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GSWS major Annah Chollet Named Truman Scholar
Congratulations to Annah Chollet, a GSWS and Biological Basis of Behavior double-major, who is one of two Penn juniors to receive a Truman Scholarship this year. Read more about this honor in Penn Today.
How to stay connected during COVID-19 school closure
Dear Members of the University of Pennsylvania Community:We hope this message finds you healthy and safe. The recent turn of events around the COVID-19 pandemic has been shocking in its impact on our daily lives and our immediate future plans.
GSWS/APC Affiliate Faculty Kristen R. Ghodsee discusses women's unpaid labor in The New York Times
GSWS/APC Affiliate Faculty Kristen R. Ghodsee published a piece in The New York Times today with co-author Gus Wezerek titled "Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000." Ghodsee and Wezerek demonstrate that if American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.
With ‘The Sacramento of Desire,’ Julia Bloch completes a personal trilogy
Julia Bloch, director of Penn’s Creative Writing Program, has just published a new book of poetry, “The Sacramento of Desire,” completing a trilogy centered on her experiences in California. Read the full article.
APC/GSWS Director Kathy Brown discusses women's suffrage and the "white vote" in Penn Today's "African Americans have been blocked from voting, but the Black vote is not a ‘bloc’"
Penn Today's article "African Americans have been blocked from voting, but the Black vote is not a ‘bloc’" includes commentary from APC/GSWS Director Kathy Brown regarding women's suffrage, the "white vote," and the two-party system.
Read the article here.
GSWS Visiting Professor Jonathan Katz in Conversation with Catherin Opie
On February 20th, Visiting Associate Professor Jonathan Katz was in conversation with Catherine Opie to mark the opening of the Barbican London's exhibition Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography. Read a review of the exhibition from The Guardian.
A time traveling Harriet Tubman, brought to life on stage by Lorene Cary
The first play by Lorene Cary of the School of Arts and Sciences features a time traveling Harriet Tubman who toggles between her 19th-century life and a present-day Philadelphia prison where she recruits soldiers to fight with her in the Civil War. Playing to sold-out audiences, “My General Tubman” is on stage through mid-March at the Arden Theatre Company.
Ricardo Bracho featured in latest issue of the Almanac
Ricardo A. Bracho has been named the first Abrams Artist-in-Residence in Penn Arts & Sciences in the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Artists-in-residence are outstanding visual artists, musicians, writers and other creative practitioners who work with students and faculty.
Read the full article in the latest issue of Almanac.
Exhibition showcases the brilliance of Black women writers
A new Penn Libraries show features materials from the Joanna Banks collection. A companion symposium on Black women writing across genres begins on Thursday, Feb. 20.
Read the full article.