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Kristina Gupta, author of ACING SCIENCE, explores the scientific discourses that lead to the erasure of asexuality (ace), as well as the path toward a more ace-positive world. Read a Q&A on our blog about the newest release in our #FeministTechnosciences series.
Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual Possibilities: A Conversation with Kristina Gupta on “Acing Science”
Sexual desire is often treated as a given—something everyone has and should have. Compulsory sexuality operates as a largely unexamined premise, shaping not only popular culture but scientific rese…
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February 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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New in #Anthropology, POSSESSED LANDSCAPES by Tomas Cole is a case study in reimagining sovereignty through ecological stewardship, set in the highlands of the Myanmar-Thai border. Available now in print and #OpenAccess, made possible by @acls1919.bsky.social with generous support from Arcadia.
Book cover of Possessed Landscapes: Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar by Tomas Cole, featuring people in rain ponchos near rice paddies in a misty mountain setting.
February 10, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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📣 We're hiring! The University of Washington Press is looking for a full-time senior project editor to shepherd books through copyediting, design, and production—from scholarly monographs to illustrated art history and regional trade titles. For more details & to apply visit: bit.ly/UWPressSenio...
Now hiring! Senior Project Editor. Submit your application through the University of Washington's job site by February 27. bit.ly/UWPressSeniorProjectEditor
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Today on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖
Faculty Favorites: Critical Interventions in the Plant Humanities - Edge Effects
Faculty recommend their favorite books and poems at the intersection of plants and the environmental humanities
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February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Banu Subramaniam (BOTANY OF EMPIRE) presents her lecture "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlife of Empire" at @pacificlutheran.bsky.social on Monday, Feb. 23 at 7 pm PT. Register to attend or join the livestream:
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Rachel Carson Science, Technology, and Society Lecture
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February 6, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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For the New Books in Asian American Studies podcast, author Kong Pheng Pha discussed his book QUEERING THE HMONG DIASPORA with host Donna Anderson, exploring the lives of minoritized queer refugee communities in the US and beyond.

Listen at the link below. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Kong Pheng Pha, "Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality" (U Washington Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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February 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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@sarabpritchard.bsky.social looks at how urban nightscapes reveal the environmental and social consequences of artificial light, from ecological disruption to uneven access to darkness—themes further explored in her forthcoming book, TRANSFORMING NIGHT.

Read the article in @nichecanada.bsky.social:
Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene
Pritchard argues that nightscape is both a useful and important analytic category for environmental as well as urban historians.
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January 29, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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“What does it mean for someone like me to claim allegiance to a region that historically speaking is not mine? When a settler says, ‘I’m home,’ what cultural and political work does such a statement do?”

Read an essay by Coll Thrush (WRECKED) in NW Book Lovers:
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An Original Essay by 2026 PNBA Book Award Winner Coll Thrush
I am an unrepentant regional chauvinist. I believe in my heart that those of us lucky enough to call the Pacific Northwest home live in one of the best places on the planet. Perhaps because I was rais...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Ian Frazier on the heroic chicken
Bang the Drumstick Slowly | Ian Frazier
About 26 billion chickens occupy Earth, but apart from the lucky ones in backyards, most are condemned to the hellscape that is industrial farming.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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MOVING MOUNTAINS is "a must-read for those interested in women's history" writes Karla Strand in @msmagazine.com. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu examines "the seminal 1977 National Women's Conference and the underexplored yet invaluable contributions and feminisms of Asian American and Pacific Islander women."
January 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us
Each month, <em>Ms.</em> provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. Check out the top 25 books we are excited about for January.
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January 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Thanks to @seattletimes.com for featuring the new edition of Waterway that is coming out soon from @historylink.bsky.social and @uwapress.uw.edu!
How Seattle's locks and ship canal altered the city and 10 key sites
An excerpt from David B. Williams and Jennifer Ott’s new book, “Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal: A History and Guide,” explores the waterways and how they changed the city.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Congratulations to Coll Thrush whose book WRECKED is a 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards winner! The awards committee praised the book as "groundbreaking, compassionate work and a valuable contribution to the historical canon of the Pacific Northwest."
“Wrecked” by Coll Thrush Wins 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Award
We are thrilled to share that Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific by Coll Thrush is a 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards winner! Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Books…
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January 8, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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PERFORMING VULNERABILITY by Emily L. Hue "reminds us that there is no expiration date for the trauma of migration; the emotional rupture of uprooting from one's homeland can reverberate across decades."

Read a review by Melissa Carlson in CAA Reviews:
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January 6, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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📢 Readers in the UK, Europe, and outside of the Americas can now order our books through @lupdistribution.bsky.social!

We're delighted to be partnering with @livunipress.bsky.social to make our books widely available.
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🎉 ✅ New year, new press!
University of Washington Press titles are now available to buy directly from the LUP website.
Browse all UWP has to offer:
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Promotional graphic advertising University of Washington Press titles now being available for direct order through the Liverpool University Press website. The majority of the graphic is a pale teal colour, with a banner at the top with right-positioned white serif text reading 'Now Available'. In the middle of the graphic are multiple different covers of UWP books. At the bottom of the graphic is a banner with the University of Washington graphic in white outline over the teal colour.
January 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Elizabeth Ferrer (LATINX PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES) shares about her upcoming exhibition at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, "the first to fully survey photography by Chicanos from the Chicano Civil Rights Era to the present day." Read the Q&A:
Find Artists Where They Are: Talking with Elizabeth Ferrer | Glasstire
Joseph R. Wolin speaks with curator and art historian Elizabeth Ferrer about her decades-long interest in and scholarship on Latinx art.
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December 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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REFUSING SETTLER DOMESTICITY "offers a unique approach to the longer history of Indigenous labor exploitation in California," writes Mary Klann for LABOR, praising the book's "vivacious, complex, and sometimes heartbreaking stories" of Bay Area outing participants. @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Caitlin Keliiaa’s Refusing Settler Domesticity not only provides a necessary additive to the historiography of Indian boarding schools but also offers a unique approach to the longer history of Indige...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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As the year winds to a close, we're excited to share our Spring 2026 catalog of books being published in January 2026 and beyond—all available for preorder now.

Through January 2, 2026, use code WINTER25 at checkout on our website to receive 40% off plus free domestic shipping on all books.
Explore the UW Press Spring 2026 Catalog
The University of Washington Press is excited to share our Spring 2026 catalog. Browse books that will be published in January and beyond—all available for pre-order on our website now. The cover p…
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December 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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@uwapress.uw.edu press had a very generously discounted book sale.

It would have been impolite of me not to make a purchase.

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December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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WOMEN WRITERS OF HUIZHOU by Binbin Yang offers an innovative spatial analysis of Qing women's writing.

"In this perfect gem of a book the tumultuous worlds of China's long nineteenth century come alive." —Dorothy Ko

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Book cover for “Women Writers of Huizhou: Imaginaries of Space and Place in Qing China” by Binbin Yang. The background features a soft, traditional Chinese landscape painting with misty mountains, trees, and village buildings in muted tones. The title appears in large blue serif type, and the author’s name is displayed at the bottom on a textured blue-gray band.
December 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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#ArtHerstory has published the "New Books about #WomenArtists" book round-up for Q3, 2025! Visit this link for a list of recently published monographs & exhibition catalogs, as well as novels & books for young readers:
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Books About Women Artists | Published July-Sept 2025
A list of books about women artists from the 3rd quarter of 2025: children's books, novels, adult non-fiction, and exhibition catalogs.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Now available, QUEERING THE HMONG DIASPORA by Kong Pheng Pha offers a groundbreaking exploration of race, gender, and sexuality.

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Book cover of Queering the Hmong Diaspora featuring a person standing against a plain background, overlaid with the title and subtitle: “Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality,” by Kong Pheng Pha. "This incisive study explores how Hmong American experiences challenge mainstream ideas about race, gender, and sexuality. By focusing on queer voices and cultural identity, it offers fresh insight into belonging, justice, and the complexity of Hmong life in the diaspora." —Chia Youyee Vang, author of Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora "A formidable contribution to queer studies and Asian American studies." —Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"Thrush spent six years combing through archives, oral histories and ship logs to unearth tales of sinking and survival, exploitation and tragedy."

Read more about WRECKED by historian Coll Thrush in UW Magazine:
Historian Coll Thrush researches the dark history of Northwest shipwrecks in “Wrecked”
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December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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At Outrider, Jessica Urwin, author of CONTAMINATED COUNTRY, discusses nuclear colonialism in Australia and the Aboriginal movement against out-of-sight, out-of-mind nuclear activity.
The Exploitation, Survival, and Resistance of Aboriginal Australians in ‘Contaminated Country’
Environmental historian Jessica Urwin talks about her new book on Australia’s nuclear weapons testing and its impact on the country’s indigenous people
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December 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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@historytoday.com names LIFE AND AFTERLIFE IN ANCIENT CHINA by Jessica Rawson a 2025 Book of the Year. This "richly evidenced book" on material life and burials in Chinese antiquity is available to North American readers from UW Press.

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Peasants and popes, free speech and fashion, sentimentality and special forces: the first 10 of 20 historians choose their favourite new #history books of 2025.

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Books of the Year 2025: Part 1
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December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Happy to report that _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_ is now on JSTOR thanks to the Path to Open program. @uwapress.uw.edu @acls1919.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

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Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China on JSTOR
State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape—rural communities bore the costs From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures tra...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM