A discussion with local Muslim, Jewish and Christian Queer leaders about identity, spirituality and embodied resistance. Raquel Evita Saraswati Co-founder, Sacred Justice Commissioner, Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari Kol Tzedek Synagogue Rev. Naomi…

Eziaku Nwok ocha Bio: Eziaku Nwokocha has already earned a master’s at Harvard Divinity School. As a graduate student in Africana and Religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she undertakes ethnographic research on gender sexuality, fashion and material culture in…

Please join us for a lecture by Arthur Tress. Tress is a renowned contemporary art photographer who uses photography to tell stories. He first gained recognition with his hauntingly beautiful book of images, Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector (1972), which challenged the…

As part of a larger translation project called “Of Many Kinds: An Anthology of Queer Korean Literature,” Dr. Perry’s talk examines the works of several writers whose fiction sheds light on popular discourses of non-normative sexuality and gender variance in both colonial and…

Chris Fite (History and Sociology of Science): "Queer Encounters in the Garden: Meeting the Polyamorous Christ in a Popular Protestant Hymn" Jasmine Erdener (Communication): "From Puppet to Robot: Excavating Radical Futures" This project examines robots and artificial…

Created by and for adolescent girls and women, boys love (BL) media, depicting romantic and sexual relationships between males, took root in commercial shōjo manga (girls’ comics) magazines in Japan in the early 1970s. BL quickly spread into other commercial and fan-produced…

Dawn Teele Assistant Professor - University of Pennsylvania, Political Science Department For more information: https://www.pop.upenn.edu/

LGBT Health Awareness Week is a week designed to promote LGBT health and bring awareness to the unique health care needs of the LGBT community and we are happy to recognize it at Penn Medicine! This calendar features events happening at the Hospital of the University of…

Penn Annenberg doctoral candidate Elena Maris discusses her work on the ways Nicki Minaj has queered hip hop, accompanied by a screening of her "queerest" videos. Abstract below: Singer/rapper/actress Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) was the first woman with 4 simultaneous Top 10…

http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule The Philadelphia Writing Project (PhilWP) is located in the Reading/Writing/Literacy Program and the Language, Culture, and International Education Division in the Graduate School of Education. One of the premier sites of the National…