2022 Fall Reception
2022-10-05 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for the 2022 Fall Reception on Wednesday October 5th at 4pm, Rolfe Hall Courtyard

Kadji Amin
2022-11-08 10:30 - 18:00

Cinthya Martinez, ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence Through Feminist Abolition Geographies
2023-01-31 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348
The Department of Gender Studies and Chicano Studies Research Center Present
CINTHYA MARTINEZ
ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence through Feminist Abolition Geographies
Tuesday, January 31st
3:30-5pm
YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Talk Description: How are ghosts subjects that continue to speak after death? What do they say about the violence that has occurred? “ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence through Feminist Abolition Geographies” investigates how women and queer migrants inside ICE immigrant detention use “haunted-ness” and testimony to unsettle detention. The locus of analysis for this dissertation is the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Located in San Bernardino County, two hours away from Los Angeles, Adelanto is the largest immigrant detention center in the nation and has the third-highest number of reported cases of sexual assault. Martinez contextualizes queer migrants and women’s refusals within the state’s active destruction of the recent, living historical archive of gendered carceral state violence in forgotten prison towns like Adelanto. This research offers a critical contribution to scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico border and contemporary immigration by conceptualizing detention centers as prison-borders imbued in gendered violence. It further pushes the boundaries of border and immigration studies by centering migrant women as authors of abolitionist theory.
Bio: Dr. Cinthya Martinez is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. She organizes with Adelanto Visitation Network to support people in ICE detention and to end migrant detention. She earned her doctorate from the University of California, Riverside in Ethnic Studies. Her research investigates how women and queer migrants who are incarcerated in ICE detention centers use place-making to unsettle their conditions of captivity. In her book project, ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence through Feminist Abolition Geographies, she reads correspondence and hunger strike demands from incarcerated women as a form of embodied feminist abolitionist praxis that counters state sexual violence and carceral violence.

Dan Bustillo: Trans Latinx Counter-Security Media: The "Wild Tongue" of Prison Letter Writing Activism
2023-02-06 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Alex Algaze González, Vulgar Vernaculars: Sex, Queer Pleasure, and Latinidad
2023-02-13 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Book Talk with Erin L. Durban, The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
2023-02-24 14:30 - 16:00 | Bunche Hall 2209A

Keynote Marion Buller on "The Future of Justice and Reparations for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls"
2023-03-08 16:45 - 18:15 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Laureate Room, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This event is co-sponsored by the Racial Violence Hub of the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center, the Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Law’s Native Nations Law & Policy Center, Climate Rights International, UCLA’s Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership and the Luskin Center for History and Policy.
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.
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.
Please register HERE to attend the event.

Jack Caraves, Trans*Formative Spirituality in Trans LatinX Lives: Cultivating Spirituality, Resistance, and Hope on the Path of Becoming
2023-03-13 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Coming to You, Film Screening and Discussion with Film Makers and Cast
2023-05-05 17:00 - 20:00 | UCLA James Bridges Theater
Join us for a screening of the film, followed by a Q&A discussion with guests Byun Gyu-ri, director; Nabi (Jeong Eun-ae); Vivian (Kang Sun-hwa); moderated by Professor Ju Hui Judy Han, UCLA Gender Studies.

Don’t miss this chance to watch Coming to You (2021, trailer) on their tour of Southern California! The film is a powerful, groundbreaking documentary about two women confronting bigotry and redefining their relationship with their gay 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 (Parents and Families of LGBTAIQ People in Korea), an important chapter in LGBTQ activism in South Korea and beyond. It won the Best Documentary Film prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival and the Brave New Docs Award at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, both in 2021.
Coming to You has already fostered critical conversations through international film festivals and over a hundred community screenings in South Korea, though it has not yet been widely screened in the U.S. The film will resonate with queer and trans youth, families and allies, students, activists, and community builders and advocates committed to social justice whether in public policy, in political discourse, and in the intimate spaces of their personal lives.

Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable, Book Talk by Dr. Eric A. Stanley
2023-05-17 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

2023 Fall Reception
2023-10-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Rolfe Hall Courtyard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Paula Gunn Allen Chair Installation of Professor Shannon Speed
2023-10-19 17:00 - 19:00 | James West Alumni Center, Collins Room
Paula Gunn Allen Chair Invite

Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey; Book Talk by Professor Zeynep Korkman
2023-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Rolfe Hall Courtyard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Professor Barbara Ransby: Scholar-Activism in the Era of the New McCarthyism
2024-02-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Kerckhoff Hall, Grand Salon

Looking for a Place to Happen, A Talk by Minelle Mahtani
2024-02-21 15:00 - 16:30 | Bunche Hall 1261

Jazz, Race and Revolution: John Coltrane's Alabama by Professor Bruce Baum
2024-02-22 15:00 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Lalaie Ameeriar, Racializing Reproduction: Maternal Mortality, Asian American Women and Covid-19
2024-02-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Rolfe Hall, 2125

Thinking Gender 2024: Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias
2024-03-01 08:30 - 18:00 | James West Alumni Center, Collins Room

Film screening of Vera (Toledo, 1986)
2024-04-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Billy Wilder Theater inside The Hammer Museum
UCLA Department of Gender Studies is a community partner with UCLA Film & Television Archive for an upcoming screening of Vera (Toledo, 1986), a film about a young Brazilian transman in the 80s. The screening is on April 12 at the Hammer. It is part of a really interesting series called Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender-Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema co-curated by Jenni Olsen and Caden Mark Gardner, via UCLA Film & Television Archive. Incoming Gender Studies faculty Dan Bustillo will be doing a q&a with co-curator Jenni Olsen following the screening – more details here: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/04/12/vera

Universities: Diagnosing the Present
2024-05-09 09:00 - 11:30

QGrad 2025 – Glittering Rage
2025-10-31 09:00 - 19:00 | Hershey Hall
University of California, Los Angeles
LGBTQ Studies Program
28th Annual Queer & Trans Studies Graduate Conference
Learn more about the event here.
