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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, 

APC/GSWS Artist-in-Residence Ricardo A. Bracho has been awarded a Sachs Program for Arts Innovation grant to present The Sis Uprising: A Critical Kiki with Arien Wilkerson. The online event, taking place October 8th, 2020, will feature Wilkerson and their collaborators presenting new and previous work to Bracho’s creative writing workshop, Passion Projects, and to the greater Penn community.

GSWS course information is now available on PennInTouch through the course search feature. Click on the course id, then select "click to view" next to "course syllabus" to see a prospectus with information regarding a/synchronous course materials and requirements for each course. 

A 5 minute play APC/GSWS Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Bracho wrote about lucid dreaming, interpellation and protesting will be performed live on YouTube this Saturday Aug 1st, 2020. 
 

APC/GSWS core faculty member Pilar Goñalons-Pons' new article "His and Her Earnings Following Parenthood in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom" (American Sociological Review), co-authored with Kelly Musick, Megan Doherty Bea, examines how parenthood shapes within-family gender inequality by education. Read more here. 

Lauren Martin has published the research she worked on as an APC Visiting Scholar in the latest issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care. The article, "Delaying, debating and declining motherhood," tracks childless women’s reproductive decision-making and behaviours over the course of 4 years and 2 waves of participant interviews. Read more here. 
 

In the Penn Today article "Cholera vs. flu: Philadelphia’s historical epidemic successes and failures," Timothy Kent Holliday discuses his doctoral research on epidemics in Philadelphia by focusing on the "intimate care" of managing diseases in instutitions like hospitals, prisons, and quarantine stations. Read the interview here.