The chemical revolution that began during World War II transformed our world. While our lives are undoubtedly improved in many ways, we now know that a subset of chemicals, called environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), have detrimental effects on the health of humans and wildlife. EDCs include some pesticides, industrial chemicals, and components of plastics and […]
In this talk, Ruha Benjamin discusses advances in genomic science and explores questions of racial difference, scientific objectivity, medical trustworthiness, and social justice. Drawing upon developments in Mexico, South Africa, India, and the United States, she illustrates how political and scientific claims are connected in the day to day struggle of groups demanding rights and […]
Aurora Levins Morales describes herself as "a writer, an artist, a historian, a teacher and a mentor. I'm also an activist, a healer, a revolutionary. I tell stories with medicinal powers. Herbalists who collect wild plants to make medicine call it wildcrafting. I wildcraft the details of the world, of history, of people's lives, […]
M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet and writer and lawyer who was born in Tobago and lives in Toronto. She has published novels, essays, and poetry, and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry and a Rebels for a Cause award from the Elizabeth Fry Society of Toronto. Zong! is NourbeSe Philip’s most […]
Part of Dishing: Food, Feminism, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube! A talk by Sarah Tracy, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics RSVP online! In this talk, Sarah Tracy will discuss the material and immaterial dimensions of […]
Bring your lunch and join CSW's Research Affiliates for a brown bag research presentation! Women's Power, Sexuality, and Aging: A Multicultural View by Gisèle Maynard-Tucker In her research on rural Peru and urban Los Angeles, Gisèle Maynard-Tucker assesses the impact of the environment, culture, economics, and gender inequalities on the treatment of women as […]
Hate won. Now what? Come to the first-ever Teaching Rave organized by a group of UCLA faculty, who are committed to fighting the hate and violence of a Trump regime through a collaborative counter-movement between students, faculty, and staff on campus. FEATURING A KEYNOTE PRESENTATION BY CHERRIE MORAGA! Program: Panel presentation: Professor Sarah Haley […]
Professor Aisha Finch, discuss her new prize-winning book, RETHINKING SLAVE REBELLION IN CUBA, with Lisa Brock, George Lipsitz and Ula Taylor—three incredibly dynamic speakers and brilliant historians who have spent much of their lives unearthing and making sense of social movements. In Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844, Aisha […]
Featured speakers: Katherine Irwin, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Wayde Lee, Director, Kahua Ola Hou Karen Umemoto, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawai'i at Manoa with an introduction by Randall Akee (Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies, UCLA) and a response by Jessica […]
Thinking Gender, Imagining Reparations 27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference February 9-10, 2017 UCLA Faculty Center FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! REGISTRATION INFORMATION Featuring: “For the Texas Bama Femme: A Black Fem(me)inist Reading of Beyonce’s ‘Sorry’" 12:00 PM, February 9 California Room Plenary address by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley Professor of African and […]
Part of CSW's Feminism + the Senses Lecture Series RSVP ONLINE: HTTP://WWW.CSW.UCLA.EDU/VOSTRAL During the 1980s in the aftermath of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS), the Centers for Disease Control recommended that women use the least absorbent tampons possible, yet manufacturers did not label boxes with reliable information. This talk examines the establishment of the Tampon Task […]
25 selected contestants will each have up to 5 minutes to perform original poetry or spoken word, tell a personal story, do a comedy routine, or sing an original song that relates to the theme of “women of the world — learning, laughing, resisting, renewing.” Competition open to all UCLA Students, Staff, and Faculty. This […]
