When on October 13, 2007, at Eid Namaz, Feroza Rose Mohammed instigated the temporary removal of barriers which had been placed to separate the women from the men at her masjid: she was probably unaware of the contemporary global movement of women to gain equal access to and use…

Listen to a podcast interview with Jen Manion on What's Left of Queer Theory Now? In partnership with the LGBT Center, the Alice Paul Center welcomes Jen Manion, Associate Professor of History at Amherst College. Jen received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D…

Drone Imaginaries: The Techno-Politics of Visuality in Postcolony and Empire Join us for the 2016-2017 R. Jean Brownlee Lecture featuring Inderpal Grewal (Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies; and the South Asian Studies…

Intersectionality at a Crossroads: Race, Feminism, and the Trials of Social Media Join us for the 2016-2017 Judith Roth Berkowitz Lecture featuring Penn's own Anthea Butler (Associate Professor of Religious Studies) Social Media has changed the ways in which feminists collaborate…

The Queer Internet Studies Workshop brings together thinkers, makers and doers draw upon social scientific methods to do work at the intersection of queer life and the internet.

The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania is hosting its 3rd biannual graduate student conference, co-organized with the Annenberg School for Communications’ Media Activism Research Collective. The theme this year is “Protest” and will…

Rethinking Leadership from the Bottom Up This one-day conference brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists, journalists and artists from within and outside the Penn community for a transformative conversation on the meaning of leadership. In a moment where the public…

This generative writing workshop, led by spoken word artist and PYPM International Slam Coach Kavi Ade, will focus on how art, in particular poetry, can be a powerful tool in grassroots organizing and ground-up leadership. Kavi will discuss how they have used poetry over the…

Stiteler Hall, Room B21 Mona Eltahawyis an award-winning columnist and international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. During the 18-day revolution that toppled Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, she appeared on most major media outlets, leading the…