Fashion, Identity, Performance, and Culture: The Queer Studies Conference 2011, a two day event organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender program, succeeded in creating an intellectually stimulating, aesthetically pleasing, and singular experience. The organizers of this year’s conference chose to focus on concepts, practices, aesthetics, and ideas about fashion from the LGBT perspective.  

A description of UCLA Women's Studies 2011/2012 Colloquium New Directions in Gender and Sexuality Studies. This article gives brief biographical information about the first two speakers, Professor Joan Roughgarden from Stanford University and Professor E. Patrick Johnson from Northwestern University.

A conference preview of Global Flashpoints: Transnational Performance and Politics.

Entitled Project: 2012, the CAWP campaign is a national, non-partisan effort to recruit professional women to run for office in 2012. The campaign sees the 2012 election year as a “once- in-a-decade opportunity” to elect more women into Congress and state legislatures by taking advantage of the redrawn congressional and state legislative districts that resulted from 2010 Census data. The re-drawing of districts has opened and created new seats in the 2012 election. According to CAWP, “reapportionment creates opportunity, and research shows that women have more success winning open seats.”

This article is an overview of the working paper by Assistant Professors in the Anderson School of Management Geoffrey Tate and Liu Yang titled "Female Leadership and Gender Equity: Evidence from Plant Closure,” which concluded that “women in leadership roles lessen the compensation gap between men and women inside their firms”

The newest publication from the Institute of Food and Development Policy, Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems (First Food Books, 2011) collects a variety of voices and opinions from farmers, workers, and consumers in diverse communities all over the world in an attempt to answer one question: “How can we unite to transform the global food system?” Contributors to the volume include activists and practitioners from organizations such as Via Campesina, the Slow Food Movement, and the World March of Women. The contributors lay out their strategies for new food production and distribution systems to key individuals like olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and João Pedro Stédile of the Brazilian Landless Worker’s Movement.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Alondra Nelson will be featured in Winter Quarter during the Women's Studies Lecture Series: New Directions in Gender and Sexuality Studies.