Alexandra Middleton, The Connector: Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics (Duke University Press, 2026) We at Southwest Humanities are very pleased to announce the recent publication of another fascinating book that we have indexed: The Connector: Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics by…

NEW BOOK(S) ALERT! 🌈🥰🌈 I’ve been writing and writing and have two new books coming out next year. This is the PM listing for the two books. I’m so thankful, and am excited about these offerings. They are as follows:

I have a new book about Black trans worldbuilding, abolition, and disability/ Mad arts called Irresistible Revolutions coming out next year via Duke University Press! It’s been amazing working with the team there and I’m so excited for you to read this book!

Check out Andrew Littlejohn's "We Live with the Sea: Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan" out with Duke University Press at dukeupress.edu/we-li...

Happy Pride Month! This June, check out some recent titles that focus on queer studies, trans studies, and LGBTQ+ histories. buff.ly/VkG62Pv #PrideMonth #QueerStudies

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming by Eli Clare, @dukepress.bsky.social & Waiting for Something Else by @1martincloutier.bsky.social, Heliotrope Books. See alt-text! #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

i’m not really trying to brag… but if i did

So cool that amidst the greatest purge of left faculty since the Red Scare and the collapse of the humanities due to right wing assaults and decades of neoliberalism, the Chronicle of Higher Education has gone full David Horowitz and embraced far-right "cultural Marxist" conspiracy theory.

"Without Masters" by Livia K. Stone follows the radical principle of autogestión, or self-management, from its origins in Algeria and France in the 1960s through its transformative resurgence in Mexico City’s punk scene and student uprisings of the 1990s. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/4LVWSym

sam alito in callais: it is just a coincidence that partisan gerrymandering looks like racial gerrymandering. it doesn’t mean anything tennessee republicans post-callais: yee haw boys we are gettin’ the negras outta government

Happy Pride Month! We suggest you read "Speculative Relations" by @[email protected], "Spoiled" by @summerkimlee.bksy.social and "Torn" by @storti.bsky.social. buff.ly/VkG62Pv.

My award-winning communication monograph, The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO, is 40% off this month! www.dukeupress.edu/the-center-c...

Happy Pride Month! 🎉 Over the course of three decades, Small Axe has published numerous works surrounding gender and sexuality in the Caribbean. We have compiled some examples to add to your reading list! Available through @dukepress.bsky.social ; link 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

#ICA2026 kicks off today! Through June 30, save 40% on all books and journal issues with coupon code SCS26 when you order on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #Communication #CommunicationStudies buff.ly/pEeJ0D0

This Pride Month, check out "Puto," the plays of Ricardo Bracho, edited by @rtrodrig.bsky.social, "Sex Isn't Real" by @beansvelocci.bsky.social and "Gay Print Culture" by @jcmezo.bsky.social. buff.ly/VkG62Pv.

What do philosophy and trans studies contribute to one another? This special issue highlights the substantive and methodological contributions of that nascent field. View the TOC: buff.ly/0LfxSWJ Buy this issue: buff.ly/3BV1xFe

I couldn't tell you how many times I've read the essays in Culture and Truth. I was assigned to read it in intro to anthropology 20 years ago and I've gone on to read parts of it with many students since then. Everything he wrote made the field of anthropology better.

Great reads for Pride Month this year include "Cisgender" by @[email protected] and "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression" by @jacobengelberg.bksy.social. buff.ly/VkG62Pv.

"Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” introduced millions of readers to the struggles of ordinary Iranians during the turbulent years around the Islamic Revolution, has died at 56." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...

I like my new profile picture so I’m posting it, too. 😄 Also, happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈 This would be a good time to check out my book Gay Print Culture. Purchase it with @dukepress.bsky.social to get 30%off with code E26JCMGZ

In "California Futures," Daniel Lanza Rivers examines histories of environmental speculation and extraction in California, thinking beyond the colonial Anthropocene to articulate opportunities of land return and environmental justice under climate change. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/qzn0f6a

Save 30% on #NewBook "Love in the Time of Zika" by Paige Marie Patchin, which tracks the Zika public health crisis to challenge assumptions about human and nonhuman reproduction and show how climate change is transforming it. #Climate #GenderStudies #Geography buff.ly/5ekzzCv

I sure do! Here's the Queer Editors starter pack. bsky.app/starter-pack... And there's also @lgbtqeditors.bsky.social. (The org doesn't have a directory yet, but hopefully it will soon.) #StetChat

I Talked To An Old Guy Who Used to Work in Politics About this Complex Issue. He Gave Me an Emotionally Relevant, At Least Somewhat Reactionary Answer That Will Offend People, and It’s Clear Not Saying This Take is Why the Democrats Can’t Win Middle America

My book describes in great detail the development of labor law and bureaucratic capacity to eliminate forced labor. The Trump administration - as a collection of oligarchs and neo-confederates - would hate every aspect of this type of legal oversight. dukeupress.edu/the-business...

Congratulations to Tamar R. Shirinian, whose book "Survival of a Perverse Nation" was awarded the 2025 Ruth Benedict Prize from the Association for Queer Anthropology. buff.ly/LZxCUeu

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

From June 5 to July 24, check out Harmony Hammond's solo show "Rust Never Sleeps" at Alexander Gray Associates gallery. Hammond is the author of "Still Dangerous!" which will be out in August. buff.ly/eNQgHH3

Save 30% on #NewBook "Forms of Blackness" by Cécile Bishop, which examines how race can be approached as a form shaped and perceived through visual and aesthetic practices. #ArtHistory #Philosphy #BlackThought buff.ly/e3p6gRp

Congratulations to Justin Perez, whose book"Queer Emergent" was awarded the 2026 Flora Tristan Book Prize from the @lasabluesky.bsky.social Peru Section. buff.ly/11OUESJ

Coming up this Thursday, June 4, the UCLA Center for Korean Studies will host an in-person talk by June Hee Kwon, author of "Borderland Dreams." buff.ly/RykBF6H.

📢 Attention NYCHA residents pursuing higher education: The NYCHA-CUNY Scholarship offers $1,000 to eligible full-time undergraduate and graduate students at CUNY. 🔗 Apply today: on.nyc.gov/nycha-cuny

As summer rolls around, we would like to remind you that The Small Axe Project consists of multiple platforms that accept submissions of various kinds of works. Check out this post for reference; for all submission details, visit our website 🔗smallaxe.net. We look forward to reading your work!

Cover reveal! www.dukeupress.edu/faculties Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene, Faculties: A Dialogue on Constructive Change in Destructive Times @dukepress.bsky.social Fall 2026!

Headed to Seattle (for the first time!) this week to speak about Inventing Nadar at the School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington — June 4th @ 3 pm. Room details on the poster. @dukepress.bsky.social

And Thursday, June 24 at 630p, with Black Music Month in mind, I will be doing a book event (@dukepress.bsky.social) at A Different Booklist called “Living With Music” with @morganpcampbell.bsky.social who crafted these great posters!

First, I will be giving a paper at @monstrousat15.bsky.social—gratitude for the invitation and to share new work!—alongside friends and colleagues on Tuesday, June 23 at 1p (check the link below for more info and to register). www.eventbrite.com/e/monstrous-...

If you are in or around Toronto in three weeks, I invite you to attend two events happening in the same week with details for each below. We hope to see you there and more soon . . .

With Hampshire College closing, I can't help but rethink *How We Make Each Other*. I thought it would be the 1st of many books telling AMAZING stories of queer/trans life at Hampshire & the 5 Colleges. Weird to think it could be the last! @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/how-we-make-...

Duke University Press. The Weekly Read is “Transformation, Pedagogy, and Repair: Theory in the Flesh in the Present” by Amber Jamilla Musser. The article is published in Theory in the Flesh, a new special issue of Meridians. Read it for free through 8/31: buff.ly/OFrQI74

"Reparative Craft" by Jason Edwards is the first book to explore Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work as a textile artist, showing how her art related to her foundational work in queer theory and affect theory. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/UJdWr7H

Today's blog post features all our great new books coming out this June, including "Who Tells Your Story" edited by Sanford Levinson and "Love in the Time of Zika" by Paige Marie Patchin. buff.ly/W7A5jnI

Congratulations to Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social, whose book "Biennial Boom" has been named the winner of the @lasabluesky.bsky.social Visual Culture Studies section Book Award. buff.ly/mmqNgJM

Get started on your summer reading! Check out the great books we have coming out in June: buff.ly/W7A5jnI%E2%8...

The 2026 CSA conference starts today! Through July 13, browse and save 40% on all books and journals in #CaribbeanStudies or any other discipline when you use code CRBNSA26 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. buff.ly/3OtUsl4

More TYs: @dukepress.bsky.social folks, esp. Courtney Berger, my wonderful, honest, incredible editor & friend; Gisela Fosado, who always shows up for me, with heart & practicality; & E. Ault, who pumps up our series with her high energy self. Prod. & Mark. 👩🏽‍🍳😘. dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b...

Check out our new blog post featuring June releases, including "Forms of Blackness" by Cécile Bishop and "Moving Stones" by Jennifer DeVere Brody. buff.ly/W7A5jnI

This Thursday, June 4, catch @emilygdoucet.bsky.social, author of "Inventing Nadar," at the School of Art + Art History + Design (ART312) at the University of Washington, Seattle. buff.ly/IvU28yC.

Tim Neale’s study is wonderfully illuminating: North American colleagues interested in understanding proliferating wildfires would do well to pay attention to