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Join Penn Nursing in Creating LGBTQ+ Mental Health Support App
The Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is looking for people like you to help build a mental health support app and curriculum designed for LGBTQ+ young adults in Pennsylvania!
Harper Steele featured in The Philadelphia Gay News
PGN spotlights Harper Steele, the Emmy-winning comedy writer and star of Will & Harper, as the Penn LGBT Center's 2026-2027 Scholar-in-Residence.
UCLA Thinking Gender 2027 Graduate Conference
This year's theme is "Power and Care in Gendered Migrations," exploring how immigrant communities experience immigration policy and enforcement through a gendered lens, and how engaged researchers can approach this work ethically and collaboratively.
Butch-Femme Press Literary Journal: Call For Papers
The Butch-Femme Press Literary Journal is open for submissions! Butch-Femme Press are accepting academic, or otherwise critical or nonfiction, papers on the topic of "Lesbian Futures" in the field of Arts & Humanities.
Prof. Marcia Chatelain, GSWS Affiliate Faculty, Appears on The Black Studies Podcast
The Black Studies podcast is a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Their conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.
'Screening Women Filmmakers' Available for Pre-Order
Screening Women Filmmakers is an essential collection of 58 essays, each focusing on a single film directed by a woman-identified filmmaker, inclusively defined, from the earliest days of filmmaking (1896) to the present day, and from countries and regions around the globe.
School of Arts & Sciences Names Two GSWS Core Faculty to Endowed Chairs
Please join us in congratulating Ayako Kano and Deb Thomas on this accomplishment!
Beth Linker, GSWS Affiliate Faculty, Shortlisted for 2026 George Rosen Prize
Beth Linker, the Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences and chair of the department of history & sociology of science in the School of Arts & Sciences, was shortlisted for the 2026 George Rosen Prize for her book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America.