Cover of Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince edited by Daphne A. Brooks. The cover features David Bowie on the left and Prince on the right both in different shades of purple. Between the two artists the title is written in a bold sans serif font in a gradient fading from orange to pink to purple. The subtitle is written vertically to the left of the title in yellow. The editor’s name is below and follows the same gradient of yellow to purple.

On the tenth anniversary of Prince's death, check out "Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign," a new collection of writings on his and David Bowie's legacies. Save 30% with coupon E26DBRKS. #Prince
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You can read more of Dr. Soto Laveaga's @chattyprofessor.bsky.social research on these topics in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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Happy National Poetry Month! We're running a Poem of the Week series on our blog to celebrate. This week's featured poem is "The Cellmate," published in the minnesota review, issue 105. buff.ly/nW42I3q

"Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies" by Benjamin Tausig

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Read an excerpt from Leigh Raiford's new book "When Home Is a Photograph" in @hyperallergic.com:

You can read more of @bridgetparaguay.bsky.social's work on the history of Paraguay in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

I’ve been waiting for this book! And look at that gorgeous cover.

Congratulations @hilmalatino.bsky.social 🎉

The first 25 pages of Climbing are available to read pre-publication!

Big thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for making this available. So excited for this project to be out in the world.

Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power - Center for the Humanities Join us for a reading and conversation featuring writers from this groundbreaking collection, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press; edited by Wazhma...

NYC-area friends, on May 13, please join me, Zohra Saed, Morwari Zafar, and @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social speaking about Decolonizing Afghanistan (and the SWANA region). @dukepress.bsky.social Open to the public! For more info and to register: centerforthehumanities.org/event/decolo...

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American Speech, published on behalf of the American Dialect Society, has been one of the foremost publications in its field since its founding in 1925. Issue 101:1 is now available: buff.ly/FAs6RtF

San Diego: I am looking forward to my talk "Climate Reparations for Climate Disasters: A View from Architectural History." I will introduce a section of my book "Architecture and the Right to Heal." Please come say hello.
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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.

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Gloria Wekker Reader" edited by Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder, which compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist known for her work in feminist Black diaspora studies. buff.ly/OAvjD6U

Read a remembrance of Vicente Rafel by John T. Sidel in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2026/04...

On April 20th at 6.30pm ET you are invited to an online conversation between Kathi Weeks and Sophie Lewis regarding Weeks's 2026 book 'Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures.' RSVP here: bit.ly/3O0NIcX

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The Introduction of my book is currently free to read.

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Longtime climber @hilmalatino.bsky.social’s "Climbing," new in the Practices series, explores how the sport has changed, saved, and occasionally threatened his life.
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Aiming to offer queer perspectives on all issues concerning sex and sexuality, GLQ publishes scholarship, criticism, and commentary across disciplines as diverse as law, science, religion, political science, and literary studies.

Issue 32:2 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/nw9XMS3

"Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica," by Katharine Gerbner, Duke University Press, 2025

Today's featured title:

"Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica," by Katharine Gerbner, Duke University Press, 2025

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The special section of our latest issue, SX 79, focuses on the life and work of Trinidadian scholar-activist Rhoda Reddock, and her powerful impact on Caribbean Feminisms.

This issue is now available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social; 🔗 link: smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79

Q&A with Sarah Sharma, Author of Insufferable Tools Sarah Sharma is Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. She is author of In the Meantime: Tempor…

Sarah Sharma has a super interesting, counterintuitive take on feminist technodeterminism. Fabulously enticing interview! Plus an amazing book and cover . . . @dukepress.bsky.social dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/q...

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#OAH2026 ends today but you can save 40% on all books and journal issues through May 28! Use code OAH26 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #USHistory buff.ly/3XzJYIT

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The Weekly Read is “What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis in Higher Education,” a conversation published in @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social issue 23:1.

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Save 30% on #NewBook "Insufferable Tools" by Sarah Sharma, which proposes a new feminist politics of tech that can forge futures free from the grip of the broligarchs of contemporary tech culture. buff.ly/44l4dIX

This talk is at 7:30 tonight! I've written it to feel like a Friday night academic talk (!)

Here's my opening listen, from Suraporn Sombatcharoen (king of luk thung, sorta single-handedly invented the genre as we know it, killed after one of his concerts in 1968)

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Cover of Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist by John D'Emilio. The cover features three photographs with white borders against a solid green background. The photograph at the top of the cover features a group protesting holding signs and banners. The next photograph is cut off only showing part of a person on a chair. The third photograph features two people smiling into the camera. The title is in a light green serif font in the center. The subtitle is in the bottom right corner in all caps in white. The author’s name is below this.

"Making Gay History" continues John D’Emilio’s autobiography, detailing his career as a public historian, activist, and academic. Read a sample of the book for free now. #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQHistory

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Today on our blog, we talk with Sarah Sharma about her new book "Insufferable Tools" and how the feminist techno-logics she proposes differs from Big Tech Feminism. buff.ly/ElHBMCP

Laura Horak, a white woman with wavy brown hair to her jaw and glasses, holds up two books: TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR.

My new books - TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR - are both out today!

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Our fourth essay in the forum on Zahid Cahudhary, this one from Eva Cherniavsky, is now up at Critical Noise. Subscribe for updates!
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