On October 12th, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college freshman died after having been attacked and tortured six days previous near Laramie, WY. His death catalyzed national conversations about anti-queer hate crimes, which led to the 2009 passage of the Matthew…

On October 10, 2018, more than 1,100 members of the Penn and Philadelphia community joined the Alice Paul Center at Irvine Auditorium for a timely and riveting conversation between Anita Hill and Kimberlé Crenshaw, moderated by Dorothy Roberts.

Join us for a screening of Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, the award winning documentary of Anita Hill's testimony during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991 and the implications of this powerful act in Professor Hill's life and in U.S. society more broadly.

Unapologetically Femme: Queering Black Genders in Beyonce's "Sorry” by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Associate Director, Center for Women’s and Gender StudiesAssociate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas, Austin Light refreshments will be served…