Past Events
Jules Gill-Peterson presents “The Queen’s Two Bodies, or a Political Theology of Trans Femininity”
Jules Gill-Peterson (JHU) will be giving a talk on Thursday, 4/14, at 3:30pm. The talk will be in FBH 401, with a reception to follow at 5pm. “The Queen’s Two Bodies, or a Political Theology of Trans Femininity” In midcentury America the queen was the central symbol of the gay…
Diversity Lecture Series at Penn Featuring David Eng
Zoom
Speaker: Dr. David L. Eng, Ph.D. Richard l. Fisher Professor of English and Asian American Studies Topic: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. Dr. Eng will explore case histories that illustrate the social and psychic…
Women in Media and Communication Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Annenberg School for Communication Library
Despite being one of the biggest informational resources available, Wikipedia has a troubling gender gap: in the English language version of Wikipedia, it’s estimated that only 10-15% editors are women, and women are the subject of less than 20% of all biographical pages. Recent…
Queer and Trans of Color Activism in Philadelphia
Hybrid: The Forum & Zoom
LGBTQ+ people of color have historically acted as political bridge-builders and radical change-makers on behalf of their multiple communities. Join two queer activists of color, Hanae Masonfrom Black Lives Matter Philadelphia and Jorian Rivera-Veintidos from GALAEI: QTBIPOC…
40 Years of Queer BIPOC Feminism with Jennifer Nash & Jasbir Puar
As part of a year of programming on Care for the Future, the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies is hosting a series of events to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of two landmark publications for BIPOC queer feminist thought, This Bridge Called My…