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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 15

Bend and Snap: A Zine Folding Event for the PTHOP

12:00 - 2:00 pm

Join the Philadelphia Trans Oral History Project (PTOHP) in assembling their…

Aug 22

Take Back Your Health!

with the Mazzoni Center

1:00 - 4:00 pm

What’s better than letting stigma make your decisions? Taking back your health 🧡…

Illustration of hot pink pills on a light pink background by Marigotie on Unsplash

Sep 22

GSWS/FQT Open House

4:00 - 5:30 pm

Please join us for our annual GSWS/FQT open house! Meet and learn more about…

GSWS/FQT News

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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!

August 12, 2026

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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.

July 20, 2026

Pilar Gonalons-Pons, GSWS Core Faculty, Wins Award from the American Sociological Association

Pilar Gonalons-Pons, the Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences, has won the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section’s Devah Pager Outstanding Article Award at the American Sociological Association annual meeting.

July 20, 2026