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Call for Proposals! Queer Class/Room Symposium, Due 11/15
The University of Pennsylvania is excited to partner with CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York to hold a symposium addressing the intersection of queer and trans experience and social class.
Eva Pensis, TOHP Post Doc, Featured in Critical Inquiry
Pensis' book review published with Critical Inquiry is now live. The book in question is Juliana Gleeson's Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation.
Learn Your History: Ballroom, Femme Queen Performance, and Appropriation Today, by TOHP Post Doc Eva Pensis and Niambi Stanley
Long recognized as a nexus of Black trans/queer diasporic performance, ballroom is home to a cluster of embodied practices and movement vocabularies popularly referred to as vogue.
WE'RE HIRING! Work-Study Position
GSWS/FQT are seeking a detail-oriented and motivated work-study student to help with administrative tasks.
Jonathan Katz, GSWS Core Faculty, featured in The New Yorker for "The First Homosexuals," Art Exhibit
A timely exhibition dissects the emergence of modern ideas about gender and sexuality—and the backlash against them.
GSWS Core Faculty Serena Mayeri Publishes New Book, "Marital Privilege," with Yale University Press
GSWS core faculty, Serena Mayeri's, has a new book out titled, Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law, by Yale University Press.
Congratulations 2025 GSWS Grads!
Congratulations to our 2025 GSWS Grads!
Claudia Bellacosa (she/her) is a senior from Rome, Italy double majoring in Economics and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. On campus, she is involved with The WALK Magazine and Penn Fashion Collective. She is passionate about luxury retail, fashion merchandising and marketing, and their intersection with gender norms and women’s empowerment. After graduation, she will be working as an Assistant Buyer at Bloomingdale’s in New York City.