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Congratulations to Litty Paxton (Director, Penn Women's Center & GSWS Affiliated Faculty) on her Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence.

Join QPenn for a week of discussions, shows and other events, including Amir Ashour on 3/20 discussing his experience as the founder of IraQueer, Iraq's first LGBT+ organization, and his experiences as an openly gay man in both Iraq and the US.
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Congratulations to Michelle Nwokedi, APC/GSWS Media Assistant. Michelle made Ivy League women’s basketball history when she became the first player in Ivy League women’s basketball history to amass 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, and 300 blocks. Read the full story in the Current.

As a 21-year-old senior in college, Nancy Hirschmann encountered—and was forever changed by—German philosopher Hegel’s notoriously difficult passages in The Phenomenology of Spirit. Suddenly, she “broke through the wall” of the concept of the “master-slave dialectic” and its notion of consciousness and recognition. The act of reading a text, deciphering it, and understanding how it translates into a significant meaning kindled Hirschmann’s engagement with political theory.

SaraEllen Strongman, PhD Candidate in Africana Studies and 2016 GSWS graduate certificate recipient, has an article in the latest issue of the journal Feminist Theory. The article, titled "'Creating justice between us': Audre Lorde's theory of the erotic as coalitional politics in the women's movement," explores how interracial sex and/or sexual attraction might be an integral part of cross-racial feminist work. 

Deborah Thomas (Anthropology and Director of APC & GSWS) is featured in an article in The Inquirer on Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston, an exhibit she co-curated at the Penn Museum through July 15, 2018. In May 2010, the “Tivoli Incursion,” a standoff between Jamaican security forces and a local gang leader wanted for extradition by the United States government, resulted in the death of at least 75 civilians in West Kingston on the island of Jamaica.

Dorothy E. Roberts, PIK Professor (Africana Studies, Sociology and Law School) and GSWS Affiliated Faculty, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. Professor Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, focuses on issues in health, social justice and bioethics, especially as they affect the lives of women, children and African-Americans.

Wendy Grube, practice associate professor in the School of Nursing, interim director of the Center for Global Women’s’ Health, and GSWS affiliated faculty, was recently honored with the inaugural Order of the Bell award for her efforts in breaking barriers in public health. Read more: https://almanac.upenn.edu/latest-issue#wendy-grube-moh-cancer-award

From November 15th – 19th, several members of the GSWS community attended the annual conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference marked the 40th anniversary both of the organization and the Combahee River Collective Statement, a pivotal text for the field.