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How (and Why) to Write an Academic Book in Impossible Times RELS Colloquium Elizabeth Ault (Duke University Press) Sep 11, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 392 This talk will focus on some of the most common issues that first-time authors face during the writing and publishing process, including some broader discussion of the current environment facing scholars and publishers alike. Most of the session will focus on conversation intended to help junior (and other!) scholars consider the purpose and reach of their writing, as well as the nuts and bolts of finding the right publisher and working with an acquisitions editor. Please bring questions! Elizabeth Ault is a Senior Editor at Duke University Press, which she joined in 2012 after receiving her Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Trained in an interdisciplinary field, she pursues projects that reach outward across disciplines and academic conversations in surprising ways (including work by activists and organizers), that connect historical and emerging conditions, and that are committed to engaging with race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. She works with the editors of several book series, including Practices , Black Feminism on the Edge, ASTERISK, Theory in Forms, and Camera Obscura . You can find Elizabeth at conferences about religion, American studies, women's studies, African studies, sociology, and geography, working with scholars in trans studies, disability studies, critical ethnic studies, Black geographies, witch studies, and more. N.B.: This event will be held in COHN 392! Cosponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of English, the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies/The Center for Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, and Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Penn.

Happening tomorrow! Our first RELS 2025–2026 colloquium featuring Elizabeth Ault @lizault.bsky.social (Senior Editor, Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social)!

How (and Why) to Write an Academic Book in Impossible Times

Thurs., Sept. 11, 3:30–5:00 pm
Cohen 392

stepping away from the gram for a bit but maybe indefinitely?

i love a slow burn. that is all <3

somehow always the flyest person on my flight out of TUS. Charcoal workwear pants, feather gray hoodie, camo vest, navy snapback, navy socks, and camel Clark’s wallabees. There’s layers to this 🔥

I’m convinced if you grew up listening to 90s r&b, you are now a certified simp

This is awesome!!!

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You know the economy is about to get worse when your leasing manager tells you they don’t plan to increase rent out of fear of losing tenants. This is not because they think affordable housing is a human right but because they cannot dispose of you *at this time* in order to meet their profit margin

carmack55 21h Follow Dozens of female Republican officials who have been fired by the Trump Administration's anti-DEl policies are complaining that Trump's firings were supposed to be according to race, not gender. DEI 816 @ 112

“You were ONLY supposed to be RACIST”

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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib. Captivating. Masterful. Profound. Highly recommend. Easily one of my favorite books. Read it. Cry. Yearn. Take breaths in between pages and passages. Then listen to Tribe's discography and experience their greatness.

it's kinda sweet isn't it? taking our time and tending to ourselves

Very insistent on giving myself the tenderness I desire in this lifetime which for me shows up as listening to music that pull my heart strings, surrounding myself with as much color and art as possible, sending sweet texts to my trans and queer kin, and of course, reading books that bring me joy 💘

Being single in your mid-30s is kind of a good time. I don’t mind it. I appreciate my singledom

another day being a bicoastal baddie with my Clark’s wallabees on in the southwest

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home on a Friday night 💘

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”

University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students.

This is how you refuse to comply.

I'm guest editing an issue of Public Humanities (published with @cambridgeup.bsky.social) called "Palestine as Paradigm: How Gaza Transformed the World." It's a peer-reviewed journal & we're accepting many genres of submissions across disciplines and mediums. Due 3/1; CFP below! Spread the word!

State reliance on federal aid, provided through grants, ranges from 20.7% of the state budget in Hawaii to 46.1% in Montana. 7 of the top 10 recipients are deep-red states.

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

They're gonna be begging for conservative votes all the way to extinction

cg and nova in bed. they hold the text “go ahead in the rain: notes to a tribe called quest” by hanif abdurraqib

nite cap 💘

This barrage of attacks on trans rights & personhood is intended to terrorize, divide & conquer us. Under siege, the tendency toward panic, paranoia & blame is intensified. So is the reflex towards apathy & dissociation. Neither will save us. We need to be emotionally centered & engaged

very solo polyam demisexual of me to have crushes on two of my friends and wonder if it's *actually* a crush or I just happen to love them bc they're both so smart and brilliant and make me laugh and feel seen, safe, and witnessed. the answer to that? both/and