With an emphasis on visibility and pageantry, this queer mixer invites guests to break out their finery and dress for their own utopian vision: cosplay, crossplay, fursuit, trashdrag, gender bending and more are all encouraged. Play - DisPlay is hosted by artist Tommy Bruce with…

Annie Mok makes comics both solo and collaboratively, draws illustrations, writes, and sings in the pop groups See-Through Girls and Wolf Thistle. She received a 2014 Transformation Award from the Leeway Foundation. Annie will be speaking about her journey making comics and self…

Rangita de Silva de Alwis is the Associate Dean of International Affairs at University of Pennsylvania Law School. She teaches International Women’s Human Rights Law. In 2017, Rangita was appointed a Global Advisor to the UN Sustainable Development Goal Fund. At Penn Law she has…

Watch the Video As one approach to the question, “What’s Left of Queer Studies Now," Christina Crosby and Janet Jakobsen explore the relation between queer studies and disability studies. In contrast to the liberal individual who is the bearer of rights, queer theory offers ways…

How can the classroom make connections and contributions to the world beyond the academy while also protecting the need for critical inquiry that challenges administrative imperatives for efficiency and practicality? H ow can graduate students think about realizing feminist…

Join the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs, for an enlightening discussion with a diverse panel of women veterans, as we explore issues of diversity among…

Listen to a podcast interview with Janet Jakobsen on What's Left of Queer Theory Now? In this paper, based on her current book project, “Why Sex?: Religion, Secularism, and Possibilities for Justice,” Janet Jakobsen reflects on what she has learned from her experience of living…

Please come meet other LGBTQ+ faculty and hear brief remarks by Provost Wendell Pritchett. The Center’s LGBTQ+ Faculty Diversity Working Group is dedicated to ensuring faculty voices and needs are heard, increasing LGBTQ+ faculty presence on campus via hiring and retention…

Jody Benjamin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD from Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies in 2016. His book manuscript, “The Texture of Change: Cloth, Commerce, and History in…

Trained as both historian and computer engineer, Ademideʼs research into the history of west African cities combines a set of interdisciplinary interests in urban history, technology, cartography and spatial humanities. She joined UC Riversideʼs History department in July 2015…