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.

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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

Penn Women's Center Graduate Open House

Join the Penn Women's Center at their graduate open house! More info to come.
Penn Women's Center building

La Casa Latina Procession of Flags and Open House

Please join La Casa Latina in their annual Procession of Flags and Open House…
La Casa Latina building

GSWS/FQT News

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'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.

Media and Projects

Explore recent videos, podcasts, and conversations from the GSWS/FQT community.

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View a timeline of the FQT Center and GSWS Program at Penn
Explore Season 6 of the FQT podcast
Learn more about the Philadelphia Trans Oral History Project
Meet FQT/GSWS Director Jessa Lingel