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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!

A queer phenomenology How I came to write a sequel 20 years later

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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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.

Access the content for free: buff.ly/qJR0MXU

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

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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

Brown graphic featuring a desk in front of a window, with several stack of books on it, reading: "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory. April 10-12, 2026, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak"

Join us at Duke University next month for "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory," a 3-day symposium featuring keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Register by 3/31.
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#AWP26 kicks off today in Baltimore! Check out our blog to details on how to save on our latest books and journal issues in #literature #LiteraryStudies or any other discipline. buff.ly/3iWiTK7

In memoriam William E. Connolly 1938-2026 A career-spanning reading list, including “Symposium: William Connolly at 80” from Theory & Event in 2019 All articles free @ Project MUSE thru 31 March press.jhu.edu/newsroom/memoriam-william-e-connolly Illustrated with a photo of William E. Connolly from his JHU faculty page and cover art from Theory & Event and Social Research

Political theorist William E. Connolly passed last week, leaving behind an influential body of work studying democracy, capitalism & culture

To celebrate his legacy, we're unlocking his contributions to our journals thru 31 March on Project MUSE

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Put 4 paragraphs of Eve Sedgwick's "Touching Feeling" in front of my grad seminar today and they returned an hour+ of excellent discussion. Could have easily gone for another hour if I'd let them.

That book is pure pedagogical gold

👀 The intro of Inventing Nadar is now up online for free!

The lessons of the so-called "Great Protein Fiasco" remain valid, as the fetishization of bigger bodies and bigger markets that underpinned protein’s appeal then continues to do so today. (3/3)

#protein @dukepress.bsky.social

There was no gap. But protein supplementation was still mobilized as a market-friendly, technocratic solution to social, agricultural, and labor conditions driving malnourishment in the Global South. (2/3)

#protein @dukepress.bsky.social

In the 1950s and 60s, Western governments poured resources into fixing an alleged “protein gap” between the world’s rich and poor. (1/3)

#protein @dukepress.bsky.social

Musician Jesse Paris Smith outlines her connections to Tibet and highlights Tibetan culture including the work of @woeser.bsky.social and many artists.

Mentions "Ocean, as Much as Rain" from @dukepress.bsky.social

Read the whole piece here: jesseparissmith.substack.com/p/new-beginn...

Cover of Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland by Patrick Brodie. At the bottom of the cover there is a photograph of three empty houses in disrepair with abandon building materials and gravel in the foreground. The sky is dark and stormy. Above this, the cover is a solid dark teal green. The title is written in a white sans-serif type in all caps. The subtitle is below in the same type. The author’s name is below in a white serif font.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Wild Tides" by Patrick Brodie, which traces Ireland’s shift from reckless pre-2008 real estate development to a post-crisis investment in media infrastructure, revealing how financialization alters the daily life of a nation. buff.ly/NVSBjbJ

Cover of Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy by Crystal Mun-hye Baik. The cover features a room with cylinders covering the floor and floating casting shadows on the walls. There appears three solid overlapping circles aligned vertically and centered on the cover in golden yellow, dark olive green, and peachy red. The title is written in white across the circles in all caps. The subtitle is in the red circle in the same sans serif font. The author’s name appears in the yellow circle in black italics.

In "Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun," @crysbaik.bsky.social blends genres from narrative prose to epistles to ancestral mourning rites to offer an intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement through the experiential lens of her family. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/JwH6zTE

More books to add to my reading list!