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Please consider signing this petition from AAUP-Penn on creating fair and transparent rules on parental leave for non-tenure track faculty. To learn more about the issue, please read this Op-Ed in the DP by Jessa Lingel and Dustyn Roberts.

The All Gender Restroom in Fisher Bennett Hall is now open! This restroom has three, private, floor-to-ceiling doors/walls, locked stalls, and a shared hand-washing space. The restroom is located in BENN 308.
Men's restrooms are located on the ground, first, second, and fourth floor.
 
The full All Gender Restroom campus map (updated August 2024) is located HERE.

Feminism has never been more necessary.  The need for queer politics and community, for trans joy and inclusion has never been more urgent. In the U.S. alone, more than 45 anti-trans bills have already been passed this year, with hundreds more in the works.

Jessa Lingel is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies digital culture, looking for the ways that relationships to technology can show us gaps in power or possibilities for social change. She received her Ph.D. in Communication and Information from Rutgers University. She has an M.L.I.S. from Pratt Institute and an M.A.

Penn Ph.D. candidate and GSWS graduate certificate student Penelope Lusk was recently named 2024 Queen Elizabeth Scholar. The award funds a year of study at Oxford College. Read more at Penn Today.