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While gender might be something that we don’t think about every day, it impacts nearly every aspect of our lives. GENESIS, which stands for Gender Exploration and Support in an Interpersonal Setting, wants to talk about gender.
A White House representative will kick off a week of education around sexual violence prevention on campus, in conjunction with the national “It’s On Us” Public Awareness Campaign to Help Prevent Campus Sexual Assault.
On Nov. 3, voters in Philadelphia voted to support a recommendation that the Office of LGBT Affairs become permanent. Philadelphia is the second city in the United States, after Washington, D.C., to have a permanent Office of LGBT Affairs.
If you’ve made your way down Locust Walk in the past week, you’ve probably noticed the white dresses with red paint splattered on them hung on lampposts.
In light of the recent news that Bill Cosby allegedly assaulted race officiant Donna Barrett at the 2004 Penn Relays, students are questioning whether Penn should revoke Cosby’s honorary degree. Many other universities, such as Lehigh University and Tufts University, have already done so.
A name reflects where a group comes from, who they serve and what they stand for.
Taking a class that's full of freshmen when you’re a senior might be a weird experience, but it’s much stranger when you’re an adult and you’re in a class full of undergraduates.
Besides being the month of Halloween, fall break and National Coming Out Day, October is also known as LGBT History Month. LGBT History Month was started in 1994 by a high school history teacher and has been celebrated in October in the United States and other months around the world.
While graduating from Penn means leaving your dorm room behind, that doesn’t mean that you have to leave your roommates as well. From Penn to New York, San Francisco to Mountain View, these Penn alumni decided to room with their undergraduate roommates even after leaving campus for good.
AQIS, which stands for the Association for Queer International Students, is a name with a lot of hidden relevance. It is pronounced ah-kee, like the Spanish word for “here” and the French word for “to whom.” It also sounds similar to the phrase “my brother” in Arabic and “strange” in Mandarin. The ambiguity of the word suits the group, which serves those who are both international students and members of the LGBTQ community — identities that intersect in interesting ways.
For those familiar with sexual violence research, the American Association of Universities’ recent survey findings were not surprising.
About a third of Penn female undergraduates say they’ve been sexually assaulted, according to the results of the American Association of Universities’ Campus Climate survey, whose results were released on Sept. 21. Specifically, 27 percent of female undergraduates have experienced “nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching involving physical force or incapacitation” since entering college.
Around a coffee table in Penn Women’s Center on a Thursday evening, a circle of students talk about gender, cultural backgrounds and intersectionality. This is Seneca Safe Space.
If you want to talk about issues within a specific minority group, there are plenty of organizations to join on campus. But if you want to talk about all minorities and how to be allies, Rodin United offers a unique forum for these conversations.
Socrates, Plato, Decartes — nearly all famous philosophers are men, and the Penn Philosophy Department’s demographics also skew male. Only four out of 14 members of the Philosophy Department are female.
It’s one of those ugly secrets that pervades college campuses: sexual violence happens.
Despite significant gender disparities across majors, many Penn students are unintimidated to study certain fields.
This year, Penn Consortium of Undergraduate Women got a facelift, rebranding as the Penn Association for Gender Equity.
For Sayid Abdullaev, it’s not what he can do for space, it’s what space can do to amplify his message.
Penn’s queer student organizations encompass a full spectrum of the school’s diverse population. There are groups for students who fall into many intersections of the LGBTQ spectrum by race, religion and interest — a total of 25 groups are affiliated with the LGBT Center, Director Bob Schoenberg said.