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New

Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago - New

Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago

Kemi Adeyemi

“In this incredibly beautiful and important work, Kemi Adeyemi addresses the erasure of Black queer women’s stories, histories, and spaces by recovering the complexity of their lived geographies. Feels Right is a fantastic read that transports readers into their world that was—and one yet to come.”—Jen Jack Gieseking
Agricultural History - New

Agricultural History

Albert Way, editor

Now published by Duke University Press.

Agricultural History is the journal of record in its field, publishing articles that explore agriculture and rural life over time, in all geographies and among all people.
A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad - New

A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad

Richard T. Rodríguez

“This is a book written from the heart. Read it, learn, and feel. I vote for Richard T. Rodríguez, a subject close to my heart.”—Holly Johnson, artist and singer of the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property - New

Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property

Minh-Ha T. Pham

Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the practice of social media users monitoring the fashion market for the appearance of fake knock-off fashion, design theft, and plagiarism, showing how it is critically important to the development of global fashion.
The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics - New

The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson, editors

This revised and updated edition of The Mexico Reader provides an expansive and comprehensive guide to the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico, from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century.
Breathing Aesthetics - New

Breathing Aesthetics

John-Thomas Tremblay

Jean-Thomas Tremblay examines the prominence of breathing in responses to contemporary crises within literature, film, and performance cultures, showing how breathing has emerged as a medium through which biopolitical and necropolitical forces are increasingly exercised and experienced.
Disability Dramaturgies - New

Disability Dramaturgies

Madeline Charne and Tom Sellar, issue editors

Disabled artists have often been excluded, ignored, marginalized, or outright exploited in theater, particularly in America. In this special issue of Theater, disabled practitioners and scholars explore how strategies of care—long cultivated and practiced by disabled artists and the creative communities around them—might speak to the present moment.
Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma - New

Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma

Harris Solomon

“Offering new language and ideas to medical anthropology while providing insights into systematic suffering and the ways efforts to address it become routinized, Lifelines is a stunning and brilliant book.”—Sarah Pinto
Trans Asia Photography - New

Trans Asia Photography

Deepali Dewan, Yi Gu, and Thy Phu, issue editors

Trans Asia Photography is the first and only open-access international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary exploration of historic and contemporary photography from Asia and across the Asian diaspora.

Open access

Best Sellers

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex - Best Sellers

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

"Powerfully demonstrate[s] what we too often forget: our attempts at securing safety for ourselves and our communities are subject to much more powerful attempts by the state and society to make itself safe—including to make itself safe from us and our most radical, challenging, revolutionary, feminist ideas." — Ruthann Robson
Dark Matters - Best Sellers

Dark Matters

Simone Browne

"Dark Matters is of great importance not just because it illuminates historical and contemporary surveillance technologies of (anti)blackness, but equally because it opens up a series of questions around geography, race, power, and surveillance."—Hidefumi Nishiyama, Theory & Event
Left of Queer - Best Sellers

Left of Queer

David L. Eng and Jasbir K. Puar, issue editors

The contributors to this special issue of Social Text offer a detailed examination of queerness and its nearly three-decade academic institutionalization. Taking a position that is politically left of the current academic and political mainstreaming of queerness, the essays in this issue examine what is left of queer—what remains outside of the political, economic, and cultural mandates of the state and the liberal individual as its prized subject.
Living a Feminist Life - Best Sellers

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

"Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism. … Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist."—Bookforum
Cruel Optimism - Best Sellers

Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant

“This is Berlant at her most revolutionarily queer, questioning what would happen if we stopped thinking of ourselves in terms of identity categories, and instead reorganized our sense of self around the specific objects and ideas to which we are attached and the affects that they produce in us.” — Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review
Radical Care - Best Sellers

Radical Care

Hi′ilei Hobart and Tamara Kneese, editors

Situating discussions of care within a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and Black activism, contributors to this special issue consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence.
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle - Best Sellers

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

Shannen Dee Williams

“Sweeping in its scope, exhaustively researched, and balanced in presentation,Subversive Habits is a seminal history of Black Catholic Nuns and their struggle for equality and justice in the Catholic Church.” —Bettye Collier-Thomas
Crip Temporalities - Best Sellers

Crip Temporalities

Ellen Samuels and Elizabeth Freeman, issue editors

This special issue brings together explorations of crip temporality: the ways in which bodily and mental disabilities shape the experience of time. Through accessibly written essays, art, and poems, contributors explore both the confines of crip temporality and the freedoms it provides.
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Best Sellers

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J. Haraway

"Staying with the Trouble is Haraway at her most accessible. … This is a work to provoke and inspire. It is a call to arms (or pseudopods as the case may be)!" —Savage Minds

Featured Journals

Environmental Humanities - Featured Journals

Environmental Humanities

Dolly Jørgensen and Franklin Ginn, editors

Now publishing three issues per year

The journal publishes outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship that draws humanities disciplines into conversation with each other, and with the natural and social sciences, around significant environmental issues.

Open access
American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage - Featured Journals

American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage

Thomas Purnell, editor

Official journal of the American Dialect Society

The journal is concerned principally with the English language in the Western Hemisphere, although articles dealing with English in other parts of the world, the influence of other languages by or on English, and linguistic theory are also published.
Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature - Featured Journals

Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature

Zong-qi Cai, editor

Prism presents cutting-edge research on modern literary production, dissemination, and reception in China and beyond. It also publishes works that study the shaping influence of traditional literature and culture on modern and contemporary China.
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies - Featured Journals

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies

Alessandra Raengo and Lauren McLeod Cramer, editors

liquid blackness seeks to carve out a place for aesthetic theory and the most radical agenda of Black studies to come together in productive ways, with the goal of attending to the aesthetic work of blackness and the political work of form.
Open access

Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Steven Bradlow, editor

The Illinois Journal of Mathematics publishes new, peer-reviewed articles in all areas of mathematics research and has published works by many of the world's leading mathematicians.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Richard Hain and Alexander Kiselev, editors

Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's top ten mathematics journals, emphasizing the most active and influential areas of current mathematics.
Kyoto Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Koji Fujiwara and Atsushi Moriwaki, editors

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics has a long and distinguished history of publishing high-quality, original mathematics research papers and surveys at the forefront of pure mathematics.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic - Mathematics

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Curtis Franks and Anand Pillay, editors

Since 1960, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic has published original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Syllabi

Critical University Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Critical University Studies Syllabus

The syllabus provides insight into critical inquiries of the university system and its histories, and reflects on directions for future frameworks for higher education.
Conceptualizing COVID Syllabus - Syllabi

Conceptualizing COVID Syllabus

Early attempts to conceptualize how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the discourse in the humanities and social sciences in 2021.
Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories Syllabus - Syllabi

Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories Syllabus

These resources help contextualize the experiences of Asian & Pacific Americans amid anti-Asian racism in the US, while also exploring community formation, solidarity between marginalized groups, and worldmaking possibilities.
Elections in Global History Syllabus - Syllabi

Elections in Global History Syllabus

This syllabus features scholarship on historical elections. Topics include the study of past election events, voting inequity, election quotas, media politics, protests during election times, and more.
Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus - Syllabi

Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus

These articles, books, and journal issues tackle topics of political protest, resistance, and activism. Subjects include transnational social movements, spatial reclamation, student occupation, protest literature, and more.
Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that revisit queer studies topics, including decolonizing queerness, queerness and antinormativity, queer migration, and contemporary coming-out stories.
Labor and Precarity Syllabus - Syllabi

Labor and Precarity Syllabus

These books and articles consider the many faces of precarity around the world, including roles such as gig workers, warehouse workers, day laborers, and sanitation workers.
Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus - Syllabi

Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus

This syllabus explores the ways disasters affect us and how we emerge from them changed. These lessons might help us conceptualize potential shapes for a post-COVID-19 world.
Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus - Syllabi

Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus

As we collectively deal with the implications of a global pandemic, care and self-care have become ever more important. These books, issues, and articles investigate different ways that care can bind together individuals and communities where larger institutions or governments fail to intervene.
Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus - Syllabi

Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus

Amid the worldwide spread of COVID-19, it’s a challenging time, and our thoughts are with those affected by this disease. In support and solidarity, we present books and journal articles that help build knowledge and understanding of how we navigate the spread of communicable diseases.
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