Events
If you have a gender or women’s studies-related event that you would like to add to the IFC calendar please email ifc@scrippscollege.edu.
Upcoming Events
Student Activist Networking Lunch with Sami Mericle
Date: Friday, October 2, 2026
Time: 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Vita Nova Conference Room (Room 106), Scripps College
Join IFC for a networking lunch featuring Sami Mericle, Senior Organizer with One LA-IAF, part of the Industrial Areas Foundation, the nation’s oldest and largest community organizing network. Mericle works with religious institutions, nonprofits, and labor organizations throughout Los Angeles to address issues including immigration, health care, and street safety.
Please join us to meet other students involved in activist projects and organizations around campus and learn about career opportunities in community organizing.
Pizza will be provided.
Open to all students.
RSVP: By September 25, 2026, to mmartin@scrippscollege.edu.
Building Feminist Coalition Lunch
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Location: Pitzer College, Media Center Courtyard
(Outside West Hall)
Interactive Campus Map Here
The Intercollegiate Feminist Center Steering Committee invites Claremont Colleges faculty to a lunch centered on the theme of Building Feminist Coalition. This gathering is the third in a series designed to bring feminist faculty together for conversation, networking, and community building.
Participants will have the opportunity to share interests and concerns, exchange ideas, and explore ways to strengthen feminist connections across the Claremont Colleges.
Lunch will be provided.
Audience: Open to Claremont Colleges faculty only.
RSVP: By October 1, 2026, to mmartin@scrippscollege.edu. Please indicate any dietary restrictions.
Feminist Zine Workshop
Date: October 9, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Vita Nova 100, Scripps College, 385 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA 91711
Join the Intercollegiate Feminist Center and the CGU Center for Writing and Rhetoric for a hands-on workshop exploring the history of feminist zinemaking and the role zines have played in feminist and activist movements. Participants will learn about feminist zines, discuss how zines are used in activist spaces, and create their own original zine.
Supplies and snacks will be provided.
Contact: Emily Lauletta at emily.lauletta@cgu.edu for more information.
“Connecting the Dots: Feminist Conversations on Militarism, War, and Empire
Book Talk: To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s – Book talk with Dr. Linda Perkins, CGU University Professor, Director of Applied Gender Studies – April 9, 2025
Book Talk: AfroSwedish Places of Belonging with Nana Osei-Kofi, March 6, 2025
Birthing Justice panel, Thursday, April 11 , Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth (Routledge, 2023).
Film Screening, Beyond Bars, March 28, 2024
Student Activist Networking Luncheon, March 26, 2024
CWR + IFC Zine Making Workshop
“Still Working 9 to 5” A Feature-Length Documentary
Trailer: https://youtu.be/fhegtCL26yI?si=V4HFrWMRjnKwHQBk
Film screening, Personhood: Policing Pregnant Women in America
Conversations on Reproductive Justice: Economies of Motherhood: Reproductive Justice in a Globalizing World
Co-sponsored with the Pulitzer Center
“Reproductive Justice and the Prison Industrial Complex”
Lynn Paltrow, J.D., Executive Director, Pregnancy Justice
Co-sponsored with the 5C Prison Abolition Collective
CWR + IFC Zine Making Workshop
Abolition is Feminism, Feminism is Abolition Conference
Detailed conference information here. Speaker Bios here.
Dionne Bensonsmith; Co-founder/Co-director, Mothers on the Frontline Talk: Beyond Parity: Why Children’s Mental Health is a Justice Issue
Localizing the Global: Cities and International Women’s Rights with Heidi Nichols Haddad
Grace Berry Award Recipients; with guest speaker: Michelle Téllez: Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona; Grace Berry Award recipient, 2003: Ph.D., CGU, 2005; Beyond the Wall: Fronteriza Imaginaries in the Everyday; Thinking beyond geopolitical demarcations at the US/Mexico border and imagining the borderlands as a space of feminist resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building.
Collaborative Gender Thesis Chat & Collaborative Gender Thesis Meet & Greet
“Almost President: A Post Election Look At Women and The Highest Glass Ceiling”; Speaker: Ellen Fitzpatrick, Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
Sponsored
A Panel Discussion on Gender, Policing and Public Health
Panelist: Danielle M. Dupuy and Jade Rivera
Talk with Rachel Teukolsky – George Eliot and Hannah Arendt: Philosophies of the Pariah
Andrea J. Ritchie, “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color”
