e.g. a script or film)
• two letters of recommendation
• an unofficial transcript

All queries and applications should be sent to: cfr@usc.edu

Global Issues

Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan. FMF is leading a public education campaign to stop gender apartheid in Afghanistan. To date, more than 150 women's rights and human rights organizations in the U.S. and around the world have agreed to co-sponsor the campaign to demand that the human rights abuses against women and girls in Afghanistan must end. The campaign is urging the United States and United Nations to continue to refuse to grant recognition to the Taliban and to do everything in their power to restore the human rights of Afghani women.

Health and Health Care
Reproductive Rights

National Clinic Access Project. The FMF National Clinic Access Project is the largest and oldest clinic defense program in the nation. The project performs grassroots organizing and engages in public education work to increase public awareness of anti-abortion extremist violence. The project also provides direct assistance in the form of legal, security, and support services as well as direct financial aid to abortion providers not affiliated with the National Abortion Federation (NAF) or Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and works in collaboration with NAF and PPFA to reduce violence. In addition, the clinic violence program conducts the most extensive research in tracking and documenting extremists' actions and violence as well as the most comprehensive annual social science survey of anti-abortion violence in the nation.

Choices Campus Leadership Program. The FMF Choices Campus Leadership Campaign is a new, innovative research and action program with extensive grassroots organizing on campus. The program is built on a study and action model using a 10-unit manual and defining choices in its broadest sense including the reproductive choices, leadership choices, career choices, and fighting the backlash. Currently, the program is on 83 campuses nationwide and is expanding rapidly. The Choices campaign also is conducted through Internet organizing via the Virtual Choices web site, www.feministcampus.org.

Women's Health. FMF provides information on how to get in touch with health hotlines and resources, including information and resources on reproductive health and options. The FMF Campaign for Mifepristone and Women's Health Research is the largest public education campaign for the use of anti-progestins. It is a sustained public education campaign directed at expanding research on the medication's many promising indications. The campaign has the sole responsibility of providing mifepristone to U.S. physicians for compassionate use treatment of several serious diseases under an agreement with the Population Council, which has U.S. distribution rights, its licensee, Danco Group, and the French pharmaceutical, which has world distribution rights.

Women and Policing

National Center for Women & Policing. A division of FMF, the National Center for Women & Policing is a national resource for women in policing, law enforcement agencies, community leaders, and public officials seeking to increase the number of women law enforcement officers and to improve law enforcement response to family violence. The National Center conducts research and provides technical assistance and training to law enforcement agencies on issues related to women in policing, family violence, and sexual assault, and promotes strategies for increasing women's representation in federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

Leadership and Leadership Development

Feminist Majority Foundation OnLine. FMF OnLine promotes social, political, and economic equality for women by featuring daily feminist news, feminist research resources, Take Action items, domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines, a feminist career center, information on women and girls in sports, and more.

Campus Projects. FMF started "Feminization of Power" campus campaigns and campus units to encourage and help women to obtain positions in student government. Other campus projects include campaigns for choice and projects supporting affirmative action.

Women in Leadership. FMF is a strong supporter of furthering women's power and leadership skills. It has followed national and international political events and elections, and advocates for women's continued leadership advancement. Additionally, FMF has staged and hosted many events centered around the feminization of power, feminist leadership, and equality.

Events:

Creativity Workshop in New York City

Date: 3/12/2010 Time: 10:00 AM Event Type: Conference

Place: Meta Center in the Chelsea district, 214 West 29th St.

Exquisite Journey : Fierce Beauty

Date: 3/12/2010 ~ 3/13/2010 Time: 7:30 pm Event Type: Concert

Place:  Faith Lutheran Church, Phoenix, AZ

Contact: Terry Gunn

Phone: (602) 487-1940

E-Mail: manager@azwit.com

URL: http://www.azwit.com

WO-MEN WITH A VISION: Building bridges Of Unity

Date: 3/26/2010 Time: 7.00PM Event Type: Concert

Place: The Guitar Merchant, Woodland Hills, CA

Contact: Leigh Swansborough

Phone: (818) 299-4527

E-Mail: powpeople@yahoo.com

International Family Justice Center Conference

Date: 4/27/2010 ~ 4/29/2010 Time: 8:00am-5:00pm Event Type: Conference

Place:  Crowne Plaza San Antonio Riverwalk , San Antonio, TX

Contact: Melissa Mack

Phone: (888) 511-3522

E-Mail: melissa@nfjca.org

URL: http://www.familyjusticecenter.org/conference/

Contact: Ceci Glusman

Phone: 1 (831) 915-5209

E-Mail: admin@creativityworkshops.com

URL: http://www.creativityworkshop.com/newyork.html

FMF. 2008. 2008 Clinic Violence Survey Report. Conducted by Feminist Majority Foundation, Eleanor Smeal, Katherine Spillar, and Margie Moore. 

http://www.feminist.org/research/cvsurveys/clinic_survey2008.pdf

FMF. 2007. Handbook For Achieving Gender Equity Through Education. Written by Feminist Majority Foundation.

http://www.feminist.org/education/handbook.asp

S&FOnline

www.barnard.edu/sfonline

The Scholar & Feminist Online, a triannual, multimedia, online-only journal of feminist theories and women's movements, provides public access to the Barnard Center for Research on Women's most innovative programming by providing written transcripts, audio and visual recordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action networks. The journal builds on these programs by publishing related scholarship and other applicable resources. A forum for scholars, activists, and artists whose work articulates the ever-evolving role of feminism in struggles for social justice, S&F Online brings you the latest in cutting-edge theory and practice.

New Feminist Solutions

www.barnard.edu/bcrw/newfeministsolutions

Marking the newest direction in BCRW's more than thirty-five-year-old tradition of print publication, New Feminist Solutions is a series of reports geared toward informing and inspiring activists, policy-makers and others. Each report was written in collaboration with organizations and individuals who, like BCRW, have made a concerted effort to link feminist struggles to those of racial, economic, social and global justice. The reports are based on conversations and ideas emerging from conferences held at Barnard College, and are published in conjunction with websites featuring additional information from these events. Copies of the reports are free. They can be downloaded from the New Feminist Solutions website. Print copies can be requested by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu.

BCRW Newsletter Published biannually, the BCRW newsletter provides event information and feature articles that communicate some of the broader issues engaged by the events, thus providing readers with a new way of understanding the work of the Center as a whole.

The following issues are available to download in PDF format:

Spring 2010

Fall 2009

Spring 2009

Fall 2008

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Guide to NYC Women's and Social Justice Organizations

www.barnard.edu/bcrw/guide

This rich guide puts you in touch with the artists, activists and organizations whose work is most crucial to you. You'll find valuable information from nearly five hundred citywide organizations that work for sexual, racial, economic and social justice. The directory reflects our longtime commitment to building far-reaching, and sometimes unexpected coalitions.

Student Initiated Events Fund

The Student Initiated Events Fund provides the opportunity for any student involved in an activist group at Barnard or Columbia to receive funding from the Women's Center to bring a local activist or scholar to a student-oriented program to discuss issues of gender, feminism, or women's lives. Alternately, a student may suggest a topic for a larger Women's Center program.

To apply, please send the following information to bcrw@barnard.edu: Name of student organization; student contact information; description of the event in as much detail as possible.

For further information, please email the address above or stop by the Center.