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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An excerpt from Mahsa Mohebali’s Negarān nabāsh (Don’t Worry), translated by Mariam Rahmani
Mahsa Mohebali’s Negarān nabāsh, or Don’t Worry, follows Shadi, a rich, disillusioned junkie, in the course of a single day as she roams through a crumbling Tehran in search of […]
What’s identity got to do with schooling? Infinite Intersectionality within Quality Education
By Sara Murdock In March 2018 I served as a delegate to the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women on behalf of Graduate Women International . I attended […]
George Eliot’s Fraught Feminism
By Jessica Cook Novelist George Eliot is arguably the single most paradoxical and polemical female figure of the nineteenth century. “Why,” in essence, as Kate Flint summarizes, “should a woman […]
