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Congratulations to the 2026 GSWS Graduates!

GSWS Majors

Aleiyah Aguero is a first-generation college student graduating with majors in History and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, and a minor in English. At Penn, she served as Co-Chair of the History Undergraduate Advisory Board, was a Penn History Department Undergraduate Research Fellow, and founded the Penn chapter of Letters Against Depression. She is the recipient of the 2025 GSWS Undergraduate Student Research Expense Award and a member of the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honors Society.

Duke Feminist Workshop Attendee Reflections

Duke Feminist Theory Workshop promotes dialogue among scholars of feminist theory, bringing together internationally recognized keynote speakers and emerging young scholars to engage in lively and focused debate.

Beans Velocci publishing new book, Sex Isn't Real, from Duke University Press

In Sex Isn’t Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies, and more, Velocci follows scientists and clinicians from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century and across five disciplines—zoology, eugenics, gynecology, statistical sexology, and transsexual medicine—as their ideas and practices created a definitional tangle.