By Clara Wilch Near the end of a largely open-format and fascinating conversation between the distinguished thinker and author, Sara Ahmed, and a group of graduate students, Ahmed offered some […]
By Adriana Guarro Why Female Friendship? I spent the winter break of my first year of graduate school at UCLA in my father’s hometown in central Italy reading the […]
By Dandi Meng Writing a blog post about Sara Ahmed, who is herself a prolific and incisive blogger, feels like a distinct challenge. Ahmed has described some of the most […]
By Elizabeth Dayton Contemporary portrayals of female sex workers in the mainstream cinema draw on archetypes of “the fallen woman” who could not overcome and had to turn to selling […]
by Tony Wei Ling “Concepts are at work in how we work, whatever it is that we do. We need to work out, sometimes, what these concepts are (what we […]
by Johanna Kirk On online dance fitness videos: “Got baby booties on the brain but your own booty on the line?” asks Heidi Murkoff at the beginning of her prenatal […]
by Sophia Sidhu Going to the nail salon for a “mani-pedi” is an experience we typically associate with relaxation and luxury. The darker reality, however, is that for nail salon workers […]
Pictured above: The Center for the Study of Women offices are located in the Luskin School of Public Affairs – a LEED-certified building. by Katherine Jabba An Introduction Before joining the […]
by Hannah Bullock Brief Synopsis of the Socialized Meaning of Scent As a woman and a college student, I am socially and biologically impacted by social stigmas, consumerism, and gendered expectations; […]
by Vivian Anigbogu Currently, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is working to create a UCLA-specific pitch in order to establish fragrance-free spaces and policies throughout campus. One […]
