2021-2022 Year in Review
This year, the Center for the Study of Women (CSW) continued to operate remotely and to deliver top-tier virtual programming, including our annual Thinking Gender conference featuring Jules Gill-Peterson and Mel Y. Chen and our 2022 Awards Celebration honoring Bamby Salcedo. The 2021–2022 academic year also began with one of the biggest developments in CSW history—one that will expand the center’s resources for students and faculty, community relations, and event and programming efforts. Continue reading the “Year in Review” to learn more about this thrilling development!
Establishing the Barbra Streisand Center
One of the most exciting developments for CSW this year was the establishment of the Barbra Streisand Center (Streisand Center). The Streisand Center was made possible through a generous gift from the Barbra Streisand Foundation, announced via UCLA Newsroom in October 2021. The Streisand Center is housed at CSW and sponsors the Barbra Streisand Fellowships, as well as various other CSW events and projects. In the coming years, CSW and the Streisand Center will work hand-in-hand to support research that addresses vital social issues and guide policy-making toward a more equitable future.
New CSW Team Members
L to R: Mishuana Goeman, Jasmine Nadua Trice, Colby Lenz
This year, CSW was thrilled to welcome Mishuana Goeman as Associate Director and Jasmine Nadua Trice as CSW Advisory Committee Chair. Staff also welcomed Colby Lenz as CSW’s first Deputy Director of Policy and Community Research. It was a pleasure to have them join the team!
Fall Open House
Program and Research Developer Katja Antoine talking to a UCLA student.
While CSW staff worked from home for most of the year, we were able to meet at the office on September 22, 2021 for our Fall Open House. We set up a table outside of the public affairs building and gave away free swag consisting of a CSW tote bag, pens, mugs, and journals! It was a pleasure to meet some of the incoming UCLA students and connect with them in person, even if just for a short time.
Defending Self-Defense: A Call to Action by Survived & Punished
Defending Self-Defense: A Call to Action by Survived & Punished was held on Thursday, March 3, 2022 and celebrated the launch of the self-titled report produced by CSW, Survived & Punished, and Project NIA.
This community-based, survivor-centered research report identifies key patterns in the criminalization of self-defense and recommendations to transform the conditions of criminalized survival. Decades of research confirms that the legal system systemically fails to protect survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and then punishes them when they save their own lives. This report foregrounds the insights, analyses, and recommendations of survivors who were punished for defending their lives, as well as organizers and advocates who have collaborated with criminalized survivors to secure their freedom.
CSW Through the Years
We closed out Women’s History Month with a special video, “CSW Through the Years,” featuring Director Grace Kyungwon Hong, former Director Sandra Harding, and former Director and Cofounder Karen Rowe. Since its founding in 1984, CSW has become known for its groundbreaking research on women, gender, and sexuality, and alongside the Streisand Center, it will continue to support transformative social justice feminist projects for many more years to come.
Thinking Gender 2022: “Transgender Studies at the Intersections”
The Thinking Gender 2022 Graduate Student Research Conference, “Transgender Studies at the Intersections,” marked another huge success in TG history. This year’s theme focused on work in transgender studies that engaged substantively with race, Indigeneity, Blackness, settler colonialism, and/or empire. It featured a keynote address on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 by Jules Gill-Peterson, followed by a conversation with Mel Y. Chen. The conference was completely virtual and welcomed participants from across the country, strengthening ties between graduate students, faculty, and activists working in transgender studies, and graciously hosted by TG22 Conference Coordinator Angel De Luna Escobedo.
2022 Awards Celebration with Bamby Salcedo
CSW’s 2022 Awards Celebration took place on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 and honored President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, Bamby Salcedo, as the 2022 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award recipient. Salcedo delivered the keynote address, “Trans Latina Resilience: Past, Present, and Future.” During the celebration, we also honored this year’s faculty and student award recipients. Follow us on Instagram as we spotlight our student award recipients throughout the summer. Faculty award recipients are listed on the Faculty Research Grants and Research Excellence Award pages.
2021–2022 STUDENT AWARD AND GRANT RECIPIENTS
2022–2023 BARBRA STREISAND FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
Statement on Reproductive Justice
Like many, we at CSW were deeply troubled by the leaked opinion from the US Supreme Court on the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade. In a statement released in May 2022, we affirmed reproductive justice as foundational to our core values and mission and restated recommitment to protecting and advocating for reproductive justice.
CSW’s New Look
Lastly, we’d like to take the opportunity to unveil CSW’s new logo! The Streisand Center’s inception and CSW’s anticipated return to campus called for plans to renovate the office in addition to updating CSW’s look. We are excited to launch the new logo this summer!
