The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

10/06/2025

Please join us on Wednesday, October 8 from 4-6pm for an opening celebration for the student-designed exhibition “Radical Posters: Women’s Graphics Collectives.”

This exhibition showcases some of the recently-donated art and personal archives of the artist, historian, activist, and University of Chicago alumna, Barbara Morgan who co-founded the Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective in 1973 and Red Pepper Posters in 1976. Morgan documented her life in letters and journals dating from 1963 to 2011, which provide vivid details about her artistic practice and political activism.

The exhibition is free and open to the public and will remain on display through Friday, March 13, 2026. The exhibition can be viewed any time during CSGS business hours (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, closed weekends and during University holidays and breaks) on the ground floor of 5733 S. University.

06/20/2025

Our Gender and Sexuality Studies (GNSE) Class of 2025 virtual showcase is now LIVE! If you missed our BA Symposium in May, the virtual showcase is a fantastic way to see the wonderful and varied projects produced by our 2025 GNSE majors. Take a look here: https://voices.uchicago.edu/gnseclassof2025/

05/22/2025

Need a very niche bumper sticker for your summer road trips? We’ll be giving away these inspired stickers at our Year-End BBQ TODAY from 5-6:30pm! Perfect for your giant water bottle, manifesting journal, or GNDRCAR 🚙💨

02/13/2025

Our annual Galentine’s/Palentine’s/Valentine’s Day study break is TONIGHT from 5:30-7pm. Our theme this year is “Hear Me Out.” In addition to delicious cakes from Brown Sugar Bakery covered in your unconventional crushes, we’ll also have mocktails, charcuterie boards, crafts and ✨ambiance ✨ We hope to see you there!

10/16/2024

Join us on Thursday, October 24 at 5pm for our 2024 Lauren Berlant Memorial Lecture. Kathleen Stewart (Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin) will delivered the lecture “The Sensation of Singular Life.”

Professor Stewart will also lead a Writing/Worlding workshop on Friday, October 25 at 12pm. RSVP is required to attend the workshop - link to register in our bio!

06/20/2024

The Center is here for everyone! Check out this recent interview with our Faculty Director Daisy Delogu about the CSGS in UChicago News 🩵

Faculty director Daisy Delogu discusses the Center’s decades-long impact on the campus community

04/10/2024

Join us on Wednesday, May 1 at 4:30pm for our 2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture: TreaAndrea Russworm, “Utopian Funk: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Failed Utopias &Black Arts"

Professor Russworm received her PhD in 2008 from the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago and is the Microsoft Endowed Chair and a Professor in the Interactive Media & Games Division at the University of Southern California.

Learn more and RSVP at

2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Ph.D. Professor in the Interactive Media & Games Division at the University of So...

03/12/2024

Are you a University of Chicago PhD student who wants to be part of an incredible intellectual community that focuses on gender and sexuality?

Apply today for our 2024-25 Residential + Dissertation Fellowships!

Applications due March 15. Learn more and apply at https://csgs.info/Fellowships

02/22/2024

Thanks to all 80+ of you who showed up for our Trans-Healthcare in Practice panel this week! This panel brought experts together to discuss centering the needs of trans and gender expansive people in health care practice.

Special thank you to our panelists: Brandon Baird (MD, laryngeal surgeon and Co-Director of the Voice Center at UChicago Medicine), Michelle Lemelman (MD, pediatric endocrinologist at UChicago Medicine), Dan Rowell, AB ’11 (MSN, RN at Howard Brown), and Noopur Shah (MA/LCPC at For Real Therapy).

02/14/2024

Thank you to all who joined us yesterday for our Valentine’s/Galentine’s/Palentine’s Study Break! We LOVED seeing your beautiful craft creations and hope you enjoyed your mocktails and waffles 💕