Love Goes Through Your Mind: The Process
By Ronak Shah In September of 2012, I moved from New Jersey to the West Coast to begin the Master of Fine Arts program at UCLA. I came to study […]
(Re)mapping Filipino Settler Claims to Place in Guåhan
By Josephine Ong Contextualizing Histories of Dispossession in Oceania Places like Guåhan (Guam) and Hawai’i are often construed as island paradises, sites of pleasure and relaxation for tourists. Such constructions […]
Domestic Workers: The Original Gig Workers
By Magally Miranda The UCLA Center for the Study of Women will honor Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, (NDWA) with the 2019 Distinguished Leader in Feminism […]
Call for GSR Applications: 2020 Thinking Gender Coordinator
The Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is accepting applications for the 2020 Thinking Gender Conference Coordinator. This 25% Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) position offers a rare opportunity to […]
Care and Vision: The Transformative Feminism of Ai-jen Poo
CSW will honor Ai-jen Poo with our 2019 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award on May 30, 2019. Join us at our Awards and Benefit Reception to hear Ai-jen Poo’s keynote […]
Using the Caribbean World to Travel Beyond Identities
By Thabisile Griffin In the late 18th century, people in the Caribbean were constantly reproducing and recalibrating hierarchies of difference. The last decade of the century was especially significant, as […]
ArtEquity and Indigenous Conversations
by Clementine Bordeaux In 2018, the number of American Indian women producing, writing, and directing for the stage was at an all time high in contemporary American theatre. Playwrights like […]
Thinking Gender: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State, with reflection and gratitude
By Kali Tambreé On February 22, 2019, the Center for the Study of Women welcomed 34 student presenters from 24 colleges and universities across the country to Thinking Gender 2019: […]
Speculative-Speculative Fiction: Jamie Berrout’s Impossible Trans Literatures
By Tony Wei Ling When I presented a paper on Jamie Berrout’s Incomplete Short Stories and Essays at a graduate conference last year, I was talking about a book that […]
My Journey Through the Research Access Crisis
By Becky Nicolaides Back in 2006 when I made the tough decision to walk away from a tenured faculty position at UC San Diego, I knew in the back of […]
