See the film that examines how women are being jailed, physically violated and even put at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America. Birthright: A War Story explores the accelerating gains of the crusade to control pregnant women and the fallout that…

APC Works in Progress Seminar with Jasbir Puar, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick In partnership with the Department of English In this talk, Puar reflects on the last ten years of homonationalism and its effects. She is especially…

Sponsored by the Department of English in partnership with the Alice Paul Center Free and open to the public Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She has also been a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Performance Studies at…

Pedagogy Workshop with Erin Cross, Director, Penn LGBT Center In this workshop, we will address challenges and opportunities in creating an inclusive classroom for trans and gender nonconforming students. Topics include: how to facilitate discussions that allow for respectful…

Open to the public. Please join us for the Philadelphia premiere of the critically acclaimed documentary film After Auschwitz: The Stories of Six Women. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Jon Kean, Penn alum, C’89. Sponsored by the University of…

When on October 13, 2007, at Eid Namaz, Feroza Rose Mohammed instigated the temporary removal of barriers which had been placed to separate the women from the men at her masjid: she was probably unaware of the contemporary global movement of women to gain equal access to and use…

Please join us Monday, October 16 from 12-1:30pm for a graduate research colloquium by Patricia Kim (History of Art) and Sarah Watson (English). RSVP below to reserve your lunch. Patricia Kim (History of Art): "Carceral Heritage and the Gendered Politics of Display in Karia (4 th…

Listen to a podcast interview with Jen Manion on What's Left of Queer Theory Now? Many gatherings in LGBTQ affirming spaces ask people to state their preferred pronouns when introducing themselves. This conversation will examine the underlying philosophy of gendered language as…

All around the world voters are choosing leaders and policies that promise to break away with the politics of the recent past. From Brexit, to the victory of the No in Colombia’s Peace Accords referendum, to the selection of a political outsider to the U.S. presidency, we are…

Listen to a podcast interview with Jen Manion on What's Left of Queer Theory Now? In partnership with the LGBT Center, the Alice Paul Center welcomes Jen Manion, Associate Professor of History at Amherst College. Jen received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D…