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Save 30% on "Sweatshop Capital" by @bethdrobinson.bsky.social, which examines the labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, as well as the labor and social movements that contested them. #Labor buff.ly/slifuV3
Cover of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, by Beth Robinson. The cover features an pink and blue-tinted image of women marching in protest, holding signs. The title appears across the top of the cover and the author's name in the bottom right-hand corner. The subtitle is set in smaller text between two protest signs, as if itself a sign.
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I'm super-excited about this conversation between these feminist activists, theorists, and friends, coming up at @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on December 8. Online. Registration link below! @dukepress.bsky.social
intellpublics.bsky.social Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 15h
Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
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November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Lomax offers a profoundly affective and theoretically grounded reimagining of mothering as a site of both resistance and liberation.

Shauntey James reviews Freeing Black Girls @dukepress.bsky.social

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November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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In "Gay Print Culture," Juan Carlos Mezo González @jcmezo.bsky.social investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada through the 1970s-90s. #LGBTQStudies Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/LdyHSFV
Cover of Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America by Juan Carlos Mezo González. Cover features an image of a handsome young man with dark hair wearing a blue tank top and a beige hat with its strap around his neck. The background includes green foliage and colorful flowers. The title is in verlaid text in a large white font with the subtitle in a smaller cream font below it. The author's name is at the bottom right in yellow font. There is a faint overlay of typed text across the entire image.
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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In "Endangered Judgment," political theorist Luke Fernandez critiques the dominance of instrumental reason.
Drawing on Joseph Weizenbaum's (and
Hannah Arendt's) distinction between calculation and judgment, he warns machine logic replacement undermines
human responsibility.
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, Raúl Necochea López examines cancer care and informal healing in early twentieth-century Colombia. doi.org/10.1215/0018...
Dra. Edelmira Will See You Now: Cancer Care and Informal Healing in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia
Abstract. Healer Edelmira Salazar de Guzmán went to considerable lengths to demonstrate her skill as a cancer specialist in 1920s Bogotá. Her satisfied patients’ testimonials certified by Colombian au...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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so honored to discuss "The Politics of Collecting" with my hero❣️ @palumboliu.bsky.social

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Eunsong Kim Explains How Our Great Art Collections are Based on Debasing and Erasing Labor: The Politics of Collecting: Race & the Aestheticization of Property | Speaking Out OF Place
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November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Thanks to proofreader privilege, I got to read this book a couple months ago, and it's SO GOOD. As I said to Beans in my email with the marked-up proofs, "I laughed, I cried, I learned a ton, I feel simultaneously weirder and less weird about identifying as cis."
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In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Coming up Tuesday Nov 18 at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Reparations and the Human: A Conversation with David L. Eng. Respondents: Sonali Thakkar and Jack Halberstam !! This should be great. @dukepress.bsky.social english.columbia.edu/events/repar...
Reparations and the Human: A Conversation with David L. Eng. Respondents: Sonali Thakkar and Jack Halberstam | The Department of English and Comparative Literature
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November 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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#NWSA25 ends today, but the savings last through December 25! Save 40% on all books and journal issues with code NWSA25 on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #NWSA2025 #WomensStudies #GenderStudies #FeministStudies #SexualityStudies buff.ly/Vvbqfqg
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November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The Weekly Read is "The Robots Are Here!" by Jonathan J. Wroblewski. The article introduces Artificial Intelligence and Risk Assessments in Criminal Justice, a special issue of Federal Sentencing Reporter (37:3-4). Read it for free through 2/7/26: buff.ly/CP3MZxj
Cover of Federal Sentencing Reporter, Volume 37, Numbers 3–4, November 2025. Features a blue background with a faint image of balanced scales and bold white text highlighting the issue’s focus on AI and risk assessments in criminal justice.
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"Ocean, as Much as Rain" brings a collection of stories, poetry, and essays by leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser to an English-speaking audience. #Tibet #LiteratureInTranslation Read co-editor/translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain's introduction for free now: buff.ly/KTfsRmi
Cover of Ocean, as Much as Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet by Tsering Woeser. The cover art is a detail from the installation "Biography of a thought" by Tenzing Rigdol, a vibrant, colorful piece with stylized waves in various shades of blue and swirling, multicolored clouds. In the center is a wooden chair on a small purple platform, positioned in front of an intricate circular pattern with floral motifs in blue and orange, framed by concentric rings of bright ornamental designs in pink, green, and yellow. The subtitle is in small blue text at the top, the title in large white text beneath the chair, and the author name beneath the title. At the bottom of the design, the words "Edited and translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Dechen Pemba" appear.
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "After Transformation" by Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social, which offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. #ReligiousStudies buff.ly/KJTRp60
Cover of After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity by Maia Kotrosits. The design features a textured beige background with a large dark inkblot-style print of a tree or leaf in the center, mirrored near the top of the cover. The title appears above the central image, and the author’s name is at the bottom right.
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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As #UPWeek ends, our blog tour examines *where* university presses link scholarship to community—on campus, with libraries & independent bookstores, in local festivals & state-wide celebrations, via podcasts, through international partnerships—helping all to #ReadUP. https://bit.ly/4qH5cJV
UP Week 2025 Blog Tour, Where does your press Team UP?
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Great post on book distribution! We are distributed by Ingram. bsky.app/profile/leek...
leekinginc.bsky.social Davida Breier @leekinginc.bsky.social · 3d
I recently wrote a post for Feeding the Elephant explaining distribution's place within publishing. It is geared toward scholarly publishing, but a lot of it holds true for the whole industry. #feedingtheelephant

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Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Book Distribution, but Were Afraid to Ask | H-Net
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November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I still get compliments on the amazing work done by the @dukepress.bsky.social design team, who turned Ethiopian-Armenian artist Skunder Boghossian's "Night Flight of Dread and Delight" into a gorgeous cover that perfectly captures the spirit of the book.

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November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Léopold Sédar Senghor, Writings on Politics - ed. Yohann C. Ripert, @dukepress.bsky.social, November 2025
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Senghor: Writings on Politics
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November 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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From bodybuilding powder to potato chips, protein is everywhere. Pre-order Protein: The Making of a Nutritional Superstar and be among the first to learn how and at what cost protein rose to the top of the dietary hierarchy. Pre-order here: www.dukeupress.edu/protein

#protein #booklaunch #preorder
A young pregnant woman, a senior on a mobility scooter, and two men in gym gear line up to purchase protein products at the grocery store checkout.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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OH WOW! First sighting!! Where is it? and am I next to the Sainted Greer Langton??
shhhitsgavin.bsky.social Gavin @shhhitsgavin.bsky.social · 4d
Happy to see your book in the wild @naylandblake.bsky.social!
My Studio is a Dungeon is the studio by Nayland Blake
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Before the #LatinGRAMMYs tonight, we're revisiting this @latimes piece by P FKN R author Petra Rivera-Rideau on the snubs for producers Tainy and MAG for their work on @badbunnypr's album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS #DTMF buff.ly/dyeaRBg
Essay: Latin Grammys snubs abound — but Bad Bunny's producers deserve nominations
Producers Tainy and MAG deserve their own honors at the Latin Grammys, says guest columnist Petra Rivera-Rideau, the author of 'Remixing Reggaetón' and associate professor and chair of American…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Today marks ten years since the official release of my first book!
A row of copies of *Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power* leaning on a window, through which can be seen an autumn afternoon in east Oxford.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Major props to Ideas on Fire author Javier Wallace on the publication of Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!

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November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "The Goddess in the Mirror," by Tulasi Srinivas, which explores the dynamic and gendered world of beauty through the experiences of women in the intimate space of the contemporary Indian beauty salon. #SouthAsianStudies buff.ly/avvj2ww
Cover of The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty by Tulasi Srinivas. The image shows a woman applying makeup to another woman in front of a large round mirror. The scene captures both the women directly and their reflections. The title is printed in bold red, pink, and purple text at the bottom, and the author’s name appears in red at the top right against a black background.
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM