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In an interview with MSNBC, PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts discusses bell hooks’ influence on feminism. “[hooks] was honest, she was fierce, she was courageous, but everything stemmed from her motivation of love,” Roberts says. “She felt that love had to be the basis of justice and there could be no justice without love, and no love without justice"

Senior Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo is one of two UPenn students named 2022 Marshall Scholars. Okonkwo is majoring in philosophy and history and, in addition to pursuing a GSWS minor, is also minoring in Africana Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Read more about Okonkwo's future plans in Penn Today.

Ten years after the Occupy Wall Street protests began, Core Faculty Member & FQT/GSWS Board Member Jessa Lingel Reflects on the movement. Read more about her reflections, and her course on the subject, in Penn Today.

FQT/GSWS board member and Stuart Weitzman School of Design assistant professor Akira Drake Rodriguez was recently featured in Penn Today, where she discussed her work collaborating with local community organizations on projects that can help improve underfunded educational facilities in Philadelphia. Read the full article at Penn Today. 

Professor Dagmawi Wobshet recently reviewed Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 for The Atlantic magazine. Wobshet will be participating in FQT's World AIDS Day event The Art of AIDS on December 1st at 1 pm. Visit our events page to learn more and register.

GSWS Core Faculty Member Serena Mayeri spoke to the "devastating short- and long-term consequences” of Texas abortion law SB8, which came before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month. Read the full story in Penn Today and Penn Law News. 

GSWS Affiliated Faculty member Pilar Gonalons-Pons has been named Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Assistant Professor. Gonalons-Pons studies how gender, work, families, and public policies structure economic inequalities, with a particular focus on how inequalities change over time and over the life course. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Penn in 2017, Gonalons-Pons was a post-doctoral fellow at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and a research affiliate at the Cornell University Population Center.

In accordance with Philadelphia's LGBTQ Protections, which state that "in Philadelphia, all schools must allow transgender students to use facilities that are consistent with their gender identity," we would like to share this all gender restroom sign. 

In the first in a series of diversity lectures offered through the Office of Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity Programs, Melissa E. Sanchez delivered an virtual Universitywide talk, “Addressing a More Complex and Encompassing Understanding of Identity.” Read more at Penn Today.