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We wish to extend a message to our community members who are experiencing yet another source of grief, following the shooting of seven women, six of whom were Asian American, along with two men, on March 16th in Atlanta. Their names are Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Soon Park, Hyun Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, and Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz. This act of sexualized and racialized violence is another painful instance of anti-Asian violence and harassment that has also escalated since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

How has the Covid-19 pandemic further stratified inequities in the labor force? Check out this article from Penn Today with experts from across Penn explaining how the pandemic has exacerbated gender inequality and challenged female career advancement in the STEMM fields, education, and business. In particular, this quotation from Pilar Gonalons-Pons exemplifies the importance of support for care work beyond the pandemic: 

Check out the latest article from 34th Street featuring GSWS Associate Director, Dr. Gwendolyn Beetham, who has spearheaded much of the important organizing around care work at Penn over the last several months.

Melissa Sanchez, incoming APC/GSWS Director and Donald T. Regan Professor of English, received recognition from the Modern Language Association (MLA) for her book Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition. The book received an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, given annually to an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures.

APC/GSWS Program Coordinator Shana Bahemat has just launched their newsletter Words in Practice.

GSWS is proud to announce that senior Annah Chollet has been awarded the 2021 Marshall Scholarship. Annah, who is currently completing her honors thesis through the GSWS Program, was the 2020 recipient of the Truman Scholarship. Upon graduation from Penn, Annah plans to attend Oxford University. Read more about Annah's accomplishment here. Congratulations, Annah!

Check out this latest article from 34th Street in which SP2 and PennDesign Professor Amy Hillier Talks about Race, Sexuality, and Education.
 
https://www.34st.com/article/2020/11/professor-amy-hillier-education-eq…

Below are comments made on behalf of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at Penn at the University Council Open Forum on December 2, 2020

Melissa E. Sanchez received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus on feminism, queer theory, and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, and she has been a Core Faculty member in Penn's Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program since 2006.