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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A powerful piece by Claudio Lomnitz in Boston Review. His next @dukepress.bsky.social book will be out in the spring. dukeupress.edu/a-political-... www.bostonreview.net/articles/sla...

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Slavery Pure and Simple

A recent bombshell report documents brutal cases of forced labor in Mexico. Why can’t the government take it seriously?

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a brilliant and engaged person! I feel fortunate to have spent a little time talking with her. Imagine bringing Murakami to @newyorker.com! Rest in Peace. Condolences to Abigail & Rachel. Linda Asher, Who Widened The New Yorker’s Taste in Fiction, Dies at 93 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/o...

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Linda Asher, Who Widened The New Yorker’s Taste in Fiction, Dies at 93

She published new voices like Haruki Murakami at the magazine and translated stories and books by Milan Kundera and Balzac from French.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Elleza Kelley's "Flight Lines" reads across African American literature and art, showing how black form is fundamentally shaped by efforts to represent black space. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/BmpwRcc

Cover of Flight Lines: A Poetics of Black Space by Elleza Kelley. The cover has an abstract watercolor aesthetic. Color splotches meet geometric buildings on a block of green, streaky land halfway on the page. In the foreground, two figures carry an umbrella, with objects scattered throughout the space The title is in thin black, italics on the top right and the subtitle is in red and smaller on the top left. The author's name is center right in small, white letters.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Weekly Read is "Transpacific Nonencounters" by Andrea Mendoza, which traces the histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan. The book is available to read for free thanks to support from the University of California libraries: buff.ly/98TESDX

Cover of Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico by Andrea Mendoza. The cover artwork depicts human and insect figures in blue on a background of yellow irregular squares edged in red. The author's name, title, and subtitle each appear in white text overlaid on a square red background, stacked vertically in the center of the cover.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026

This corruption must be investigated.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Among the great new books we have coming out this October are Heather Berg's "Notes from the Sex Worker Left," and Tina Chen's "Alien Forms and Minor Genres." buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory by Heather Berg. The cover features a watercolor painting of three individuals holding their faces close together with eyes closed. The central figure’s mouth is open showing teeth and bright red lips. The painting uses a navy blue for linework and shading. The title is written in the same blue in an all caps serif font in the bottom right. The subtitle is below in a fleshy pink. the author’s name is to the left in black.

Cover of Alien Forms and Minor Genres: A Speculative Handbook of Academic Labor by Tina Chen. Cover is red with pink and white text. It features a detail from Laura Kina's "Shisa Lion," a thick black line drawing of a demonic figure screaming.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This October we have some great new art books coming out, including "Transplanetary Americas" by Robb Hernández and "Marfa Marfa" by Josh T. Franco. Check them out! buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of Transplanetary Americas: Art, Outer Space, and the Latinx Imagination by Robb Hernández. It features an image of Leo Villareal’s Star Ceiling, installed in a plaza with tall columns and benches. 2 people stroll below. The text is in a retro sci-fi font in bright lime-green and yellow.

Cover of Marfa, Marfa: Rasquachismo and Minimalism in Far West Texas by Josh T Franco. The cover has a bright yellow background. "Marfa, Marfa" is written in very large, red text. The author's name is in a black font, top center. Beneath the title is an simple illustration of a desert landscape with a concrete wall, sparse plants, and a muted gray sky, bottom center. The subtitle appears within the drawing in small, black font.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jessie K. Luna's "The Upright Farmer" which explores the impacts of agricultural modernization in Burkina Faso, is among our new October titles, available now! buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of The Upright Farmer: Racial Capitalism and Agricultural Modernization in Burkina Faso by Jessie K. Luna. Cover shows a photograph of several people loading sacks of cotton onto an orange truck in a rural field covered in cotton. The title is in large dark green and white block letters across the top and left. The author's name is in yellow near the bottom.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In "Up Against the Archive," edited by Antoinette Burton, scholars experiment with anti-imperial forms of writing history, attending to archival silences and reassessing traditional disciplinary modes and forms. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/SZFDCMy

Cover of Up Against the Archive: Experiments in Writing British Empire History Otherwise by Antoinette Burton. The cover resembles a notebook, with the spine in brown and the cover in textured teal that has faint writings with map-like markings and circles. The title is in large white serif text across the upper half. The subtitle is centered in smaller white text, with the editor's name at the bottom in white, small, capitalized text.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am proud of what Josh and I accomplished in this essay, which took deep reporting and data gathering, and which ultimately runs to a hearty 7000+ words to explain what's really going on with Jewish American and Israeli books in US publishing as PEN America and the ADL run cover for genocide

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Personal Demons" by @gracelavery.bsky.social offers a new theory of the relation between sex, desire, and personhood. Check it out along with all our new October books: buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of Personal Demons: Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism by Grace Lavery. The cover features a painting of a beige cat-like creature caught in branches against a painted black background. The title is written in a beige highly stylized font that incorporates calligraphy like strokes. The subtitle appears at the bottom of the cover in a beige serif font. Below this is the author’s name in the same stylized font in an orange red.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Check out our new books of October, including @jamesbliss.bsky.social's "In a Field of Static," which recenters Black feminist theorizing in the debates that shaped contemporary feminist and queer theory. buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of In a Field of Static: Missed Encounters with Black Feminist Theorizing by James Bliss. The cover features out-of-focus spheres of color on a white background. The title appears in large type with "In a Field" in the top third and "of Static" and the bottom. The text partially melds with the colors, with pink and orange circles forming the dot over the letters i and a green circle forming the o. The subtitle and author's name float in smaller text in the middle of the cover.

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Amy Nathan @amynathan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"An inspiring, important, and often-neglected story of a civil rights icon," says the KIRKUS Review of the new book RIDING INTO HISTORY, about "U.S. Army PFC Sarah Louise Keys (1928-2023), who resisted bus segregation three years before Rosa Parks. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Photo of the cover of the book RIDING INTO HISTORY, showing PFC Sarah Louise Keys in her uniform for the Women's Army Corps

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i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am excited to announce a new endeavor: The Blackhurst Project! Partnering with the Blackhurst Cultural Centre and A Different Booklist, we have developed a Project for cultivating black thought in this current sociopolitical moment—a think tank, so to speak. www.eventbrite.ca/e/2002569660...

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i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The inaugural event for this monthly series kicks off next Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 6p featuring Jonathan Howard (Yale University) to discuss his book, Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness (@dukepress.bsky.social).

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 02/10/2026

Editor's Note | If Bernie and Bannon Can Ally, Maybe There’s Hope for Higher Ed Coalition building between faculty and administrators could now be a matter of survival. By Sara Custer: bit.ly/4z9v4Bt

"Editor's Note" in white text on an orange sticky note placed on a white background.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 02/10/2026

The Key | This week, Sara Custer is joined by Cathy Davidson and Jody Greene to discuss their new book and encourage faculty to build coalitions with administrators to respond to those obstacles. Listen now ➡️ bit.ly/3TE5FAK #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The Key podcast graphic for Ep 215: How Faculty Can Be Agents of Change. ON the right, the headshots for Sara Custer, Cathy Davidson, and Jody Greene.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Check out our new books of October, including "Visualizing Latinx" by @arlenedavila.bsky.social, which elevates the stories of contemporary Latinx creators working in fashion, independent filmmaking, and public art. buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of Visualizing Latinx: Creative Practices in Fashion, Film, and Beyond by Arlene Dávila. The cover shows a model wearing a light grey deconstructed suit. She is standing on a podium with a full length mirror behind her. “LATINX” is written in a large bold white font taking up half of the cover and spanning two lines of text. The model is in front of the text. “Visualizing” is written on top of “LATINX” in black italics. The subtitle is at the bottom of the cover in black. Directly next to this is the author’s name.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Wild Tongue," a Borderlands mixtape of Latine sonic cultures and expressive forms by Jonathan Leal is one of our many great new October titles: buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of Wild Tongue: A Borderlands Mixtape by Jonathan Leal. Cover features a vibrant collage of flowers, a guitar, accordian, palm leaves, butterfly, and other objects against a black background. A large pink mouth with a blue string on the tongue centers the collage. The title is in distressed yellow letters at the top with the subtitle and author's name in smaller white text.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Come check out our new October titles, including @moveablejaw.bsky.social's examination of contemporary ventriloquism, "Out of Sync." buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of Out of Sync: Ventriloquism in Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok by Sarah Rebecca Kessler. It is bright red and features oversized layered blue, yellow, green, and orange lettering, technical illustrations of ventriloquist-dummy mechanisms, and black line drawings of a ventriloquist and puppet.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Among our new books in October is "Homeplaces" a collection edited by João Biehl and Federico Neiburg. Check it out! buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of Homeplaces: Dwelling and Habitability in Critical Times edited by João Biehl and Federico Neiburg. The cover shows a person dressed warmly swinging an axe overhead while in the process of chopping wood. There is a building with boarded up windows and wooden housing debris laying around. The title is written in a yellow sans serif font and is hyphenated to span two lines of text. The subtitle is below aligned left in white. The editors names appear at the very bottom of the cover in a light blue against a solid navy blue background.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We have a great crop of new books in October. Check them out! buff.ly/bWWE29D

Graphic reading New Books out this month featuring covers of Content Machines, Personal Demons, Notes from the Sex Worker Left, Visualizing Latinx, Marfa, Marfa, Alien Forms & Minor Genres, and Ninety-Nine, arranged in a 3x5 grid.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Among our new October books is @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social's "Content Machines," which considers how platforms like Wattpad and TikTok have reshaped modern publishing, reading, and writing: buff.ly/bWWE29D

Cover of Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era by Sarah Brouillette. The cover is white with a tablet featuring six colorful digitally drawn images of romance book covers. There are blue thumbs ups and red hearts covering the images. Beneath is written, “Reading and Writing in the Platform Era” in bold. Below this, in lighter text, a summary of Content Machines begins. The title is written vertically in the bottom right parallel to the tablet. The author’s name is directly after in a smaller serif font.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're live! On the @insidehighered.bsky.social podcast w @saracuster.insidehighered.com "How Faculty Can Be Agents of Change" www.insidehighered.com/podcasts/key.... Focusing on our book "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times" @dukepress.bsky.social

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Ep. 215: How Faculty Can Be Agents of Change | Inside Higher Ed

In their new book, Faculties: A Dialogue on In

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sale on an amazing new book 🗃️📚

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

3-We've hosted around 2000 @hastacscholars.bsky.social, the network run by students, for students. These amazing people (founders, board members, students) have made and remade many fields. It is sad to end HASTAC as an interactive site but we're so proud of what impacts we have had. Thank you all!

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2-We began around 2000-2001. NSF calls @hastac.bsky.social "the world's first and oldest academic social network." Facebook was founded in 2004, MySpace and Friendster in 2003. We launched our Wiki a few months before Wikipedia launched. 25+ years, of visionary, dedicated, loyal, collective leaders

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, we announced that HASTAC is closing as an interactive social network after 25+ years of innovative, exciting, and equitable learning, scholarship, and community focusing on technology and its impact on society. educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/09/29/s...

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Sunsetting the HASTAC Network After 25+ Great Years: Farewell and Appreciation From HASTAC Co-Directors Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley – Educational and Cultural Institutions

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great to see this review of Harmony Hammond's "Still Dangerous!" in The Brooklyn Rail. You can catch her signing it at the Leslie-Lohman Museum on 10/29. brooklynrail.org/2026/10/art_...

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Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader | The Brooklyn Rail

This reader presents a spectrum of Hammond’s voice from short gallery texts to lengthy scholarly articles and interviews.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's international translation day, so here's the newest translated book originally published by @dukepress.bsky.social. This is the French edition of Jonathan Sterne's Diminished Faculties, published by Philharmonie De Paris Editions.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can catch @gracelavery.bsky.social, author of "Personal Demons," at @pegasusbooks.bsky.social Berkeley in October, and check out all our author events for the month: buff.ly/d9h0t7o

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The editors of "Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies," @santiaaurora.bsky.social & @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social, appear at the Wisconsin Book Festival this month. And check out all our author events in October: buff.ly/d9h0t7o

Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo. The cover is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom. The title is written in a bold sans serif white text in all caps with “Puerto Rican Studies” written larger. Centered on the text is a cut out in the shape of Puerto Rica revealing the background gradient. The editors' names are below in white.

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"This is the book—‘the half that’s yet to be told.’ The visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean captured the hearts of many of my generation and ignited a Rastafari revolution. My life changed when I saw the nail prints in Jah hand... ” - Rita Marley

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is one of the most amazing books I have ever been honored to work on. Around 40 years of oral & documentary history about Selassie's visit to Jamaica and the Caribbean which transformed the place of Rastafarians in Jamaican society. A historic volume.

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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"What counts as disability." Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @elimrogers.bsky.social & @dukepress.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our authors have in-person and online events around the US and in Canada and Switzerland this October. Hope you can make it to some! buff.ly/d9h0t7o

Covers of Touch of Grey, Miracle Road, The Afric-American Picture Gallery, Making Gay History, How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent, P FKN R, Personal Demons, Still Dangerous!, Degas at the Gas Station, and Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies, arranged in a 5x5 grid.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In "From Hate to Hallows," Todne Thomas @blkvoicemedium.bsky.social explores the meanings Black people make from Black church arson following a 2015 incident in Thomas' hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Rpq4MTE

Cover of From Hate to Hallows: Reframing Black Church Arson by Todne Thomas. The cover features an orange and red sky scattered with dark flecks above a black silhouetted church with a cross. The title appears in large white letters across the upper half. The subtitle is in spaced white lettering below the church with "Reframing" above "Black Church Arson" and the author's name in gold at the bottom.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations to @danilynrutherford.bsky.social, whose book "Beautiful Mystery" has been named a co-winner of the 2026 American Ethnological Society @amethno.bsky.social Senior Book Prize. buff.ly/QdtUSef

Cover of Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World by Danilyn Rutherford. Features an image of the author and her daughter treated with a colorful gradient, giving it a blueish tone. The beach and a house are visible in the background.

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, Hage explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. 🗓️ 8 October 2026 📍The University of Sydney 🔗 buff.ly/yImDZSx @dukepress.bsky.social @anthroprofhage.bsky.social

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I cannot wait for this book!!!!!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're in Durham this Thursday 10/1, catch @elimrogers.bsky.social, author of "Sick Work," giving at talk at Duke University: buff.ly/NzUBeOo

Flyer promoting a Sick Work book talk (Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness) with Emily Lim Rogers and Dr. Catherine Clune‑Taylor, Thursday Oct 1 at 10 AM in Rubenstein Library 153 and on Zoom, showing book cover, pill organizer photo, and sponsor logos.

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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“A Lesbian Media Strategy: This Bridge Called My Back and Persephone Press” is out now in the September issue of American Literature. Read it here: doi.org/10.1215/0002...

Orange cover of volume 98 issue number 3 of the journal American Literature

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i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Grateful to have this oppprtunity to complete Be Real Black for Me: About the Matter of Roberta Flack (@dukepress.bsky.social) with this Fellowship. www.english.utoronto.ca/news/assista...

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