A brief introduction and to the CSW Update's special edition on the Center's Research Scholars.

Last week, CSW was awarded a $300,000 NEH grant for “Making Invisible Histories Visible: Preserving the Legacy of Lesbian Feminist Activism and Writing in Los Angeles,” a three-year project to arrange, describe, digitize, and make physically and electronically accessible two major clusters of Mazer collections related to West Coast lesbian/ feminist activism and writing since the 1930s. This project, which continues CSW’s partnership with the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives and the UCLA Library, grew out of CSW’s two-year “Access Mazer: Organizing and Digitizing the Lesbian Feminist Archive in Los Angeles” project, which was supported in part by the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships.

Director's Commentary

A description of the joint project between UCLA Center for the Study of Women and NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality resulting in the sister conferences titled "New Majorities."

On Thursday, April 16, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, came to UCLA for a visit. Speaker Pelosi was on campus for “A Dynamic Discussion with Nancy Pelosi,” an event to celebrate her book, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters. Speaker Pelosi holds the highest ranking political position of any woman in U.S. history and, after the Vice-President, is next in line to the U.S. Presidency.