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Black Trans Futurities: Political Imaginaries in the Academy and the Arts is a symposium that brings together scholars, artists, & local community members to reflect on the field of Black Trans Studies & imagine its future.

GSWS Core faculty Secil Yilmaz's article "Intimate Technologies of Family Making: Birth Control Politics in Cold War Turkey” has just come out in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine!

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Applications must be submitted no later than December 31, 2024, and decisions will go out the last week of January.

The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) has been awarded a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and evaluate a new intervention designed to improve communication between parents and their gay or bisexual adolescent sons.

Dr. Amy Hillier, SP2 Faculty member and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, is part of a team that recently developed a tool to help normalize discussions of gender in the pediatric health setting.

Dr. Sophie Lewis' new book, Enemy Feminisms, will be out in February.

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.