UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies invite you to join us as we celebrate the start of a new academic year. All are welcome. Refreshments provided.

This workshop will introduce participants to Empowerment Self-Defense training methodologies, a feminist, anti-racist, gender-inclusive approach to eradicating violence and fostering equality. Empowerment self-defense is based on the premise that, although only an aggressor is responsible for an assault, a defender has options when reacting to violence. ESD provides training for expanding these options. ESD focuses […]

A Concert by the UC Regents Lecturer Ely Guerra is a composer, lyricist, and musician acclaimed for her artistic activism on behalf of women's freedom, rights of indigenous people, and environmental issues of communities along the U.S.–Mexico border. She is an artist whose musical compositions celebrate the popular and folkloric traditions of Mexico with contemporary […]

Nayan Shah, American Studies, USC Why, when and how does the refusal to eat while in detention become a viscerally potent and politically volatile protest that challenges the legitimacy and conditions of incarceration.   The presentation examines mass hunger strikes of political prisoners in South Africa, Israel, Guantanamo and refugees in the U.S., Australia and […]