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We in GSWS and FQT stand with Penn's AAUP chapter in support all students' rights to academic freedom, open expression, and protest.

Read AAUP's full statement here.

Deborah A. Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Core Faculty in GSWS, was recently named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Thomas was one of 188 chosen in the United States and Canada from nearly 3,000 applicants working across 52 scholarly disciplines. During her fellowship year, she will be working on three ongoing projects that integrate creative practice and research. Read more about Thomas's work here.

To help commemorate Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies' 50th anniversary at Penn, GSWS Librarian David Azzolina currated a list of related resources on the Penn Libraries webpage. Visit the webpage today, or contact David Azzolina to ask about GSWS-specific resources in the Penn Library system.

GSWS Awards Season is here! With due dates on April 5th and April 15th, there are several awards open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, including the Leboy-Davies Graduate Student Award, Phyllis Rackin Graduate Award, Student Research Expense Grants, Non Tenure Track Teaching Faculty Research Grant, and the Lynda S. Hart Teaching Award for Faculty and Graduate Student. Please see the graphic for more information! 

Professor Beans Velocci has been featured in a special issue on sex and gender in Cell Journal! Featuring over 20 trans scholars, the focus issue of this flagship biology journal includes articles on gender equality in academia, enhancement of sex-related variables' rigor, and support for transgender researchers. For more inofmration, please read the press releases here. 

Gender Jawn now has its own Instagram! Please follow @genderjawn on Instagram for up-to-date interviews and info!

Penn Today covered the GSWS Program and Penn Women's Center's work with University Archives to archive materials documenting 50 years of gender activism and scholarship at Penn . The article features students in GSWS Associate Director Gwendolyn Beetham's course on interpersonal violence, who visited the women's center archives in February as part of the course's module on documenting violence at the university. The full article can be read at Penn Today.

Persian Literature and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies core faculty Professor Fatemeh Shams is releasing a new poetry chapbook in May 2024! In Hopscotch, Fatemeh Shams crafts a vivid liminal world of Berlin-based poems, a canvas where home and exile blur into an intimate middle ground. Her work, geographically and metaphorically situated between her birthplace in Iran and her current life in exile, evokes a “third space”—a realm of creative liberation and a sanctuary for the play of memories, language, and space.