Twenty-nine years ago, the Alice Paul Center and GSWS Program hosted Anita Hill in her first public talk after the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. In October 2018 Professor Hill returned to Penn at yet another historic moment in the movement against sexual harassment and…

For more information on Women Against the Megaprojectos or to send words of support, please visit the Collectivx Ch'ixi blog or F acebook page Drawing from her previous work on colonialism, ethnicity and gender in the Andes, Rivera Cusicanqui will give a historical background for…

Snorton traces how flesh figures one route into the proverbial question of how matter matters. Snorton is a Penn alum, with a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture, with graduate certificates in Africana Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies.

Join us for a roundtable discussion exploring the shifting meanings and practices of transnational feminisms in today’s volatile world. Panelists include: Ann Farnsworth, Associate Professor of History & GSWS Affiliated Faculty LaShawn Jefferson, Deputy Director, Perry World…

Muslim Masculinities: Gender, Religion, and the Everyday brings together Penn, national, and international scholars examining Muslim masculinities in all their complexities within and beyond the United States.

Watch the Video As one approach to the question, “What’s Left of Queer Studies Now," Christina Crosby and Janet Jakobsen explore the relation between queer studies and disability studies. In contrast to the liberal individual who is the bearer of rights, queer theory offers ways…

As an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, Chelsea Manning disclosed classified documents to WikiLeaks that revealed human rights abuses and corruption connected to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in a…

This panel brings together feminist scholars across the disciplines to discuss the histories of anti-black violence in a range of locations, the ways these histories are connected, and the strategies people are using to counteract them.

In this lecture Prof. Johnson will share excerpts from his current creative nonfiction research on black southern women who love women to demonstrate how he employed performative and creative writing as a feminist method for conducting oral histories.

Sponsored by the Department of English in partnership with the Alice Paul Center This event is free and open to the public. Leo Bersani is an internationally renowned scholar who has worked in a variety of fields including gender/sexuality studies, literary studies…