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Sonya Bonczek
@sonyabonczek.bsky.social
Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣

Currently reading: Thy Will Be Done by John Garrison Marks (forthcoming April ‘26) and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Hahaha ok i take pity on you. Rosalías stunner of a new album. She wrote songs about different female saints and then learned their languages and it's epic. Check it out.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
yup...sigh.
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
uncouth question, imho
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Maybe you won't read so muhahahahahahahahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
You’re so welcome - happy reading!
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Deadly Divide by @mmendoza.bsky.social

A groundbreaking environmental history of the US–Mexico border, where fences, fear, and even insects shaped ideas about race, security, and belonging. uncpress.org/978146969540...
Deadly Divide
When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced p...
uncpress.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
No Common Ground, 2nd edition by @drkarenlcox.bsky.social

The go-to book on Confederate monuments, newly updated through the years since George Floyd. Removals, lawsuits, reckonings, and still, no common ground in sight. uncpress.org/978146969596...
No Common Ground, Second Edition
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Debates over their meaning have sparked legislative battles, courtroom fights, and public ...
uncpress.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The Trinity by @sharronwconrad.bsky.social

You’ve seen those portraits in Black homes: Jesus, MLK, and JFK. Conrad unpacks why that image meant so much and what it says about faith, memory, and how we make heroes. uncpress.org/978146969444...
The Trinity
A striking triptych once displayed in countless African American households, the Trinity typically features Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., and John F....
uncpress.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom by @wemilteer.bsky.social

The story of free people of color before and during the Civil War. Builders of freedom in their own right, front and center in the fight for rights, belonging, and real citizenship. uncpress.org/978146969499...
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom
Free people of color were both architects of equal rights and active participants in the Civil War, on and off the battlefield. Their unique status as alread...
uncpress.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM