Mind and Life Europe | Mind Matters Book Launch “Beyond Disability: Lived Experience, Relationality, and the In-Between” Empowering Through Caring Register here! In this year of “Empowering though Caring”, we are honoured to welcome philosopher and...

Please join Lived Places Publishing author Anne Lyse Chabert and I for a discussion about her lived experience writing and her excellent books, organized by Mind & Life Europe mindandlife-europe.org/events/mind-...

Creating Inclusive Metadata Using the Homosaurus - Choice 360 TIE contributor David Parker explores how to use the Homosaurus to ensure the creation of inclusive metadata.

"I found the Homosaurus controlled vocabulary six years ago while looking for an authoritative source to establish the naming convention for the LPP Queer and LGBT+ Studies collection.

Read on for my latest post in Choice's Toward Inclusive Excellence blog: www.choice360.org/tie-post/cre...

Evanston Speaks: Panel Discussion & Book Launch Join a panel of Evanston community leaders and Elliott Hurtig, author of Evanston Speaks: Oral Histories of Transformation and Triumph from a Progressive City, for an engaging discussion on how indivi...

If you live near Evanston, IL, come hear Lived Places Publishing author Elliott Hurtig speak about his new book at the Evanston Public Library evanstonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/69c5a...

Cultural Lens on Deafness: Professional Success in Global Accounting Deaf, Hard of Hearing & CODA Identities in Accounting | Michael Kane Michael Kane shares his journey as a deaf CPA and reflects on 18 interviews with deaf, hard of hearing, and CODA accounting professionals.

MY DEAF IDENTITY

"I have never viewed my deafness as a physical limitation. Deafness, to me, was just a natural piece of my life. Gone are the long-ago days of negative portrayals of deaf people as helpless, uneducated, and lacking in ability."

Read on: livedplacespublishing.com/blog/deaf-ha...

Growing a Tree: A Parable About Incarcerated People What does growing a plant in a prison cell teach you about freedom? Son of Khoi reflects on his experience being incarcerated.

We are proud to partner with Incarceration Nations Network to bring you a collection that aims to broaden the scope of real people’s storytelling in Carceral Studies. Here is our most recent installment: livedplacespublishing.com/blog/growing...

Intersections: Identity & Place Intersections: Identity & Place is a collection of 150 ebooks designed as concise course readings | Lived Places Publishing

Lived Places Publishing is pleased to be working with Lyrasis to expand access, awareness, and engagement with our library collection: Intersections: Identity and Place Ebooks: livedplacespublishing.com/intersections/ livedplacespublishing.com/blog/lyrasis... #librarians

"Mommy, What Is Tenure?": Growing Up in a Faculty Household Being raised in a faculty household meant a lot of math homework but also an appreciation for a professor’s struggles. How do those insights apply to what we do as publishers and how we see and hear f...

"I joined LPP to serve as an advocate for all professors and instructors who are working hard to make a difference through their teaching and research."

A new blog from Daniel Huang-Talbot “Mommy, what is tenure?”: Growing Up in a Faculty Household:" livedplacespublishing.com/blog/mommy-w...

Human Rights Defender Ruth López Imprisoned in El Salvador The imprisonment of Ruth López should alarm everyone who believes in human rights and the rule of law. Demand her unconditional release now!

Call to Action: Human Rights Defender Ruth López of Cristosal Is Imprisoned in El Salvador. Read on and act if you will: livedplacespublishing.com/blog/ruth-lo...

Frowned Upon: Incarcerated People Seeking Opportunities for Education Son of Khoi writes about the quiet resistance of pursuing education behind bars, and the officers who resent it.

Firsthand accounts of incarceration are a core element on the INN collection with Lived Places Publishing.

Our ongoing series: "Bearing Witness," brings voice to you from within. Most recently, from Son of Khoi: livedplacespublishing.com/blog/frowned...

Please read; it is powerful stuff.

How do formerly incarcerated Black women’s oral histories reshape our understanding of incarceration and resistance?

A Labor of Livingness: Oral Histories of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women is a community-based work rooted in the Black freedom struggle: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

Did you see the Saturday Night Live skit on "Looksmaxxing?"

"Both the dandy and the gym bro share a common obsession with appearance."

Lived Places Publishing author Karmen Samson's new title explores how masculinity is negotiated over time. livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

In Trans(formations) and Tenderness, professor and child advocate Prathim-Maya Dora-Laskey unpacks the most common harmful rhetoric that we might encounter about gender identity, and how to counter it: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

We are really pumped to announce Lived Places Publishing 25th Collection #Madstudies: livedplacespublishing.com/mad-studies/ led by Matthew Jackman

Guest Post — Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Academic Publishers Can Do - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.

"When governments attempt to dictate research agendas or defund entire disciplines, publishers must speak out. Publishers should also resist pressures to exclude or cut down on scholarly fields that are particularly under attack:" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/17/g...

How can aspiring hearing disabled finance professionals overcome sensory barriers to reach the absolute pinnacle of the accounting world? Author Michael Kane explores the personal and professional triumphs of eighteen elite accounting experts: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

Book review – The Silence They Wrote for Me: A Black Disabled Woman’s Fight Against Institutional Erasure Jemmar Almina reviews 'The Silence They Wrote for Me: A Black Disabled Woman’s Fight Against Institutional Erasure by Abigal Muchecheti'

"Anyone interested in disability justice, Black feminist theory and politics, abolition over reform and lived experience research will want to read this book."

Jemmar Almina reviews 'The Silence They Wrote for Me' by Abigal Muchecheti on the NSUN blog.

www.nsun.org.uk/book-review-...

"Approximately one in 20 Americans suffers from severe mental illness. That comes to around 17 million. Multiply that number by three or four to represent each ill person’s closest family members."
Read on from Lived Places Publishing author Margaret Hawkins: lnkd.in/gahCnuj8

An Autistic-ADHD Journey explores a brief history of Autism alongside the author’s unique lived experiences that aim to dispel the many harmful misconceptions surrounding Autism and ADHD. This book takes you one person closer to knowing more about AuDHD: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

I love being a publisher and learning more about the lived experiences of our authors and the communities they represent. Check out the Lived Places Publishing Artist Studies Collection: livedplacespublishing.com/artists-stud...

Autism Was Never an Accident Autism was never an accident of Tylenol or vaccines or industrial life. It is not a side effect to be managed, nor a pathology to be cured.

"Place identity – the where of our being – shapes both how we understand ourselves as autistic and how society views us."
—@jaimehoerricks.bsky.social

"Global Freedom: Lives and Lessons from Formerly Incarcerated Leaders from Around the World brings" together the powerful voices of 30 alumni from Incarceration Nations Network’s Global Freedom Fellowship program, presented in their own words: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

Damian Mellifont PhD and Jennifer Smith-Merry's latest blog post from Lived Places Publishing explores "How Lived Experience-Led Research Can Inform Public Hearings and Government Inquiries:" livedplacespublishing.com/blog/lived-e... #disabilitystudies #openaccess #Australia #livedexperience

By centering the voices of Pacific experts, this new #OpenAccess title serves as both a critique of the status quo and a roadmap for a more efficient, equitable health system that treats Pacific wellbeing as an urgent public priority: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

In Writing Life Stories, Laurie Woodford chronicles her profound journey through the craft of writing and the art of pedagogy, spanning from remedial community college classrooms to high-stakes prison workshops and vibrant senior communities: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

Faith, Feminism, and Activism: Progressive Islam & Social Justice Learn how activism can counter systemic misogyny, patriarchy, and the misuse of religion to justify prejudice in this free seminar.

On April 16th, Lived Places Publishing founder David Parker will interview Ani Zonneveld about her personal and professional experiences in advocating for human rights, gender equality, and religious freedom. Sign up here to watch and listen: cassyni.com/events/EGxVc...

A new #openaccess title in #Genderstudies brings together leadership perspectives, panel discussions, original research, and powerful lived experiences to examine the realities shaping women’s academic and professional journeys in scientific fields: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

The Limits of What Institutions Are Willing to Hear

"Across higher education, healthcare, and public policy, conversations about inequality have expanded in recent years."

Read on from Lived Places Publishing author Abigail Muchecheti: livedplacespublishing.com/blog/disabil...

Jacqueline Dodding asks, "What is the impact of labels placed upon mature female students in college-based higher education settings in the UK?" in her new book: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97... Part of our Education studies collection: livedplacespublishing.com/education-st...

So you like #Latinmusic! Check out our latest book on the significance of #Mexicanmusic in #LA: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

I have quite specific memories of the first night I was at a Mexican party and a full-scale Banda band played live, wow!!! IT WAS LOUD!!!! Manuel Callahan

Good times with Ani Zonneveld at the Princeton Public Library, NJ discussing her lfe and work in activism. Check out her Lived Places Publishing book: lnkd.in/ef6DhCRz