2021-2022 Year in Review

This year, the Center for the Study of Women (CSW) continued…

“It’s unjust what they are doing with us”: Asylum-seeking Women Living Under the Guise of a Border Protection Policy and the (Un)lawfulness of a US Asylum Process (Disrupted)

by Carla Salazar Gonzalez “The repulsion that [US Customs…

Brain, Blood, and Self-Report: Gaining Insights into Stress-Related Cancer Outcomes in Female Breast Cancer Survivors

By Carrianne Leschak Beyond self-reports If you ask…

Diary of a Sundance Gate Crasher

By Tyrrell Shaffner UCLA MFA student and film director,…

Abortion AF: Introducing Abortion Access Front’s Comedy-based Health Intervention

By Amy E. Alterman Acknowledgement: For Abortion Access…
Cartoon with 4 people at a table talking.

On Student-Centered Feminist Writing Spaces

By Zizi Li In late October 2019, I brought my paper “Transnational…

Mask-ulinity and Feminicide: Argentine Collective Activism During Covid-19

By Madison Felman-Panagotacos During the ongoing pandemic,…
Photo of Ellen Gallagher's Watery Ecstatic at a Los Angeles exhibition.

A Series of Reflections on Rupture

By Kali Tambreé I step into the glass passage where air conditioning…
A Black Lives Matter sign was hoisted up the flagpole at the Justice Center

Portland Protests For Black Lives: An On-the-Ground Report (July 24, 2020)

By J. Davis "A Black Lives Matter sign was hoisted…
A research assistant sitting with a woman outside; the two are framed by an open brick window

Infertility-Related Stigma is a Public Health Issue

By Marta Bornstein The experience of infertility is often…
Illustration by Chiara Vercesi of a large Black woman sitting in a thoughtful position as a measuring tape curls around her

Reducing Stigma Toward Black Women Who Vary in Body Size

by Jessica Shropshire Photo credit: Chiara Vercesi for Scientific…