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Stonewall, revolt, and new queer art
jonathan katz sitting in his living room

Jonathan Katz, an associate professor of practice in the Department of the History of Art, pictured inside his West Philadelphia home. Katz led the effort to launch the world’s first graduate queer art history fellowship at Penn.

(Image: Scott Spitzer)

Stonewall, revolt, and new queer art

In a new book, art historian Jonathan D. Katz explores the Stonewall Riots and contemporary queer art.

Kristina Linnea García

Two Penn Ph.D. candidates awarded 2024 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
A spilt image shows Arielle Alterwaite in the left half, posing with arms crossed and leaving against the exterior of a brick building, and the right side shows Katherine Scahill looking at the camera against a wallpapered background of tan and dusty red print.

History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Xena Alterwaite (left) and Music Ph.D. student Katherine Scahill (right) have been awarded the 2024 Newcombe Fellowship.

(Image: Courtesy of Eric Sucar, left; Courtesy Katherine Scahill, right)

Two Penn Ph.D. candidates awarded 2024 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

The School of Arts & Sciences awardees are Arielle Xena Alterwaite, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in history, and Katherine Scahill, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in music.

Kristen de Groot

Former UN official on regressive gender-based policies
Kate Gilmore sits on a chair on a stage holding a microphone in front of audience members and a Penn shield and the words Perry World House are behind her.

Kate Gilmore (center) spoke to the audience about why gender regressive policies are gaining traction globally.

(Image: Courtesy of Perry World House)

Former UN official on regressive gender-based policies

Speaking at Perry World House (PWH), former United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights Kate Gilmore, a PWH Visiting Fellow, addressed regressive reproductive and gender-based policies that have gained traction globally.

Kristen de Groot

Two Penn professors named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows
Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas.

Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas of the School of Arts & Sciences.

(Images: Courtesy of Penn Arts & Sciences and Shira Yudkoff)

Two Penn professors named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows

Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas of the School of Arts & Sciences are among 188 fellows chosen in the United States and Canada.

Kristina Linnea García

Archiving materials that reflect a ‘shared history’
Three students looking at gender, sexuality, and women’s studies archival material.

(On homepage) Students pore over items from the 1990s, including a city proclamation for Penn Women’s Center Day.

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Archiving materials that reflect a ‘shared history’

How 50 years of material from the Program in Gender Studies and Women’s Studies and the Penn Women’s Center becomes more accessible for students, faculty, and researchers.

Kristina Linnea García

After #MeToo, sexual assault survivors still fight to be believed
Sarah Banet-Weiser signs copies of the book she co-authored, “Believability.”

Image: Courtesy of Annenberg School for Communication

After #MeToo, sexual assault survivors still fight to be believed

In their new book, Annenberg School for Communication Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser and former postdoctoral fellow Kathryn Claire Higgins explore the work victims of sexual violence go through to be believed.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Marking a monumental death
A person is shown holding a photo of Mahsa Amini, a woman who was killed in police custody in Iran in 2022.

A portrait of Mahsa Amini held during a rally Oct. 1, 2022 calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran’s morality police.

(Image: AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

  • Q&A

    • Marking a monumental death

    In honor of the first anniversary of the killing of Mahsa (Jîna) Amini in Iran and the subsequent outpouring of protest, Penn will host a two-day conference on violence against women.

    Kristen de Groot

    Environmental conservation, justice, and gender
    Mia McElhatton.

    Mia McElhatton spent the summer working in the lab of Kok-Chor Tan, a professor in the Department of Philosophy. Her project focused on how conservationists respond to women and those who identify as women.

    (Image: Ta’Liyah Thomas)

    Environmental conservation, justice, and gender

    Through her Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring summer internship, Mia McElhatton explores how efforts to save the planet may disproportionately burden women.

    From Omnia

    The ‘true value of women’s work’
    wages for housework archives display

    The new building on Wayne Ave. includes posters, banners, and ephemera from the movement’s 50-year history.

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    The ‘true value of women’s work’

    The Wages for Housework movement is a precursor to the Child Tax Credit and guaranteed income, says sociologist Pilar Gonalons-Pons. A community center in Germantown houses their 50-year archive and carries on the work.

    Kristina Linnea García