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#CancelRent And Eviction Blockades in Brooklyn: Black Queer Women and Femmes Fight for the Right to Housing

Written and submitted by Brooklyn College student Emily Batista over the summer of 2020, this autoethnography focused on the eviction defense of 1214 Dean Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Batista framed this research project as a "vessel to [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 2020 and Beyond: CUNY in the Era of COVID and Racial Reckoning
Subjects: Activism, Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, Distance Learning, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Gender, Pedagogy, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn, cancel rent, COVID-19, critical race studies, Crown Heights, CUNY Distance Learning Archive, NYC community, NYC evictions, Queer Studies, student projects
"City's Personnel Policies Called Biased"

This New York Times article outlines charges against the city that alleged discrimination against women and racial minorities in hiring and promotions at CUNY. Women's Studies Program co-coordinators and Brooklyn College Women's Organization members [...]

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Legal, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Employment, Lilia Melani, Sex discrimination, Women’s Movement / Feminism
Letter from BCWO to President Kneller on Sex Discrimination

This letter to Brooklyn College president John Kneller informs him of the Brooklyn College Women's Organization's (BCWO) formation of "a Discrimination Committee to investigate charges of sex discrimination against any woman on campus, having [...]

Item Type: Text (Diary / Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Legal, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College Women's Organization, Child Care, Demands, John Kneller, Lilia Melani, Renate Bridenthal, Women’s Movement / Feminism

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