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Maddie Hopfield reviewed The Sis Uprising with Arien Wilkerson and Richardo Bracho for thINKing DANCE. Read the review here.

Join us on Wednesday, October 28th at 12 pm ET for the GSWS Program's Course & Majors Fair session. Meet GSWS Faculty, Staff, and current students. Zoom information below.
Zoom Meetinghttps://upenn.zoom.us/j/93942343011?pwd=WU9YemZIVGN5UndrQkJ2V2pjN0VQQT09
Meeting ID: 939 4234 3011Passcode: 210166

Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor of Romance Languages in the department of French and a core member of GSWS faculty, was made a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

The below message was sent to the Provost's Office on Tuesday, September 29th.
 

Check out A Queer Serial, the Mattachine Pod by Devlyn Camp

FBI hunts. Outlaw drag queens. Not-so-secret societies. Raids, riots, & romance. The true story of American LGBTQ liberation from day 1 to Stonewall. Check out A Queer Serial, the Mattachine Pod by Devlyn Camp: 

Two Penn professors, Melissa E. Sanchez (English, Comp Lit, GSWS) and Corinne Low (Wharton) have learned that an organization that they lead, the Upper West Side Open Hearts Initiative, won the 2020 NYC Coalition for the Homeless Compassionate Community Award. Low co-founded the Open Hearts Initiative to support the residents of three shelters that have been temporarily relocated to Upper West Side hotels to reduce crowding and stop the spread of Covid-19. Sanchez soon joined the leadership committee.

Over the last several months GSWS Associate Director Gwendolyn Beetham, alongside other members of the GSWS/APC community, has been advocating for institutional recognition of, and support for, the increased care work demands faced by Penn employees during the pandemic by creating a list of recommendations.

On September 8th and 9th, APC/GSWS is supporting Scholar Strike, an action inspired by the NBA, WNBA, Colin Kapernick and other athletes, to underscore the urgent importance of addressing racism and injustice in the United States. Conceived via a tweet by GSWS Affiliated Faculty member Anthea Butler, Scholar Strike is designed to call awareness to the racial climate in America, and the rash of police shootings and racialized violence. 

Organizing Board Applications due November 1st, 2020 Abstracts due December 1st, 2020 “The environment,” Stacey Alaimo argues, “is not located somewhere out there, but is always the very substance of ourselves.” The environment is materially inextricable from human bodies. But as climate crisis changes environments, climate-related events transform what bodies are. Furthermore, in the context of climate change, environmental risk and harm are unevenly conditioned by racial, class, and gender bias.