GWS at UC Berkeley

We are the Department of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

[Mallika 🌸🤍 @mallidharmaraj]

In San Jose, near where I grew up.

As those of us who are beneficiaries of the tech industry know, such violence is quotidian & routinized within the internal geography of Silicon Valley (from gentrification to caste terror), and inseparable from its boomeranged genocidal reach

[Randi @TheRandiSavage]

Toni Cade Bambara on her 50th birthday with her mother and daughter ✨✨✨

(Photo from the Savoring the Salt book)

[AROC #FreePalestine #AbolishICE @AROCBayArea]

Why we are boycotting this year's San Francisco City Hall Ramadan Iftar. Full statement here: https://t.co/LHr1NlwOAB

[🔴🔴Arika🔴🔴 @00arika00]

UPCOMING: A Global Feminist Critique of Capital: Reflecting on Fanon, Federici, Spillers & Spivak🍎 In-Person & Live-streamed Thur 28 Mar 5 - 7pm EST+1 (NY) / 9 - 11pm GMT (UK) A conversation between Silvia Federici, Hortense Spillers & Gayatri C. Spivak https://t.co/DV9IQXJqfA

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

ICYMI
The #WeeklyRead is “‘Criminalization is the Antithesis of Care’: Contextualizing the Dobbs Decision with Black Queer Abolitionist Feminism,” a conversation with Sarah Haley, Andrea Ritchie, and Emily Thuma, published in GLQ (30:1): https://t.co/a6Vy4exipS

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

"The Shape of Trans Yet to Come," the 10th anniversary double-issue of @tsqjournal (10:3-4) is available!
View the full TOC, read Abraham B. Weil's introduction, and "A Tranifesto for the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory," all freely available: https://t.co/l00G7UWbop

[UCLA CSW|Barbra Streisand Center @UCLACSW]

Last chance! The deadline for 4 student awards has been extended to Sunday, March 31. If you're a UCLA student passionate about feminist issues, activism, and social justice, apply for these funding opportunities https://t.co/ibJGYN6nk1

[Black Perspectives @BlkPerspectives]

#CFP: @BlkPerspectives invites essays that explore Black women’s activism outside of the US with special attention given to the latter half of the twentieth century up to the contemporary movement. Submissions are due March 31. For more: https://t.co/1R5G6mRpXo

[Dr. CBS @drcbs_]

Get into it! _The Black Antifascist Tradition_ is required reading for this time of war-mad monsters.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.

You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!

Happy 71st Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!

[Left in the Bay @leftinthebay]

42 years ago, March 24 1982, three Salvadoran refugees announced their decision to seek sanctuary at Berkeley’s University Lutheran Chapel, inaugurating what would become the Sanctuary Movement

[Randi @TheRandiSavage]

It’s Toni Cade Bambara’s birthday! ✨

A mighty ancestor who said “I write because I think I’ve got a hold of something that if I share it might save somebody else some time, might lift someone’s spirits, or might enable someone to see more clearly to avoid the okey doke.”

[ThePenAndPaper @the_penandpaper]

Free PDF 📚: Left of Karl Marx~The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
https://t.co/CkIoZwubcX

[Ezra David Romero @climatedaddy_]

🌊SCOOP: US Navy Acknowledges Rising Toxic Groundwater Threat at SF Superfund Site

“The Navy is telling you the shipyard, in its current state, is not fully protective of human health & the environment.” @AhimsaMD

@kqedscience @KQEDnews
https://t.co/h5ytvIrJar

[Barbara Smith @TheBarbaraSmith]

I will speak about the #CombaheeRiverCollective at my alma mater @mtholyoke on Wednesday 3-13. You are welcome to register here https://t.co/E8fOhjAygp & tune into the livestream. @smithcaringcirc @blkwomenradical @imaniperry @blackgirlinmain @CapDistrictDSA @eddafieldsblack

[Left in the Bay @leftinthebay]

108 years ago, March 10 1916, anarchist Reb Raney distributed 5,000 pro-birth control pamphlets at a solidarity rally for Emma Goldman in San Francisco, kickstarting a local birth control campaign by Italian anarchists Gruppo Anarchico Volontá

[IWL Rutgers @IWLRutgers]

“Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary,” is a collection of interviews with Miss Major Griffin Gracie, an activist and community organizer. Her memoir recounts her leadership and work fighting on the front lines for liberation.

#IWLBooksWeRecommend

[shado @shado_mag]

“The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution.”

- Pat Parker