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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.

Nine University of Pennsylvania affiliates—six fourth years and three recent graduates—have each received a 2024 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each Thouron Scholar receives tuition for up to two years, as well as travel and living stipends.

For IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Northampton, MA — Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism announces the awardees of the 2024 Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award.
The Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award seeks to honor an author whose work embodies the groundbreaking nature and innovative spirit of Paula’s writing. We aim for this award to highlight different forms of knowledge production that engage scholarship, journalism, activism, and cultural work, among others, from each published volume of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism.

GSWS Faculty Member Melissa Jensen Featured in Penn Today
Check it out below!
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/exploring-jane-austen-taylor-swift-wri…

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Join the Spring 2024 Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar with Professor Simone White!
This course includes class visits and readings by non-fiction writer and scholar Maggie Nelson; poet and essayist Harryette Mullen; and novelist Jamaica Kincaid.
Throughout the semester, we will study and comprehensively discuss the work of these three writers — their relationship to each other and to the contemporary world.
The course will be held in the Arts Cafe of the Kelly Writers House.

Penn Nursing’s Dalmacio Dennis Flores, PhD, ACRN, FAAN, Assistant Professor of Nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health and GSWS Affiliated Faculty member has been awarded a 2023 grant from the Hillman Innovations in Care (HIC) program.