2021 Awards Celebration
2021-05-20 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
This event has passed. Watch Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell’s keynote address and Q&A on CSW’s YouTube channel!
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) for a special virtual event on Thursday, May 20th to honor the center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree.
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FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Intersectional Feminism and the Fight for Justice
by
Holly J. Mitchell

Supervisor, 2nd District, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
This year, CSW has selected Holly J. Mitchell as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2021 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. She represents the 2nd district on the LA County Board of Supervisors, and is a member of the California Legislative Black Caucus. From 2013 to 2020, Mitchell served as State Senator for California’s 30th District, and has previously served as California State Assemblymember for the 54th District.
Please join us to hear LA County Supervisor and former California state senator Holly Mitchell present on lessons learned from inspiring women in her life, defining leadership moments on her career journey, and the need for intersectional feminism in the fight for justice and progress.
REGISTRATION OPEN

EVENT DETAILS & REGISTRATION
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM (PST)
Location: Zoom Webinar (Registration required) / Livestream
Registrants will receive a Zoom link a few days prior to the event. If the Zoom room is at capacity, attendees will be able to view the event via livestream on CSW’s YouTube channel.
For questions, please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
On November 3, 2020, Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell was elected to serve the Second District of Los Angeles County. Throughout her career in public service, Supervisor Mitchell has always worked with the understanding – that creating a California where all residents can thrive – means investing in the communities, families, and children of LA County.
Having authored and passed over 90 laws in the California Legislature, Supervisor Mitchell brings an extensive public policy record to the Board of Supervisors. Many of her bills have been at the forefront of expanding healthcare access, addressing systemic racism, and championing criminal justice reform. During her tenure in the California State Legislature, Supervisor Mitchell represented the 54th District for three years as an Assemblymember and later served seven years as State Senator for the 30th District.
As State Senator, she also held the distinction of being the first African American to serve as Chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee. In this capacity, she led the passage of state budgets each totaling over $200 billion for the fifth largest economy in the world.
Prior to serving in elected office, Supervisor Mitchell was CEO of Crystal Stairs, California’s largest nonprofit dedicated to child and family development. In this role, she ensured that families across Los Angeles County gained access to childcare and poverty prevention resources. Before leading Crystal Stairs, she worked as a legislative advocate at the Western Center for Law and Poverty.
Supervisor Mitchell’s leadership has been recognized by over 100 community and business groups. She was recently honored as a 2020 Visionary by Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine for making California the first state in the nation to ban natural hair discrimination with The CROWN Act.
As Supervisor, Mitchell is proud to serve the two million residents of the Second District which includes the neighborhood she grew up in, Leimert Park, and the following cities: Carson, Compton, Culver City, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lynwood, parts of Los Angeles, and dozens of unincorporated communities.
Supervisor Mitchell is a University of California at Riverside Highlander, a CORO Foundation Fellow and mother to Ryan.
Holly Mitchell on Social Media
Instagram: @HollyJMitchell
Twitter: @HollyJMitchell
Facebook: @SupervisorHollyJ.Mitchell

Freedom and Fugitivity
2021-06-11 10:00 - 11:30
Organized by Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism within the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
Date: Friday, June 11
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Webinar (Registration Required)
Situated at the present historical conjuncture of resurgent white nationalism and xenophobia, the closing event of the Sanctuary Spaces Sawyer Seminar, Freedom and Fugitivity thinks across Black feminism and Indigenous studies to foreground “beautiful experiments” of flight, refusal, and rebellion.

Featuring:
Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; 2019 MacArthur Fellow
In conversation with:
Aisha K. Finch, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies, UCLA
Tiffany Lethabo King, Associate Professor of African-American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University
Kyle Mays, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History, UCLA
Moderated by:
Sarah Haley, Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women Black Feminism Initiative
Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies, UCLA
Chaired by:
Ananya Roy, Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography, UCLA

Co-organized with Black Feminism Initiative at UCLA
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
Part of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism

Author Chat Series: Akwaeke Emezi x Zoé Samudzi
2021-06-23 18:00 - 19:00
Organized by the Salt Eaters Bookshop and the Black Feminism Initiative
Join us in celebrating the release of Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir with an intimate conversation between authors Akwaeke Emezi and Zoé Samudzi. Wednesday June 23rd at 6pm PST, 9pm EST. RSVP HERE.
DATE: Wednesday, June 23, 2021
TIME: 6 PM (PST) | 9 PM (EST)
LOCATION: Online (Register Online)
The Salt Eaters Bookshop is an emerging independent bookstore coming to ​Inglewood, CA early 2021.
The Salt Eaters aims to create a Black feminist literary hub and resting ground for dreamers, seekers of knowledge, creatives, writers, community archivists, artists, change agents, and those invested in a liberation practice that holds Black women, girls, femmes, and non-binary people at the center.

Assembling/Reassembling
2021-06-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Online/Zoom
Organized by Now Be Here Art
Why books NOW? Are books symbolic objects? Have books created political change? What is it that makes artists’ books a unique /compelling art form? Can artists’ books advance social justice for women? This panel discussion will tackle the history and current state of independent press and self-publishing by women artists making books as an art form.
DATE: Thursday, June 24, 2021
TIME: 1:00 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Online event (RSVP)
This panel discussion focuses on book aesthetics in the history and current state of independent press and self-publishing by women artists. Though increasingly active in California publishing over the last century, as in so many areas, women have not always been as visible as their contributions deserve. Showcasing a diverse range of women artists and curators, the panel address the ways in which women artists’ publications create a distinct discourse, whether that arises from editorial ethics or curatorial decisions, feminist methods, specific topics and themes, or anticipated audiences. Most importantly, the panel will call attention to vibrant works of art being made in the book format designed to bring transformative points of view into published form.
Speakers:
Tia Blassingame, Artist, Professor and Press Director Scripps College
Johanna Drucker, Moderator, Artist, Breslauer Professor, Information Studies, UCLA
Alexandra Grant, Artist, Publisher X Artists’ Books
Marcia Reed, Chief Curator, The Getty Research Institute
Susan Sironi, Artist

Information Session for Graduate Students
2021-09-16 14:00 - 15:00
As part of the New Grad Student & TA Resource Fair, we’re hosting an open information session specifically for UCLA graduate students! Stop by our Zoom room on Thursday, September 16th from 2 to 3pm, to find out about our research streams, upcoming events, and funding opportunities.
How to Register and Access Zoom Info
“Introduction to CSW” Packet for Graduate Students

Open House 2021
2021-09-22 12:00 - 15:00
Welcome back to campus, Bruins!

CSW is inviting new and returning UCLA students to our Open House to learn more about our research streams, upcoming events, and funding opportunities (for both graduate and undergraduate students of all genders). Stop by in-person in front of the Public Affairs building from 12-2 PM or join the Zoom room for a virtual meeting from 2-3 PM. You can stop by at any time during our Open House hours. FREE SWAG will be given out to all visitors!
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Time: 12:00-2:00 PM (in-person), 2:00-3:00 PM (virtual)
Location: Outside 1500 Public Affairs (in-person) | Zoom link (virtual)
“Introduction to CSW” packet: for Graduate Students | for Undergraduate Students

Playing with No Consequences: A Conversation with Michelle Krusiec
2021-11-12 15:00 - 17:00
Organized by the UCLA Department of Theater
DATE: Friday, November 12, 2021
TIME: 3:00PM – 5:00PM
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
FLYER
A conversation with Regents’ Lecturer, Michelle Krusiec and TFT Dean Brian Kite
Actress and filmmaker Michelle Krusiec has sustained a 25-year career working as a woman of color in an industry that has both tokenized her and given her visibility. In this frank, funny and transparent discussion, Dean Brian Kite speaks with Krusiec about the lessons of invisibility and how it forces us to delve deeper into our work as storytellers.
Streaming live from the UCLA Darren Star Screening Room before a small studio audience.
Michelle Krusiec is an actress and filmmaker. She is presently a director in the 2021 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Her work as an API artist has been recognized by The White House, the State of California and the Museum of Chinese in America. She recently penned an op-ed for The Washington Post about playing Anna May Wong in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood.

Virgin Capital, A Virtual Book Talk with Tami Navarro
2021-11-17 12:30 - 13:45
Organized by the Department of Anthropology
DATE: Wednesday, November 17, 2021
TIME: 12:30-1:45 PM
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
FLYER
Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands (SUNY Press, 2021) examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands, a tax holiday scheme. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008–2009 financial crisis, Virgin Capital provides ethnographic insight into the continuing relations of coloniality at work in the quintessentially “modern” industry of financial services and neoliberal “development” regimes, with their grounding in hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitical positioning.

50 Years of Chicana Feminism: Celebrating the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc
2021-11-18 18:00 - 20:00
Organized by the Chicano Studies Research Center
Join us to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1971 newspaper Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, a groundbreaking publication of Chicana feminist activism and philosophy. Hijas de Cuauhtémoc members were among the first to articulate Chicana feminism, creating a praxis that embraced economic justice, community empowerment and third world solidarity as well as named key issues of domestic violence, the sexual double standard, and employment for Chicanas.
DATE: Thursday, November 18, 2021
TIME: 6:00-8:00 PM
LOCATION: Online via Zoom (registration required)
Featuring the original members Anna Nieto Gomez and Corinne Sánchez
Scholars/Musicians: Dionne Espinoza (CSULA), María Cotera (UT Austin), Maylei Blackwell (UCLA), Grammy Award-winning Martha Gonzalez (Scripps College/Quetzal).

The Ungrateful Refugee: Dina Nayeri, in conversation with Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
2021-11-22 09:30 - 10:45
Organized by the International Institute and the Asian American Studies Department
DATE: Monday, November 22, 2021
TIME: 9:30-10:45 AM
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
FLYER
What is it like to be a refugee? What is the role of narrative in determining who is considered a refugee and who gets labeled an economic migrant? Why is it important to respect refugees’ dignity, and what are best practices for doing so? These are questions that Dina Nayeri explores in her award-winning book of creative nonfiction, The Ungrateful Refugee (2019). This book interweaves Nayeri’s experiences as a child refugee from Iran with her advocacy for contemporary refugees. During this event, Nayeri will engage in conversation with Dr. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi about her book and how it continues to resonate in the current moment of mass forced displacement from Afghanistan, Haiti, Syria, and Central America, to name just a few. This event kicks off the UCLA International Institute’s year-long series, “Global Racial Justice and the Everyday Politics of Crisis and Hope,” continuing conversations inspired by the Movement for Black Lives and the long history of interconnected struggles for racial justice in the context of global histories of colonialism, imperialism and internationalism.
Dina Nayeri is the author of two novels and a book of creative nonfiction, The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), winner of the Geschwister Scholl Preis and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Kirkus Prize, and Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices, and called by The Guardian “a work of astonishing, insistent importance.” Her essay of the same name was one of The Guardian’s most widely read long reads in 2017, and is taught in schools and anthologized around the world. A 2019-2020 Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, and winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize, Nayeri has won a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant, the O. Henry Prize, and Best American Short Stories, among other honors. Her work has been published in 20+ countries and in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Granta, and many other publications. Her short dramas have been produced by the English Touring Theatre and The Old Vic in London. She is a graduate of Princeton, Harvard, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. In autumn 2021, she will be a Fellow at the American Library in Paris. She is currently working on plays, screenplays, and her upcoming publications include The Waiting Place, a nonfiction children’s book about refugee camp, Who Gets Believed, a creative nonfiction book, and Sitting Bird, a novel.
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi is an assistant professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her book, Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine, is forthcoming with University of California Press in spring 2022.

Sewing Social Justice
2021-11-30 13:00 - 15:00
Sewing Intimacies

Organized by the American Indian Studies Center
DATE: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
TIME: 1 PM
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
This webinar showcases the work of the Sewing Intimacies Project – a project encompassing a group of Dakota and Lakota women who collectively embarked on a journey to create jingle dresses this past summer. In the wake of COVID-19 and the ongoing violence from the settler state, the jingle dress has continued to serve as a catalyst toward healing and resistance for Native communities across Indian country. Though the dress originates with the Ojibwe people, the power it garners to bring communities together to overcome trauma is palpable. In this webinar, members of the Sewing Intimacies group will come together to discuss their experiences making the dress and the elements of healing and community-building that are facilitated in the process of crafting. Using a native-feminist framework grounded in theories of Oceti Šakowin relationality, this project asks how crafting serves as a conduit to cultivating community-based resistance in spite of the violences enacted by settler colonialism. As a virtual participation-observation project this event will also discuss the methodological implications of the project as it takes place under the conditions of pandemic.
Participants:

Dr. Mishuana Goeman, Project Advisor
Jessica Fremland (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota), PhD Student – Gender Studies
Nancy Bordeaux (Sicangu Lakota), Sewing Intimacies Group Facilitator
Clementine Bordeaux (Oglala/Sicangu Lakota), PhD Candidate – Worlds Arts and Cultures

The Auntie Sewing Squad
Organized by the Asian American Studies Department
DATE: POSTPONED TO WINTER 2022 (DATE TBD)
TIME: 3:30 PM
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom
Join us for this event celebrating the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who have been providing free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Featuring:
Asian American Studies MA and Gender Studies PhD alum Preeti Sharma and co-editors Mai-Linh Hong and Chrissy Yau, discussing their recently released book The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask-Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (UC Press).
Screening of “Auntie Kristina,” a short film about the Auntie Sewing Squad and a discussion with the filmmaker, Asian American Studies MA alum Hannah Joo.

Revisiting the “3-ply yarn”: Where are the sex/gender/sexuality concepts now?
2021-12-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Semel B8-225
Organized by the UCLA Center for Social Medicine and Humanities
DATE: Friday, December 3, 2021
TIME: 1:00-2:00 PM
LOCATION: Semel B8-225 or Virtual/Zoom (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
EVENT FLYER
Scholars have distinguished among sex, gender, and sexuality for decades, but the distinctions have always been contested, and have become more rather than less so in recent years. This talk will explore the changing relationships among these concepts with a special view to how they are used and what they can accomplish, and obscure, in medical research and practice. A Q&A session is to follow. Free event. Registration required.
FEATURING
Sahar Sadjadi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Social Studies of Medicine Department, McGill University
Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, PhD, Ann Whitney Olin Professor Chair, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College

Taiwan for Her: Gender (In)Equality in Taiwan
2022-01-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Organized by the UCLA Asia Pacific Center
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM (PST)
Location: Online/Zoom (Registration Required)
What are the countries that come to mind when you think of gender equality? Most people would be very likely to mention Nordic countries. To many people’s surprise, Taiwan has progressed tremendously in narrowing the gender gap, especially when compared to other Asian countries. Current President Tsai Ing-wen was elected as the first female leader in Taiwan in 2016 and won reelection in 2020. The share of seats in parliament held by women is about 40% in Taiwan, which is roughly equal to Denmark and higher than the U.S. (27%). However, despite these advances in women’s political participation, it is unclear to what extent the increase in female representation has translated into improvements in women’s social and economic status in Taiwan. Therefore, we invite Director and Associate Professor Weiting Wu in Graduate Institute for Gender Studies at Shih Hsin University to discuss the following topics: what Taiwan has achieved in gender equality and marriage equality; what factors explain Taiwan’s progress; furthermore, what challenges and difficulties women in Taiwan still face from an intersectional perspective.
Weiting Wu is an associate professor and the director of the Graduate Institute for Gender Studies at Shih Hsin University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at City University of New York. Her research areas are social movement, gender politics, and state-society relations.
This event is part of the Asia Pacific Center’s Taiwan in the World lecture series.
The UCLA Taiwan in the World lecture series aims to promote and disseminate knowledge about Taiwan’s society, political system, social structure, and institutions in a global context, and shed light on Taiwan’s political economy, international relations, and US-Taiwan-China relations. This series is organized by Taiwan in the World postdoctoral fellow Shih-chan Dai and supported with funding by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles. This lecture is cosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, LGBTQ Campus Resource Center, and Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

'We are not part of your family': Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labor Rights and Recognition
2022-02-17 14:00 - 15:15
Organized by the International Development Studies (International Institute)
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Time: 2:00 – 3:15 PM (PST)
Location: Online/Zoom (registration required)
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This lecture will focus on how Latin American Domestic Workers, through their membership in the International Domestic Workers Federation, have led the global movement to advance domestic workers’ rights. In particular, it will share insights about how domestic workers have used grassroots organizing, strategic alliance building, and transnational solidarity to secure and enforce one of the most historic victories for domestic workers: C189, the Domestic Workers Convention of the International Labor Organisation.
Adriana Paz Ramirez is a labor rights organizer and popular educator based in Mexico and Canada. Originally from Bolivia, she is the regional coordinator for the Americas for the International Domestic Workers Federation. Prior to that, she was the senior organizer for the Workers’ Action Centre in Toronto and the gender, equity, and women’s empowerment officer at the Solidarity Center in Mexico. She was also the manager of the International Development certificate program for the University of British Columbia, and co-founder of Justicia for Migrant Workers in British Columbia, a national grassroots organization advocating for the labor and immigration rights of migrant farm workers. Currently, Adriana holds an Open Society Fellowship in which she will identify how the strengths of grassroots organizing can be leveraged to tackle the challenges of policy enforcement and implementation, based on the successes of the Latin American domestic workers movement.

Auntie Sewing Squad
2022-02-28 12:30 - 13:45
Organized by the Asian American Studies Department
This event was originally scheduled for Fall quarter, as part of “Sewing Social Justice.”
DATE: Monday, February 28, 2022
TIME: 12:30–1:45 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom
ZOOM ROOM
Join us for this event celebrating the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who have been providing free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Featuring:
Asian American Studies MA and Gender Studies PhD alum Preeti Sharma and co-editors Mai-Linh Hong and Chrissy Lau, discussing their recently released book The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask-Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (UC Press).
Screening of “Auntie Kristina,” a short film about the Auntie Sewing Squad and a discussion with the filmmaker, Asian American Studies MA alum Hannah Joo.

Describing LGBT and Gay Rights: A Longitudinal Analysis of Pro- And Anti-Gay Rights Groups’ Online Messages in Taiwan
2022-03-02 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Organized by the UCLA Asia Pacific Center
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM (PST)
Location: Online/Zoom
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Taiwan has become the first Asian country to legalize same-sex spousal rights with the passage of a special law in May 2019. The legalization of same-sex relationships in Taiwan is a highly-contested process, with pro-and anti-gay rights groups competing with one another to win legitimacy over how even the idea of gay rights should be interpreted. To better understand the different discursive tools deployed by pro- and anti-gay rights activists between November 2013 and March 2020, I adopt a thematic content analysis approach to generate a codebook and apply it to a corpus that includes Facebook public posts of the pro-gay rights group and anti-gay rights group with the largest number of followers, respectively. The findings suggest that the pro-gay rights group is more likely to mention frames of anti-discrimination, equality, liberty, and identity-building while their anti-gay rights counterpart relies heavily on frames of morality, public interests, democracy, and anti-elitism. Furthermore, the pro-and anti-gay rights activists have adopted specific localized framing elements to construct their policy messages, including “Taiwan-China comparison,” “indigenous people,” and “ancestor veneration.” By treating framing as a dynamic process that changes over time, it becomes possible to observe that activists’ framing patterns have changed in response to policy outcomes, elite behavior, and interaction with rival activists.
Shih-chan Dai studies the development of LGBTQ rights in East Asian countries as well as examines how digital technology has reshaped the way politics and activism work nowadays. His research is situated at the intersection of political communication, social movements, and LGBTQ politics. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During his postdoc at UCLA, Shih-chan Dai is revising his dissertation into different journal articles and working on research topics related to gay rights in East Asia.
This event is part of the Asia Pacific Center’s UCLA Taiwan in the World lecture series. The Taiwan in the World lecture series aims to promote and disseminate knowledge about Taiwan’s society, political system, social structure, and institutions in a global context, and shed light on Taiwan’s political economy, international relations, and US-Taiwan-China relations. This series is organized by Taiwan in the World postdoctoral fellow Shih-chan Dai and supported with funding by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles. This lecture is cosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, LGBTQ Campus Resource Center, and Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

Defending Self-Defense: A Call to Action by Survived & Punished
2022-03-03 15:00 - 16:30
This event has passed. Watch a recording on our YouTube channel.
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:30PM PST
Location: Online/Zoom (registration required)
EVENT FLYER
READ THE REPORT
Survivors of domestic and sexual violence who defend themselves are systemically targeted for punishment by the legal system. Join us for the launch of Defending Self-Defense, a community-based, survivor-centered research report that identifies key patterns in the criminalization of self-defense and recommendations to transform the conditions of criminalized survival.
In honor of Tewkunzi Green.
This report is produced by Survived & Punished, Project Nia, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Survived and Punished (S&P) is a national organization that advocates for the decriminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence through community organizing, policy advocacy, and engaged research. S&P provides publications and organizing tools that help highlight the intersections of prisons and gender violence, as well as mobilize grassroots support for criminalized survivors. S&P also includes the following three local/regional affiliates: Love & Protect in Chicago, S&P New York, and S&P California. CSW’s Thinking Gender 2020 conference featured an art exhibit showcasing S&P’s work and accomplishments, as well as a keynote address by Mariame Kaba, a co-founder of Survived & Punished. Kaba is also the founder and director of Project Nia, a grassroots organization that fights to end youth incarceration.
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. Up to 1 hour of general MCLE credit will be available (see Further Readings below). If you attended the event, please fill out this form to receive credit.

Event participants:
Survived & Punished

Mariame Kaba (respondent)

Defending Self-Defense Research Team

Alisa Bierria
Colby Lenz
Sydney Moon

Defending Self-Defense Survivor Advisory Council

Liyah Birru
Robbie Hall
Wendy Howard
Roshawn Knight
Ky Peterson
Anastazia Schmid

Further Readings:

Franks, Mary Anne. 2014. “Real Men Advance, Real Women Retreat: Stand Your Ground, Battered Women’s Syndrome, and Violence as Male Privilege.” University of Miami Law Review 68 (4): 1099–1128. https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol68/iss4/7/
Aiken, Jane H., Sarah M. Buel, Sonal Bhatia, Mark Cooke, Wilhemina Hardy, Tiffany Haigler, Tina Ikpa, and Selena Nelson. 2007. “Resolution 102A: Domestic Violence Victims and Incarceration, Report.” Criminal Justice Committee, American Bar Association. https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/directories/policy/2007_my_102a.authcheckdam.pdf

Cosponsored by:

Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law
Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA School of Law
Williams Institute
Department of Gender Studies

We Were There: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Second Wave
2022-03-08 15:00 - 16:00
Organized by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Book Talk With Dr. Patricia Romney in conversation with Dr. Maylei Blackwell
DATE: Tuesday, March 8, 2022
TIME: 3:00 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom (Registration Required)
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Dr. Romney’s new book documents how the Alliance shaped and defined second wave feminism. From 1970 to 1980, the Alliance lived the dream of third world feminism. The small bicoastal organization was one of the earliest groups advocating for what came to be known as intersectional activism, arguing that women of color faced a “triple jeopardy” of race, gender, and class oppression. Widely recognized as the era’s primary voice for women of color, this alliance across ethnic and racial identities was unique then and now.

The Stateless Diplomat: Diana Apcar's Heroic Life
2022-03-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Online/Zoom
Organized by the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA
DATE: Tuesday, March 8, 2022
TIME: 7:00–8:30 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom (registration required)
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In celebration of International Women’s Day, “The Stateless Diploment: Diana Apcar’s Heroic Life” is a celebration of the life and work of Diana Apcar, the first Armenian woman diplomat, who was appointed Honorary Consul to Japan of First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920).
The event consists of a special screening of “The Stateless Diplomat” followed by a conversation with director Mimi Malayan and historian Meline Mesropyan.
Author, businesswoman, activist, humanitarian and diplomat, Diana Apcar single-handedly rescued countless genocide survivors, enabling them to start new lives thousands of miles from their homeland.
The film, “The Stateless Diplomat,” tries to convey the pivotal moments in Diana’s life: her awakening to the Armenian cause, her spiritual vision prompting her into activism, her mental collapse and frustration as she foresaw the Genocide, and her endless humanitarian work, personally aiding thousands of Genocide survivors.
SPEAKERS:

Mimi Malayan, documentary filmmaker, director of “The Stateless Diplomat”
Meline Mesropyan, research fellow at Tohoku University’s Graduate School of International Culture in Sendai and lecturer at Hyogo University in Kobe, Japan

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: South Carolina Philosopher: Louisa Susannah McCord
2022-03-18 12:00 - 13:00
A Talk by Carol Bensick, PhD
DATE: Friday, March 18, 2022
TIME: 12:00 -1:00 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Zoom (RSVP to receive link)
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The South has been decidedly underrepresented in the growing canon of antebellum nineteenth century American women philosophers. Louisa McCord stands out as a promising candidate to correct this imbalance. In a period where the essay format was almost exclusively the province of men, McCord wrote and published numerous essays in respected Southern journals. These were identified, collected, and edited in the mid 1990s. Even so, the recovery of forgotten women philosophers was only getting underway at that time and many still went unnoticed. This talk will make a first step toward becoming acquainted with McCord and discovering the similarities and differences between her work and that of her already established contemporaries from the North.
Carol Bensick earned her PhD in American Literary and Intellectual History from 1620 to 1914 at Cornell University. As a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, she has given conference papers and published blog posts on unknown and barely known women philosophers such as Nancy Kingsbury Wollstonecraft of New Hampshire and Julia Ward Howe of Massachusetts, as well as on John Dewey’s and William James’s interactions with women philosophical students and friends. Her chapters on philosophers Sarah Dorsey of Mississippi and Amalie Hathaway of Michigan are forthcoming in Springer and Oxford collections respectively. Her latest nineteenth-century philosophical interest is political essayist Louisa McCord of South Carolina.

Asian & Gender Education Symposium (AGES)
2022-03-29 09:30 - 15:00
Organized by Asian Pacific Coalition
DATE: Tuesday, March 29, 2022
TIME: 9:30 AM-3:00 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Bruin Viewpoint Room in Ackerman Union
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AGES is a research symposium meant to engage its audience in research and academia and create discussion over how we can use research to mobilize and educate communities. Research is an important facet of creating change. The symposium aims to focus on research under an intersection of Asian and gendered lens and how we can rethink research as a facilitator for change rather than a subject gatekept to academia.
The Asian Pacific Coalition, or APC, is an umbrella organization that represents 20 Asian Pacific Islander and Desi American-related (APIDA) organizations on campus. As the Asian Pacific Coalition at UCLA, we are dedicated to dismantling systems of racial oppression and striving for collective liberation through coalition-building with other communities of color.
RESEARCHERS:
Nadeeka Karunaratne, UCLA PhD Candidate, Higher Education & Organizational ChangeElaine Tamargo, UCLA PhD Student, Higher Education & Organizational ChangeMegan Trinh, UCLA Masters Student

Thinking Gender 2022: "Transgender Studies at the Intersections"
2022-04-06 08:00 - 2022-04-08 17:00 | Online/Zoom
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Thinking Gender 2022
32nd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
“Transgender Studies at the Intersections”
April 6-8, 2022
Free, Public Keynote Address on Wednesday, April 6, 2022
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Thinking Gender 2022 will focus on work in transgender studies that engages substantively with race, Indigeneity, Blackness, settler colonialism, and/or empire.
Abstract submissions are now closed.
For Thinking Gender 2022, graduate student presentations will be held in private workshops on April 6-8. Only the April 6 keynote panel will be open to the public.

KEYNOTE PANEL
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 for a special Thinking Gender 2022 webinar featuring a keynote address by Jules Gill-Peterson and a conversation with Mel Y. Chen.
This webinar will be livestreamed, and a recording will be posted on our YouTube channel. Closed captioning is available.
DATE: Wednesday, April 6, 2022
TIME: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Zoom Webinar (registration required)
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Keynote Speaker
JULES GILL-PETERSON
“Street Queens and the Promise of Intersectional Trans Studies”
Trans studies recruits exemplary subjects to guarantee the promises of its political desires. This talk turns to the street queen, a fixture of mid twentieth century American queer and trans cities, to ask critical questions of the propensity to idealize subjects marginalized by race and gender. Who is the Black and brown street queen, what kind of life did she lead, and what does she know outside of the projection of contemporary desires for resilience and resistance onto her?
Jules Gill-Peterson is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (Minnesota, 2018), winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Children’s Literature Association book prize. Jules also serves as General Co-Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Discussant
MEL Y. CHEN
Mel Y. Chen is an associate professor of gender & women’s studies and Director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at UC Berkeley. Since Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012), their second book concerns intoxication’s involvement in archival histories of the interanimation of time, race, and disability. Chen coedits a Duke book series entitled “Anima” and is part of a queer/trans of color arts collective in the San Francisco Bay Area.

WORKSHOP
Tooth and Nail: A Trans Critique of the University
A workshop with Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson in conversation with members of Just Research? Trans Futures in Health and Scientific Knowledge. This virtual event is part of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s annual graduate student research conference Thinking Gender 2022: “Transgender Studies at the Intersections.”
DATE: Friday, April 8, 2022
TIME: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Zoom (registration required)
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Trans inclusion has been framed as the latest chapter of ongoing struggle to make the university a more representative and equitable institution. But the university is also where many of the most degrading and devastating negations and limitations on trans people’s lives have been invented, credentialed, and funded. How can trans studies—and trans people in academia—confront that painful reality and history in their effects on us? What does it look like to be trans and do trans work from a critical perspective on the university as an institution?
How can thinking through UCLA’s history, in particular, inform how we imagine a more ethical and justice-centered vision for the public university’s relationship to transgender people? Join this conversation with Thinking Gender 2022 keynote speaker, Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), the first book to shatter the widespread myth that transgender children are a brand-new generation in the twenty-first century. The conversation will include a roundtable discussion with members of a statewide community-university initiative, Just Research? Trans Futures in Health and Scientific Knowledge, including Dr. Christoph Hanssmann (San Francisco State University), and UCLA PhD students Sid Jordan and Vanessa Warri.
Recommended advance reading:
Adair, C., C. Awkward-Rich, and A. Marvin. “Before Trans Studies.” Transgender Studies Quarterly, 7, no.3 (2020), 306–320.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/7/3/306/166952/Before-Trans-Studies

Cosponsored By

African American Studies Department
American Indian Studies Center
American Indian Studies Program
Anthropology Department
Asian American Studies Department
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Center for Health Policy Research
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
Center X
Chicana/o and Central American Studies Department
Chicano Studies Research Center
Community Health Sciences Department
Comparative Literature Department
Disability Studies
English Department
Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
Graduate Division
History Department
Humanities Division
Information Studies Department
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
International Institute
LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
Promise Institute
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, David Geffen School of Medicine
Social Welfare Department
Sociology Department
Williams Institute at UCLA Law

Archive Preview Screening: Framing Agnes
2022-04-18 19:30 - 2022-04-19 22:00
Organized by the Film & Television Archive
Archive Preview Screening:
DATE: Monday, April 18, 2022
TIME: 7:30 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
In person: filmmaker Chase Joynt, actor Zackary Drucker, historian Jules Gill-Peterson, sociologist Kristen Schilt
A Conversation on Representation, Ethics and Research:
DATE: Tuesday, April 19, 2022
TIME: 7:00 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Charles Young Research Library Conference Room
In person: filmmaker Chase Joynt, historian Jules Gill-Peterson, sociologist Kristen Schilt, Vanessa Warri, UCLA Ph.D. student in Social Welfare.
Free admission, no registration required. Light refreshments will be served at 6 p.m.
Visitor parking is available at Parking Structure 3 for $3/hour (view on a map).
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Join Framing Agnes filmmaker director, writer and producer Chase Joynt, participants Jules Gill-Peterson and Kristen Schilt, and Vanessa Warri, UCLA PhD student in social welfare, for a conversation on transgender, two-spirit, gender-expansive, and intersex (TGI) representation, the history of TGI-related research at UCLA, and current organizing efforts for ethical, informed, community-driven, and justice-centered research about TGI people.
The film screens the night before at the Archive Preview screening–fresh off its award-winning turn at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it garnered the NEXT Audience Award and the NEXT Innovator Award.

2nd Annual UCLA Graduate Conference in Political Theory
2022-04-23 11:00 - 2022-04-25 15:30
Organized by the Political Science Department
DATE: Saturday, April 23, 2022-Monday, April 25, 2022
TIME: Varies
LOCATION: Online/Zoom
The conference features progressive scholarship designed to investigate the social justice potential of various critical concepts. There are a number of panels on feminist theory and its relation to questions of decolonial theory, environmental theory, racism in contemporary America, and emancipatory politics. By drawing connections between these topics, the conference hopes to contribute to ongoing conversations about the relationship between the politics of gender and other social movements.
Speakers:
Ana Isabel (Anaís) Martinez Jimenez, Princeton UniversityFrancesca Passaseo, The University of Texas at Austin
Elias Forneris, University of CambridgeJames Hua, University of OxfordTaariq Elmahadi, UCLA
Ibrahim Khan, University of ChicagoEden Luymes, The University of British ColumbiaEraldo Souza dos Santos, Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Wojciech Engelking, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and AdministrationRuoyu Li, Johns Hopkins UniversityShirley Le Penne, Cornell University
Naomi Abayasekara, University of CambridgeCaolaín Cleary, The University of CambridgeKimiyo Bremer, Cornell University
Alex Drusda, University of TorontoJessica Croteau, Johns HopkinsMatt Harvey, University of Colorado at Boulder
Reese Haller, University of OregonLacey Slizeski, University of MichiganMatt Schneider, UCLA
Marie Lecuyer, Concordia UniversityStephanie Zgouridi, Princeton UniversityTroy Fielder, University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Camacho, The University of ChicagoJoyce Lu, Rutgers UniversityKaiqing Su, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

California Digital Humanities Research Institute: The Black Press
2022-04-27 10:00 - 2022-04-29 16:00 | UC Irvine/Virtual
Organized by the UCLA Library
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022-Friday, April 29,2022
Time: 10:00 AM (all days)
Location: Online/Zoom
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CaliDHRI is a free, annual digital ethnic studies institute inspired and co-sponsored by CUNY DHRI as well as UC Irvine Libraries and UCLA Library. The inaugural CaliDHRI will center Black digital humanities thematically while focusing on California-centric research questions and datasets.
The 2022 theme, “The Black Press”, will be explored by three keynote speakers (who will highlight their own Black digital humanities research and projects) as well as multiple small teams of participants who have applied with a research question, collection, or project in mind.
All CaliDHRI keynotes are free and open to the public. Those who register will receive a recording after the event.
Speakers:
April 27th Keynote
“Finding Elizabeth Mitchell: Tracing the History of Early Black Atlantic Filmmaking”
Ellen Scott, Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Theater, Film, and Television, UCLA
April 28th Keynote
“Digitizing Memory: The Black Panther Oakland Community School Yearbook Project”
Angela LeBlanc-Ernest, Independent Scholar
April 29th Keynote
“Pleasure and Politics: The Evolving Role and Meaning of the Black Press in the Technological Age,”
Kim Gallon, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University

Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music
2022-04-29 09:00 - 2022-04-30 17:00
Organized by the UCLA Practice-Based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab
DATE: Friday, April 29-Saturday, April 30
TIME: Begins 9:00 AM (Friday, April 29)
LOCATION: Zoom (registration required)
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If music and sound are “thick events” that exceed our ability to grasp them fully (see Eidsheim 2015), what resources do we have to make (at least) partial sense of them? In a two-day symposium, we aim to spark a conversation exploring how metaphorical language works as one of these resources, examining how it shapes the ways in which we perceive and understand not only music, but one another and the world.
This symposium seeks to promote a conversation that maps the networks of metaphors that structure musical discourse while tracing their repercussions – musicological, social, and political. There are eight confirmed keynote speakers and over twenty presenters on themes having to do with metaphor and race, ethnicity, nation, gender, sexuality, body, and disability. The ultimate aim of this symposium is to shift the power balance in terms of who gets to name, whose experiences and practices are recognized, which relationships we have the capacity to note, and what kinds of worlds we can create.
Keynote Speakers:
Jessica Bissett Perea, Dena’ina (Native American Studies, UC Davis)Philip Ewell (Music Theory, Hunter College, CUNY)J. Martin Daughtry (Music, NYU)Nicholas Harkness (Anthropology, Harvard University)Dorinne Kondo (American Studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology, USC)Dylan Robinson, xwélméxw/Stó:lō/Skwah (Cultural Studies Graduate Program, Queen’s University)Holly Watkins (Musicology, Eastman School of Music)Shana Redmond (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)

9th Annual UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium: The Science of Gender
2022-05-13 08:00 - 18:00
Organized by the David Geffen School of Medicine
DATE: Friday, May 13, 2022
TIME: 8:00 AM-9:00 AM | Pediatric Grand Rounds
12:00 PM-4:00 PM | Keynote Speakers
4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Fellows & Residents Presentations and Poster Session
LOCATION: Tamkin Auditorium, Ronald Reagan Medical Center and Zoom (online)
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The 9th Annual UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium will be held on May 13, 2022 to generate cross-campus collaborations to advance translational child health research. The UCLA CDI Institute is the research home of the Pediatrics Department and was established in 2013. The CDI Institute encourages multidisciplinary child health research and training at UCLA across the spectrum of basic, translational, clinical and health services research. The topic “The Science of Gender” will be highlighted by speakers from across campus and across the globe. The Symposium will bring thoughtful presentations and discussion about gender to clinicians and scientists involved in child health. In collaboration with CSW and DGSOM Health Equity Research Theme, a diverse planning committee that selected a slate of excellent speakers has been put together.
OPENING REMARKS BY
Steven Dubinett, MD, (he/him) Interim Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UCLA
Sherin Devaskar, MD, (she/her) Executive Chair, Department of Pediatrics, and Executive Director, CDI

Representing Disability After CODA
2022-05-13 11:00 - 12:30
Organized by the Department of Theater
DATE: Friday, May 13, 2022
TIME: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Darren Star Screening Room (Melnitz 1422)
As part of an increased recognition of the importance of thinking intersectionally and with respect to the feminist and gendered aspects of current disability and representation theories, the UCLA Theater Department is pleased to host Dr. Victoria Lewis, a long time television and theater actor with a physical disability, UCLA PhD graduate, and professor emerita of Redlands University, as one member of a panel on Representation of Disability. Dr. Lewis was founder of the Center Theatre Group “Other Voices” project which worked not only with actors and writers with disabilities, but other marginalized groups like Latina and African American teen mothers and blue-collar workers.

2022 Awards Celebration
2022-05-18 12:00 - 14:00
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Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) for a special virtual event on Wednesday, May 18th to honor the center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree.

FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Trans Latina Resilience: Past, Present, and Future
by
Bamby Salcedo
President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition
This year, CSW has selected Bamby Salcedo as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2022 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the US. Bamby developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multipurpose, multiservice space for transgender people in Los Angeles.
Her talk will highlight historical and intergenerational institutional violence against Trans, Gender Nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) people. She will also address the current state of TGI people and how she envisions a better world for the TGI community.
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EVENT DETAILS & REGISTRATION
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (PDT)
Location: Zoom Webinar
Registrants will receive a Zoom link a few days prior to the event.
For questions, please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Bamby Salcedo is a national and international transgender Latina Woman who received her master’s degree in Latin@ Studies from California State California Los Angeles. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the US. Bamby developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multipurpose, multiservice space for transgender people in Los Angeles.
Bamby’s remarkable and wide-ranging activist work has brought voice and visibility to not only the trans community, but also to the multiple overlapping communities and issues that her life has touched including migration, HIV, youth, LGBT, incarceration and Latin@ communities. Through her instinctive leadership, she has birthed several organizations that created community where there was none, and advocate for the rights, dignity, and humanity for those who have been without a voice. Bamby’s work as a collaborator and a connector through a variety of organizations reflects her skills in crossing various borders and boundaries and working in the intersection of multiple communities as well as the intersections of multiple issues. Bamby has served and participated in many local, national and international organizations and planning groups. This work mediates intersections of race, gender, sexuality, age, social class, HIV+ status, immigration status and more.
Her activist public speaking has ranged from testifying to governmental bodies, human rights and social justice organizations, universities and colleges, demonstrations and rallies, and national and international conferences as featured speaker. Bamby speaks to diverse audiences on many topics and intersecting issues. Bamby has spoken about transgender-related issues, social justice, healthcare, social services, incarceration, immigration and detention as well as professional and economic development for transgender people. Bamby has been invited to participate in several panels at the White House including in 2016 The United State of Woman where she share stage with Vice President Biden at the opening plenary session and in 2015, Transgender Women of Color and Violence and LGBTQ People of Color Summit. Bamby has also participated as the Opening Plenary Speaker at several conferences, including The 2015 National HIV Prevention Conference, The United States Conference on AIDS in 2009 and 2012. She has participated as facilitator with The PanAmerican Health Organization while developing the Blue Print on how to provide competent health care services for transgender people as well as health care for LGBT people and Human Rights in Latin America and The Caribbean.
Her powerful, sobering and inspiring speeches and her warm, down-to-earth presence have provided emotional grounding and perspective for diverse gatherings. She speaks from the heart, as one who has been able to transcend many of her own issues, to truly drop ways of being and coping that no longer served her, issues that have derailed and paralyzed countless lives. Her words and experience evoke both tears and laughter, sobriety and inspiration through the documentary made about her life called TransVisible: Bamby Salcedo’s Story. Bamby has been featured and recognized in multiple media outlets such as People en Español, Latina Magazine, Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, OUT 100 and featured in the HBO documentary The Trans List, among many others. Bamby has also being recognized for her outstanding work by multiple national and local organizations.

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag with Lara K. Schubert, PhD
2022-05-20 12:00 - 13:00
“Glimpsing Structural Engineering Culture: Structural Engineering Equity Efforts from Within”

A Talk by Lara K. Schubert, PhD
DATE: Friday, May 20, 2022
TIME: 12:00 -1:00 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Zoom (RSVP to receive link)
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Structural engineers typically consider the profession to be a meritocracy, in which engineers are successful if they have technical skill required for engineering. While this is important, the culture of the profession also affects who is promoted and who stays to reach levels of leadership within their firms. The problem of retention has been identified within the profession, and in 2015 the professional organization created a committee to study and to address the issue. This presentation will give an account of the project, SE3: Structural Engineering, Equity and Engagement, following the trajectory of the efforts from within the profession and reflecting on the strategies used, how they have evolved, and how they are informed by the culture of engineering.
Lara K. Schubert is a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, a PhD in Religion, who has both practiced structural engineering and undertaken ethnographic research with women in religious communities in Cambodia. Her current research merges these areas of expertise. She teaches in feminist science studies and intends to complete a qualitative study of structural engineering to help make clear the culture to ultimately strengthen structural engineering.
