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…

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…

APC/GSWS Program Coordinator Shana Bahemat has just launched their newsletter Words in Practice. "Words in Practice is an invitation to explore practices of collective care. It began as a search for connection and community with BIPOC during a tumultuous time. The idea of…

Organizing Board Applications due November 1st, 2020 Abstracts due December 1st, 2020 “The environment,” Stacey Alaimo argues, “is not located somewhere out there, but is always the very substance of ourselves.” The environment is materially inextricable from human bodies. But as…

We stand in solidarity with those across the country, and especially in the city of Philadelphia, who are working for revolutionary change by protesting. The protests around the disregard, devaluation, and violent treatment of Black people come as a consequence of a long history…

A new Penn Libraries show features materials from the Joanna Banks collection. A companion symposium on Black women writing across genres begins on Thursday, Feb. 20. Read the full article.