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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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GSWS is pleased to announce the recipients of the annual Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and Lydia S. Hart Awards.

Rosemary Thomas of the Penn Medicine Program for LGBT Health explains transgender youth greater risk for eating disorders, saying that members of the LGBT community have similar health concerns to the broader population, but have historically had “poorer access to health care and experiences of stigma and discrimination.”  Read the full article on 

Francesca Russello Ammon, associate professor of city and regional planning who teaches in the graduate program in historic preservation in the Weitzman School of Design, has been selected for an ACLS Fellowship for her project “Preserving the City: Urban Renewal and Restoration in Society Hill, Philadelphia. Preserving the City” applies modern mapping technologies to document the history of Society Hill and the iconic neighborhood’s history of preservation.