News Feature: Zines Document Legacy of Women’s Activism at CSULB

Many thanks to the CSULB Library for hosting the reproductive justice zine-making workshop this week and inviting Dr. Baralt to give a lecture on the history, present, and futures of reproductive justice. It was a great opportunity to learn more about the reproductive justice movement, zine-making, and our library’s archives and special collections.

Link to the article here: https://www.csulb.edu/news/article/zines-document-legacy-of-womens-activism-at-csulb

Upcoming Event: Reproductive Genocide in Gaza (a discussion by Rana A. Sharif in conversation with Dr. Lori Baralt, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, CSULB)

On behalf of the Departments of Anthropology, Sociology, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Asian and Asian American Studies, and Global Middle East Studies Program, you and your students are invited to a talk by UC Riverside PhD Candidate Rana A. Sharif, titled: “Reproductive Genocide in Gaza” on March 12th, 11:00am-12:30pm @ AS-119.

What: Reproductive Genocide in Gaza (Rana A. Sharif in conversation with Dr. Lori Baralt, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, CSULB)

When: March 12th 11am-12:30pm

Where: Anatol Original Conference Room (AS-119)/ CSULB

Rana A. Sharif is currently completing her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature and Languages from the University of California, Riverside (UCI). She is a faculty member in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and a coordinating member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC). She hosts and produces SWANA Region Radio on KPFK (90.7 FM) and serves on the Board of the ACLU of Southern California.

Upcoming Event: Weaponizing Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones ( a discussion by Dr. Nada Elia and Dr. Tina Beyene)

On behalf of the Departments of Sociology, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Political Science, Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literature, and the Global Middle East Studies Program invites you and your students are invited to a talk by Western Washington University Associate Professor Dr. Nada Elias and CSUN Assistant Professor Dr. Tina Beyene, titled: Weaponizing Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones on March 20th, 11am-12:30pm @ AS-119.

What: Weaponizing Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones (a talk by Dr. Nada Elias and Dr. Tina Beyene)

When: March 20th 11am-12:30pm

Where: AS-119/ CSULB

Dr. Nada Elia is a Visiting Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Western Washington University, where she is also affiliated with the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. A scholar activist, she served on the steering collectives of AWSA, RAWAN (Radical Arab Women’s Activist Network), INCITE! Feminists of Color Against Violence, and is currently on the Coordinating Committee of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Nada is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine (Pluto 2023) and is currently working on “Falastinuyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms,” forthcoming from Verso in 2025.

Dr. Tina Beyene is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at California State University, Northridge. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of transnational feminism; gender and conflict zones; African feminist movements; and imperial foreign policy. She was a former publisher and editor at South End Press, a progressive publishing collective based on a participatory economics model, where she worked on topics such as the global water rights; advanced capitalism and inequality; the prison industrial complex.

WGSS Summer 2024 Courses

Summer 2024 is just around the corner. Here are the courses WGSS will be offering for Summer 2024! All courses are session 1 (05/28/24-07/05/24) and online asynchronous. To learn more about the courses, visit CSULB’s course catalogue. For more information, please contact the course instructor.

Upcoming Event: “Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S Pop Culture” Book Talk by Author Dr. Aria Halliday – LA4-120 – 3:30-5:00pm

You are invited to a book talk by author and University of Kentucky Associate Professor Dr. Aria Halliday, titled: Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S Pop Culture on February 22nd, 3:30-5:00pm @ LA4-120.

What: “Buy Black: How Black Women Have Transformed U.S Pop Culture” (a book talk by Author/Professor Dr. Aria Halliday)

When: February 22nd 3:30-5:00pm

Where: LA4-120

​Aria S. Halliday, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Halliday specializes in the study of cultural constructions of black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She engages broad interdisciplinary interests in girlhood, Black feminism, and performance in Black popular culture in the United States and the Caribbean. Her research is featured in Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Girlhood Studies, Palimpsest, and SOULS. Her article, “Twerk Sumn!: Theorizing Black Girl Epistemology in the Body” won the 2021 Stuart Hall Foundation x Cultural Studies Award.

Upcoming Event: A Talk by Professor David Lloyd: Palestine: Occupation, Settler Colonialism, & Apartheid, 2/21, 11AM-12:30PM, LA4-120

You are invited to a talk by UC Riverside Distinguished Professor of English David Lloyd, titled: Palestine: Occupation, Settler Colonialism, & Apartheid on February 21st, 11am-12:30pm @ LA4-120.

What: Palestine: Occupation, Settler Colonialism & Apartheid (a talk by Professor David Lloyd)
When: February 21st 11am-12:30pm
Where: LA4-120 / CSULB

David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and a founding member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.  He has published numerous articles on Palestine and Israel, including “Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Israel/Palestine” in The Journal of Settler Colonial Studies and, with Malini Johar Schueller, an essay on the rationale for the academic boycott of Israel in the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom. Lloyd works primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory. His most recent book is Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Flyer attached below.

Upcoming Talk: “The Intersectional Environmentalist” Monday, February 19 – 12:30-1:45pm

The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and WGSS 424: Gendering Environmental Justice class presents, “The Intersectional Environmentalist.” The author and co-founder of the organization, Leah Thomas along with the executive director and contributing author Diandra Marizet Esparza will be giving a talk on their book, The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet. Details of the event are as follows:

Date: February 19, 2024

Time: 12:30-1:45pm

Location: LA1-204

Upcoming Event: “Caring, Killing, Eating: Gendered Human-Animal Relations in Egypt”

Check out this upcoming virtual Scholarly Intersections event sponsored by the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, Global Middle East Studies Program, and Anthropology department. Event details below:

Talk by Noha Fikry Ismail

Date: February 29, 2024

Time: 1-2:30pm PST

Zoom Meeting ID: 777 004 5181

Zoom Passcode: 952826

Contact Dr. Azza Basarudin (azza.basarudin@csulb.edu) for questions about this event.

Special Topics Course for Spring 2024- Gender and Feminist Organizing in a Transnational World

WGSS is excited to announce a new special topics course for this Fall! WGSS 490: Gender and Feminist Organizing in a Transnational World will be taught by Dr. Azza Basarudin. WGSS 490 explores intellectual, social, and creative dimensions of contemporary feminist organizing and mobilization in a transnational world. This course focuses on the interventions and contributions that radical feminist praxis generates across borders, identities, and subjectivities to engage intersectional work of societal and structural change.

This course counts as an elective for the WGSS major and minor. Want to know more? Contact Dr. Azza Basarudin with any questions.

WGSS 490

TuTh 11:00-12:15pm in person

Instructor: Dr. Azza Basarudin

Special Topics course for fall 2023- Jotería Studies: Queer Gender and Sexuality in the Américas

WGSS is excited to announce a new special topics course for this Fall! WGSS 490: Jotería Studies: Queer Gender and Sexuality in the Américas will be taught by Dr. Stacy Macias. This course explores the emergent and dynamic interdisciplinary field of jotería studies in which “brown” racialized sexualities and genders serve as both the primary subjects of analysis and main methods of reading. We’ll consider jotería studies genealogies and future configurations in relation to Chicana/o/x-Latina/o/x Studies, ethnic studies, and queer and trans studies. Through an intersectional lens, we’ll examine jotería studies as a critical cultural, political, and intellectual formation in visual art, literature, photography, performance, testimonial, essay, film, and ephemera.

This course counts as an elective for the WGSS major, minor, and Queer Studies minor! If you have any questions, please reach out to Dr. Stacy Macias at stacy.macias@csulb.edu.

WGSS 490
TuTh 2:00-3:15pm in person
Instructor: Stacy I. Macias