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Cover of Torn, with a performance artist on a white stage with black poles reaching out from her face
Kudos to Ideas on Fire author Anna M. Moncada Storti on the publication of Torn: Asian/White Life and the Intimacy of Violence, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!
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Cover of Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis by Jennifer DeVere Brody. The background is a gradient from marroon to black with four lilac flower-like objects at the edges. Centered is a deconstructed collage like photograph of Edmonia Lewis. The bottom half of the figure is distorted creating a wavy psychedellic effect. The title is in a pale purple serif font in the upper left corner. The subtitle is below. The author's name is in the bottom right.
In "Moving Stones," Jennifer DeVere Brody blends biography, history, and theory to explore the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the 19th century. Read the introduction for free now: buff.ly/mmU4AQi
Amazing book, amazing scholar, amazing human
ANNOUNCEMENT 📢‼️
The Small Axe Journal is getting a new section. Named “Notes, Commentary and Reflections,” this section will feature pieces that address urgent contemporary issues in the Caribbean. Submissions can be uploaded to our submissions portal on our website, 🔗 smallaxe.net
I'm so happy to be a part of this special issue of MELUS, edited by the best around! Thank you @samanthapinto.bsky.social and Justin Mann for all your work in bringing us together!
Many of the articles in this upcoming themed issue of MELUS are up on advanced access-- including @jamesbliss.bsky.social @maiagiladi.bsky.social and more! academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...
Black Speculations/Black Futures at MELUS journal with @scottsvisor.bsky.social Full themed issue coming soon! academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...
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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!
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
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
Discover books by and about women who have pushed boundaries, effected change, redefined roles, and complicated our understanding of what it means to be powerful. Please enjoy 30% off with code PUP30.
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Cover of Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence by Anna M. Moncada Storti. The cover is in black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye. The title is written in a black narrow sans serif font vertically above the individual's head. The subtitle is positioned directly below the individual. Below this is the author's name written in all caps in red.
Check out our blog for previews of all the great new books coming from DUP this month, including “Torn” by Anna Storti @storti.bsky.social. buff.ly/vFg3kgR
Everything is the worst rn. Work keeps on keeping on. Support research in feminist and ethnic studies (not necessarily mine). If you are inclined: PREORDER dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b... Discount code E26PINTO @dukepress.bsky.social
Graphic reading New Books out this month with covers of Protein, unrest in the nebulae, Breaking the World, The Climate Trial, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, Tension, and Matterphorics arranged in a 3x4 grid.
Grab some Spring Break reading from our March new releases! We've got some really great new books this month.
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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
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Cover of Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms by Michelle N. Huang. The cover shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type. The subtitle appears below in a solid hot pink circle. It is written in white in all lower case. The author’s name appears in the same font in the bottom right corner.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Racial Beings" by Michelle N. Huang @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social, which brings a feminist new materialist lens to bear on contemporary Asian American literature’s innovative play with discourses of science and technology. buff.ly/urUtuP3
You are a legend and I am not worthy— but please read Justin’s book!!!!!!
It's out! @scottsvisor.bsky.social has a great book that you should order RN from @dukepress.bsky.social ! www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the...
Six months ago today, scholar and teacher Ricardo Ortiz suddenly passed away.
New at PB: Maia Gil’Adí (@maiagiladi.bsky.social) remembers his life.
From the amazing artist, www.addyeb.com www.instagram.com/p/DU4HEdDET6...
On March 19th, I will be delivering the Anne Firor Scott Lecture in Women's and Gender History at Duke University:
"Gender History in the Time of Gender Ideology"
it will appropriately take place in the Pink Parlor at Duke, 5 PM - 6:30 PM
It’s been a week, and y’all know from the news. Like my colleagues and students, we’re still here, still doing the things, when and where we still can: www.buzzsprout.com/2459505
Thrilled that this is finally coming out! I'm so proud to have collaborated on Linda Williams' incredible last work on melodrama. The intro to our volume is now available -- and look at that killer cover!!
A curated (but not comprehensive) list of narratives about the Black + first-gen to college experience. We can start with Black History Month and then incorporate them into everyday. #Blackhistorymonth #firstgen
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PRE-ORDER now! @samanthapinto.bsky.social 's next brilliant book from @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b...
Cover the The Quiet Zone, with an abstract black liquid sculpture with legs
Major props to Ideas on Fire author Petal Kimberly Samuel on the publication of The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance, out now from @rutgersupress.bsky.social! 🎊
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/the...
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