Join the Penn Women's Center for happy hour - learn more about the Center and ways to get involved - refreshments will be served

Master's, doctoral, and professional students of color who also identify as queer and/or trans inhabit the intersection of several underrepresented identities. The QGOC Dinner Social is an opportunity to meet fellow queer grads from other departments over a delicious meal. Come…

Join the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs and The School of Social Policy and Practice for a lecture with Dr. Susan Sorenson, Executive Director, Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse in Relationships. Dr. Sorenson will discuss how views on sexual assault…

Elena Rosa Maris: Queer Xena, Old Xena: Examining Online Audience Influence through a Fandom’s Tactical Lineage Xena: Warrior Princess was a syndicated TV series that aired from 1995–2001. This presentation considers the case of the Xena fandom in two different eras to examine…

Through his candor and wit, Michael unapologetically addresses race, sexuality, religion, and pop culture through the lens of marginalization in today’s America. Michael comments on his life as a black gay man, and how his Catholic upbringing and Howard University education have…

Join the Black Graduate Women's Association for an evening of discussion on black women, activism, and police brutality in the age of social media. Featuring guest panelists Elisa Foster, Associate Director, Penn Women's Center and Dr. Batsirai Bvunzawabaya, Interim Associate…

Please join us for a Work-In-Progress lunch with Jonathan D. Katz, Visiting Associate Professor; Director, Visual Studies Doctoral Program, SUNY, Buffalo Paper Title: How AIDS Changed American Art: Sex and the Gendering of Postmodernism Discussant: Heather Love, English and APC…

Ladies Only: Getting where you’re going without getting harassed. That’s what’s driving a new generation of Indian women to become taxi drivers-for women only. Enter their world as they negotiate New Delhi’s divided public transport spaces. “Ladies Only” is a 29-minute short…

Home movie footage, found by the director, follows a Chinese American family negotiating life in the suburbs of Chicago between 1936 and 1951. Presented by Rob Buscher, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, and Kate Pourshariati , Penn Museum Film Archivist.

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…