FTW has, since the first gathering in 2007, promoted diverse dialogue among scholars of feminist theory and fostered a vibrant intellectual community. To that end, we bring together internationally recognized keynote speakers and emerging young scholars to engage in lively and…

This event is for faculty and staff ONLY. Do you have questions about Penn's Title IX policy? Concerned about how the Dept. of Education's investigation affects you and your communities? Get answers from the Office of General Counsel! No registration necessary. Submit your…

Join the Philadelphia Trans Oral History project to discuss Philly’s Black LGBTQ+ nightlife scene, the history of queer/trans performance, how the scene has changed since the 1980’s, how it endures in the present political conjuncture, and how it will thrive going forward. Doors…

GSWS is hosting a book talk for Dr. Sophie Lewis' new book, Enemy Feminisms, moderated by Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser. "Where would we be without Sophie Lewis?" asks Judith Butler: "In a more impoverished political world." Join GSWS visiting scholar Sophie Lewis at the Penn bookstore…

For as long as house ball culture has been around, people have been appropriating it. Long recognized as a nexus of Black trans/queer diasporic performance, ballroom is home to a cluster of embodied practices and movement vocabularies popularly referred to as vogue. Over the past…

Please join Randall Williams, editor, independent scholar and former union organizer/AIDS activist; and Ricardo A. Bracho, Abrams Artist in Residence in GSWS/FQT for a table reading of Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards. Brecht's retelling of the Joan of Arc story sets…

Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies associate director Che Gossett will give a talk from their manuscript in progress, focusing on the remarkable life of Philadelphia-based AIDS activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya, queer archives, and life-writing. Gossett…

A Penn Carey Law Lecture by Chase Strangio Chase Strangio Chase Strangio is Co-Director for Transgender Justice with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project and a nationally recognized expert on transgender rights. Chase’s work includes impact litigation, as well as legislative and…

Please join us for "Trans Art(s) of Abstraction" in the LGBT Center on January 25th at 6:00 pm. Queer/Trans art historian David Getsy in conversatioin with the curator of the exhibition "Transcendent Mess: To Outwit Representation" at Vox Populi Gallery, Lane Timothy Speidel and…

Come grab some dinner and learn about the GSWS program with Gwendolyn Beetham, Associate Director of GSWS Program, and Riley Fortier, Program Coordinator for the GSWS program.