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Senior GSWS Major Deborah Rabinovich was named a 2019 Dean's Scholar. She was honored, along with nine other undergraduates receiving the award from the College of Arts and Sciences, at the Levin Family Dean's Forum on March 14th. Read more about the award here.

Pilar Gonalons-Pons critique on Mark  Regnerus' theory about how casual sex undermines families, masculinity, and the economy:

Nadeen Spence and Joanne N. Smith are both advocates for the rights of women and girls, but Spence is from Jamaica, Smith a first-generation Haitian from New York. On Monday at Perry World House (PWH), Penn’s global policy research and engagement hub, they told chillingly similar stories of girls who were sexually abused by clergy, only to have the church and their communities turn their backs to the crime.

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw is Associate Professor of History of Art and affiliated faculty in Latin American and Latino Studies, Cinema Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. She received her Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University and then held an appointment as an assistant professor of History of Art and African and African American Studies at Harvard University for five years before coming to the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.

Pilar Goñalons-Pons' research on domestic workers in the Philadelphia metro area was cited in the Inquirer article: A new app gives paid time off to the ‘original gig workers’
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15 LGBTQ-identified Penn students tell faculty what they need in order to fully participate and learn in the classroom: * Recognize LGBTQ students in your classroom * Respect pronouns * Integrate LGBTQ content and voices * Be brave in managing your classroom * Practice humility and be open to learning
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In this second year of the Alice Paul Center’s “Story Corps” project, we are reimagining open expression, inclusion and argument. In today’s volatile climate, free speech and safe space are often imagined as mutually exclusive—as rigid and reactive binaries. What happens to our world and our willingness to engage it if we work from the premise that public engagement is by definition neither truly free nor truly safe?

A new report produced by Asset Funders Network (ANF), in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice and Closing the Women's Wealth Gap (CWWG), reveals that the economic fragility of single women 45-65 years of age is growing due to systemic barriers which limit their opportunities to build and preserve their wealth. Lead by Amy Castro Baker (APC Executive Board Member and Assistant Professor, SP2), the report explores how the gender wealth gap impacts women, particularly low-income women and women of color, throughout the

Through an APC Working Group Grant, awarded this year, and co-sponsored by the Department of English, the School of Social Policy & Practice, and the Graduate School of Education, six Penn graduate students are hoping to raise the bar for trans literacy—on campus and beyond. The Trans Literacy organizes workshops that facilitate discussions around trans literacy, loosely defined as the promotion of language and practices that affirm the rights of trans and gender non-conforming people, and that enable all people to practice gender-inclusivity in daily life.