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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 1d

Laurie Marhoefer delves into the impacts of the queer press and censorship in Weimar Germany, revealing that print media is historically key to self-discovery and finding community

Read free in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social at @ProjectMUSE

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“(I)n 1929, Helene Stock described the production and distribution of the magazines as a political and even humanitarian act: “I call on all women: commit yourself to a serious deed. Don’t just pursue your own pleasure while thousands of our sisters suffer in muffled despair. Help with enlightenment.””

“The Book Was a Revelation,
I Recognized Myself in it”
Lesbian Sexuality, Censorship, and the
Queer Press in Weimar-era Germany
Laurie Marhoefer

Journal of Women’s History
Volume 27, Number 2, Summer 2015

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Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social · 1d

As #BannedBooksWeek closes out, we leave you with an article @hopkinspress.bsky.social on 2 libraries founded in 1934 as counter-symbols to the Nazi book burnings: the German Freedom Library & American Library of Nazi-Banned Books at Brooklyn Jewish Center. bit.ly/3ImKCgA

#StepUP @oif.bsky.social

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

📚 Read our October issue FREE through October 31!📖
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55657

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 3d

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW 
Diacritics
Volume 52, Number 3, 2024
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE

tinyurl.com/y4pwsvt6

Contributors:
Andrea Bachner, William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, Nina Farizova, Misha Wyllie, and Philip Glahn

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW 
Diacritics
Volume 52, Number 3, 2024
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE

Contributors:
Andrea Bachner, William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, Nina Farizova, Misha Wyllie, and Philip Glahn

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 3d

Philip Nel warns against the ways institutional book banning efforts lead to self-censorship

Read "Being Banned Is Not an Award" in the new issue of Bookbird

Free on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

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“Having one's book banned is not a prize. It's an assault on the right to read. And, worse, official acts of censorship beget quiet censorship, done in anticipation of criticism.

As frequently banned author Malinda Lo writes, "Self-censorship is possibly the most difficult kind of censorship to fight because it is generally not publicly admitted. It's done quietly, in private. If nobody knows it's happening, how can anyone object?"”

"Being Banned Is Not an Award"
Philip Nel

Bookbird
A Journal of International Children's Literature
Volume 63, Number 3, 2025

Read free thru 31 October 2025

Illustrated with the cover art from the new issue of Bookbird

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 2d

From the 2016 @socres.org special issue "The Fear of Art" gallerist Ethan Cohen interviews dissident artist Ai Weiwei

Read A Conversation with Ai Weiwei and Ethan Cohen for free via @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

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“Fighting for freedom of expression. I never thought that was just for me. I think that is for the condition of all artists and all human beings. This is the most precious right, to be ourselves and to announce ourselves as individuals, and that is best part of life."

A Conversation:
Ai Weiwei and Ethan Cohen

Social Research:
An International Quarterly
Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2016

Read free thru 31 October 2025

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 2d

🔈 The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out!

Articles by Kirstin Gwyer, Eric Weiskott, Andrew Hadfield, Kathryn Robson, Victoria H. A. White, Dora Osborne & Book Reviews.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55393

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Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social · 3d

It's Banned Books Week October 5 – 11, 2025.

This year's theme from @oif.bsky.social
is: Censorship Is So 1984 -- Read for Your Rights!

It reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society.

#ReadUP #StepUP

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Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social · 4d

Allen Ginsberg reads his poem “Howl” at a poetry reading at Six Gallery in San Francisco #otd 1955. It was an immediate success & rocked the literary world setting the tone for confessional poetry of the 60s. #ReadUP w/ @dukepress.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/twhowl - #bannedbooksweek #bannedbooks

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Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social · 4d

It's Banned Books Week October 5 – 11, 2025.

This year's theme from @ALALibrary is: Censorship Is So 1984 -- Read for Your Rights! It reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society.

#StepUP with an article here - bit.ly/bannedbooksMUSE

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 5d

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55688 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 5d

In the latest issue of German Studies Review, Sébastien Tremblay reviews a new archival exploration Magnus Hirschfeld's "scattered library" — a book he calls "a remarkable accomplishment" that "falls short"

Free thru 31 Oct via @ProjectMUSE

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“The Scattered Library offers a compelling and ambitious rebuttal to the notion that the story of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute ended with the infamous Nazi book burning.

The book offers an indispensable resource for historians interested in Hirschfeld and his intellectual legacy.”

Sébastien Tremblay reviews:
The Scattered Library: The Various Fates of the Remnants of
Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexual Science Collection
in France and Czechoslovakia, 1932–1942. By Hans P. Soetaert

German Studies Review
Volume 48, Number 2, May 2025

Read free thru 31 October 2025

Illustrated with the cover art from the May 2025 issue of German Studies Review

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 5d

New issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 144, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55656 @sblpress.bsky.social @sblsite.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 5d

New issue of The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 87, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55660
@cua-press.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @catholicbiblical.bsky.social

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 5d

Among the myriad ways art matters, writes Paul Chan, "the experience of art saves us from being conned"

Read Chan's The Potency of Art, from the Spring 2016 issue of @socres.org— free on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

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There are many arguments today about why art matters: it is a form that authenticates what is most human about humanity; it celebrates and affirms the diversity of cultures and identities; it upholds values of individual freedoms; it is a good pedagogical tool for teaching social and political ideas; it is a sound economic investment; it gives pleasure. Among these competing claims, I want simply to add one more, and a fairly prosaic one at that: that the experience of art saves us from being conned.
The Potency of Art
Paul Chan
Social Research: An International Quarterly
Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2016
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Illustrated with the Spring 2016 cover of Social Research

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 5d

David Heetderks provides a close analysis of Smokey Robinson's transformation of classic blues forms, revealing significant shifts in this important facet of 1960s and 1970s Motown. Read the article in American Music Vol. 42, No. 1, on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Cover of American Music, Volume 42, Issue 1, Spring 2024. Horizontal rectangles in a column on the right side of the cover in a gradient of purple shades on white textured background.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 4d

New issue of Illinois Classical Studies Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55694 @projectmuse.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social Fake News is or as Invective in Ancient Texts

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Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social · 8d

He's the Godfather of the 50s folk revival movement. Woody Guthrie, died #otd 1967 (did you see a Complete Unknown?) & to celebrate his life, here's a FREE OA book encompassing the role song plays in social movements. #ReadUP [email protected] - bit.ly/woodygfb

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 9d

In Vol. 42, No. 1, of American Music, Christi-Anne Castro's article considers the interconnectedness of war-making and gendered race-making in popular sheet music and soldier songs of the Philippine-American War. Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

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Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social · 10d

With a new novel, "Shadow Ticket" from Thomas Pynchon, the bestselling, award-winning author of Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49 & Vineland coming out 10/7, you explore more about the author on MUSE including books, articles & reviews.

#ReadUP: bit.ly/4nZvpB9

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 11d

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action
Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 2025

#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/73tf7jnc

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 11d

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW

American Imago
Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2025

#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/m48u7ybc

Contributors:
Nannette C. Auerhahn
Tihamér Bakó
Katalin Zana
Richard Robinson
Ruth Ronen
Robert A. Paul
Frances Restuccia
Madelon Sprengnether
Rosemary H. Balsam

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW

American Imago
Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2025

Hopkins Press Journals
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE

Contributors:
Nannette C. Auerhahn
Tihamér Bakó
Katalin Zana
Richard Robinson
Ruth Ronen
Robert A. Paul
Frances Restuccia
Madelon Sprengnether
Rosemary H. Balsam

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 11d

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW

The Review of Higher Education
Ahead of Print

#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/2p8y3rj5

Contributors:
Katie N. Smith
Margaret W. Sallee
Danielle Vegas Lewis
Linda DeAngelo
Morgen Snowadzky
Krystal L. Williams
Gina Ann Garcia
Demetri L. Morgan
& more!

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW

The Review of Higher Education
Ahead of Print

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Hopkins Press Journals

Contributors:
Katie N. Smith, Margaret W. Sallee,
Danielle Vegas Lewis, Linda DeAngelo,
Morgen Snowadzky, Krystal L. Williams,
Edward Dillon, Janelle L. Jones, Shanice Carter,
William Walker, Shelly Melchior, Gina Ann Garcia,
Demetri L. Morgan, Stephanie Aguilar-Smith,
Cynthia D. Villarreal, Nicholas A. Bowman,
Solomon Fenton-Miller, Kaleb L. Briscoe,
Veronica A. Jones, and Melvin A. Whitehead

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Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you @ohiostatepress.bsky.social & Tony here for the support.

S2O continues to thrive, thanks to the unwavering commitment of libraries, scholars and institutions worldwide - a truly collaborative journey.

#ReadUP & Discover S2O on MUSE: bit.ly/MUSE_S2O

#oa #S2O

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 11d

"The most challenging type of diversity for democracy...has been religious diversity," writes Şener Aktürk in the latest @jodemocracy.bsky.social

Read "Religious Exclusion and the Origins of Democracy" for free, gold #OpenAccess at @ProjectMUSE

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“Western Europe toward the end of the Middle Ages became the most religiously homogeneous region in the world, and this extraordinary religious homogeneity was related to the origins and consolidation of early parliaments ... The most challenging type of diversity for democracy, past and present, has been religious diversity.”

Religious Exclusion and the Origins of Democracy
Şener Aktürk

Journal of Democracy
Volume 36, Number 3, July 2025

READ FREE: GOLD OPEN ACCESS

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