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The Weekly Read for March 22, 2025, is “Love on Hold: Social Distancing and Relationships in Early Iranian COVID-19 Experiences” by Claudia Yaghoobi. The article appears in Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Iran, a special issue of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (20:3), edited by Maryam Zehtabi and Mostafa Abedinifard. Read this article for free through April 30, 2025: https://lnkd.in/eyK3aq3B

The Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights reading list includes journal articles and full issues from Radical History Review, Meridians, differences, Camera Obscura, South Atlantic Quarterly, Critical Times, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Cultural Politics, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East all made freely available through June 30, 2025. Book titles include authors Laura McTighe, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill, Liza Taylor, Srila Roy, Rana M. Jaleel, and Jennifer C. Nash, among many others. All book introductions are freely available. View the full list and access the free content here: https://lnkd.in/e56eRkUe Our Read to Respond reading lists address the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Each topic, from student activism to racial justice, is highlighted with a reading list encouraging students, teachers, and the public to join the conversation surrounding these vitally important topics. 

Excited to celebrate my endowed professorship and my new book What Had Happened Was (Duke University Press)! Book launch at Bates College! April 3, 2025 6 pm Commons 221/222 Online: https://lnkd.in/dvY4tCPB If anyone knows Jamie Foxx, tell him I said come through since we have art that shares a title. :)

Today on Touchpoints: 𝘙𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨, an invitation to fresh sonic and temporal possibilities for this era of diminishing futures. 𝘙𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨, McKenzie Wark Published by Duke University Press (2023)

The Weekly Read for February 22, 2025 is “Notes on Communism and Transition" by Jodi Dean. The article appears in Impasse, Interregnum, and Transition, a special issue of SAQ (124:1), edited by Brittany Murray and Oded Nir. Read this article for free through April 30, 2025: https://lnkd.in/epyx6Z5m Buy this issue using code SAVE30 for a 30% discount: https://lnkd.in/et7NUZHH

The Weekly Read for February 15, 2025 is “Rites of Passage in the Atlanta Forest” by Sasha Tycko. The article appears in The Trans* Ecologies Issue, a special issue of TSQ (11:4), edited by Erin L. Durban and Megan A. Moore. Read this article for free through April 30, 2025: https://lnkd.in/essMkydS Buy this issue using code SAVE30 for a 30% discount: https://lnkd.in/eUgncje8

Read to Respond: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Global Rise of Right-Wing Politics With Trump’s second term and the rise of right-wing leaders globally, the 2016 election appears less like an anomaly and more like part of a broader rightward shift. This reading list explores how to make sense of this shift by examining its historical context and significance. As these questions arise in many discussions, we offer a collection of books, journal issues, and articles to help readers navigate this political moment. All articles and journal issues are freely available through June 30, 2025! The introduction to each book is free, books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu. See more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/dspUVyrd Our Read to Respond reading lists address the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Each topic, from student activism to racial justice, is highlighted with a reading list encouraging students, teachers, and the public to join the conversation surrounding these current events.

The selections in our Trans Rights reading list address trans rights and politics on a global scale. Topics include black trans feminisms, coalitional models of social justice, surgery, disability, surveillance, and more. The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu. All articles are freely available through June 31, 2025! See more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/e574ZvGa Our Read to Respond reading lists address the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Each topic, from student activism to racial justice, is highlighted with a reading list encouraging students, teachers, and the public to join the conversation surrounding these current events.

Transgender Studies e-Book Collection for Libraries and Institutions The Transgender Studies e-book collection of 23 titles, which exists under the larger umbrellas of the Gender Studies and LGBTQIA+ Studies collections, represents a relatively new yet vibrant area within gender, sexuality, and women’s studies focusing specifically on trans experiences and perspectives on various spheres of life. As one of the first presses to publish books in this area, DUP is proud to expand on early transgender studies that emerged primarily from sociological and historical perspectives, offering a collection that is distinctly bold, theoretically informed, broadly interdisciplinary, and culturally influential in its study of transness in the modern world.  Browse the collection, view pricing information, and request a trial at https://lnkd.in/ekka-cQJ.

The Weekly Read for January 18, 2025, is “The Question of Genocide," a written dialogue between Jonathan Beller and Ali Musleh published in Social Text issue 161. Read this article for free through March 31, 2025: https://lnkd.in/ea9uk6a9