Center for the Study of Women

9th Annual UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium: The Science of Gender
2022-05-13 08:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Organized by the David Geffen School of Medicine
DATE: Friday, May 13, 2022
TIME: 8:00 AM-9:00 AM | Pediatric Grand Rounds
12:00 PM-4:00 PM | Keynote Speakers
4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Fellows & Residents Presentations and Poster Session
LOCATION: Tamkin Auditorium, Ronald Reagan Medical Center and Zoom (online)
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The 9th Annual UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium will be held on May 13, 2022 to generate cross-campus collaborations to advance translational child health research. The UCLA CDI Institute is the research home of the Pediatrics Department and was established in 2013. The CDI Institute encourages multidisciplinary child health research and training at UCLA across the spectrum of basic, translational, clinical and health services research. The topic “The Science of Gender” will be highlighted by speakers from across campus and across the globe. The Symposium will bring thoughtful presentations and discussion about gender to clinicians and scientists involved in child health. In collaboration with CSW and DGSOM Health Equity Research Theme, a diverse planning committee that selected a slate of excellent speakers has been put together.
OPENING REMARKS BY
Steven Dubinett, MD, (he/him) Interim Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UCLA
Sherin Devaskar, MD, (she/her) Executive Chair, Department of Pediatrics, and Executive Director, CDI

Representing Disability After CODA
2022-05-13 11:00 - 12:30
Organized by the Department of Theater
DATE: Friday, May 13, 2022
TIME: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Darren Star Screening Room (Melnitz 1422)
As part of an increased recognition of the importance of thinking intersectionally and with respect to the feminist and gendered aspects of current disability and representation theories, the UCLA Theater Department is pleased to host Dr. Victoria Lewis, a long time television and theater actor with a physical disability, UCLA PhD graduate, and professor emerita of Redlands University, as one member of a panel on Representation of Disability. Dr. Lewis was founder of the Center Theatre Group “Other Voices” project which worked not only with actors and writers with disabilities, but other marginalized groups like Latina and African American teen mothers and blue-collar workers.

2022 Awards Celebration
2022-05-18 12:00 - 14:00
This event has passed. Watch Bamby Salcedo’s keynote address and Q&A on CSW’s YouTube channel!
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) for a special virtual event on Wednesday, May 18th to honor the center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree.

FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Trans Latina Resilience: Past, Present, and Future
by
Bamby Salcedo
President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition
This year, CSW has selected Bamby Salcedo as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2022 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the US. Bamby developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multipurpose, multiservice space for transgender people in Los Angeles.
Her talk will highlight historical and intergenerational institutional violence against Trans, Gender Nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) people. She will also address the current state of TGI people and how she envisions a better world for the TGI community.
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EVENT DETAILS & REGISTRATION
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (PDT)
Location: Zoom Webinar
Registrants will receive a Zoom link a few days prior to the event.
For questions, please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Bamby Salcedo is a national and international transgender Latina Woman who received her master’s degree in Latin@ Studies from California State California Los Angeles. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the US. Bamby developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multipurpose, multiservice space for transgender people in Los Angeles.
Bamby’s remarkable and wide-ranging activist work has brought voice and visibility to not only the trans community, but also to the multiple overlapping communities and issues that her life has touched including migration, HIV, youth, LGBT, incarceration and Latin@ communities. Through her instinctive leadership, she has birthed several organizations that created community where there was none, and advocate for the rights, dignity, and humanity for those who have been without a voice. Bamby’s work as a collaborator and a connector through a variety of organizations reflects her skills in crossing various borders and boundaries and working in the intersection of multiple communities as well as the intersections of multiple issues. Bamby has served and participated in many local, national and international organizations and planning groups. This work mediates intersections of race, gender, sexuality, age, social class, HIV+ status, immigration status and more.
Her activist public speaking has ranged from testifying to governmental bodies, human rights and social justice organizations, universities and colleges, demonstrations and rallies, and national and international conferences as featured speaker. Bamby speaks to diverse audiences on many topics and intersecting issues. Bamby has spoken about transgender-related issues, social justice, healthcare, social services, incarceration, immigration and detention as well as professional and economic development for transgender people. Bamby has been invited to participate in several panels at the White House including in 2016 The United State of Woman where she share stage with Vice President Biden at the opening plenary session and in 2015, Transgender Women of Color and Violence and LGBTQ People of Color Summit. Bamby has also participated as the Opening Plenary Speaker at several conferences, including The 2015 National HIV Prevention Conference, The United States Conference on AIDS in 2009 and 2012. She has participated as facilitator with The PanAmerican Health Organization while developing the Blue Print on how to provide competent health care services for transgender people as well as health care for LGBT people and Human Rights in Latin America and The Caribbean.
Her powerful, sobering and inspiring speeches and her warm, down-to-earth presence have provided emotional grounding and perspective for diverse gatherings. She speaks from the heart, as one who has been able to transcend many of her own issues, to truly drop ways of being and coping that no longer served her, issues that have derailed and paralyzed countless lives. Her words and experience evoke both tears and laughter, sobriety and inspiration through the documentary made about her life called TransVisible: Bamby Salcedo’s Story. Bamby has been featured and recognized in multiple media outlets such as People en Español, Latina Magazine, Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, OUT 100 and featured in the HBO documentary The Trans List, among many others. Bamby has also being recognized for her outstanding work by multiple national and local organizations.

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag with Lara K. Schubert, PhD
2022-05-20 12:00 - 13:00
“Glimpsing Structural Engineering Culture: Structural Engineering Equity Efforts from Within”

A Talk by Lara K. Schubert, PhD
DATE: Friday, May 20, 2022
TIME: 12:00 -1:00 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Zoom (RSVP to receive link)
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Structural engineers typically consider the profession to be a meritocracy, in which engineers are successful if they have technical skill required for engineering. While this is important, the culture of the profession also affects who is promoted and who stays to reach levels of leadership within their firms. The problem of retention has been identified within the profession, and in 2015 the professional organization created a committee to study and to address the issue. This presentation will give an account of the project, SE3: Structural Engineering, Equity and Engagement, following the trajectory of the efforts from within the profession and reflecting on the strategies used, how they have evolved, and how they are informed by the culture of engineering.
Lara K. Schubert is a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, a PhD in Religion, who has both practiced structural engineering and undertaken ethnographic research with women in religious communities in Cambodia. Her current research merges these areas of expertise. She teaches in feminist science studies and intends to complete a qualitative study of structural engineering to help make clear the culture to ultimately strengthen structural engineering.

Permanence and Decay
2022-05-23 09:00 - 2022-05-24 18:00 | Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Organized by The Graduate Students Association in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Date: May 23 and May 24, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM (PST)
Location: Royce Hall 306 and 314
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Tensions between permanence and decay are constitutive features of European culture. Periods during which cultural and political conventions appeared as though they would endure have alternated with periods of crisis and widespread instability. There can be many interpretations of permanence and decay: they can refer to the physical nature of artifacts or materials and their durability, but also to the cyclical nature of thought (as the ideological crises in present-day Europe have brought to the fore), as well as to the unstable nature of social, interpersonal, and political frameworks (as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic shows us). The conference asks how changing (or unshakeable) beliefs on sexuality, gender, birth, death, memory, and truth have influenced each other and shaped European culture, literature, and politics.

WACD Speaker Series: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
2022-05-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Online/Zoom
Organized by UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Time: 4:00 PM (PDT)
Location: Online/Zoom and Kaufman 240 (RSVP required for in-person participation)
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WACD BEYOND PUNISHMENT SPEAKER SERIES PRESENTS
Copper Wires: Solidarity and Intimacy (for Audre Lorde) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Based on Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s research for her forthcoming biography The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, this interactive lecture will share details from Audre Lorde’s early morning practices of planetary solidarity followed by an interactive oracle based on one of Audre Lorde’s most provocative poems.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Alexis’s most recent book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals won the 2022 Whiting Award in Nonfiction.

Center for Justice at UCLA Launch: "Lyrics from Lockdown"
2022-06-02 19:00 - 22:00
Organized by the Center for Justice at UCLA and the Skirball Cultural Center
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2022
Time: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM (PST) (Doors open at 6)
Location: Skirball Cultural Center
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The Skirball Cultural Center and Los Angeles Philharmonic present Lyrics from Lockdown, a groundbreaking multimedia production created by theater innovator Bryonn Bain. Exposing the unresolved contradictions between America’s prison system and its democratic ideals, this true story begins with Bain’s wrongful imprisonment while studying law at Harvard. From there, Bain weaves together the voices of more than forty characters into a one-man tour de force.
See this award-winning theatrical production during a one-night-only event to celebrate the launch of the Center for Justice at UCLA and the release of Bain’s new book, Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape. Fusing hip-hop, spoken word, R&B, calypso, and classical music, Lyrics from Lockdown tells a provocative story of racial profiling and wrongful incarceration in a nation imprisoning more people than any other in the world.
Following the performance, Bain will join in conversation with Dolores Huerta, president and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
The For Freedoms exhibition Another Justice: By Any Media Necessary, showcasing the art of women incarcerated at a California federal prison, will also be on view.

Lavender Graduation
2022-06-11 13:00 - 15:00
Organized by the LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
DATE: Saturday, June 11, 2022
TIME: 1:00−3:00 PM
LOCATION: Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Lavender Graduation is an annual ceremony conducted on numerous campuses to honor lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students and to acknowledge their achievements and contributions to their universities.
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2022 Fall Reception
2022-10-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Rolfe Courtyard
Celebrate the start of a new academic year with community members from UCLA Gender Studies and UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center! Join us to learn about upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served.
RSVP by September 28, 2022 | Download the Flyer

Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA
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Caring is Connecting: The Extractive Logics of AI Voice Assistants in the Home
2022-10-06 15:00 - 17:00 | 111 GSEIS Building, 290 Charles E. Young Drive N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Organized by the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: GSE&IS Room 111
Reception and refreshments to follow in the IS Salon.

“More peace of mind as your loved ones need more care.” This tag line appears in large, bolded letters on Amazon’s website advertising their service, Alexa Together. Described as a “new way to provide support for your loved ones, keeping you together even when you’re apart,” this “caregiving service” requires a subscription and an Amazon Echo device to facilitate the remote support of elderly family members, including control of household devices and increased surveillance opportunities. Using Alexa Together as one example, I consider how the frame of caregiving may be leveraged to “smooth” people’s concerns about privacy and data gathering in voice assistants, and justify intensified surveillance for elder adults and disabled family members as a function of market segmentation. This talk will explore
“caring” as a discursive frame for AI voice assistants that creates targeted opportunities for data extraction in the home, further entangling intimate activities within the home with the big data assemblages that AI urbanism relies on for algorithmic decision making in urban living and governance.
Questions? Email: swood@c2i2.ucla.edu

Writing Health Through Black Feminist Theory
2022-10-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Organized by the Department of African American Studies and the Collaboratory for Black Feminist Health and Healing
Date: Monday, October 24, 2022
Time: 3:00-5:00 PM
Location: Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158 and Online/Zoom

Natali Valdez, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Purdue University, will be speaking about her recent book: Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era, (University of California Press, 2022). Valdez is a medical anthropologist and science and technology scholar who studies how race, gender, and power are enveloped into scientific knowledge production. She draws from Black feminism and postcolonial feminist science studies to critically examine epigenetic and postgenomic conceptions of ‘the environment’ in biosocial reproduction. This book is the first ethnography of ongoing pregnancy trials in the United States and United Kingdom.

Public Health Consequences of the Criminalization of Abortion
2022-11-02 08:30 - 09:30 | Online/Zoom
Organized by the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Iris Cantor – UCLA Women’s Health Center
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Time: 8:30-9:30 AM
Location: Online/Zoom
This event will discuss the public health consequences and implications of criminalizing abortion.

CSW|Streisand Center Research Affiliates Brown Bag with Kathleen Sheldon, PhD
2022-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
View flyer (PDF)
RSVP Here.
Please note that we may take photos of guests at the reception for CSW|Streisand Center’s website and publications.
If you are no longer able to attend, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.
