Ken Wissoker
@kwissoker.bsky.social
Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
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Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
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I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
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Congratulations to Masi Asare, whose book "Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters" has won the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, given by the American Musicological Society.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Congratulations to Masi Asare, whose book "Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters" has won the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, given by the American Musicological Society.
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Our congratulations to Dean Fuleihan, a senior fellow at the CUNY Institute of State and Local Governance, who was appointed by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to serve as First Deputy Mayor. His appointment reflects the University's mission to advance public service.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Our congratulations to Dean Fuleihan, a senior fellow at the CUNY Institute of State and Local Governance, who was appointed by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to serve as First Deputy Mayor. His appointment reflects the University's mission to advance public service.
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Bêtes Noires" by Lauren "Robin" Derby, which explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shapeshifting spirit demons.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "Bêtes Noires" by Lauren "Robin" Derby, which explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shapeshifting spirit demons.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. apnews.com/article/supr...
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Coming spring 2026, in the @dukepress.bsky.social anthology Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign.
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Coming spring 2026, in the @dukepress.bsky.social anthology Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign.
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in such good company! spotted at the book fair at the Historical Materialism conference 🖤 @dukepress.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
in such good company! spotted at the book fair at the Historical Materialism conference 🖤 @dukepress.bsky.social
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There is just ninety minutes left in this fabulous sale, which ends midnight eastern. Yes, there is a lot of ugly news tonight. Perhaps curling up with "Marx for Cats" or "Necropolitics" will help. Or you could lose your self in the two volume set of Okwui Enwezor's essays, making a better world.
Today is the final day of our fall sale! Shop before 11:59 pm ET with coupon FALL25 to save 50% on books & journal issues. Outside N and S America, head to @mngupbooks.bsky.social to save on shipping.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
There is just ninety minutes left in this fabulous sale, which ends midnight eastern. Yes, there is a lot of ugly news tonight. Perhaps curling up with "Marx for Cats" or "Necropolitics" will help. Or you could lose your self in the two volume set of Okwui Enwezor's essays, making a better world.
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
There is just ninety minutes left in this fabulous sale, which ends midnight eastern. Yes, there is a lot of ugly news tonight. Perhaps curling up with "Marx for Cats" or "Necropolitics" will help. Or you could lose your self in the two volume set of Okwui Enwezor's essays, making a better world.
Today is the final day of our fall sale! Shop before 11:59 pm ET with coupon FALL25 to save 50% on books & journal issues. Outside N and S America, head to @mngupbooks.bsky.social to save on shipping.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
There is just ninety minutes left in this fabulous sale, which ends midnight eastern. Yes, there is a lot of ugly news tonight. Perhaps curling up with "Marx for Cats" or "Necropolitics" will help. Or you could lose your self in the two volume set of Okwui Enwezor's essays, making a better world.
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Today is the final day of our fall sale! Shop before 11:59 pm ET with coupon FALL25 to save 50% on books & journal issues. Outside N and S America, head to @mngupbooks.bsky.social to save on shipping.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Today is the final day of our fall sale! Shop before 11:59 pm ET with coupon FALL25 to save 50% on books & journal issues. Outside N and S America, head to @mngupbooks.bsky.social to save on shipping.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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"HEY CHUCK! FIGHT DON'T FOLD!"
@bkindivisible.bsky.social turning out across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment in brooklyn
@bkindivisible.bsky.social turning out across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment in brooklyn
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"HEY CHUCK! FIGHT DON'T FOLD!"
@bkindivisible.bsky.social turning out across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment in brooklyn
@bkindivisible.bsky.social turning out across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment in brooklyn
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It's not even this. The Democrats know that there is no football.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
It's not even this. The Democrats know that there is no football.
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"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
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Funneling scholars into a few major platforms isn’t just annoying, it’s corrosive to intellectual freedom. Institutions should support researchers moving to more democratic and decentralized alternatives. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Science Must Decentralize
Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers in the field. That’s why we need to address the threat
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November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Funneling scholars into a few major platforms isn’t just annoying, it’s corrosive to intellectual freedom. Institutions should support researchers moving to more democratic and decentralized alternatives. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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“What was once a reliable, repeatable pillar of her life was ripped away from her, first because she felt like an outlier among her peers, and then..the powers that be took away her right to be on the team.” The government has “targeted the fundamental social pillars upholding trans lives”. so cruel
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
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November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“What was once a reliable, repeatable pillar of her life was ripped away from her, first because she felt like an outlier among her peers, and then..the powers that be took away her right to be on the team.” The government has “targeted the fundamental social pillars upholding trans lives”. so cruel
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Tomorrow at NYU! I'll be talking about Beautiful Mystery with Elayne Oliphant, a brilliant scholar and wonderful friend. You don't actually need an NYU ID to get in. @dukepress.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Tomorrow at NYU! I'll be talking about Beautiful Mystery with Elayne Oliphant, a brilliant scholar and wonderful friend. You don't actually need an NYU ID to get in. @dukepress.bsky.social
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“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
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The extent to which shitty centrist journalism rests on the same thing as Trump, the never-identified "some people say, everyone says" etc. including "critics say" here is a zombie move, lifeless yet vengeful.
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The extent to which shitty centrist journalism rests on the same thing as Trump, the never-identified "some people say, everyone says" etc. including "critics say" here is a zombie move, lifeless yet vengeful.
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This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
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November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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“People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied.
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied.
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No one can tell me a single good use for it, for me. I have asked. Not a one.
What am I supposed to use it for? To summarize my emails? Too long, wrong. To write things? Too long, wrong. To plan trips? Planning is FUN and why would I outsource that? I played with it a bit six months ago, it was meh.
Also, I hate its enshittification of search results with my whole soul.
Also, I hate its enshittification of search results with my whole soul.
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
No one can tell me a single good use for it, for me. I have asked. Not a one.
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Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō.
A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.
A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.
Why we're using this spelling of Hawaiʻi
You may notice a change in how we spell Hawaiʻi and other Native Hawaiian words at The Seattle Times. Here's why.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō.
A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.
A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.