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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.

This new course, taught by Mae Eskenazi (maeesk@design.upenn.edu), will be offered during the Fall 2023 semester.

This new course, taught by Ricardo Bracho (rbracho@sas.upenn.edu), will be offered during the Fall 2023 semester.

Are you an undergraduate, graduate, or professional student at Penn interested in gender equity with experience in any of: social media, publicity writing, data analytics, design, video production, animation, or back end? Apply for PAGE Outreach committee and work to promote gender equity on campus! The application deadline has been EXTENDED until Saturday, February 25th. This is our first-ever committee, so members will be able to shape the positions, scope, and vision of the committee going forward into the future!

Sarah Banet-Weiser’s undergraduate course, Gender and Media was featured in Penn Today.

Psyche on Campus, the blog about teaching and learning psychoanalysis in colleges and universities that Penn Professor Max Cavitch initiated and curates, has won the 2022 Excellence in Journalism Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association. 
 
The award citation reads in part:
 

FQT/GSWS Faculty Beans Velocci feautred in Penn Today article about how they have used the lenses of history, queer studies, and science and technology studies to explore how sex and gender have been shaped and categorized through history—and the consequences of those constructions taking on the guise of scientific and medical fact.