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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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PAST EVENTS

Aug 31

To Secure These Rights:

150 Year of Women at Penn

All day event

While women have been associated with the University of Pennsylvania from its…

Diehter-Student protest, Women's Liberation-1970 Mar 17

Oct 5

CAMRA 2026 Open House

4:30 - 6:00 pm

CAMRA is a space for students interested in integrating multimodality into their…

Oct 5

LGBT Scholar in Residence Family Dinner

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Please join the LGBT Center's Scholar in Residence, Harper Steele, for a family…

GSWS/FQT News

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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.

April 30, 2027

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.

October 31, 2026