CSW|Streisand Center Research Affiliates Brown Bag with Kathleen Sheldon, PhD
2022-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online/Zoom
“‘We are born equal’: Graça Machel and her International
Contributions”

A Talk by Kathleen Sheldon, PhD
DATE: Friday, November 4, 2022
TIME: 12:00 -1:00 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Zoom (RSVP to receive link)
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Graça Machel is known as having been first lady of two countries, Mozambique and South Africa. In this talk, the focus will be on her work with the United Nations and with a variety of nongovernmental organizations, much of which she accomplished between her two marriages, or after she was widowed for a second time. In the 1990s she wrote an influential report on the impact of conflict on children. Later she served in leadership positions in numerous organizations focused on women’s rights, education, democracy, and related issues. Most recently she has been active in working to end domestic violence. Her international political activity has been most evident in the years when she was not serving as a first lady. Kathleen Sheldon is a Research Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center. Her research and publications focus on African women’s history, and particularly on Mozambique. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Her books include Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique, and African Women: Early History to the 21st Century.

Criminalizing Reproduction Before and After Dobbs
2022-11-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Royce 314
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center Presents
Date: Monday, November 7, 2022
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM (Panel and Reception)
Location: Royce 314 (Panel) and Royce 3rd Floor North Patio (Reception)
This event is at capacity. Registration has therefore closed early.
EVENT FLYER
Join us for a panel discussion to learn about the criminalization of reproductive freedoms before and after Dobbs and strategies for advocacy in the current climate. We strongly encourage masking at all CSW|Streisand Center events

Cosponsored by:

Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law
Center for Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA School of Law

Elemental Cartographies in an Era of Climate Change
2022-11-08 15:30 - 18:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
Organized by the Department of English and the Department of Gender Studies
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Time: 3:30-6:00 PM
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room 11348
As we bear witness to the wastelanding of the earth by late liberal capital, Kānaka Maoli are recovering ancestral knowledges encoded in oli (chants) and moʻolelo (storied history) to activate the elements and transform the effects of global climate change into possibilities for renewed abundance.
In this talk, Candace Fujikane begins with arguments from her recent book, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi, contending that global climate change events are not apocalyptic but rather are bringing about the demise of capitalist economies of scarcity, making way for Indigenous economies of abundance. She will present a preview of her new book, Elemental Cartographies for a Changing Earth. Kanaka Maoli identify 400,000 akua or elemental forms and energies, including the 300 winds of the island of Kanaloa Kahoʻolawe. From 1941 to 1990, the US Navy used the island as a bombing target, with the devastating effect of cracking the water table. In the exhausted cartographies of militarized capital, only 9% of subsurface lands has been cleared of unexploded ordnance. The PKO practitioners, however, have long stood to protect the island, transforming the symbol of the target into a much more generative image of the piko, the umbilicus that enables the people to be pili (connected) to the akua, the kūpuna (ancestors), and to the pulapula (the seedling descendants to come). Ancestral archives of elemental cartographies map the winds of Kanaloa Kahoʻolawe, enabling the greening of the island to attract and birth clouds and to manifest decolonial and abolitionist futures.
Elemental Cartographies in an Era of Climate Change looks at the relationships between the elements (lands, seas, skies, clouds, ocean currents, wind currents) and between humans and elements as they take place in land struggles and restoration projects on Maui (making kapa for ancestral remains they are finding at a development project), Kahoʻolawe (greening of the island to create microclimates in the 30 years since bombing of the island by the military was halted), Kahuku on Oʻahu (fight against wind turbines sited too closely to Pacific Islander homes). Fujikana uses a feminist, indigenous studies, and critical settler-colonial lens to connect the survival of Pacific Islanders and their concepts of land and water to the realms of reproduction and social reproduction–hallmark concerns of feminist research.
Candace Fujikane is professor of English at the University of Hawai’i. She co-edited with Jonathan Okamura Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai’i (2008). She has recently published Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi (2021). She is a Japanese settler ally who stands for lands and waters in Hawaiʻi and for Hawaiian political independence.

Death and Dying in Diaspora
2022-11-08 16:00 - 18:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Organized by the Department of Asian American Studies
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Time: 4:00-6:30 PM
Location: 10383 Bunche Hall
REGISTRATION REQUIRED

In his new book Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor, Allan Isaac examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other life-worlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human relations. Affective labor and time are re-articulated in a capacious archive of storytelling about the Filipino labor diaspora in fiction, musical performance, ethnography, and documentary film. Exploring these cultural practices, Filipino Time traces other ways of sensing, making sense of, and feeling time with others, by weaving narratives of place and belonging out of the hostile but habitable textures of labor-time.
Signaling his current research project in this talk, Isaac explores live-streamed funeral vigils, a technological practice made necessary by Filipino diasporic life, to highlight two Tagalog concept-words that map other ways to generate ecologies of communality: pakiramdam (literally, to make oneself felt, or to feel a presence), affective engagement without immediate proximity; andkapiling, to be in someone’s proximity or vicinity without interaction between two parties. Migrant subjects harness time and the imagination in their creative, life-making capacities to make communal worlds out of one steeped in the temporalities and logics of capital.
Allan Punzalan Isaac is Professor of American Studies and English and Associate Humanities Dean at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ. He specializes in Asian American and comparative race studies and examines issues around migration, postcoloniality, gender and sexuality, and the Philippines and its diaspora. His first book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America was the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award. His second book is entitled, Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor. He taught at DeLaSalle University-Taft in Manila, Philippines as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. His current research focuses on death and dying in the Filipino diaspora.

We're Alive: Film Screening and Conversation
2023-01-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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Admission is free.
Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served basis at the box office, where seating will be assigned.
In-person: Filmmakers Michie Gleason, Christine Lesiak, Kathy Levitt; May Hong HaDuong, director, UCLA Film & Television Archive; Grace Hong, CSW | Streisand Center Director; Colby Lenz, CSW | Streisand Center Deputy Director of Policy and Community Research; members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), Romarilyn Ralston and Susan Bustamante.
Restoration World Premiere of We’re Alive (1974).
Michie Gleason, Christine Lesiak and Kathy Levitt, graduate students at UCLA in 1974, made the documentary We’re Alive as part of a class assignment focused on community engagement. Driven by their activism and an interest in the experiences of incarcerated women, the filmmakers designed and led a Portapack video workshop at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino, at the time the largest women’s prison in the United States.
Gleason, Lesiak and Levitt wanted their mark as filmmakers to be unnoticeable: collaborating with incarcerated people, whose participation was voluntary, in order to give the community an opportunity to speak for themselves about the individual and collective experiences. The participants, taught how to use the equipment, videotaped portions of the roundtable interviews and group talk. The film balances anonymity with intimacy as the participants, who speak in detail and are never identified by name, report candidly on the complexities of life inside the carceral institution while describing the set of challenges and fears they will face when released. Capturing the consciousness-raising style of dialogue that defined feminist discourse in the 1970s, the women share an acute perspective on prison abolition informed by experiences of gendered and racialized discrimination and economic disenfranchisement, the effects of drug addiction, and the parole board’s abuse of power. Several participants recognize the camaraderie—political, platonic and romantic—that they have experienced in prison.
The Archive learned about the documentary around 2016 when requests for the film—whose sparse credits mention UCLA but none of the individuals involved—started filtering into the Archive Research and Study Center. The British Film Institute generously shared its 16mm prints of the film that the Archive scanned for research access. Media scholars Beth Capper and Rox Samer have given context to the documentary, but its complete production history remained largely unknown until Levitt, while attending the 2022 UCLA Festival of Preservation, introduced herself to Archive staff and mentioned the film she co-produced as a UCLA student. At last, this powerful, and once orphaned, film has returned to UCLA and with it the strong, clear voices of incarcerated women telling their stories of being alive.
Following the film, the filmmakers of We’re Alive will join moderator Colby Lenz, CSW | Streisand Center Deputy Director of Policy and Community Research, and members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), Romarilyn Ralston and Susan Bustamante, who experienced incarceration at CIW.
DCP, b&w/color, 49 min. Directors: Michie Gleason, Christine Lesiak, Kathy Levitt and the women prisoners of the California Institution for Women. Credited as “The Video Workshop of the California Institution for Women and the Women’s Film Workshop of the University of California, Los Angeles.”
Digitally restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Funding provided by the Columbia Motion Picture Research Fund. Laboratory services provided by illuminate Studios and Endpoint Audio Labs. Special thanks to Michie Gleason, Kathy Levitt, Chris Mohana, and the British Film Institute.

Special thanks to our community partners: California Coalition for Women Prisoners, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Liquor Store Dreams: Screening and Q&A with Director, So Yun Um
2023-02-23 16:30 - 18:30
Screening and Q&A with Director, So Yun Um
Moderated by Professor Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
February 23, 2023 @ 4:30PM
Darren Star Screening Room
Liquor Store Dreams is an intimate portrait of two Korean-American children of liquor store owners who set out to bridge generational divides with their immigrant parents in Los Angeles.
Hosted by the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television.

Thinking Gender 2023: "Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility"
2023-02-24 07:30 - 19:30 | Grand Horizon Ballroom, Covel Commons, UCLA
Thinking Gender 2023
33rd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
“Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility”

Thursday, February 23, 2023 (Virtual) Friday, February 24, 2023 (In Person)Register for the In-Person Conference on Friday, February 24, 2023
General registration closes Tuesday, February 21. Abstract submissions are now closed.

Thinking Gender 2023 will center inquiries, reflections, and imaginations of feminist, decolonial research methods and practice across fields and disciplines. Closed graduate student workshops for works-in-progress will be held on Zoom on Thursday February 23, 2023, for admitted students only. Our in-person program on Friday, February 24, 2023, will be open to the public. Guests who have not pre-registered may be admitted if space permits.

PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In lieu of a keynote address, Thinking Gender 2023 will feature interactive presentations and workshops throughout the day.

T.L. COWAN & JAS RAULT

Public Presentation:“Heavy Processing for Networked Intimate Publics (NIPs): Trans- Feminist & Queer Digital Methods in and Beyond the University”
Graduate Student Workshop (sign up on site at Cowan & Rault’s public presentation):“From Networked Intimate Publics (NIPs) to Networked Accountable Publics (NAPs): Making Time for Collaboration, Friendship & Comradeship in Research”

CELINE PARREÑAS SHIMIZU

Public Presentation:“Creativity in the Face of Devastation: Methodologies of Research and Practice Across Inequality”
Film Screening:The Celine Archive (2020) — Courtesy of Women Make Movies

For a more detailed program for the in-person conference, visit the event page.
TG23 will also feature themed panels of graduate student presenters moderated by expert faculty, undergraduate student poster presentations, a media exhibit, and a concluding reception. Refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
Conference Program

Registration (7:30 – 8:30am)
Media Exhibit (throughout the day)
Public Presentation by T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault (8:30 -10am)
Undergraduate Poster Presentations (10 -10:30am)
Graduate Student Presentations I (10:30am -12pm)
Lunch Break (12 – 1:15pm)
Graduate Student Presentations II (1:15 – 2:45pm)
Public Presentation by Celine Parreñas Shimizu (3 – 4:15pm)
Graduate Student Workshop with T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault (4:30 – 6:15pm)
Screening of The Celine Archive and Q&A with Celine Parreñas Shimizu (4:30 – 6:15pm)
Reception (6:30 – 7:30pm)

Cosponsored By

American Indian Studies Center
Anthropology Department
Asian American Studies Center
Asian American Studies Department
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health
Center for Community Engagement
Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy
Center X
Chicana/o and Central American Studies Department
Chicano Studies Research Center
Comparative Literature Department
Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA Law
Disability Studies
English Department
Graduate Division
Humanities Division
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Institute on Inequality and Democracy
International Institute
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, David Geffen School of Medicine
LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
Luskin School of Public Affairs
Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies
Promise Institute
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
School of the Arts and Architecture
School of Theater, Film and Television
Social Welfare Department
Sociology Department
Williams Institute at UCLA Law

“Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight For Justice in LA”
2023-03-01 15:30 - 17:00
March 1st, 2023 @ 3:30-5 PM (reception 5-6PM)
Bunche Hall/ Zoom

Want to learn more about race and environmental justice in LA? Come to this event with Professor Kim from Loyola Marymount University to talk about the book “Refusing Death”!

Dive deep into discussions of race, class, gender, and more.
Register here.

Keynote by Marion Buller
2023-03-08 16:45 - 18:15 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Laureate Room, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Keynote by Marion Buller
Wed, March 8, 2023, 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM

Marion Buller is a judge and human rights advocate who helped form the First Nations Courts in British Columbia and is the first woman Indigenous judge in Canada. She was the Chief Commissioner for the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. She is currently Chancellor of the University of Victoria, BC.

Judge Buller will speak on the future of justice and reparations for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls following the National Inquiry. Julissa Mantilla, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Commissioner will follow her remarks with a perspective from the IACHR.

Data Borders: How Silicon Valley is Building an Industry to Know Immigrants
2023-04-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Online/Zoom
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UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Presents
Data Borders: How Silicon Valley is Building an Industry to Know Immigrants
This lecture investigates the emerging state of borderland technology that brings all people into an intimate place of surveillance where data resides and defines inclusion and exclusion to citizenship. Detailing biologically mapping undocumented people through biotechnologies, Villa-Nicholas shows how Latinx immigrants are the focus and driving force for surveillance by Silicon Valley’s industry within defense technology manufacturing. This murky network gathers data on marginalized communities for purposes of exploitation and control, implicating law enforcement, border patrol, and ICE, and pulls in public workers and the public, often without their knowledge or consent. Enriched by interviews of Latinx immigrants, this work argues that to move beyond a heavily surveilled state that dehumanizes both immigrants and citizens, we must push for immigrant and citizen privacy information rights along the border and throughout the United States.
Please RSVP here.
For more information:
Contact Stacy E. Wood (swood@c2i2.ucla.edu).

Connecting Art and Law for Liberation: Art and Law Festival
2023-04-14 - 2023-04-15 | Fowler Museum, UCLA
When: April 14-15, 2023
Where: Fowler Museum, UCLA Campus
Connecting Art and Law for Liberation (CALL) is an art and law festival hosted by UCLA School of Law’s Prison Law and Policy Program, Criminal Justice Program, and the Prison Education Program at UCLA.
This year’s conference is a CALL to action to imagine abolitionist futures. The festival will bring together visionary artists, activists, attorneys, advocates, legal scholars, and community members to share innovative, cutting-edge collaborations at the intersection of ART and LAW – aimed at imagining a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance.
Free and open to the public.
Sign up for CALL workshops.
View the event website.
View the festival schedule.

CSW|Streisand Center Research Affiliates Brown Bag with Carol Bensick
2023-04-21 12:00 - 13:00
“Practical Uses of Philosophy”: Julia Ward Howe as Public Philosopher
by Carol M. Bensick
When: Friday, April 21, 2023, 12–1 p.m.
Where: On Zoom.
REGISTER HERE
The American Philosophical Association maintains a Committee on Public Philosophy inspired by “the belief that the broader presence of philosophy in public life is important both to our society and to our profession.” It aims “to find and create opportunities to demonstrate the personal value and social usefulness of philosophy.” Julia Ward Howe was not intent on receiving recognition or admiration as a philosopher herself. In an undated late-life poem called “To Philosophy,” she is quick and apparently proud to assert “With thy holy robes of state I my meanness did not mate.” But if she eschewed making a name as a philosopher herself, she was highly intent, to “demonstrate the personal value and social usefulness of philosophy.” In promoting public philosophy, she exemplified public philosophy herself.
Carol M. Bensick completed her PhD at Cornell University in American literary and intellectual history, specializing in puritanism and transcendentalism. She was an assistant professor at the University of Denver, the University of Oregon, and UC Riverside and gained tenure at University of Oregon. She taught summer school at Cornell and UCLA and Extension at UCR. Her revised dissertation was published as La Nouvelle Beatrice: Renaissance and Romance in “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” She edited and wrote the headnote for Jonathan Edwards for the first Heath Anthology of American Literature. As research affiliate at CSW|Streisand Center, she roams the nineteenth-century archives turning up women philosophers wherever she goes.

Coming to You Film Screening
2023-05-01 - 2023-05-06
When: May 1-6, 2023
Where: Various Locations
Coming to You (2021) is coming to Southern California in May 2023! It is a powerful, groundbreaking documentary film about two women confronting bigotry and redefining their relationship with their queer and transgender (adult) children, made by a filmmaker working with the acclaimed queer feminist film collective, PINKS (연분홍치마). The film thoughtfully presents the work of PFLAG Korea (성소수자 부모모임 Parents and Families of LGBTAIQ People in Korea), a critical part of LGBTQ activism in South Korea and beyond.
View event flyer.
Coming to You has fostered critical conversations through international film festivals and community screenings in South Korea, though it has not yet been widely screened in the U.S. The film makes an important contribution to equity, diversity, and social justice, and it will resonate with queer and trans youth, families and allies, students, activists, and community builders and advocates throughout Southern California. For more information, see:

“I love as you are,” a short video from 2016 Korea Queer Culture Festival.
“A letter from a Korean mother to all the mothers with LGBT children” (2017)
“Parents fight for their LGBTQ children’s rights” (2020)

Screening and panel discussion with director Byun Gyu-ri
and cast members Jeong Eun-ae (Nabi) and Kang Sun-hwa (Vivian) in person
All screenings are free and open to the public.
Schedule
Monday, May 1
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
5pm McCormick Screening Room, UC Irvine
Tuesday, May 2
California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
4pm University Library 25
Wednesday, May 3
Pasadena City College
5pm R102
Friday, May 5
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
5pm James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA
Saturday, May 6
Los Angeles community screening + panel discussion
1-4pm NAVEL 1611 S. Hope Street, Los Angeles
RSVP requested.
For more information, please contact feministpoliticskorea@gmail.com.
Co-presented with GYOPO, KYCC Koreatown Storytelling Program, San Gabriel Valley API PFLAG, and the UCLA community.

Survivor Teach In: From Surviving to Healing
2023-05-09 12:30 - 13:30 | Luskin Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
When: May 9th from 12:30-1:30pm
Where: Luskin School of Public Affairs Room 2355
Join Survivors and Allies for a community teach-in.
Survivors + Allies research collective will share their findings from a UC-wide survey of students on their experiences with campus-based and off-campus resources for survivors of sexual violence. We will also launch a website where you can easily access the data from our survey. This event is a collaboration with the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center. Lunch will be served! Please note that this event registration will be capped at 50 people.
Survivors + Allies is a student organization that advocates for, and with, survivors of sexual violence at the UCs. Our work spans research, advocacy, and policy to create change and shift how society thinks about sexual violence.
Contact: UCLASurvivorsAndAllies[at]gmail.com
RSVP Here.

Barbra Streisand Center Annual Lecture
2023-09-12 16:30 - 18:00 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The UCLA Barbra Streisand Center invites you to the inaugural public lecture on the topic of Truth in the Public Sphere.
When: Tuesday, September 12, 2023.
4:30 p.m. Doors Open
5:00 p.m. Lecture
Where: UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, The Centennial Terrace
RSVP for in-person | RSVP to watch virtually
Featuring
André Brock
André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture and Black cybercultures; his scholarship examines race in social media, video games, blogs and other digital media. His book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, the 2021 winner of the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies and the Nancy Baym Book Award, theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.
Frances Haugen
Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Frances Haugen is the daughter of two professors and grew up attending the Iowa caucuses with her parents, instilling a strong sense of pride in democracy and responsibility for civic participation. She holds a degree in electrical and computer engineering from Olin College and an MBA from Harvard. She is a specialist in algorithmic product management, having worked on ranking algorithms at Google, Pinterest, Yelp and Facebook. She was recruited to Facebook to be the lead product manager on the civic misinformation team, which dealt with issues related to democracy and misinformation, and later also worked on counter-espionage. During her time at Facebook, Haugen became increasingly alarmed by the choices the company made prioritizing their own profits over public safety and putting people’s lives at risk. As a last resort and at great personal risk, she made the courageous decision to blow the whistle on Facebook. Haugen fundamentally believes that the problems we are facing today with social media are solvable – we can have social media that brings out the best in humanity.
Stuart Stevens
Stuart Stevens is a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project. He is the author of eight books, including The New York Times bestseller It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire and Outside, among other publications. His ninth book, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party is Driving Democracy to Autocracy, will be published in October. He has written extensively for television shows, including Northern Exposure, Commander in Chief and K Street. For 25 years, he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some of the nation’s toughest political campaigns. He attended Colorado College; Pembroke College, Oxford; Middlebury College and UCLA. He is a former fellow of the American Film Institute.
Moderated by
Safiya Noble
Safiya Noble is an internet studies scholar and professor of gender studies and African American studies at UCLA where she serves as the interim director of the UCLA DataX Initiative and founder and director of the UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice. She is the author of the best-selling book, Algorithms of Oppression, and a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a chartering member of the International Panel on the Information Environment. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (also known as the “Genius Award”) for her groundbreaking work on algorithmic discrimination. In 2022, she was recognized as the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award recipient.
About the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA
The Barbra Streisand Center was established in 2021 and made possible by the vision and generosity of Barbra Streisand. The Streisand Center will become the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA , a forward-thinking institute dedicated to finding solutions to the most vital social issues.
The Center for Truth in the Public Sphere will be the first area of study and advocacy and will focus on truth in the public sphere, reflecting Streisand’s passionate interest in the topic. Speakers and research will delve into urgent and existential threats to democracy, and examine how lies and the proliferation of disinformation can destroy a civic sense of decency, as well as entire countries.
View event flier.

My Name is Andrea
2023-09-20 19:30 - 21:00 | UCLA Hammer Museum – Galleries, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Co-presented by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center and Hammer Museum.
My Name is Andrea is a hybrid feature documentary about one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century. Andrea Dworkin offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with a singular urgency and iconoclastic flair. Decades before #MeToo, Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture, and the ways it impacts every woman’s daily life.
Shaped by the values of justice and equality learned in the civil rights movement, the film focuses on key moments from the life of this fearless fighter who demanded that women be seen as fully human. The film features performances by Ashley Judd, Soko, Amandla Stenberg, Andrea Riseborough, and Christine Lahti, woven in with rare, electrifying archival footage of Dworkin.
Followed by a conversation with director Pratibha Parmar and Karen Tongsen, Chair of USC’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies.
2022, dir: Pratibha Parmar, DCP, color, 90 minutes
View flyer.
Ticketing: Admission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. One ticket per guest. Box office opens one hour before the event.
Hammer Museum Member Benefit: Subject to availability, Hammer Members can choose their preferred seats. Members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before the program. Members can pickup a ticket for themselves and a guest. Learn more about membership.
Parking: Valet parking is available on Lindbrook Drive for $10 cash only. Self-parking is available under the museum. Rates are $8 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $22 daily maximum. There is an $8 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

Decarceral Visions Conference
2023-09-22 - 2023-09-23 | UCLA Law School, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Organized by the UCLA School of Law
Date: September 22-September 23, 2023
Location: UCLA School of Law, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Register Here
This conference is for people and organizations committed to the fight to end mass incarceration and immigration detention. Specifically, this conference is designed to address important questions that come up in the work to close or prevent the construction of jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers:

What will happen to the facilities and spaces themselves, and when should we repurpose them for community use? How can we meaningfully repurpose carceral facilities?
What will happen to people held in these facilities?
How can we intervene in plans for jail construction or expansion in ways that can direct government spending outside of the criminal legal system, work with planners and architects for community-led repurposing, and further just transitions?
How do we address job loss and the community economic impact upon closure? How do we critically analyze the claims that new facilities will be an economic boon?
How can government funds used for incarceration be redirected to just transitions and economic development?
What can we learn from the labor and environmental movements’ just transitions framework as we move to close or prevent new carceral facilities?

Who should come?
Community organizers and advocates involved in campaigns to close, repurpose, and/or prevent construction of jails, prison and immigrant detention centers; students, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planning, economic redevelopment, environmental sustainability, law, public health, social work, municipal budgeting, labor, and ESG financing who are supporting or want to support decarceral and just transition efforts in this critical and strategic conference.
Topics Covered:

Participatory and community-based planning and architecture processes in campaigns to repurpose jails, prisons, and detention centers;
Lessons learned from campaigns to close, repurpose, and/or prevent the construction of jails, prisons, and detention centers;
Understanding public and private financing, data analysis, and budget interventions when proposing carceral facility closure or opposing new construction;
The role of public officials in carceral closure and just transitions;
Just transitions for incarcerated and detained people, workers, and communities directly impacted by facility closure;
Lessons on just transition from the environmental justice movement and consideration of the role of public officials; intersections with the environmental justice movement;
Building and implementing a just transition framework for and with incarcerated and detained people, workers, and communities directly impacted by facility closure;
Public health and social work perspectives on carceral closure and just transitions;
Gender dynamics of carceral closure and just transitions;
And more!

Conference Planning Committee:
Eunice Cho, ACLU National Prison Project; Jasmine Heiss, Vera Institute of Justice; Marcela Hernandez, Detention Watch Network; Nicole Porter, Sentencing Project; Judah Schept, Professor, Eastern Kentucky University; Alicia Virani, UCLA School of Law; Kyle Virgien, ACLU National Prison Project; Samantha Weaver, ACLU National Prison Project; Maurice BP-Weeks, Interrupting Criminalization.

CSW|Streisand Center / Gender Studies / LGBTQ Studies 2023 Fall Reception
2023-10-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Rolfe Courtyard
Join CSW|Streisand Center, the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and LGBTQ Studies as we celebrate the start of a new academic year!
Join us for an opportunity to meet and network with faculty, students, and staff, and to learn about our upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served.
Event Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Event Time: 4:00–6:00 PM
Event Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA (outdoors)
Please fill out the registration form below in order to assist us in planning this event.
Registration is FREE.
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Please note that we may take photos of guests at the reception for CSW|Streisand Center’s website and publications.
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Aribada Film Screening
2023-10-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, James Bridges Theater
When: October 12, 2023, 6:30 PM
Where: UCLA James Bridges Theater
In the middle of the Colombian coffee region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous trans women from the Emberá tribes. The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in their unique world – an aesthetic and spiritual universe in which documentary and fiction merge into a transcultural narrative. Enchanted by the beauty and power of their jais (spirits), Aribada decides to join Las Traviesas in creating their own trans*futurist community.
Natalia Escobar is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker who explores themes of intersectional feminism, Andean phenomenology, identity, and memory in her work. She earned a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College in London and creates moving images, soundscapes, and installations that immerse her audience in new and thought-provoking experiences.
In recent years, Escobar has been collaborating with a community of trans Indigenous women from the Embera people called Las Traviesas. Together, they are working on a project that aims to promote social transformation through artistic and design processes. Through creating spaces for free expression and the exchange of knowledge, the project seeks to strengthen the community and empower its participants.
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New Books in Filipinx Studies
2023-10-13 13:00 - 14:00
When: Friday, October 13, 2023, 1 p.m.
Where: YRL Presentation Room
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Hear, meet, and celebrate authors Josen Diaz and Genevieve Clutario.
Two scholars will speak about their recently published books in the Filipinx Studies. Speakers are Josen Diaz, author of Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America(Duke University Press) and Genevieve Clutario, author of Beauty Regimes: a History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941 (Duke University Press). Diaz is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of San Diego and Clutario is Associate Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College.
This event received support from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American Studies Department, Center for the Study of Women, Asian American Studies Center, and the Office of Instructional Development.
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"Manufacturing Freedom": Elena Shih Book Talk
2023-10-19 12:15 - 13:45 | 352 Haines Hall
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 12:15 – 1:45 pm PDT
Location: Haines Hall 352, Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Elena Shih Book Talk
About the event
The UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group, IRLE, and CSW|Streisand Center invite you to join Professor Elena Shih to discuss her new book, Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue (UC Press, 2023).
About the book
Sex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these rehabilitation programs promise freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers, such organizations actually propagate a moral economy of low‑wage women’s work that obfuscates relations of race, gender, national power, and inequality. Manufacturing Freedom is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study, Elena Shih argues that anti‑trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption.
About the author
Elena Shih is Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, where she directs a human trafficking research cluster through the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Shih is the author of two books: Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue (University of California Press), and White Supremacy, Colonialism, and the Racism of Anti-Trafficking (Routledge). Shih serves on the editorial boards for The Anti-Trafficking Review, a peer-reviewed journal of the Global Alliance to Combat Traffic in Women, and openDemocracy’s Beyond Trafficking and Slavery op-ed platform. In 2018 Shih was appointed to the Rhode Island State Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Recent op-eds about her research and organizing as a core collective member of Red Canary Song appear in the New York Times and Providence Journal. She earned a PhD in Sociology from UCLA, and a BA in Asian Studies from Pomona College.
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Fly in Power Film Screening and Q&A
2023-10-20 17:00 - 20:00 | Darren Starr Screening Room, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, Los Angeles, 90095
Date: Friday, October 20, 2023
Time: 5 – 8 pm PDT
Where: Darren Star Screening Room
235 Charles E Young Dr N Melnitz Hall 1422 Los Angeles, CA 90095

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About the Event

The UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group, IRLE, and CSW|Streisand Center in collaboration with Red Canary Song and SWOP LA invite you to join the film screening of Fly in Power, followed by a Q&A with Elena Shih and a SWOP LA speaker.
Fly in Power follows Charlotte, a Korean massage worker and core organizer of Red Canary Song (RCS), a social justice collective of Asian diasporic massage workers, sex workers and allies who basebuild through mutual aid. Through her history, we learn how the incarceral system is pitted against Asian migrant women and their survival. The documentary is a glimpse into the intimate spaces that not only connect these women and non-binary queers, but is also a testament to the global advocacy of women’s rights to work and thrive. The documentary is directed by Yin Q, a Queer, Chinese American parent, writer, and sex worker rights advocate, and Yoon Grace Ra, a cultural organizer working with audio/visual media.
This film has been produced entirely by women, non-binary, trans and queers of the Asian diaspora—more than half of the production team are former/current sex workers. Each story centers the narrative of an Asian massage worker in her own words, enabling us to witness the trust built between the film team and the participants with their own agency of storytelling and editing. Fly in Power premiered in March this year in Flushing, Queens. Since then it has been shown at various universities and film festivals including the San Francisco Sex Worker Film Festival, the Los Angeles Asian and Pacific Islander Film Festival where it won Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary, and the 46th Asian American International Film Festival.
A catered reception will follow after screening and Q&A.
*The Darren Star Screening Room is located in Melnitz Hall and situated on the northeast corner of the UCLA campus in Westwood, next to the Broad Art Center and the Murphy Sculpture Garden.*
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CinEskwela: Modern Queer Cinema Double Feature
2023-10-28 20:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, James Bridges Theater
Where: James Bridges Theater, 235 Charles E Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095
When: Saturday, October 28, 1-8:00 pm
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In celebration of Filipino American History Month, Cinema Sala and UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center present a double feature screening of award-winning queer auteur, Jun Robles Lana’s BWAKAW and BIG NIGHT!
Through the juxtaposition of BWAKAW and BIG NIGHT!, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the diverse narratives and artistic approaches employed by Filipinx filmmakers in showcasing LGBTQ+ experiences.
After the double feature, we will have a panel, “Bakla and Beyond: A Dialogue on the State of Filipinx Queer Media” to be moderated by Dino-Ray Ramos, featuring writer-director Jun Robles Lana, his cinematographer Carlo Canlas Mendoza, as well as special guests, GLAAD Award winner, Rain Valdez, and actor/comedian Jiavani.
As part of tradition in Cinema Sala events, admission is free, so please bring something to share for our potluck! Please bring an appetizer, side dish, dessert, or beverage (non-alcoholic).
Parking is available in Parking Structure 3 under visitor parking. Do NOT park where there is an “x” or has blue signs. We recommend putting the James Bridges Theater into Google Maps when navigating.
Doors open at 1 pm and event ends at 8:00 pm.

"Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age" Screening & Panel Discussion
2023-11-02 19:00 - 21:00
When: Thursday, November 2, 2023
7:00 p.m. Panel & Discussion
Reception to follow
Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
UCLA Campus
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Warning: This video contains adult content and graphic language, and is not suitable for children.
UCLA Division of Social Sciences and UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television invite you to attend a special screening of Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age followed by a panel discussion featuring:
Guylaine Maroist
President, Producer, Screenwriter, and Director, La Ruelle Films
Kiah Morris
Former Vermont State Representative
Sarah Roberts
Faculty Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Moderated by
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Professor of Documentary Film, UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media
With a panel introduction by
Safiya Noble
Interim Director, UCLA DataX Initiative
Founder and Director, UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice
Film Synopsis: In fall 2017, the MeToo hashtag shook the planet, sparking an unprecedented wave of sexual assault accusations in the Western world. Today, the storm of virulent misogyny is raging on, flooding our screens with harassment, defamation, lynching, sextortion, the sharing of intimate photographs, rape and death threats. According to the UN, 73% of women are abused online.
This feature-length documentary follows four women and one man whose lives have been ransacked by online violence: Laura Boldrini, the most harassed female politician in Italy; Kiah Morris, an African-American politician in the state of Vermont who resigned following severe harassment and threats from rightwing extremists; Marion Séclin, a French YouTuber who received more than 40,000 sexist messages, including rape and death threats; Laurence Gratton, a young teacher in Quebec who was harassed for more than five years by a former colleague; and Glen Canning, the father of Rehtaeh Parsons, a young girl who took her own life after photos of her rape were spread online.
What is it like to live with this so-called virtual violence? That’s what this opus aims to show by closely following the victims in their daily lives. As in a horror movie, we witness in real time the waves of hate that assail them, the fear that invades their private lives, and the loss of their sense of security in public spaces. Their lives are marred by a loss of confidence, and by shame.
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age also shows how each of these women, and this man speaking in his late daughter’s name, are waging the same battle. They share a common cause: refusing to be silenced. Their journeys intertwine. They demand widespread accountability from those who allow the propagation of such hatred, whether it be the tech giants, the state, or the perpetrators themselves. Why this unrelenting and systematic discrimination against women? Can we leave the screen now and shift the age-old paradigm?

Beyond The Bars LA Conference
2023-11-03 - 2023-11-04 | UCLA, 330 De Neve Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Center for Justice at UCLA presents a collaboration between the Bruin Underground Scholars (BUS) and the UCLA Prison Education Program (PEP).
BEYOND THE BARS LA — our third biannual national conference — will take place on Friday and Saturday, November 3-4, 2023 at UCLA. The BTB LA team is an inspired group of system-impacted students, scholars, advocates, and activists involved in the international decarceration movement. This conference will center interdisciplinary approaches to prison education, abolition, and decarceration as decolonization. The conference will include a series of dynamic presentations from justice-centered organizations, artists, activists, advocates and academics from across the country.
This event is free and open to all those who RSVP. Join us for food, fellowship, empowerment and more!
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Faculty Writing Retreat
2023-11-03 10:00 - 16:00 | 306 and 314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Date: Friday, November 3, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Royce 306 and 314.
On-site space is limited. Virtual option available.
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Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast, lunch and coffee/tea will be provided in the beautiful setting of Royce Hall.
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
We will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional and there will also be a non-work space to enjoy lunch.
On-site space is limited. Virtual option available.
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Gendered Fortunes Book Talk
2023-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Rolfe Courtyard
When: Thursday, November 9, 2-4 pm
Where: UCLA Rolfe Courtyard Scultpure Garden
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Join us for a book talk featuring Professor Zeynep Korkman in discussion Professor Purnima Mankekar.
In Gendered Fortunes (Duke University Press), Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized by long-standing secularist laws and disdained by contemporary Islamist government, fortunetelling cafés proliferate in part because they offer shelter from the conservative secularist, Islamist, neoliberal, and gender pressures of the public sphere. Korkman shows how fortunetelling is a form of affective labor through which its participants build intimate feminized publics in which they share and address their hopes and fears. Korkman uses feeling—which is how her interlocutors describe the divination process—as an analytic to view the shifting landscape of gendered vulnerability in Turkey. In so doing, Korkman foregrounds “feeling” as a feminist lens to explore how those who are pushed to the margins feel their way through oppressive landscapes to create new futures.
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ELTS 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
2023-11-13 - 2023-11-14 | 308 Royce Hall
Where: Royce Hall 308
When: November 13-14, 2023
Join the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies’ 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference: “Speculative Futurities, Past and Present.”
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The graduate students of the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles are inviting submissions to the third annual ELTS Graduate Student Conference. Our keynote speakers will be Prof. Lydie Moudileno (University of Southern California) and Prof. David Bates (University of California, Berkeley).
Amir Eshel’s Futurity suggests that literary representations of the past are not only key to understanding our present, but they also allow us to set the stage for the future, to improve our understanding of its stakes. Our conference expands on this mode of thinking by reconsidering the ways in which time and space have been and are currently imagined in connection to the European continent and its transnational legacies. What does it mean to speculate on and envision “futurity,” or the lack thereof? Who holds the keys to imagining, conceptualizing, and identifying the future, and who is seen as even having one?

Mariam's Tattoos: The Afterlives of a Humanitarian Photograph
2023-11-15 10:00 - 12:00
When: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Pacific Time)
Where: Virtual
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Virtual book talk by Professor Elyse Semerdjian, Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the communal memory of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Dr. Elyse Semerdjian will discuss her book Remnants wherein tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal the larger history of gender and genocide. However, she will focus her discussion on contextualizing a single 1919 humanitarian portrait of a young woman named Mariam Azarian. While collecting and accessioning process left the genocide victim’s name in oblivion, Semerdjian will showcase her methodological approach to the subject of tattooed Armenian women and the possibilities for recovering information from a mutilated post-genocide archive.
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This event is organized by the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA and co-sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Oral Histories of Environmental Illness (OHEI) Symposium
2023-11-17 - 2023-11-18 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Canary Knowledge: Chronic Fatigue, Chemical Sensitivities and the Limits of Medicine
Presented by the CSW|Streisand Center.

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When: Friday, November 17 – Saturday, November 18, 2023
Where: Hershey Hall Salon (158), 612 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (Parking structure 2 is closest)
Hybrid event. The event will be in-person and live-streamed on CSW|Streisand Center’s YouTube channel @UCLACSW.

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With the surge in numbers of “unrecovered” from the Co-V2 pandemic, the public’s interest has turned to disability and caregiver activism, ongoing remissions protocols, and patient-led research networks established by those living with chronic fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivity, tick-borne illnesses, and autoimmune conditions (e.g. HIV, lupus, Crohn’s). This conference bridges the immediate before and after of Co-V2’s effects on this growing population of the chronically ill, and often medically abandoned, to ask how they—like the proverbial canaries in the coal mine—have defined and laid the groundwork for disability justice, art, and activism.
This event is part of a three-year multi-campus research grant at the University of California focusing on “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice: Mapping Inequity and Renewing the Social Project.”
Fragrance-free:
Please avoid wearing scented products such as perfumes/colognes, scented lotions, clothing with strong detergent scents, etc. while attending this event as they can trigger serious health issues for those with fragrance allergies. We aim to maintain a welcoming and accessible environment for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors. Thank you for your consideration for all members of our community. For more information.
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Masking is strongly encouraged.
The symposium panels are being filmed. By entering the space, you will be giving us permission to film you. If you object to being filmed, please let us know and we can seat you in a section not visible on the camera.
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Co-sponsors:

Disability Studies
Division of Social Sciences
Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto
Division of Humanities
UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives
