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Please join us tomorrow for a virtual event celebrating Women’s History month with @centropr.bsky.social! Prof. Vanessa Perez Rosario and I wI’ll be discussing our recently published books.

Joburg folks! Hope to see you at @bridgebooksjoburg.bsky.social on Saturday for a book talk about Sally Gross

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Volume 12, Issue 2, of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture is now available. View the full TOC: buff.ly/UCKTVak

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Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. The cover features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures. The title is displayed in large, bold, yellow capital letters, and the author's name appears in smaller white text at the bottom.

Congratulations to Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, whose book "The New Kingdom of Granada" has been named a co-winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, given by the Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social. buff.ly/YKVMmGP buff.ly/HaLls9u

Cover of Domesticating Brown: Movements of Racial Imagination by Christopher B. Patterson. The cover has painted patches of browns and creams. A semi transparent photograph of a family with young children is overlayed. The title is centered in a sans serif font with 'Domesticating' in white and 'Brown' in a dark brown. The subtitle is in the bottom left corner in an italicized serif font. The author's name is in the top left corner in white.

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You can read some more of this research in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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"Ocean, as Much as Rain: Woeser’s Testimony of Resistance Against State-imposed Amnesia"

Read a new review of “Ocean” @woeser.bsky.social by Thinley Chodon of University College Dublin, published on Lhakar Diaries.

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Interregnum interviews @jacobengelberg.bsky.social on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happens when bisexuality breaks the rules.

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German Memory Politics at a Crossroads An issue of: New German Critique

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"German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," a special issue of New German Critique is now available. View the TOC and read "The Perils of Negative Exceptionalism: German Memory Culture from Model to McCarthyism," made freely available for 3 months: buff.ly/MiPdcQE

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You can read more of Prof. @restall.bsky.social's research on Latin American history in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Great reads!

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Breaking the World, Justin Mann's brilliant new book on @dukepress.bsky.social, is out! Essential reading for anyone interested in black feminist world-making and speculative fiction. It's the third book on our Black Feminism on the Edge series. @samanthapinto.bsky.social and I are ELATED!

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A great time to pick up The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO and get an introduction to the concepts of liquid resistance and decolonial dreamwork that I'm about to run with in my next book.... 👀🔥✨

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Here's a sneak preview of "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times," the book Jody Greene and I are publishing in the Fall from @dukepress.bsky.social. From my March 5 keynote @cuny.edu Women's Conference. Comments welcome! cathydavidson.com/blog/ten-mov...

🌸 Happy International Women’s Day! Thrilled to see my book— The Politics of Care Work — on this list. 🌸

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The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women Celebrated as a feminist victory upon its passage as part of the Clinton Crime Bill, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is a landmark piece of legislati

The Weekly Read is "The Violence of Protection" by Lee Ann S. Wang. Read the entire book now for free thanks to the University of California Libraries Open Access Fund.

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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

Volume 12 Issue 4 | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | 12 | 4 | November 2025

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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Unmasking Christopher Columbus: Facts, Myths, And The Making Of A Legend

HAHR author Matthew Restall discusses his research on Christopher Columbus. open.spotify.com/episode/2pTA...

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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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