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Incarcerated writers who participate in the P.O. Box 34 program are paired up with a Penn undergraduate student who corresponds with them about their work. Check out this Penn Today story including commentary from GSWS/APC Board Member Jessa Lingel. 

With 117 bills proposed across 33 U.S. states, 2021 is a record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation. Read Erin Cross, Amy Hillier, and Heather Love's commentary in the Penn Today feature on the motivations for and implications of these bills. 

Simran Chand's double award-winning honors thesis titled “Familial Sexual Education for South Asian American Undergraduates and its Implications on Sexual Wellbeing,” used qualitative and quantitative analysis to determine the experiences of parental sexual communications among second-generation South Asian American Penn students. The findings and social implications of her research are featured in the Penn Today article, "Sex, taboo, and family conversation."

This year students in the course Gender, Sex, and Urban Life, created and taught by Davy Knittle, completed photo essays as part of their assessment for the course. The assignment drew inspiration from the work of photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, and in particular from her documentation of the Flint Water Crisis. You can view some of the students' work on the Urban Studies website.

GSWS/APC Board Member and Sociologist Pilar Gonalons-Pons' research on gender norms was featured in Penn Today. Gonalons-Pons research, conducted with Markus Gangl of Goethe University Frankfort, assesses how cultural norms around gender shape the length of romantic partnerships.

In this DP op-ed, Ava Kim, Davy Knittle, Aylin Malcolm, Nat Rivkin, and Sam Samore write that the reality of navigating transgender healthcare under PSIP is far more difficult than the University would like you to believe. 
 

Carol Tracy was unanimously chosen as the recipient of the 2021 Faculty Award given annually by the Friars Senior Society, Penn’s oldest and most active senior honor society. The Executive Director of the Women's Law Project, Tracy teaches a regular course on sexual and reproductive law and policy for the GSWS Program.

In the latest issue of American Sociological Review, Pilar Gonalon-Pons published "Marriage and Masculinity: Male-Breadwinner Culture, Unemployment, and Separation Risk in 29 Countries," which includes analysis of data for married and cohabiting heterosexual couples in 29 countries from 2004 to 2014, to provide robust evidence that male-breadwinner norms are a key driver of the association between men’s unemployment and the risk of separation. Abstract: 

A new book from Akira Drake Rodríguez examines how public housing developments served as an entry point for residents to fight for democracy. Read the PennToday coverage of Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing.