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Spring 2022
College Experience: The LatinX Edition
Rodríguez, founder of "Latina Rebels" and author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, will utilize storytelling to speak to the immigrant and first-gen college experience, covering topics from imposter syndrome to sexual liberation.
Spring 2021
Cristina Rose (Smith) Named 2021 Catherine H. Jacobs Outstanding Faculty Lecturer
"When Cristina Rose (Smith) is teaching, she doesn't just lecture while students jot down notes. Rather, Rose acts as an active and engaging facilitator of conversation - letting students take the lead in their own discoveries. Rose, who has taught in the CSUDH Women's Studies program since 2014, describes herself as relational and feminist in her teaching approach. Her pedagogy is 'less about having the answers, and more about asking the questions that will bring us into fuller lives,' she says."
Fall 2020
The Women's Studies Program and CSUDH's Gerth Archives and Special Collections present the new Exhibit "100 Years of the Women's Vote"
This exhibit honors the 100-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment, highlighting historical and contemporary successes and struggles as they relate to the enfranchisement of women and marginalized groups. In the fall of 2019, students in WMS 320: Feminist Principles spent the semester studying women's movements on a local, national, and global level. Working with staff from the CSUDH Donald R. & Beverly J. Gerth Archives & Special Collections, students collected information, materials, and images to create posters and display cases related to the Suffrage Movement and women's political participation over the past 100 years. Students also researched and interviewed local organizations and individuals in order to highlight contemporary women and women's issues that are relevant to our current political moment and the continued fight for women's rights.
The final project culminated in the posters, display cases, and zine that are featured in this online exhibit. Students in WMS 100: Gender, Sex, the Body & Politics also contributed to the creation of the posters on contemporary women's issues, as well as art images for the exhibit's zine.
The physical exhibit will be on display at the Gerth Archives and Special Collection on the 5th Floor of Library South through 2021.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.
Spring 2019
Dr. Jenn Brandt awarded prize by the Popular Culture Association
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Dr. Cristina Smith presents Semillas de las Abuelas at the 2019 Gloria Anzaldua International Conference: Translating B/borders
Dr. Cristina Smith will present at Semillas de las Abuelas: Teaching to Reclaim in the B/borderland Family at The Gloria Anzaldua International Conference: Translating B/borders on May 16-17, 2019 University of Paris VIII, Paris, France.
Our writing speaks to how we are growing ruda in our family and community gardens. As professors and mothers, we situate our work in a critique of this country’s borders and its history of colonization that perpetuated violence, slavery, and genocide on our ancestors. We also engage in the reclamation of the Borders our families occupy in spiritual and energetic divided spatialities, particularly in a pedagogical framework entrenched in systems of power meant to sustain a patriarchal, white supremacist, capitalist ideology in our children. We trust we can offer our children the space for true liberation and the tools to grow their own ruda for generations. It is in that spirit that we create this paper as an introduction to a book which will be a collection of tools both practical and theoretical to resist and liberate us and our children from oppressive forces while we celebrate our ancestral cultures and histories.