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Alice Paul Center hosts Op-Ed Training focused on policies that affect LGBTQ youth and their families
The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women partnered with The Attic Youth Center this summer to host a training led by the Op-Ed project. The Op-Ed Project aims to increase diversity in discourse by supporting and addressing under-representation in media. Deborah Douglas, Northwestern faculty member and award-winning journalist, spent the day with Penn faculty, students, and community members to workshop ways to increase media presence and contributions to a vast number of community forums.
Jennifer Ponce de León (English, APC/GSWS Executive Board Member), curates Resurgent Histories, Insurgent Futures for the Slought Foundation – on display until October 7
Jennifer Ponce de León, Assistant Professor, English and APC/GSWS Executive Board Member, curated Resurgent Histories, Insurgent Futures for the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia.
Congratulations to Luz Marin - La Casa Latina Dolores Huerta Awardee
Luz Marin (GSWS & APC Program Coordinator) was honored by La Casa Latina, receiving the second annual Dolores Huerta Award.
Undergraduate Student Assistant Position at APC/GSWS
The Alice Paul Center and GSWS Program are looking to hire a detail-oriented and motivated undergraduate student to help with the maintenance of our new website. Duties include editing, updating, and other basic content management tasks. Working as part of a communications team, you will also help to expand our online presence through the various GSWS social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram).
Routledge publishes proceedings of the MANEM conference at Penn
Dr. Ilona Zsolnay has edited a volume resulting from a 2011 conference, Mapping Ancient Near Eastern Masculinities (https://www.academia.edu/4009951/Mapping_Ancient_Near_Eastern_Masculinities), which took place at the Penn Museum.
Posts, news and videos from the Queer Internet Studies Symposium
The Queer Internet Studies Workshop brought together thinkers, makers and doers who draw upon social scientific methods to do work at the intersection of queer life and the internet. With this workshop, we brought together researchers who investigate the construction of queer communities, the development of queer knowledge production and cultures, and assess how queer identity is understood and archived.
2/9 Mona Morgan-Collins' Work-in-Process Postponed!!!
Due to the unpredictability of tomorrow's storm, we have postponed Mona Morgan-Collins' Work-in-Process lunch.
We hope you will join us when we reschedule the lunch. Watch for an email, coming soon, with the new date.