2024-2025 Year in Review

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As the 2024–2025 academic year comes to a close, we extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who has engaged with, supported, and contributed to the work of CSW|Streisand Center.

Grace Hong sitting in chair.

Photo: Barbra Streisand Public Lecture: A Requiem for Roe v. Wade.

Honoring Director Grace Kyungwon Hong

This year marks the end of Professor Grace Hong’s five-year tenure as director of CSW|Streisand Center. A longtime member of the UCLA faculty and a visionary leader, Director Hong brought to her role a legacy of feminist, anti-carceral, and intersectional scholarship and activism. Under her leadership, CSW|Streisand Center expanded its programming, deepened its research impact, and transformed as a center. We thank Grace for her unwavering dedication and her generative, justice-driven leadership.

A Retrospective of Grace Hong’s Directorship

Barbra Streisand Public Lecture_A Requiem for Roe Wade

Photo: Barbra Streisand Public Lecture: A Requiem for Roe v. Wade. 

Highlights from the Year

From critical conversations to creative resistance, this year’s programming reflected our ongoing commitment to feminist research, transformative justice, and cross-disciplinary inquiry.

Reproductive Justice

Thinking Gender 2025: “Gendered Labors and Transnational Solidarities” 

Our annual graduate student conference this year focused on labor organizing and featured works-in-progress workshops, student presentations, and a keynote by Adriana Paz Ramirez. The conference was presented in partnership with the UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group.

Sexual Violence and Intersectionality – Our partnership with Survivors + Allies saw an expansion of their advocacy work through research briefs and blog posts, including:

Feminist Anti-Carceral Studies – The UC Sentencing Project continued its research collaboration with system-impacted people, which included:

Gender + Water – A new comprehensive study addressed the crucial role of gender in water management within households, shedding light on a previously underexplored aspect of water sustainability.

Gender and Everyday Household Water Use in Los Angeles (report)

Activists-in-Residence cohort Lupita Limón Corrales, Kaya Dantzler, Kari Okubo, Romarilyn Ralston, and James Suazo

Activists-in-Residence cohort Lupita Limón Corrales, Kaya Dantzler, Kari Okubo, Romarilyn Ralston, and James Suazo.

Supporting Scholarship

We continued to fund and uplift feminist scholarship through our student and faculty research grants, the Editor-in-Residence program with Duke University Press’ Courtney Berger, and three faculty writing retreats. We also welcomed and celebrated our 2024–2025 Scholars-in-Residence and Activists-in-Residence, whose work continues to inspire and mobilize.

Photo: Musician Huda Asfour.

Photo: Musician Huda Asfour.

Campus and Community Collaborations

From Reproductive Justice gatherings to co-sponsored events and collaborative working groups, CSW|Streisand Center remained deeply engaged with grassroots and academic partners across UCLA and beyond. Campus and community events included:

  • A musical performance and conversation with musician Huda Asfour.
  • Carceral Entanglements: Gendered Public Memories of Japanese American World War II Incarceration book talk with Wendi Yamashita
  • Care without Pathology How Trans- Health Activists are Changing Medicine book talk with Chris Hanssmann
  • Activist-in-Residence (AIR) memoir reading with the CSW|Streisand Center’s AIR activist Romarilyn Ralston.

As we look ahead, we carry forward the insights, alliances, and momentum of this past year. Thank you for being a vital part of our community.