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, and feminist epistemologies, with a particular emphasis on black female subjectivity and black women artists. This talk will draw from In the Wake: On Blackness […]
A film screening and conversation. Lata Mani is a feminist historian, cultural critic, contemplative writer and filmmaker. She has published on a broad range of issues, from feminism and colonialism, to illness, spiritual philosophy and contemporary politics. She is most recently the author of The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present (2013). […]
Discourses of fear dominate our contemporary moment. In this so-called “Age of Terrorism,” fear knows no borders, spreads quickly, and provokes the fearful to react in unpredictable ways. Politicians lash out and make shows of strength; citizens march en masse while immigrant families take flight; journalists proclaim “même pas peur!” while young people turn to […]
A two-day symposium on Thursday, October 20 and Friday, October 21 presented by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. Featuring some of the most important established and rising stars working in the field of Black feminism, this symposium is centrally organized around questions of feminism and race. Please register HERE for each day […]
Part of Dishing: A Lecture Series on Food, Feminism, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube! A talk by Rachel Vaughn, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies Join us after the talk for the Fighting Hunger Fair -- your […]
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 […]
