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The Black Feminist Study Group is a four-part program shaped by the poetics and practice of Afro-Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino, recipient of the Vera List Center’s 2025–2027 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. Assembled within Paulino’s prize exhibition ¿História Natural? (October 9–November 1, 2026), the study group is anchored by seminal texts that touch on interconnected struggles for liberation and resistance throughout the African diaspora.


The study group assembles weekly from October 9 to 31. Rooted in the practice of collective listening and call and response, each study group session features an invited writer reading from a text of their choice from the reading list by another author, followed by a group discussion. As a joint dialogue, the study group is designed to open encounters and invite collaboration, bringing the disparate into proximity. 


The series commences on Friday, October 9, launching the VLC Forum 2026 and the opening of Paulino’s exhibition. Writer, editor, and art critic Jessica Lynne leads the first session, with a reading from The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento (Princeton University Press, 2023). On October 17, writer and critic Zoë Hopkins reads from Dionne Brand's "Nomenclature for the Time Being" (Duke University Press, 2022). On October 24, New School scholar Cresa Pugh reads Denise Ferreira da Silva's Unpayable Debt (Sternberg Press, 2022). And rounding out the series on October 31, interdisciplinary artist and founder of the Free Black Women's Library, OlaRonke Akinmowo reads from Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Serpent's Tail, 2019).


The study group is hosted by Re’al Christian, VLC Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives.


Study Group Sessions


Session 1 | Friday, October 9, 4 pm

Jessica Lynne, writer, editor, and art critic

On Beatriz Nascimento's The Dialectic Is in the Sea (Princeton University Press, 2023)


Session 2 | Saturday, October 17, 2 pm

Zoë Hopkins, writer and critic

On Dionne Brand's "Nomenclature for the Time Being," in Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems (Duke University Press, 2022)


Session 3 | Saturday, October 24, 2 pm

Cresa Pugh, Assistant Professor of Sociology, The New School

On Denise Ferreira da Silva's Unpayable Debt (Sternberg Press, 2022)

Session 4 | Saturday, October 31, 2 pm

OlaRonke Akinmowo, interdisciplinary artist and founder, The Free Black Women’s Library

On Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Serpent’s Tail, 2019)

The Black Feminist Study Group is co-convened by Re’al Christian as part of Rosana Paulino: ¿História Natural?, curated by Carin Kuoni and Eriola Pira. It is supported by Critical Minded.


The Vera List Center Forum 2026: Matter of Intelligence is presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics as part of the VLC’s 2025–2027 Focus Theme Matter of Intelligence. It is curated by Carin Kuoni and Eriola Pira and convened with the support of Tabor Banquer, Re’al Christian, and Adrienne Umeh. 

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Free and open to all. Registration is required.

Accessibility

The nearest accessible subway stations are the 14 St-Union Sq L, N, Q, R, W and the 14 St/6 Av F, M, uptown only; and the 6th Ave L is fully accessible.


The Vera List Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. Please let us know if you need any accommodation when registering or by emailing vlc@newschool.edu.


Masks are optional and will be provided.

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The Vera List Center tries to share its programs as widely as possible, which means recording our programming and making it available on the Vera List Center and The New School websites. By attending the event, you consent to photography, audio recording, video recording and its/their release, publication, or exhibition. You can view past Vera List Center events at veralistcenter.org/events/past.