In this talk based on her book, Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco, Dr. Otálvaro-Hormilosa will present on trans performance within the burlesque and cabaret worlds of mid-century San Francisco. The conversation will be moderated by Abrams Artist in…

Cole Rizki, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, will present a talk titled "Choreographies of Survival, Art of Repair." This talk will draw on Professor Rizki's ethnographic work with travesti and trans survivors of dictatorship in Argentina focused on their…

Join Serene Khader, author of Faux Feminism, and Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms, for a conversation about their recent books!

We are thrilled to announce that the Embodied Histories Working Group—focused on the study of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in the Global South—has been awarded an SAS grant for the 2024-2025 academic year! Please join Sara Rahnama for a talk on The Future is Feminist: Women and…

Chase Strangio is Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project and our Spring Scholar in Residence. A national leader in transgender rights litigation and advocacy, Chase has been counsel in some of the past decade’s most pivotal legal fights on behalf of transgender litigants…

Chase Strangio is Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project and our Spring Scholar in Residence. A national leader in transgender rights litigation and advocacy, Chase has been counsel in some of the past decade’s most pivotal legal fights on behalf of transgender litigants…

The Department of Africana Studies invites you to our 12th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, "Gendered Spatiotemporalities: Black Political Assertions of Self”. For reasons of space, we encourage community members not affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania to join us…

Part I: Democracy in Crisis Part II: Civil Society under Attack Part III: What this means at Penn Part IV: Where do we go from here? In a forum on the First 60 Days of the Trump administration we take the long view in order to make sense of the flood of directives, executive…

In the U.S. premiere of Dentro, Giuliana Musso, one of Italy’s most compelling voices in contemporary theatre, explores the devastating impact of silence when abuse occurs at home. Please learn more and buy tickets here. Content advisory: Dentro explores topics that may be…

In the U.S. premiere of Dentro, Giuliana Musso, one of Italy’s most compelling voices in contemporary theatre, explores the devastating impact of silence when abuse occurs at home. Please learn more and buy tickets here. Content advisory: Dentro explores topics that may be…