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 her brilliant cultural criticism of the last quarter century, she has always written with extraordinary honesty, intelligence and beauty. This event is a great chance […]
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 L. Mazer Lesbian Archives at UCLA Wednesday, February 3rd Cypress Room, Faculty Center 4 to 5:30pm Reception to Follow What happens when a grassroots lesbian feminist […]
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 women and minorities from advancing in technology. This would facilitate a productive, scholarly partnership between the acclaimed producers of this award-winning film, garnering allies with […]
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: Abigail Saguy, UCLA, and Kristen Schilt, U of Chicago, Laura Enriquez, UC Irvine, and Nicole Iturriaga, UCLA. RESPONDENT: James Schultz, UCLA DATE: February 8, 2016 […]
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 a white man who had purchased her sexual services. Barton was charged with murder and the Crown argued that the 11 centimetre wound visible in […]
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 (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) Elli Ponomareva(European University at St. Petersburg, Russia) Gary D. Glass Jr. (University of Missouri) Lusine Sargsyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia) Anna […]
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 sixties movements, fueled by earlier anticolonial movements all over the world, climaxing in Vietnam, Algeria and elsewhere, all such humanly emancipatory struggles, all then so […]
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 the program. Organized by: UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies Cosponsored by: In recognition of Lena’s philanthropy towards students in the College of […]
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 production as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism. Death beyond Disavowal finds the memories of death and precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt to […]
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 CNSI Auditorium. "Own Your Voice" helps participants cultivate a leadership identity, navigate fear and uncertainty, and practice strategies for assertive communication and negotiation. These two sessions […]
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. By placing the politics of queer archival studies and black performance theory in conversation with canonical blues historiographies, the talk will explore the aesthetics and […]
Asian American Feminisms and the Re-writing of the Legal Voice: Immigration Law, Criminal Enforcement, and “Cooperation” A talk by the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley This talk will discuss the U Visa, a new form of legal protection designed to rescue undocumented immigrants from gender and sexual violence – but only if they willingly agree […]
