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Are you an undergraduate or graduate student going to NWSA?

The Greater Philadelphia Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Consortium provides funding to students who are traveling to the National Women’s Studies Association Conference or are conducting research.

Visit https://tinyurl.com/3xe7tky3 to apply for funding!

Contact GPWSC2@gmail.com for more information.

From its very inception, the field of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies was closely related to local and global struggles for social justice. Feminist and queer theorists have analyzed the social construction of identity categories across history, challenging dominant ideologies that stigmatized individuals and communities on the basis of gender and sexuality, as well as race, class, and other factors. In recent years, we are witnessing a powerful backlash that targets not only non-heteronormative individuals, but also the critical research on gender and sexuality in academia.

Lesbians have long created worlds of their own, refusing the limits of the lives they were offered. Across different places and histories, they have imagined new ways to desire, belong, make kin, and build a future. Amid rising authoritarianisms, perpetual war and genocide, religious fundamentalism, and attacks on feminist, queer, and trans lives, Transnational Lesbian Liberation asks what liberation can mean now: what we have inherited, what we must resist, and what we are creating together.

The SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize, co-sponsored by Feminist Media Histories, recognizes outstanding scholarship in the field of feminist media history.

A $500 cash prize will be awarded annually to the winner and the winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in Feminist Media Histories.

A Writing Award Committee composed of two members of the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus (formerly Women’s Caucus) and the editor of Feminist Media Histories will evaluate submissions.

The GSWS and FQT team wants to express appreciation and warmth for Nat DiFrank, who is shifting his position at Penn from GSWS/FQT to the LGBT Stories Project Coordinator.  While his location on Penn campus is a (Locust!) walk away, his practice of community archiving and oral history continues in his new role at the LGBT Center.

The Coloured Pages is a Black literary magazine run by University of Pennsylvania students that publishes biannually. Our mission is to create a robust artistic scene for Black student artists run by Black student artists; providing a platform for Black creatives to share their work! We accept poetry, prose, and visual artistic mediums that have artist statements from all Black artists as well as work from non-Black artists whose work makes a commentary on the Black experience.