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Seeing disability differently
Illustration of several people with varying fullness of body sketching.

Image: Holly Stapleton

Seeing disability differently

Scholars are trying to understand—and change—how the world works for people with disabilities.

Susan Ahlborn

Just made a queer memory? Drop a pin
The New York Times

Just made a queer memory? Drop a pin

Casey Ross of the School of Arts & Sciences uses Queering the Map, a crowdsourced digital atlas of LGBTQ landmarks, as course material to show that maps can be tools of outreach, storytelling, and “disruption.”

Ancient medicine in today’s world
An ayahuasca plant in Brazil.

Image: Courtesy of Taylor Dysart

Ancient medicine in today’s world

Taylor Dysart, a doctoral candidate in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of History and Sociology of Science, probes modern science’s enthrallment with the powerful Amazonian intoxicant ayahuasca.

From Omnia

Reconsidering world heritage for the modern era
Archaeological site filled with stacked, dusty, aged bricks and surrounded by rocks..

The Archaeological Complex of Pachacamac, listed for the UNESCO Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System, Peru.

(Image: Lynn Meskell)

Reconsidering world heritage for the modern era

Through recent research, archaeologist and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Lynn Meskell has continued to highlight how World Heritage Sites have become flashpoints for conflict and out of touch with local communities. 
America’s mothers are suckers. And I say that with love
Slate.com

America’s mothers are suckers. And I say that with love

In an Op-Ed featuring a quote from PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts, Tess Wilkinson-Ryan of Penn Carey Law writes that American capitalism has commodified motherhood, shifting it from a “social good” to a “personal choice” when women ask for support.