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The call for presenters is now open for the GSWS Graduate Colloquium Series.
This is an opportunity for all graduate students working in any area related to women, gender, queer, and sexuality studies to join a cohort of their peers in giving and receiving feedback on work. You can workshop parts of chapters, articles, essays, or practice conference papers and presentations.
For those interested, please contact the GSWS Graduate Associate, Caitlin Adkins (adkinsca@sas.upenn.edu)

The GSWS/FQT community is excited to announce that Sarah Banet-Weiser has been named Dean of Penn's Annenberg School for Communication. Read more about the appointment at Penn Today.

The GSWS community is honored to welcome Che Gossett as the new Associate Director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies.

GSWS/FQT is pleased to announce that recent graduate, Serena Baldick Martinez's honors thesis "Reclaimed Nonbinary Harry Potter Fanfiction: Imagining Identity by Reading and Writing a Magical World" was recently awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Thesis Prize. Join us in congratulating Serena on this accomplishment! You can listen to Serena talk about their work on our podcast, Gender Jawn.

Historian Kathleen M. Brown’s new book ‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’ reexamines the antislavery struggle.

The Center for Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies is hiring an Associate Director!

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The GSWS/FQT community is proud to congratulate the Class of 2023. Below are a few of the many accomplishments of the students graduating this year. Congratulations to all!
Serena Baldick Martinez, Penn Spectrum James Brister Society Student Leadership Award, Lynda S. Hart Award in Sexuality Studies (Honorable Mention)
Ashwarya Devason, Penn Spectrum Penn First Plus Alumni Student Leadership Award, Makuu Fauset Award
Talia Fiester, Penn Spectrum Gender Equity Student Leadership Award

What does it mean to abolish the police? Why do some communities have higher rates of COVID infection than others? What does anti-racism look like beyond hashtags? What is the relationship between the rise in anti-trans legislation and the ongoing assault on reproductive rights?If any of these questions resonate, the GSWS Program at Penn invites you to learn more about our major and minor during your visit to Penn!

We at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies and the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies stand with our colleagues around the country who are facing unprecedented attacks on academic freedom. We also call on all in the Penn community to support education measures that affirm the rights of all to safety, nondiscrimination, and life-saving health care–including reproductive and gender affirming care.