This annual seminar series welcomes Maria Smilios , author of The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis , and Virginia Allen, one of the last living Black Angels. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuber­culosis stirred people’s darkest fears…

Dr. Ian Fleishman, Chair of the Cinema & Media Studies Department and a member of the Executive Board at GSWS, will be launching a monograph on queer film and literature, Flamboyant Fictions : The Failed Art of Passing. This book posits formal experimentation as an index for…

Deion Dresser, "Beyond the Binary: Reimagining Sexual Difference through Relational Ontologies" This paper critically examines a fundamental concept of Italian feminisms, il pensiero della differenza sessuale, focusing on its limitations in addressing non-binary and trans…

For as long as house ball culture has been around, people have been appropriating it. Long recognized as a nexus of Black trans/queer diasporic performance, ballroom is home to a cluster of embodied practices and movement vocabularies popularly referred to as vogue. Over the past…

GSWS/FQT invites you to participate in a winter break reading group. This year's book is Jennifer Nash's recently published How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory . Copies of the book are available in the GSWS/FQT suite. Please fill out this form to let us know…

Bonnie Maldonado (Africana Studies) will also be presenting.

Join Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies department and the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies (FQT Center) for our holiday party to celebrate the end of the year. There will be food and drinks!

Join PennNYC, the Association of Alumnae, Penntertainment & the Wharton Media & Entertainment Group to discuss the film The Substance, an incredibly slick, clever, and creative (if somewhat disturbing) film with two experts from Penn’s Cinema & Media Studies Department, Ian…

Join Dr. Katz in this art history colloquium as we explore the contested definition of homosexuals in late 19th Century Art.

Please join FIGS for the monthly movie night! ANNE+ will be screened in Dutch with English subtitles, and there will be snacks. All are welcome to attend!