Above: The National Education Worker’s Committee (CNTE) in Mexico City, 2013 by Alonzo Ackerman Among Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s campaign promises was the pledge to cancel the 2012 Education […]
by Taylor Babaian I was forty years old when I decided to return to school to earn my undergraduate degree. The learning curve was steeper than I had expected because […]
Above: The open pit mine in Cerro de Pasco. Central Andes, Peru. August, 2018 by Barbara Galindo When I first saw the impressive images of the devastation caused by the flood […]
By Jessica Shropshire “Three things happen when women are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, or they cry.” These widely publicized […]
by Melanie Xu Introduction June 2010: The day is getting darker as dusk approaches. But the presence of the pop rock band, GALA—consisting of four Chinese young men born in […]
By Stephanie Lumsden The mission system in southern California and the gold rush in northern California were eras of apocalyptic violence deliberately enacted by settlers seeking to dispossess Native peoples […]
by Emma Bright More than 3.1 million women with a history of breast cancer live in the United States. In 2018 alone, 266,000 women were diagnosed, but since 1990, the […]
Above: Brandenburger Tor, a border crossing in Berlin that was closed until the fall of the Berlin Wall. by Hena Ashraf In September 2015 a shocking photograph showing a 3-year-old […]
The CSW Policy Brief Prize was created to support and promote applied feminist scholarship by graduate students at UCLA. The 2017-2018 topic was Addressing Sexual Violence; Achieving Justice: Shelter, Intersectionality, and Sexual […]
By Rocío R. García, PhD Candidate, UCLA Sociology A woman gets pregnant. She’s nine months, she walks across the border, she has the baby in the United States, and we […]
