Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Part 2: How Do Rich People Control Our Movements?

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:41:27 +0000

Featuring Urvashi Vaid, Dean Spade, and Christine Ahn.

This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, "Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond": http://sfonline.barnard.edu/na....vigating-neoliberali

In October 2013, BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project at The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School co-convened a conference called Queer Dreams and Non-Profit blues to examine the critiques emerging from queer and feminist activists and scholars about the impact of funding on social movement agendas and formations. During the conference, Hope Dector from BCRW and Dean Spade from The Engaging Tradition Project conducted interviews with many of the speakers about their analysis and strategies related to the conference themes. These interviews were edited into 30 short videos that aim to bring these critical perspectives into an accessible format for use in activist spaces and classrooms. These videos highlight the type of knowledge production that is possible when the boundaries between activism and the academy are actively traversed.

The first three videos focusing on lessons from the anti-violence movement can be found at http://sfonline.barnard.edu/ac....tivism-and-the-acade

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