Join GSE International Education Development students Rameen Iftikhar and Ramsha Fatima as they discuss their work on The Looking Glass, a gender transformative education toolkit built on extensive ethnographic case studies of minority and minoritized groups in Pakistan. About…

What is value-form queer theory? In recent years the debate about “queer value” in literary and cultural studies has resurfaced with intensified vigor, despite the lack of consensus on what is meant by the concept and what might serve as its proper analytic. In this talk, Petrus…

Yingchen Kwok, "Is Diversity Always Already Heterosexual? The Hereditary Roots of Biological Diversity in the Sexual Division of Labor" What does biological diversity have to do with gender norms? In this presentation, Yingchen argues that to understand their connection, we must…

Join us in celebrating the retirement of David Azzolina, Collection Development and Academic Engagment Librarian and GSWS librarian/affiliate faculty member.

Join CLAGS (Center for LGBTQ Studies) in honoring Dr. Heather K. Love as the 2024 David R. Kessler Award recipient!The Kessler is given annually to a scholar who has produced a substantive body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of LGBTQ Studies. Love’s…

Election season can be overwhelming and stressful, especially for Penn students balancing numerous daily tasks. To help, PWC and RP@P are hosting Election Protection Drop-In Hours, offering a space for students to de-stress and unwind with supportive staff specializing in trauma…

For the first GSWS Pedagogy Seminar, Allison Coyne and Katie Beck-Felts from Penn Wellness will offer a workshop on supporting LGBTQ+ students. Lunch will be served for those who are attending in person, and a zoom link will be shared with attendees before the event. Please…

The Oscar-nominated short film “Red, White and Blue,” by filmmaker Nazrin Choudhury, follows Rachel (Brittany Snow), a single parent living paycheck to paycheck. When an unexpected pregnancy threatens to unravel her already precarious position, she is forced to cross state lines…

Join us for an evening with Dr. Julio Capo, Florida International University, presenting "The Florida Incubator: How One State Shaped the Nation’s Culture Wars". For light refreshments, please arrive around 4:30.

The history of rickets is deeply intertwined with the emergence of modern medicine. This talk with Christian Warren, PhD, will demonstrate that, time and again, rickets was a player in important chapters of that drama. The history of rickets is deeply intertwined with the…