Thursday, October 17, at 7:30 PM, join the Kelly Writers House, Gender Sexuality and Women Studies Undergrad Advisory Board, and Queer Students Alliance for a SPEAKEASY open mic night in honor of National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11). Performers can share anything related to this…

The National Conference on Community Writing is a three day conference bringing together scholars from across the disciplines who do writing-related activist work across the country on a range of issues and in collaboration with activists working, for example, in women's shelters…

As part of the Wolf Humanities Center's Forum on Kinship the Penn LGBT Center will screen the documentary film "How Do I Look," about ball culture in Philadelphia and Harlem in the mid-1990s. For more infomration, visit wolfhumanities.upenn.edu.

Join Quechua @ Penn for a screening of “Return to the Andes” (USA/Peru= 50 min) and Q & A with director Mitchell Teplitsky and protagonist Nélida Silva. After living in New York City for 20 years, Nelida Silva (from the film Soy Andina) returns again to her Peru birthplace…

Join Kelly Writers House for a conversation with film critic ELIZABETH WEITZMAN about her newest publication RENEGADE WOMEN IN FILM & TV, an illustrated tribute to groundbreaking women across the history of film and television. Peter Decherney will moderate. ELIZABETH WEITZMAN is…

Please join us for a special screening of Academy Award winning documentary, Period. End of Sentence which follows girls and women in Harpur, India and their experience with the installation of a pad machine in their village where the stigma of menstruation persists. The…

Work in Progress Seminar: Ricardo A. Bracho (APC Artist in Residence) For this noontime presentation, incoming Artist-in-Residence Ricardo A. Bracho will read from his body of work, spanning plays, essays and poetry produced in the last three decades in New York, Los Angeles and…

Decades of feminist theory have approached the question ‘what is gender?’ with an eye to gender as a system— in particular, the system that creates and sustains patriarchy. Using this approach, feminists have proposed theories of gender focused on the social positions that…

Twenty-nine years ago, the Alice Paul Center and GSWS Program hosted Anita Hill in her first public talk after the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. In October 2018 Professor Hill returned to Penn at yet another historic moment in the movement against sexual harassment and…

Friday, September 6, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm Event Information: Please join Fels for a conversation with Valerie Jarrett, the longest-serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. Valerie B. Jarrett is a senior advisor to the Obama Foundation and Attn, a Senior Distinguished…