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: William Way Empowerment Group

A Zine-Folding Party for TOHP

Assemble copies of PTOP's first zine collection that create a timeline of Philly…
ptohp zine

The Beginning of Identification, and its End

Philipp Gufler is an internationally recognized multimedia artist whose work…
Philip Gufler Headshot

GSWS/FQT News

THINKING GENDER

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.
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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.

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.