Graduate Students in

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The Pennsylvania State University

Information about our 2023 conference can be found by clicking "GWGSS Conference" in the menu on the left-hand side.

"My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition."

-Audre Lorde

Interested in studying women, gender, and sexuality? Curious about different traditions of feminism, such as Black Feminism, African Feminisms, and Latina Feminisms? Want to meet people from other departments at the university? Want to share your works and ideas?

The Graduates in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Organization welcomes graduate students from all fields of study to join. We have several social and scholarly events planned for the year that will get you talking and thinking. If you are interested in hearing about our events, please join our listserv and Facebook group. To join the GWGSS listserve, send email to psugwgss@gmail.com and you will be added posthaste! We look forward to hearing from you.

2022-2023 Officers:

President: Ryan Pilcher

Treasurer: Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson

Conference Chair: Mikayla Pevac

Members at Large: Karlin Anderson, Kathleen Blackwood, Cora Beth Butcher-Spellman, Laurie Dubois

GWGSS Facebook Group

Penn State University's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies