Center for the Study of Women

Beyond Barbie
2025-04-06 - 2025-06-08 | Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
When: April 6 – June 8
Where: Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
Free | No advance reservations. 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. The box office opens one hour before the event.
Writer Isabel Cristo describes the essence of girlhood as a “before time,” untouched by the weighty choices of adulthood — marriage, careers, caretaking. Though often disrupted by reality, girlhood remains a space of unfiltered potential, free from feminism’s historical burdens. Cinema has long confined it to familiar narratives, typically shaped by a girl’s longing for male validation. This series seeks to redefine coming-of-age narratives about girlhood by showcasing films made mostly by women filmmakers from across the globe whose work challenges conventions and is united in their shared focus on a girl’s desire to know and express herself. By foregrounding a protagonist’s self-discovery and agency, these narratives insist that a girl’s psyche — no matter how wounded or raw — is worth exploring. Infused with rare, aching empathy, they illuminate feminine characters whose multi-dimensional stories have too often been absent from cinema. Through them, girlhood emerges as complex, vibrant and inherently cinematic.
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Book Swap and Mini Library Launch
2025-06-02 10:30 - 2025-06-04 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
Join us for the CSW|Streisand Center Spring Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book or wrap one at our center; add a hint note, and swap with others. We will provide wrapping paper and gift tags for adding yours to the mix. Any genre is welcome.
We are also excited to announce the launch of our new mini library! Visitors are welcome to donate and check out books around social justice.
Come and enjoy a free book, refreshments, stickers, and good vibes!
When: Monday June 2-Wednesday, June 4
10:30 am-4:30 pm
Where: CSWIStreisand Center Office

Activists-in-Residence Closing Reception
2025-06-03 17:00 - 19:00 | James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us for the UCLA Activists-in-Residence closing reception.
When: Tuesday, June 3 · 5 – 7pm PDT
Where: James West Alumni Center 325 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095
RSVP here.
With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, cityLAB-UCLA, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center are pleased to celebrate the 2025 UCLA Activists-in-Residence: Lupita Limón Corrales, Kaya Dantzler, Kari Okubo, Romarilyn Ralston, and James Suazo.
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Live Performance: Miguel Gutierrez's "Super Nothing"
2025-06-13 - 2025-06-14
Super Nothing Dance Performance
CAP/UCLA presents
Super Nothing
Friday June 13 and Saturday June 14
Freud Playhouse
245 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives? Super Nothing presents four dancers whose actions and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive. Interdependence takes multiple forms, as the performers move through representations of the past to create a blueprint for a new future. This piece extends Gutierrez’s interest over the past few years in creating “choreography for the end of the world.”
Choreography/Direction Miguel Gutierrez
Performer/Collaborators: Jay Carlon, Evelyn Lilian Sanchez Narvaez, Justin Faircloth, Wendell Gray II
Lighting Designer: Carolina Ortiz (UCLA Alum!)
Composer: Rosana Cabán, with contributions from Miguel Gutierrez
Costume Designer: Jeremy Wood
Dramaturgical Assistance: Stephanie Acosta
Production Stage Manager: Cat Urquhart
Management: Michelle Fletcher
