Please join the GSWS program as we celebrate our seniors graduating with honors: Kerry Schellenberger, "Android Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Star Trek" (Schellenberger's photo featured here) Sarah Thompson, "Portrait of a Marriage: Carol and Phil Mendel"…

Jess Shollenberger (English), On Being “Regularly Gay There”: Gertrude Stein’s Queer Ordinary In this presentation, I revisit Gertrude Stein’s “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene,” a portrait of two ladies being “regularly gay.” I situate this understudied composition with respect to…

Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights will lead a broad-ranging discussion with Andrea Ritchie, activist, attorney, and scholar. Ritchie’s new book Invisible No…

Zines have been a powerful tool for feminist politics and communities, and for gathering historically-marginalized voices, practices and ideas. How can zines help articulate a feminist set of ethics for teaching? What would a zine for feminist pedagogy be able to teach us? This…

For more information on Women Against the Megaprojectos or to send words of support, please visit the Collectivx Ch'ixi blog or F acebook page Drawing from her previous work on colonialism, ethnicity and gender in the Andes, Rivera Cusicanqui will give a historical background for…

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a contemporary Aymara feminist sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist from Bolivia. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quecha and Aymara cosmologies. She is the previous director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina…

Event Description coming soon. Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books and has written articles that have appeared in numerous…

Join editor, Lexie Bean and contributor, Nyala Moon for the Annual Mark D. Gordon Lecture on Written on the Body which contains letters from trans and non-binary survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Schedule 10:00AM Welcome & Opening Remarks William Burke-White, Richard Perry Professor and Inaugural Director, Perry World House 10:05-11:30AM Reporting on Refugees and International Migration: The Role and Responsibilities of Journalists and the Media Moderator: • Trudy Rubin…

QPenn is very excited to bring Amir Ashour to campus as a speaker this year! He will be on campus the Tuesday of QPenn for a discussion addressing his experience as the founder of IraQueer, Iraq's first LGBT+ organization, and his experiences as an openly gay man in both Iraq and…