This talk is an engagement with the conditions of precarity that characterize the current moment. Linking my ethnographic research on offshore banking in the US-owned Virgin Islands to scholarship detailing […]
The history of modern Black Feminism is unimaginable without the courage, words, and insights of Michele Wallace. From her 1978 memoir/manifesto, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, through […]
Ann Cvetkovich Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Ordinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June […]
This film screening and panel discussion will feature: Robin Hauser Reynolds, Producer; Jane Margolis, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies This event will explore the systemic factors and barriers that prevent […]
A colloquium on how the phrase “coming out” has expanded, migrated, and been re-purposed by various marginalized groups, such as transgender individuals, undocumented immigrants, or the plural marriage rights movement. SPEAKERS: […]
In 2011, 36 year old Cindy Gladue, a Cree woman, bled to death in a hotel bathtub in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada after having sex with Brad Barton, a trucker and […]
This colloquium will feature Erin Marie Pinon (Southern Methodist University) Gohar Grigoryan (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Ari Sekeryan (University of Oxford, UK) Piruza Hayrapetyan (Central European University, Hungary) David Leupold […]
Chela Sandoval’s meditation is on Third World liberation, “US Third World Feminism,” Chicana Lesbian and Indigenous feminisms, the decolonization of “identity,” and the methodology of the oppressed. “There were the […]
Please join us in remembering the life and work of Professor Helen "Lena" Astin, cofounder of CSW and longtime advocate for women. A reception with light refreshments will be held immediately following […]
Grace Hong will be talking about her new book, Death Beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference, which utilizes “difference” as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural […]
Advancing Women in Science and Engineering presents Emilie Aries, the Founder and CEO of Bossed Up and award-winning women’s development coach, for a two-part interactive workshop on Monday, March 7th from 1 to 5:30pm at the […]
This talk examines the problem of iconic blues women who’ve been “lost” to history, Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, as well as the critics who’ve loved and chased after them. […]
