The Center and Program

GSWS/FQT is the premier site for scholarship on gender and sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania. Through the GSWS Program, our undergraduate major and minor and graduate certificate attract students across all disciplines. Through the FQT Center, we provide a home for sharing research, artistic and activist work related to queer, feminist and trans studies.

Upcoming Events

To Secure These Rights:

150 Year of Women at Penn

While women have been associated with the University of Pennsylvania from its…
Diehter-Student protest, Women's Liberation-1970 Mar 17

Bend & Snap (Part 4) at the Wilma Theater

A Zine-Folding Event for PTOHP

Use our special discount code PTOHP for a discount on tickets! All access…
Horsegirl and Cowdaddy

Ill Erotics: A Black Feminist Ethnography of Reproductive Justice in the Time of HIV/AIDS

Penn Anthropology Colloquium

About the talk Dr. Jallicia Jolly examines how the intimate lives of Black girls…
Jallicia Jolly Headshot

GSWS/FQT News

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.