Reposted by differencesJonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Quite honored to be part of such a line-up! 062
Reposted by differencesJean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My new essay—on prosopopoeia, late liberalism, nuclear colonialism and imperialism, and sexual difference—is out in the Sept. issue of @differences.bsky.social. With readings of Albert Serra's Pacifiction, Anohni's Hopelessness, and an ecodrama by Ontroerend Goed. A taste of the big-book-to-come.read.dukeupress.eduCalamity as DefacementAbstract. Prosopopoeia defines legal and discursive efforts to cognize, and to exempt ourselves from, extinction. The figure of the Anthropocene, for instance, fits a human mask onto the modulation of... 02412
Reposted by differencesElizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Some very favorite essays in this issue!! 052
differences @differences.bsky.social · 05/09/2026differences 37.2 is out now! — featuring essays from D. N. Rodowick, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Jonathan Basile, Mylène Yannick Gamache, Sarah Cavar, Willa Smart, and Adam J. Frank. Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 0132
Reposted by differencesElizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · 21/08/2026David Hollingshead really leans in on New Materialism. Let us know what you think! 082
differences @differences.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"What does it mean to call oneself a 'new materialist' in the year 2026?" — read David Hollingshead's "Securitizations of the Self: Deviant Matter after New Materialism" on our online forum: differencesjournal.org/writing/secu... 030
Reposted by differencesDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The Weekly Read is “Letters from Underground” by Rosalind C. Morris. The article appears in For Whom Do We Read, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (37:1), edited by Peter Szendy. Read this article for free through 8/20: buff.ly/xbs7Zwc 0102
Reposted by differencesDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026This special issue of @differences.bsky.social invites literary theorists and historians to engage with a question raised by this reader: For whom do we read? View the TOC and read the editor's introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/FYRFI0L 0155
differences @differences.bsky.social · 21/05/2026differences 37.1 is out now — edited by Peter Szendy, "For Whom Do We Read?" features essays from Emily Apter, Leah Price, Thomas Schestag, Rosalind C. Morris, Emily Greenwood, Jesse McCarthy, Paul North, and Daniel Heller-Roazen: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/.... 1105
Reposted by differencesStanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Behind Our Backs is out! "In this brilliant study of social forms, De'Ath shows how a surprisingly speculative strain of contemporary poetry explores unseen connections between the domination of value and the process of feminization." —Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago ow.ly/IJRh50YgW1o 0258
differences @differences.bsky.social · 20/02/2026"Digital networks, in fact, are largely walled. If the networked media space is often imagined as an open grid, then the wall is its containing surface" — read Jinying Li's "Toward a Genealogy of the Wall-Screen," freely available for the next two months: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 030
Reposted by differencesThe Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Join us Friday, March 6 for History under Siege! 074
Reposted by differencesElizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · 16/01/2026If you’re in the vicinity, we’d love to see you at Limits of Legibility #3! 062
differences @differences.bsky.social · 15/01/2026join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... 076
Reposted by differencesDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 27/12/2025The Weekly Read is “The Americanity of the 'American Lyric': Claudia Rankine in Ibero-American Translation” by Whitney Devos. The article appears in Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:2-3). Read it for free: buff.ly/hj5wL6r 0115
Reposted by differencesDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 10/12/2025"Lyric beyond Containment," a special issue of differences edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, is now available. View the TOC, read the intro, and "The Americanity of the 'American Lyric',"all freely available: buff.ly/3RkT2Hv 1179
Reposted by differencesSarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...read.dukeupress.eduVolume 36 Issue 2-3 | differences | Duke University Press 1268
Reposted by differencesKeegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 07/12/2025I’m proud to be part of this issue 0102
differences @differences.bsky.social · 06/12/2025differences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 0158
Reposted by differencesSarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 20/10/2025If you’re ASAP-ing, join Claire & I & our assembled luminaries for the Lyric beyond Containment seminar on Friday! We’ll be sharing material from our forthcoming special issue of @differences.bsky.social, I’ll share a bit from Here Is a Figure, & there’ll be previews of some fab books in poetics! 072
Reposted by differencesZahid R Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Publication date: Nov 4, 2025 🎉 1196
differences @differences.bsky.social · 07/08/2025"Laughter […] lingers in the racialized, sexualized, and gendered spaces of abjection that drive the subject to the edges of meaning" — from our latest issue, read Iván A. Ramos's "Breaking Down, Breaking Together" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 074
Reposted by differencesJoey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 28/07/2025“What is a feminist theory of exhaustion?…We are exhausted from feminism but decidedly not taking a ‘break’ from its demands. We are doing it tired.” Incredible essay by Jennifer C. Nash & Samantha Pinto in @differences.bsky.social. Free to read: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 163
differences @differences.bsky.social · 28/07/2025"Kim’s work does not allow us to inhabit the virtual spaces we see before us. Instead, her rendering of space and the various ghosts that haunt those spaces seem to take possession of our bodies" — read Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli's "Spectral Forensics" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 051
Reposted by differencesDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/07/2025The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF 04120
Reposted by differencesThe Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025We are delighted to welcome two new Center staff. Scott Jackshaw joins differences as Managing Editor; Erin Perfect joins the archives team as Processing Archivist. Read about Scott : pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-07... Read about Erin: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-05... @differences.bsky.social 053
Reposted by differencesThe Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 03/07/2025To read: this interview of Elizabeth Weed and Elizabeth A. Wilson, differences editors, by Eugenia Zuroski, president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. www.celj.org/featured-jou.... differences is CELJ's newest featured journal. @differences.bsky.social @elizwilsonemory.bsky.socialcelj.orgDifferences — Council of Editors of Learned JournalsEditors of differences were interviewed by CELJ Board members, Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski as CELJ’s newest featured journal! 093
Reposted by differencesDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025"Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1), is now available! View the TOC and read "Ce n’est pas ça: Blackness, Sex, and the Set of Illegibles" by Lee Edelman, freely available through 9/5: buff.ly/FhdR7Ft 0158
Reposted by differencesJennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 01/06/2025New piece written with my most precious and treasured thinking partner, @samanthapinto.bsky.social. Thinking together about exhaustion, fatigue, and being feminist and bone tired. 02611
differences @differences.bsky.social · 02/06/2025differences 36.1 is out now — featuring a dossier of essays from Selamawit D. Terrefe, David Marriott, and Lee Edelman, alongside writing from Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, and Iván A. Ramos: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 12510
Reposted by differencesSamantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social · 01/06/2025We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...doi.orgOn Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care FeminismThis essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol... 11812
Reposted by differencesThe Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Thanks to the panelists and moderator for the second differences colloquium: The Climate of Critique. Video coming soon! @jttremblay.bsky.social @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social 0102
Reposted by differencesdifferences @differences.bsky.social · 03/02/2025join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... 0125
Reposted by differencesThe Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Join us for The Climate of Critique in two weeks feat. Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson. 0145
differences @differences.bsky.social · 17/02/2025"It was difficult to write Giving an Account of Oneself, since I included very little autobiographical detail" — from our latest issue, read Judith Butler's "Giving an Account: When, Where, for Whom, and Why?" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 021
differences @differences.bsky.social · 10/02/2025"If queer theory has struggled to think of narrative in these terms, it is perhaps because we have defined narrative as one line driven toward closure" — read @teaganbradway.bsky.social's "Renarratable Bonds: Queer Relationality in the Scene of Redress" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 182
Reposted by differencesElizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Really looking forward to this event. See you there! 051
differences @differences.bsky.social · 03/02/2025join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... 0125
Reposted by differencesDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The #WeeklyRead is “On Receiving Accounts from Others” by Sara Ahmed. The article appears in "Unaccountably Queer", a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (35:3) edited by Teagan Bradway Read this article for free through March 31, 2025:buff.ly 04912
differences @differences.bsky.social · 08/01/2025"Another way of cohabitating and coming to justice out of historical conflicts will remain elusive so long as we turn to gender to change the world" — from our latest issue, read Jules Gill-Peterson's "Who Is the Subject of Gender Self-determination?" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 021
Reposted by differencesJean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Some things I enjoyed writing—in some cases, a while ago—that were published in 2024 (or just before). (1) In December: "Basically the Same: Todd Haynes's May December," about repetition-compulsion and the “romance of intractability," on @differences.bsky.social's online forum.differencesjournal.orgBasically the Same: Todd Haynes’s May December — differences: a journal of feminist cultural studiesHaynes delights in imitation, as is his custom. His filmography comprises deconstructive approaches to the musical personae of David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Marc Bolan, and Bob Dylan (Velvet Goldmine, I’m... 2213
Reposted by differencesLeigh Gilmore @lgilmore.bsky.social · 12/12/2024This special issue is filled with extraordinary essays and, in response to them, Butler explores more autobiographical territory than is their norm. Brilliantly edited by @teaganbradway.bsky.social. You can read my essay here and I wholeheartedly recommend the entire issue.read.dukeupress.eduGiving an Epistolary Account of Oneself: Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthyThis article reads the decades-long correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy as an account, following Judith Butler. Specifically, it argues that an epistolary subject emerges through th... 0122
Reposted by differencesTeagan Bradway @teaganbradway.bsky.social · 12/12/2024It's here!!! I'm extremely excited to share “Unaccountably Queer,” the special issue of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies that I edited in honor of Judith Butler’s groundbreaking “Giving an Account of Oneself." read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...read.dukeupress.eduVolume 35 Issue 3 | differences | Duke University Press 66617
differences @differences.bsky.social · 12/12/2024differences 35.3 is out now! — edited by @teaganbradway.bsky.social, "Unaccountably Queer" features essays from Gila Ashtor, Cassius Adair, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 16733
differences @differences.bsky.social · 05/12/2024"To hold, to feel, to touch Black women’s sexualities, we must imagine and reimagine the event horizon of the ship’s hold and, for a moment, speculate" — read Kimberly Bain's "HOLD : SPACE" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 053
differences @differences.bsky.social · 21/11/2024"What openings does spacetime provide that the maritime, perhaps, cannot as readily support?" — from our latest issue, read Petal Samuel's "Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 054
differences @differences.bsky.social · 31/10/2024After 35 years of publication, we’re updating our advisory board! The scholars gathered here share the journal’s commitment to critical thinking about difference, and we are thrilled to have their support. Take a look at the new masthead here: differencesjournal.org/about 0196
differences @differences.bsky.social · 15/10/2024"Black scientists have been here the whole time" — read @chanda.bsky.social's "The Cosmos Is a Black Aesthetic" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 074
differences @differences.bsky.social · 07/10/2024"What does it mean to labor in a field (figuratively and literally) under constant and reoccurring erasure?" — from our latest issue, read Sharon P. Holland's "Black (W)holes: A Problem for Feminist Thought" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 098
differences @differences.bsky.social · 01/10/2024differences 35.2 is out now! — edited by Shoniqua Roach, "Inside the Black (W)hole" features essays from Moya Bailey, Sharon P. Holland, Amber Jamilla Musser, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/... 0137
![An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "Generally, antinarrative theorists define queerness as a force of negativity that ruptures the illusory structures of identity (see Edelman, No and Bad). Narrative perpetuates these structures by promising a satisfying closure that will never arrive. Butler similarly challenges the desire for 'narrative closure for our lives' (Giving 64). They are especially critical of those who idealize a coherent, definitive life story as key to a healthy psyche. In fact, they go so far as to suggest that 'something we might tentatively call the truth of the person [ . . . ] might well become more clear in moments of interruption, stoppage, open-endedness—in enigmatic
articulations that cannot easily be translated into narrative form.' While
they embrace the enigmas that exceed narration, Butler nonetheless refuses 'to celebrate a certain notion of incoherence' as a queer ideal. Rather than opposing incoherence to identity, Butler defines incoherence as the existential price of our relational being. In their words, '[O]ur ‘incoherence’ establishes the way in which we are constituted in relationality: implicated, beholden, derived, sustained by a social world that is beyond us and before us.' We simply cannot do without incoherence. But too much incoherence can lead to painful or even unlivable states of fracture, and as Butler cautions, '[T]he suffering that belongs to conditions of dissociation should not be underestimated' (52). We need some measure of coherence to survive.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6phcm4yufghwwc67rd7ecymq/bafkreih7swt6qevxfrhlgkdansbyi5elbzqhmyllqdt5ijszefep7noxfm)
