Past Events
GSWS Graduate Student Colloquium: Sara Mourad (Communication) and Sonia Gollance (German)
436 Cohen Hall Please join us for the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSWS) Graduate Student Colloquium. Sara Mourad (Communication) will present on the visibilities of queer sexuality in contemporary Lebanese cinema, and Sonia Gollance (German) will present on the…
Ellen Feder: "Disturbing Bodies: Envy in the Medical Management of Intersex"
Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Carriage House/LGBT Center 3907 Spruce Street Please join us for the following talk: “Disturbing Bodies: Envy in the Medical Management of Intersex” Ellen K. Feder, Associate Professor of Philosophy, American University Abstract of the talk: In her talk…
Social Justice Media Making: A Conversation with Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez and Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Temple University, 821 Anderson Hall This event brings together two contemporary activist-artists whose multimedia and multifaceted work demonstrates the best that social justice media making can embody: Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez and Aishah Shahidah Simmons. These two vibrant…
Film Screening & Director’s Talk with video artist Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez
Location TBD Queer Latin@, Columbian-American video artist Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez will be screening several of her recent multimedia works that focus on queer asylum, migration, and citizenship, as well as giving a lecture on the issues her work raises in relationship to queer…
Mónica Enríquez-Enríquz
Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez is a queer person of color, born and raised in Colombia who migrated to the U.S. in 2001. She has an M.F.A in Digital Arts and New Media from University of California Santa Cruz. Her interdisciplinary interests include community based video installations…
Drag Activism: Performing the Revolution. Panel Discussion & Performances.
William Way LGBT Community Center ( 1315 Spruce Street) Come hear from and watch some of Philadelphia's most fabulous drag performers! Exploring how live performance and gender-bending play can enable social bonds and contribute to political transformation, the performers will…
Syllabus Construction in GSWS for your Job Portfolio with Shannon Lundeen (GSWS/APC) and Cathy Turner (CTL)
436 Cohen Hall This pedagogy seminar is for those graduate students seeking to develop a syllabus for implementation in the classroom or for inclusion in a job portfolio. We will discuss the basics of syllabus construction for introductory-level courses on gender, sexuality, and…
"Thick Relations" Film Screening and Discussion with filmmaker, Jules Rosskam
LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce Street Existing as an organic blend of documentary and narrative film elements, Thick Relations is a snapshot of an urban, queer community. Featuring a motley crew of compelling queer anti-heroes, the film constructs and calls forth queer accounts of time…
thirtynothing
The Rotunda / 4014 Walnut Street thirtynothing - Written & Performed by Dan Fishback In his solo performance, thirtynothing, Dan Fishback juxtaposes tales from the terrifying dawn of the AIDS epidemic with stories from his own more innocent childhood in those same years. As he…
Graduate Pedagogy Seminar featuring Sharrona Pearl: "Integrating Gender/Sexuality as a Category of Analysis in Courses by
436 Cohen Hall Please join us for a graduate student pedagogy seminar led by Professor Sharrona Pearl (Annenberg School of Communication). The seminar will address the question of how to make gender and sexuality integrated categories of analysis throughout the semester when the…