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APC Core Faculty David L. Eng and Melissa Sanchez explain how queer theory informs their research

Omnia's new series, OMNIA 101, asks to faculty members about how they use critical tools in their research and classrooms, shedding light on what they find useful, compelling, or just plain interesting about the work that they do. In this feature article, English Professors and APC Core Faculty David L. Eng and Melissa Sanchez talk about how they apply queer theory to the study of literature and culture. 
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Dawn Teele and Anthea Butler interviewed on WHYY's Radio Times

This week’s midterm elections were record-breaking and historic for female candidates, with at least 100 women elected to the House of Representatives and a wave of victories for women across the country. South Dakota and Maine elected their first female governors, and Tennessee elected its first female Senator. Four women — Madeleine Dean, Mary Gay Scanlon, Chrissy Houlahan, and Susan Wild —were elected to the House in Pennsylvania, a state that previously had an all-male Congressional delegation.

Anne Teitleman's mobile health interventions target cancer risk

Anne Teitelman, Nursing & APC/GSWS Core Faculty, believes the key to helping women stay healthy is to meet them where they are, to bring the personal, health-related care into their daily lives, not sequester it to a once- or twice-a-year visit to a nurse practitioner, doctor, or another care provider. So, she built two apps.

APC & GSWS Statement condemning federal attack on trans communities highlighted in DP article - Penn pushes back on Trump proposal to redefine gender

The APC & GSWS Statement Opposing Federal Attacks on Trans Communities is featured in a Daily Pennsylvanian article outlining the "swift backlash across the nation and at Penn" to the Trump administration's proposal to "narrow the term "gender" to be defined according to biological sex — a move that would dramatically curtail recognition of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals under federal law."  Erin Cross, the director of Penn's LGBT Center, Brennan Burns of Penn Non-Cis and Julia Pan of the Lambda Alliance are also featured.&n

APC & GSWS Statement Opposing Federal Attacks on Trans Communities

Statement from the Alice Paul Center and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
For immediate release: October 26, 2018
Dear Members of the University of Pennsylvania Community:
On October 21, 2018, The New York Times published an article that describes a leaked memo from the Trump Administration that aims to define “gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.”

The healing word-- Deborah Thomas embeds herself in communities stricken by violence to chronicle the humanity revealed during the aftermath.

Deborah Thomas embeds herself in communities stricken by violence to chronicle the humanity revealed during the aftermath.
"The most difficult interviews were the children. It was 2012, and the filming of Deborah Thomas’ documentary, Four Days in May, was underway in Tivoli Gardens, the site of one of the most violent events in modern Jamaican history.