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…

Vandana Gopikumar, PhD, Co-Founder of The Banyan and The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, will receive the 2018 Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health for her work in helping women with mental health problems in India. She co-founded both…

http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule For the Teach-In, Data Refuge Stories teams will conduct mapping and storytelling actions, across campus staged at central locations of interdisciplinary knowledge production and circulation. At each Data Refuge Stories site, teams comprised…

http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule Universities have found themselves enmeshed in debates around immigration policy over the past year, as students, alums, faculty, scholars and researchers have been caught up in Executive Orders seeking to halt entry to the United States of…