Past Events
GSWS Graduate Colloquium with Mae Eskenazi (Design) and Katelyn Hearfield (Music)
FBH 345
Mae Eskenazi Offerings to Bob Flanagan Monitor, Speaker, Low Boy stand, Mies Van Der Rohe Leather chair, Leather cord, Bed(s) 1 hour 1 min 11 seconds 2021-2022Offerings to Bob Flanagan interrogates pain as an endurance performance, incessant conjuring, and connective tissue as…
The Ecoterritorial Feminisms, Relational Narratives, and Struggles Against Neo-extractivism in Latin America, with Maristella Svampa
3718 Locust Walk, 473 McNeil Building OR Zoom
For decades in the global South, and particularly in Latin America, women have been developing a strong role in social struggles and in processes of collective self-organization, linked to the field of human rights, to the defense of the most excluded sectors, to which…
I Know The End, a play by Sof Sears ('23), produced by Ricardo Bracho
The Rotunda
I Know the End is an experimental, feminist 1-act play written and directed by senior GSWS major Sofia (Sof) Sears and produced/advised by Ricardo Bracho. This is a play about Los Angeles and all its urban folklore, Chicana experience, monsters, girlhood, trauma and rage, with a…
GSWS Graduate Conference on Abolition with Elias Rodriques
Penn LGBT Center
3907 Spruce St
What is abolition? Ruth Wilson Gilmore states “Abolition is about abolishing the conditions under which prison became the solution to problems, rather than abolishing the buildings we call prisons.” Abolition exists within the context of racialized, gendered, and ableist…
I Know The End, a play by Sof Sears ('23), produced by Ricardo Bracho
The Rotunda
I Know the End is an experimental, feminist 1-act play written and directed by senior GSWS major Sofia (Sof) Sears and produced/advised by Ricardo Bracho. This is a play about Los Angeles and all its urban folklore, Chicana experience, monsters, girlhood, trauma and rage, with a…
I Know The End, a play by Sof Sears ('23), produced by Ricardo Bracho
Main Room of The Rotunda
I Know the End is an experimental, feminist 1-act play written and directed by senior GSWS major Sofia (Sof) Sears and produced/advised by Ricardo Bracho. This is a play about Los Angeles and all its urban folklore, Chicana experience, monsters, girlhood, trauma and rage, with a…
Symposium: Impact of the Dobbs Decision on the Workforce & Science
Jordan Law Auditorium, Jordan Medical Education Center, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Penn PROMOTES Research on Sex & Gender in Health and FOCUS on Health and Leadership for Women are co-hosting a symposium on April 13, 2023, on the Impact of the Dobbs Decision on the Workforce & Science. This symposium will feature talks by Aletha Akers, Vice President for…
Gender Inclusivity in Reproductive Justice
Hillel, 2nd Floor Shotel Dubin Auditorium (215 S 39th St)
Join us for the Gender Inclusivity in Reproductive Justice speaker event this Thursday @ 6pm at the Shotel Dubin Auditorium in Hillel! We will be discussing topics on what it mean to gender something, and the implications of reproductive justice work that focuses only on cis…
The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus
Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401
In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly…
Radical Self-Love & Poetry Workshop with ALOK
Penn LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St)
This is a free event open to Penn students only. ALOK will be holding a workshop limited to 35 participants. Registration is first come, first served with a waitlist. See the Center's Eventbrite page to register for this event!