Let's all use this occasion to take a look at the many ways Tennessee Republicans have shown how much they value and respect the Traditional Nuclear Family™

Tell the truth and get fired.

Don’t get me started.

The Weekly Read is “What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis in Higher Education,” a conversation published in @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social issue 23:1. Read it for free: buff.ly/y2paoSr

“Researchers that have attempted to make the university’s connections –and potential obligations– to the Caribbean explicit say their efforts have been stymied. …“The conversation is not happening,” said Carla Martin, a Harvard professor of African and African American Studies. “We all have tried.””

Coming up at @intellpublics.bsky.social from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social at @cuny.edu This is going to be so great!!

Today on our blog, we talk with Sarah Sharma about her new book "Insufferable Tools" and how the feminist techno-logics she proposes differs from Big Tech Feminism. buff.ly/ElHBMCP

Take advantage of our #OAH2026 conference discount! Through May 28, save 40% on all books and journal issues in #USHistory or any other discipline when you use code OAH26 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. buff.ly/3XzJYIT

"Making Gay History" continues John D’Emilio’s autobiography, detailing his career as a public historian, activist, and academic. Read a sample of the book for free now. #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQHistory

This talk is at 7:30 tonight! I've written it to feel like a Friday night academic talk (!) Here's my opening listen, from Suraporn Sombatcharoen (king of luk thung, sorta single-handedly invented the genre as we know it, killed after one of his concerts in 1968) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aTT...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Insufferable Tools" by Sarah Sharma, which proposes a new feminist politics of tech that can forge futures free from the grip of the broligarchs of contemporary tech culture. buff.ly/44l4dIX

stg if you live in or even approximately in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois and do not block off your calendar to go to every single one of these pictures you do NOT deserve the Music Box Theatre my G-D this is a LINEUP

In the lead up to the #WorldCup, pick up a copy of "Kicking" by @julesboykoff.bsky.social, which considers the beautiful game at its best and worst. Save 30% now! buff.ly/ndMhAz9

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Minjung Art Movement" by Sohl Lee, which traces how South Korea’s minjung art movement of the 1970s and 1980s forged decolonial protest aesthetics that helped galvanize democratization. buff.ly/FCAy9HV

You are most likely the protester you are looking for, if you can't find them.

Émile Durkheim, a founding father of sociology who championed the study of "social facts" and social cohesion, was #BOTD in 1858 in Épinal, France. 1/3

New show "Woman's Eye" at the Puerto Ricaan Arts Alliance, Chicago.

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart | France | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Happy Birthday to one of my great heroes, Gene Ammons, born this day 101 years ago, 4/14/25 and gone far too young at age 49 in 1974. The sweetest spot on record is 1960-62. Roughly 20 LPs in that widow, including my faves: Jug, Nice 'n Cool, Boss Tenor, Soulful Moods (all in 4th row from bottom).

Check out @rj-buchanan.bsky.social's interview with Daphne A. Brooks, editor of the new book "Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign." via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social buff.ly/kh1eZtH

Probably saying something like “the universe is very weird you guys” Amazing night at B&N Upper West Side yesterday!! You can listen to the conversation soon when it arrives as a Poured Over podcast episode 😍 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Save 30% on #NewBook "Erotic Knowledge" by Elena Gambino, which makes the case that US lesbian feminist writers and activists from the 1970s and 80s offer resources for rethinking questions of sexual freedom in the present. buff.ly/aKFrS4V

The default idea of tech as a neutral “tool” camouflages the way tech elites transform platforms into environments for their own gendered form of power. Our book of the week critiques a system of inclusion it calls “Big Tech Feminism.” By Sarah Sharma on @dukepress.bsky.social buff.ly/Mp3Ucxl

Happy National Poetry Month! We're running a Poem of the Week series on our blog to celebrate. This week's featured poem is "Stay," from "unrest in the nebulae" by Gitan Djeli. buff.ly/GSgK6oP

"...Collu manages to balance a rare kind of vulnerability on the page, standing right alongside the reader as we gaze into the collective mirror." Danielle Douez reviews 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘱. Read the rest at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/into... @dukepress.bsky.social

Out today - four new titles in our Essential John Berger series! This week only - buy any of the new titles from the Essential John Berger series and save 30% on all books in the series.

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

The former headquarters of Magic Chef in St. Louis, now operating as a U-Haul, featuring a recently restored ceiling installation by Isamu Noguchi which had been, for years, concealed by a drop ceiling.

A brilliant conversation between Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martín Alcoff regarding Mohanty's 2025 book 'Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity' is now up on our Youtube channel for viewing: bit.ly/4t4IWu5.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

This is why we need public scholarship. As soon as the @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy newscaster asked about Trump saying the image was him as a doctor, @candidamoss.bsky.social cites the 2000 years of historical iconography that indicated to everyone that the AI image was meant to cast Trump as Jesus.

#OAH2026 is this week! You'll be able to find us in the exhibit hall at the Ingram Academic booth, #314. In the meantime, check out our latest books and journal issues in #USHistory on our website. buff.ly/3XzJYIT

On April 13 at the Einaudi Campus, as part of the SegnaLibri initiative, I will have the great pleasure of joining colleagues to discuss my book "For a Liberatory Politics of Home" (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2023) Thanks to Daniela Leonardi for organising!

Featuring yours truly.

“Why erase Haiti & Toussaint Louverture? Why erase the theater? Why erase the avenging violence and Black victory?” Between 1943 & 1956, Aimé Césaire made substantial changes to his work “……And the Dogs Were Silent.” @elotroalex.bsky.social explains.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Postcolonial Imperialism," written by Joseph Tonda and translated by Cheryl Smeall, which offers a prescient critique of the many ways screens can distort our vision. buff.ly/5bvYTtJ

Beautiful Mystery is coming to Vermont Thanks to my beloved cousin, Kim Locke, and the wonderful scholars, Vicki Brennan and Jeanne Shea for making this happen. We'll be talking about my book on Wednesday, May 6, 5-7 pm at South Burlington Library. @dukepress.bsky.social

There are two events hosted by #NUS #FASS Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster happening this week! See posters for details 🔽 Sign up here for the Apr 16 talk by myself 🔗 tinyurl.com/emergentgend... & Apr 17 talk by @akishmz.bsky.social 🔗 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Fighting with the pope, thinking of himself as god, humiliated in a naval war of choice he assumed he would win easily over an "inferior" people, surrounded by kook healers and medical advisors, obsessed with familial legacy in the shadow of an actually successful father, this man is Nicholas II

Two newly released databases documenting the lives of more than 150,000 enslaved people in Cuba and Brazil are now available to researchers, offering an unprecedented empirical foundation for studying slavery in the Americas www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-sla... @claclsgc.bsky.social

You all are talking about “the Pope is weak on crime” and I feel like the real gem is “should get his act together as Pope.”

Certain writers (*cough* NYT Opinion *cough*) overread the durability of illiberal nationalism and scoffed at pro-democracy appeals, but they only listened to each other, never allowing alternate opinions into their elite bubble. That left them unable to grasp everything from Hungary to Minneapolis.

"Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime" is objectively a funny thing to write.

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

walking from my election party to the Tisza rally and we heard crowds cheering in the distance as Orban officially conceded 🥰

Here's the map with 1/3rd of the votes counted. Tisza = blue; Fidesz = orange. The strength of the color tells you how far ahead the lead party is. It's a blow-out. Fidesz strongholds are falling to Tisza.