💖 There aren’t enough picture books about loss of and grief for siblings where Black children can see themselves and their families depicted with dignity, nuance, and hope. The tragedy of pregnancy and infant loss is a largely hidden topic in children’s literature but it touches many of our lives. This is an important and sensitively told story of love for readers of all ages. Please join the community for the book launch of Shannon Gibney’s newest picture book vibrantly illustrated by Huy Voun Lee — in conversation with the incomparable @kaokaliayang — published by the wonderful @uminnpress at the glorious @redballoonbookshop ! Next Wednesday at 6 pm! I’ll see you there! Free and open to the public but reservations required at the Red Balloon Bookshop website ❤️ /e/shannon-gibney-where-is-my-sister-with-kao-kalia-yang-tickets-1987020044442
⚡COVER REVEAL ⚡ for Liberation Is Other People! Coming out Nov. 2026 with @uminnpress
Liberation Is Other People gives a vision of politics as a shared, impure, necessarily imperfect process of creation. Freedom is not the power to act alone but the capacity to shape the world with others. Solidarity can be a source of joy, inspiration, and political power. In an age of division and isolation, this book shows that our greatest possibility lies not in fixing the world by our individual selves but in remaking it—together.
Links in bio for pre-orders!
"Rooted in a lifetime of generous, joyful, and fierce participation in collective social movement, Liberation Is Other People is a practical and inviting book. Alexis Shotwell carefully thinks with other writers, philosophers, and activists to nurture concrete practices of building individual and collective strengths for the struggles we must engage in, showing us how collective flourishing is still possible." —Donna Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble
Now in paperback: @petergeye 's A LESSER LIGHT, "full of a kind of magic at the edge of things that’s impossible to describe and changes you forever to witness." (Amber Sparks)
"Look at him over there, the master at his station . . . " So begins a piercing story of independence and determinism set on the rocky shores of Lake Superior.
This—and more!—newly soft-covered titles are primed and ready for your summer reading list.
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A scientific abstract can tell you a species is declining. A story can make you feel what that loss means and why it should change how you live. In this episode Claudia talks to Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent, and Christopher Kondrich, the co-editors behind Creature Needs, a striking book that juxtaposes conservation science with poems, essays, and fiction written in response. They discuss the book, writing as a means of connection, and the politics of conservation.
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#Conservation #Animals #AnimalStudies #CreativeWriting #TheAnimalTurn @iroar_network
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Folks have been telling me they’ve received their copies. After five or six years in the making, I feel incredibly blessed that this book is finally here and ready to see the light of day. I’m deeply grateful to my support system—friends, family, mentors, and colleagues—who helped push and guide me along the way (the acknowledgements section is deep for a reason!). Most importantly, I want to thank Upward Bound and all the young people who spent nearly two years with me, working hard on something we hoped would truly make a damn difference. This book represents half a decade of efforts to make sense of that journey.
Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data, is now available for pre-order.
Grounding the Cloud peers through the hazy façade of the “cloud” to reveal the earthly material foundations of global computing and data extraction. Tracing the historical and technological development of the cloud computing paradigm, the book exposes an ever-evolving project in which ideologies, economic models, and marketing images collude to shape our shared urban environments
Look for it this July from the University of Minnesota Press (@uminnpress ). Pre-order link in bio.
I got to speak with Matthew I. Thompson about his new book, On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s, which brings together 1970s eco-dystopian science fiction films with the popular environmental discourse of the time.
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The full interview is on @niche.canada . Link in beee iiiii oooo
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Thanks to @uminnpress for the advance copy!
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#envhist #environmentalhistory #envhum #filmstudies #sciencefiction
"We are no longer bringing folding chairs. We are building new tables."
Last night, Dr. Brittany Lewis, Founder and CEO of Research in Action, debuted her new book to a standing ovation in Minneapolis. During her first in-person event discussing "Building a New Table: A Community-Centered Handbook for Transformative Change," Dr. Lewis spoke to why she wrote the book and engaged with research partners and community members who have collaborated in the Equity in Action process.
Stay tuned for the full video on YouTube this week—and order or buy the book from your favorite local bookstore today!
When “data-driven solutions” do not result in large-scale, sustainable change, it’s time to ask: What is the disconnect between research reports and responses to realities in the ground?
Today marks the official release of BUILDING A NEW TABLE: A Community-Centered Handbook for Transformative Social Change by Dr. Brittany Lewis, founder and CEO of @researchinaction , who writes: It’s time to build a new table.
A Minneapolis launch is happening TONIGHT at 6pm The Loft, and a virtual event with @nextcityorg is happening tomorrow at 1pm Eastern; check hosting sites for further info.
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“BUILDING A NEW TABLE is our pathway forward.”
—Ilhan Omar, US House of Representatives (D-MN)
“A groundbreaking manifesto.”
—Trista Harris, FutureGood
“This book will serve the ecosystem of freedom fighters advancing ambitious solutions.”
—Adair Mosley, Pillsbury United Communities
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“Soylent Green is people”… but that’s not the scariest part.
What if the real horror isn’t the future—it’s the ideas we used to imagine it?
Today Matthew Thompson joins in to break down Soylent Green, eco-dystopian cinema, and the unsettling politics hiding beneath it.
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Find Reckoning with Jason Herbert wherever you listen.
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Missed out on the hardcover first edition? @uminnpress has just released a paperback run of Lisl's biography by Jane King Hession!
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