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"Fair Use," a special issue of the open access journal liquid blackness, is now available. View the TOC and read the full issue, freely available: buff.ly/szfvoyr
Read Uzma Zafar's article, "Qareeb Zamaana: Adjudicatory Affects and Transmasculine Religious Temporalities in Pakistan," made freely available for three months: buff.ly/88OB7Es
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Just published: "Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia," a special issue of TSQ edited by Claire Pamment & Jeffrey A. Redding. View the TOC: buff.ly/88OB7Es
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Covers of Insurgent Visions; Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures; Co-Motion; Freeing Black Girls; The Goddess in the Mirror; The Violence of Protection; Atomic Bombshells; Body Problems; The New Politics of Online Feminism; and The Politics of Care Work; arranged in a 5x5 grid.
For #InternationalWomensDay & #WomensHistoryMonth, check out books by @reluctantheologian.bsky.social, @amynbooks.bsky.social, @bethdrobinson.bsky.social, @wolffdr.bsky.social, @ahoffmanwrites.bsky.social and many more.
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HAHR author Matthew Restall discusses his research on Christopher Columbus. open.spotify.com/episode/2pTA...
Cover of The Connector: Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics by Alexandra Middleton. It has a black background featuring a white, abstract illustration resembling two branching, neuron‑like forms connected by a web of fine filaments. The title appears in large white text, with the subtitle above it. The author’s name is printed at the bottom.
In "The Connector," Alexandra Middleton examines the embodied life of experimental medicine through an ethnography of the creation of neuromusculoskeletal prostheses and the everyday experience of patients living with them. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/qfusIHk
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Podcasters that are making series based on aggregating information from books:
1. Cite the books
2. Encourage your listeners to read past the information you gave them
Otherwise what you’re doing is a little culture vulture-y
The other thing I need to say is that PUBLICATIONS NEED TO COVER CULTURE INCLUDING BOOKS
I keep hearing that publications are declining to do book reviews. Places like @physicstoday.aip.org and WaPo got rid of their book sections entirely 🧪
We want people to learn about science but where?
Hosting both Emma Amador and Chandra Mohanty this month. Very excited to read their books
Covers of Insurgent Visions; Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures; Co-Motion; Freeing Black Girls; The Goddess in the Mirror; The Violence of Protection; Atomic Bombshells; Body Problems; The New Politics of Online Feminism; and The Politics of Care Work; arranged in a 5x5 grid.
March is #WomensHistoryMonth and this Sunday is #InternationalWomensDay. To celebrate, we invite you to pick up some of our titles in women's studies and feminist theory, including recent books by Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Kathi Weeks.
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Cover of Loving Black Boys: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering by Tamura Lomax. Features a purple and orange color overlay depicting two young boys walking together on a street, one with an arm around the other's shoulder. The title is in bold, large orange text over the image, with the author's name, in smaller white text to the right. Below, the subtitle appears in smaller white text.
In "Loving Black Boys," a love letter to her own sons as well as all Black boys and men, Tamura Lomax @reluctantheologian.bsky.social writes with understanding and urgency about the role of Black feminism in Black collective safety and survival. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Grm6Diq
Submit to the minnesota review!
Creative writing submissions are open! Send in your poems and short stories (4,000 words max) for consideration in issue 108, which will also feature a folio responding to the provocation "No More Minnesota Nice."
Deadline is March 15th. Submit here: buff.ly/YqueUUh
Cover of The Gloria Wekker Reader by Gloria Wekker. The cover has a sepia photograph of Gloria Wekker. The title apears to the left of Wekker's face in a cream sans-serif font. A dotted line is under the title. The author's name is in the bottom right corner in orange with the editors' names in yellow below separated by a cream dotted line. Directly below is written "foreword by Angela Y. Davis" in light red in all caps.
"The Gloria Wekker Reader," edited by Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder, compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist known for her work in feminist Black diaspora studies. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/jhDDyXf
The @fhiduke.bsky.social does sometimes post talks online after their events.
Oooh sounds like an excellent read
Cover of Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction by Justin L. Mann. The cover features the Pillars of Creation, a star forming region in the galaxy, in orange and warm hues against a brilliant star-filled sky. The title is directly over the image in a bold, white sans-serif italicized text. The subtitle is smaller in the same white type in the bottom right corner. The author's name appears in the top left corner in the same type.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Breaking the World," in which Justin Mann @scottsvisor.bsky.social analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black artists to show how their practices of speculation counter the antiblack world of the security state. buff.ly/SKMFg6E
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Good morning, Baltimore! We hope you’ll come say hello to Director Dean Smith at the DUP booth at #AWP25 and save 40% on great books at Table 887!
I am offline next week. I didn't quite manage to write a newsletter this week. Here's something from last week. Or maybe it was this week. Time is as surreal as the times we are in. With killjoy solidarity to everyone surviving and fighting imperial war machines. FKJ xx substack.com/@feministkil...
Cover of The Borders of Responsibility: Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea by Kiri Olivia Santer. The cover is black and features two boats at night on a dark sea. The larger white boat has lights on and reads “GUARDIA COSTIERA”. The smaller blue boat is full of people. The title is written in an off white in a sans serif font above. The subtitle is below the ships in a light grey. The author’s name is below in a yellow orange.
In "The Borders of Responsibility," @kirisanter.bsky.social outlines the legal systems that allow Europe to return migrants who cross the Mediterranean to their countries of origin and to evade legal responsibility for rescuing them. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/wLzdbX6
I am so looking forward to reading this.
Join the editors/translators Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Dechen Pemba, in conversation with Jemimah Steinfeld, for the book launch of Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet.
🗓️ 11th March 17:15
📍 SOAS, London
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@dukepress.bsky.social
@soasuni.bsky.social
The intro chapter of my book is now available to access for free. See link 👇🏼
Cover of The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo. The cover photograph depicts workers in a sugarcane field under a sky of fluffy clouds. The cut canes fill the bottom half of the image, and the sky the top half. The title appears in all-caps centered green text in the top third of the cover, and the subtitle in a black italicized font immediately below. The author's name appears on white text on top of the canes.
In "The Business of Racism," Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/9dd4fNe
Our new Read to Respond reading list, "Critical Perspectives on AI in the Humanities," brings together books, journal articles, and issues that examine the cultural, ethical, political, and intellectual dimensions of AI.
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Cover of Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire by Denise Tse-Shang Tang. The black-and-white cover illustration on a blue background depicts the backs of two women with short hair, one turned slightly towards the other with an arm across her back. The title appears in large, centered serif type, with the author's name and subtitle in smaller type above and below the title.
Denise Tse-Shang Tang's "Everyday Erotics" explores the lives and social worlds of older Chinese women with same-sex desire in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan and how they found intimacy and community in a time of stigmatization. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/mVoKheM
Cover of Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms by Monique Roelofs. The cover features hot pink plastic. Flames appear at the left border and in the top right corner melting the material. The title is aligned left central on the cover in a sans serif font. The title is a gradient of white to yellow to white mirroring the flames. The subtitle is below in a sans serif grey font. The author's name is written vertically in all caps in a white serif font.
"Strange Tastes" by Monique Roelofs explores aesthetic experience, the strange, decolonial practice, and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/gBsgcs4
An interview with Raúl Necochea López, whose article “Dra. Edelmira Will See You Now: Cancer Care and Informal Healing in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia” was published in the November issue of HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social. hahr-online.com/an-interview...
The is looks fabulous
Text reads, "Association for Writers and Writing Programs 2026 Conference Exhibit. Use code AWP26 for 40% off when you order from dukeupress.edu." Background features assorted book and journal covers arranged in columns.
Through April 29, save 40% on all books and journal issues when you use code AWP26 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #AWP26 buff.ly/aEu18bc
