Women's History Month 2026

City College of San Francisco

2026 Women's History Month Theme:

"Calling All Unruly Witnesses"

Images courtesy of Allison Smith and ClarizeYale Revadavia, Emerge Studio, CCSF Visual Media Design Department

Respective events are organized and co-sponsored by CCSF's Women’s and Gender Studies department, Project SURVIVE, Women’s Resource Center, Office of Student Equity, Queer Resource Center, Poetry for the People, Ethnic Studies and Social Justice Collaborative, Philippine Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Latin American and Latinx Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, English department’s Creative Writing program, Athletics department, Diversity/EEO Advisory Committee, Family Resource Center, One College One Book, and Associated Students, and are supported by Visual Media Design, Broadcast Electronic Media Arts, Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies, and your Student Activity Fee.

See below for full list of events!

Check back for details & expanded event listings: tinyurl.com/WHMccsf

All events are free of charge. For more information, call (415) 239-3899 or for disability-related accommodations, call (415) 452-5481, 48 hours in advance.

MARCH WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH & APRIL SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH @ CCSF

Wednesday, February 25

1:00-3:00 PM | Queer Resource Center, SSC 2116

Women of Color Gathering: Rest is Resistance

Thursday, February 26

12:00-2:00 PM | Student Union 203 | Lunch provided

Women of Color Gathering: 100 Years of Black Feminism: Film screening & discussion - A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

Sunday, March 8

11:00 AM- 3:00 PM | The Pergola at Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA

International Working Women's Day Rally & March organized by community partners

Monday, March 9

2:00-4:00 PM | Cloud Hall 223

Project SafeWeb: Cyber Trafficking & Digital Safety

Tuesday, March 10

3:10-4:15 PM | STEAM 102

Book event: This Unruly Witness: June Jordan's Legacy - a reading from contributors and celebration of the legacy of professor and editor Lauren Muller

Weekly, through March 13

Virtual event | Complete the interest form to participate

Calling In Book Club: discussion group with Project SURVIVE Peers

Monday, March 16

1:00-2:30 PM | HBB 140 | Virtual viewers may join livestream at 12:45 PM or later

Loretta Ross on Calling In: How To Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel

Monday, March 16

2:45-4:00 PM | STEAM 101

Reception for Loretta J. Ross, Project SURVIVE peer educators, and other student leaders

Tuesday, March 17

2:00-4:00 PM | HBB 140 | To Register: bit.ly/osefilmseries

Office of Student Equity Film Series: Lingua Franca

An undocumented trans woman seeking legal status in the US becomes romantically involved with the grandson of the elderly woman she cares for.

Tuesday, March 17

6:00-9:00 PM | HBB 140 | Registration required

16th Annual Talanoa Series: Dr. Caitlin "Katie" Keli'ia'a, History and Critical Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz

"Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women's Labor Histories in the Bay Area"

Thursday, March 19

12:00-2:00 PM | Women’s Resource Center, SSC 2112

Women’s Resource Center Spring Open House

Wednesday, March 25

1:00-2:15 PM | Women's Resource Center, SSC 2112

Women’s History Month - Building Healthy Relationships with Project SURVIVE

Thursday, March 26

2:15-3:30 PM | Women's Resource Center, SSC 2112

Sexual Harassment Prevention Training - SF Women Against Rape

Wednesday, April 8

6:00-7:30 PM | Cloud Hall 260

Bystander Intervention Training - SF Women Against Rape

Thursday, April 9

2:00-4:00 PM | Women's Resource Center, SSC 2112

Surveillance as a Feminist Issue - No Azure for Apartheid

Monday, April 13

1:10-4:00 PM | Cloud Hall 223

About Face: Veterans Against the War

Wednesday, April 15

6:00-7:30 PM | Cloud Hall 260

Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault Training - SF Women Against Rape

Thursday, April 16

11:30 AM-1:00 PM | Hybrid event, Lunch provided - Registration required

One College, One Book discussion: Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families

Thursday, April 16

6:00-7:30 PM | Mission Campus 109

Ashley & Michelle Monterrosa on Justice for Sean Monterrosa

Friday, April 17

10:00-11:15 AM | Wellness 103

Bystander Intervention Training - SF Women Against Rape

Monday, April 20

9:30 AM | Cloud Hall Reading Garden

Flag-raising to kick off Lesbian Visibility Week 2026

Wednesday, April 22

1:00-2:15 PM | Women's Resource Center, SSC 2112

Sexual Assault Awareness Month - Building Healthy Relationships with Project SURVIVE

Thursday, April 23

12:10-1:25 PM | HBB 140

Visiting Writers Series: Thea Matthews

Monday, April 27

2:00-4:00 PM | Queer Resource Center, SSC 2116

Lesbian Visibility: Queer-a-oke and Cupcakes

Wednesday, April 29

Denim Day: Join us by wearing denim to support sexual assault awareness

Wednesday, April 29

4:00-6:00 PM | Cloud Hall 260

Denim Day Workshop: Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence

Wednesday, April 29

6:00-7:25 PM | Cloud Hall 260

Denim Day Book Talk: Author Christopher Pepper on Talk To Your Boys: 16 Conversations to Help Tweens and Teens Grow into Confident, Caring Young Men

Loretta J. Ross' book talk on Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel will be livestreamed. Virtual viewers may join at this link at 12:45 PM or later.

Loretta J. Ross is a nationally renowned activist, public intellectual, and professor whose work over the past five decades has transformed how we think about human rights, equity, and social change. A sought-after speaker and strategist, she helps leaders, institutions, and communities navigate complexity with courage, clarity, and compassion. She is among the most prominent voices of “Calling In,” a transformative approach that invites empathy, accountability, and grace into difficult conversations. Her newest book, Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel (2025), builds on her nationally acclaimed work challenging cancel culture and offering a more compassionate framework for fostering dialogue across difference. As a 2022 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Loretta is helping redefine what it means to do justice work in our polarized times.

Loretta’s activism began in the 1970s, and in 1978 she became the third executive director of the DC Rape Crisis Center, the first of its kind in the United States. Her work there addressing sexual violence, particularly within communities of color, helped lay the foundation for what would later become the #MeToo movement. This formative experience grounded her in the women’s movement and introduced her to the intersections of reproductive rights, racial justice, and anti-violence advocacy. She went on to co-found the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective and held leadership roles with the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women’s Health Project, and the National Anti-Klan Network. In 1996, she founded the Center for Human Rights Education—the first organization of its kind in the U.S.—to promote human rights as a unifying framework for social justice, emphasizing collaboration over division.

She is the co-author of three influential books on reproductive justice: Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Justice: An Introduction, and Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique. She is currently an Associate Professor at Smith College, where she continues to inspire students, educators, and changemakers to lead with empathy, strategy, and collective purpose.

In 2023, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

Calling In Book Club: discussion group with Project SURVIVE Peers

Weekly, Starting February 12 | Complete the interest form to participate

A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde

One College, One Book discussion: Pregnant Girl | Hybrid event, Lunch provided | April 16 |

11:30 AM-1:00 PM | Registration required

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