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

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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.

GSWS/APC affiliates Dawn Teele, Kathy Peiss, Serena  Mayeri, Nancy Hirschmann, Kristen Ghodsee, Maria Murphy and Gwendolyn Beetham weighed in on the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment in an article for Penn Today. Additional reflections on the legacy of Alice Paul and the 19th amendment include Questioning Alice Paul's Legacy for Penn GSWS by Kathleen Brown and On the Anniversary of the 19th Amendment by Jennifer Reiss.

What does it mean to abolish the police? Why are some communities experiencing higher rates of COVID-19 infection than others? What does anti-racism look like beyond hashtags? What is the relationship between the Coronavirus and HIV/AIDS? How can I focus on my studies when there is so much going on in the world? 

The following message was sent to President Gutmann and Provost Pritchett on August 11, 2020
 
Dear President Gutmann and Provost Pritchett,