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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are you writing a book about food justice and race? Learn more about our Black Food Justice series with series editor Ashanté Reese and @lucaschurch.bsky.social next week at this online lunch and learn👇 utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Please swing by UNC Press’s booth (705) for a signed copy of @aravensgrace.bsky.social ’s new book! #AWP26

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Hey #AWP26 make sure to stop by and visit @lucaschurch.bsky.social in our booth! Plus don't miss Maria Pinto signing copies of FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS tomorrow at 11AM ✍️

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Hello friendly editor asking you to visit @uncpress.bsky.social’s booth at #AWP26! Maybe pick up a book or two?

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Cate Hodorowicz @catehodorowicz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

All you #AWP26 folks should stop by booth 737 and say hi to @lucaschurch.bsky.social abd check out our new literary nonfiction, including Rebecca McClanahan’s new memoir! This one will change you in all the best ways.

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Scott Huffard @shuffard.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Excited to share that “Casey Jones: America’s Engineer” (tentative title) now has final @uncpress.bsky.social board approval and is heading to publication (in early 2027). Thanks especially to @lucaschurch.bsky.social for working with me to get this over the line. Stay tuned for more details…🚂

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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is an incredibly kind and thoughtful early (and unpaid for I swear!) review of my new book, thank you so much for this 🧵 @profhalloran.bsky.social ping @lucaschurch.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

In any event, Jim Crow in the Asylum is an essential text, and folks should move it to the top of their reading lists.

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I wrote something about my friend, DG Martin.

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

One of the books I’m proudest of. Congratulations, @drkyliesmith.bsky.social!

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Ready to talk about your book at #ASA2025! Come on down to @uncpress.bsky.social’s booth and talk to me! 😎📖

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Man, I always forget how good Angels of Light are

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I want someone to pitch me a book on Southern gay comix and how they changed queer lit. Any takers?

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Quarterly check in! How are we doing?

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It’s been a huge few months for me. I came out 🏳️‍🌈 at 46 and am living on my own for the first time in my life. I was in a very dark place until I accepted my truth. The second pic is of me scared yet excited for the future. Also sorry for the earnest post lol love y’all

Said gay man, terrified, but elated for the future

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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Amidst all of this, I am looking forward to hosting the fabulous Ryan Emanuel from Duke today. His book “On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice” from @uncpress.bsky.social and edited by @lucaschurch.bsky.social was the best book I read last year uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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On the Swamp | Ryan Emanuel | University of North Carolina Press

Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina—a patchwork quil...

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

What if you never actually stop putting together IKEA furniture

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I want someone to pitch me a good, empathetic book about the history of the mobile home.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

You’ll get 25% off my book if you pre-order today-Friday via Barnes & Noble. I’m really proud of IN THE RHODODENDRONS & I want to find its people. AND other beautiful books are coming out soon and you can use the same offer to pre-order them as well, so I wanted to share a couple recommendations.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled. For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️

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Academic Freedom and Open Discourse - UNC Press Blog

For over 100 years UNC Press has championed the principles of academic freedom, open discourse, and the free exchange of ideas—values essential to a democratic society and the pursuit of knowledge. R...

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Will always be one of my favorites books I've acquired

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There aren't enough good shitposts on here but they're doing Sieg Heils on Twitter so Hello Again! I'm an acquisitions editor in trade books (music, literary nonfiction, Southern regional) and sociology, lit studies, Appalachian Studies, and probably other stuff. Let's start anew! No more Nazi shit!

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

How do we make this not the dregs asking for me, a friend

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Bluesky the social media safety school

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The vibe here continues to elude me. Where are the dumb people

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This is what being an editor is btw

Ariana Grande holding Cynthia Erivo’s finger during a deeply weird interview

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I have the devil's number of followers i am scared for my afterlife pls help and follow

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hello, here is the secret of being a good acquisitions editor: read widely and develop a hunger for knowledge; in that wide reading, develop good taste. Be expansive, empathetic, but never accept less than incredible work. Have no hobbies except books and what they could mean. Rinse and repeat.

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I went to a memorial service today and the only person whose phone went off during the eulogy was wearing a Donald Duck tie.

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Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hi if you’re new here and new to me, I published a weird fiction novel last year with @malarkeybooks.bsky.social called Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky. That’s an awesome title and the cover is amazing, so the novel doesn’t even have to be any good.

Novel cover. A blue/black sky with leopards on the prowl and even one on the moon.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 15/11/2024

Well if we’re talking about the south, nobody stands a chance against the ironclad voter suppression & gerrymandering of the southern GOP, & yes they do have many crooked ways of ensuring only votes for them get counted. @lucaschurch.bsky.social

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Tomorrow at 10am at ASA, @derekcrim.bsky.social and I have the enormous pleasure and honor of having *The End of College Football* (@uncpress.bsky.social) publicly engaged by some of our fav and most respected scholars. Please join us if you are at the conference!

Authors Meet Readers—The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva)
Thu, November 14, 10:00 to 11:40am, Baltimore Hilton, Key Ballroom 2 (Second Floor)
Session Submission Type: Non-Paper Session: Roundtable Format

Abstract
This Author-Meets-Readers panel focuses on Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva's new book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (University of North Carolina Press, 2024). Grounded in the experiences of former college football players who generously shared their stories, The End of College Football explores how one of the United State's favorite games is saturated in racialized exploitation and harm. Drawing on extensive testimony from the authors' athlete interlocutors, the book chronicles how universities systematically extract value from players who are subjected to a remarkable amount of physical and emotional harm in the course of labor that is not acknowledged as such. Kalman-

Lamb and Silva document the economic exploitation of the sport and how it is experienced by players as well as the desiccated education they are offered in exchange, the immense physical and emotional toll of a sport predicated on extreme violence, the plantation dynamics that make college football once of the most extreme sites of racial extraction in contemporary US society, the abuse and coercion that make it all possible, and the way that each of these themes was exemplified in the pandemic season of 2020. Ultimately, the book asks us to confront the power structure of the sport and take seriously the voices of those who have endured it, calling for unionization and employment rights on a pathway to the vanishing point of abolition and reparations.

The panel brings together readers Lucia Trimbur (John Jay College of Criminal Justice-SUNY), Theresa Runstedtler (American University), Tom Oates (Iowa University), Tracie Canada (Duke Hniversity) and authors Nathan Kalman-Lamb (University of New Brunswick) and Derek Silva (King's University College at Western University), and panel chair Courtney Cox (Oregon University).

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Steven Moore @stmoore.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello app! I'm an essayist in Portland, currently working on a book of nonfiction for @uncpress.bsky.social about the genius of Janet Jackson. Music writers, essayists, CNF people, lemme know where you're at!

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello is anybody peer reviewing anymore asking for a friend

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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

No clue who did this but they’re not wrong!! @uncpress.bsky.social

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Y'all are going to want this one. It's an informative, if not very sobering, read.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Please check out this interview @derekcrim.bsky.social and I did with @blackagendareport.bsky.social on our @uncpress.bsky.social book, which is slated for release in less than two weeks! www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-for...

Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva: In a way, the book can be understood as a case study in how racial capitalism—often quite an abstract and theoretical concept—concretely impacts the lives of people in the United States. We use the term ‘structural coercion’ to explain how participation in college football, an incredibly dangerous and exploitative site of labor that is also one of the nation’s most popular cultural forms, is significantly predicated upon a desire to improve life chances. Precisely because of the ongoing history of slavery/segregation in the United States, Black Americans continue to disproportionately be denied access to higher education and attendant forms of opportunity. College football provides that access—at an almost incalculable cost. The real tragedy is that participation is actually a rational choice, despite those costs, precisely because of how significant structural barriers continue to be.

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

It looks like Dorothy Allison has passed on. I will cherish the class I was able to take with her and will be forever grateful for her support of my writing. My love and thoughts to her family. We have lost someone very special.

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Part of my anger at this outcome is that I did not want to vote for Harris based on her unwavering commitment to continuing supporting the genocide in Gaza. But I voted for her. I'm in a swing state, so I did what I thought was the lesser of two evils (that old saw). (1/2)

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Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Gonna listen to Cale's Vintage Violence and edit a manuscript. Love to you all.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 29/09/2024

Southerners are sick & tired of being screamed at to vote out their dictators who are hellbent fascists. Do you know how hard they try? @sotreu.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @authorwinifred.bsky.social @grrlysquirrel.bsky.social @lucaschurch.bsky.social @takahanazawa.bsky.social

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 16/09/2024

Y'all need to keep listening to Black southerners I'm telling y'all. The slurs ain't nothing for us. You have no idea the white supremacist violence we're hardened to endure. We could share. @knilirabaj.bsky.social @grrlysquirrel.bsky.social @neonlime.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13/09/2024

This hits close to home for me because I know Henderson, North Carolina well, our babysitter lived in a trailer park there that we had fun visiting her at when I was a kid, & a Black man has been lynched in 2024 there. @markanthonyneal.bsky.social @neonlime.bsky.social @lucaschurch.bsky.social

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