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The Alice Paul Center was awarded a two-year Making a Difference in Diverse Communities grant to support the development of an oral history archive which will center the voices of trans people and the people closest to them. APC is partnering with Penn's LGBT Center and Kislak Center, and the William Way LGBT Community Organization in Philadelphia.

Dalmacio Dennis Flores (GSWS Executive Board Member and Nursing) found that even as parents become savvier in having conversations about sexual health with their children, departing from gender stereotypes and embracing more accepting attitudes, factors beyond the home still affect the message parents convey and their child hears. 
 

David L. Eng (GSWS Core Faculty & English) highlighted in Omnia about his new coauthored book illuminating the lives and struggles of Asian-American students. “Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian-Americans” draws on 20 years of experience working with Asian and Asian-American students, with the classroom serving as “social barometers of the changing patterns of immigration, assimilation, and racialization.”

Jessa Lingel (GSWS Core Faculty & Annenberg) extends the concept of “dazzle camouflage” – the practice of painting World War I ships in outlandish geometric patterns – to the way that the LBGTQ community often uses highly-visible practices to avoid surveillance.
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Dawn Teele, Political Science and APC/GSWS Core Faculty, is highlighted in an Atlantic article - The Epic Political Battle Over the Legacy of the Suffragettes. The article references her recently published book -Forging the Franchise The Political Origins of the Women's Vote
 

Curated by Jonathan D. Katz, APC & GSWS Visiting Associate Professor, About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art takes as its point of departure Allen Ginsberg’s description of the participants in the Stonewall riots, in an article in The Village Voice, as having “lost that wounded look.” Indeed, the rebellion marked the advent of a new spirit of resistance, one whose tenor was decidedly activist, interventionist, and socially engaged.

GSWS Minor Hannah Sweeney gave this year's student speech at the College Graduation on May 19, 2019.  A QuestBridge Scholar, Sweeney was a Political Science major with a concentration in International Relations and additional minors in Religious Studies and German. She received a prestigious Thouron Award to attend the London School of Economics and Political Science this fall, where she will pursue a masters in human rights. Read more about Sweeney here.

For the past year, the Alice Paul Center and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at Penn has sponsored programming around the theme “Beyond Free Speech and Safe Space: Reimagining Open Expression, Inclusion, and Argument.” At the core of our programming on this topic has been a commitment to the University as a space where ideas can be discussed and debated, regardless of political belief or affiliation.

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