On March 2, 2016, award-winning Lenca environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in her home in Honduras. She had received multiple threats from military and paramilitary groups […]
A Book Talk by Sarah Haley with responses by Mariame Kaba and Dayo Gore Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley’s No Mercy […]
Birth Matters: Research Justice and Black Life African American women are 3 to 4 times as likely as white women to die of childbirth related causes, our infants are twice […]
Advocacy Through Education Women's Reproductive Health and the Environment: Best Practices for Los Angeles County A free symposium that will bring together health professionals, community activists, researchers, academicians, civic and […]
Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subject. Her research interests are in black visual culture, black diaspora studies, […]
Scope Lab is a workshop series focused on exploring code as a creative medium with which to understand and represent diverse perspectives. These studies are framed by the questions: “Whose […]
Keynote Addresses: ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON, Professor of English & Bioethics at Emory University DJ KURS, Artistic Director for Deaf West Theatre KAREN NAKAMURA, Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability […]
Keynote Speaker: Robin D.G. Kelley, Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, Department of History, UCLA
This talk focuses on the ways that feminist scholars have negotiated the complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain of friendship. It offers fresh perspectives on feminists' invested, reluctant, and selective uses […]
A two day symposium featuring screenings of short films and roundtable discussion. Featured filmmakers: Thi Nguyen Trinh (Hanoi Doclab, Vietnam), Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand), Nia Dinata (Kalyana Shira Films, Indonesia), Shireen […]
"Bloodless" is a ten-minute VR film that deals with camp town comfort women for US army stationed in South Korea since the 1950s. The film traces the last living moments […]
Mai Der Vang is the author of Afterland (Graywolf, 2017) which received the Walt Whitman Award winner from the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming […]
