Click on image to enlarge flyer. The Departments of Feminist Studies and Film + Digital Media and the Graduate Program in Social Documentation Present: WILDNESS a film by Wu Tsang Screening and Discussion with director Wu Tsang and co-writer Roya Rastegar Reception to follow screening and discussion ABOUT THE FILM Rooted in the tropical underground […]

The Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz Presents: A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon PRACTICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW Featuring distinguished UC Santa Cruz Women's Studies Alumna NANCY K.D. LEMON (Berkeley Law, Boalt School of Law) With an introduction by Prof. D. Kelly Weisberg, Hastings College of Law Nancy Lemon was a student founder of […]

Please join Women's Studies / Feminist Studies alumni, classmates, and faculty for an intriguing afternoon. 2:00-3:00 PM: Reception 3:00-4:30 PM: Brenda Shaughnessy will present a talk entitled: "Feminism & Poetry, Empowerment & Passion" 4:30-6:00 PM: Feminist Studies Faculty Panel will discuss "The Vibrant State of the Feminist Studies Department" to discuss the launching of the […]

Revisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit critiques explain that heteropatriarchy and white supremacy produce settler colonization and settler state governance. As explained by participants, the leadership of Idle No More by […]

Challenges for a North-South dialogue Why does knowledge continue to travel only from North to South? To understand the powerful continuity in this exchange, this presentation will start with a historical reconstitution of its creation and functioning. Even in an increasingly decentered world we still witness the hegemony of academic exchange in which North produces […]

Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational, industrial, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films), The Motherhood Archives […]

When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In […]