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The pressures facing influencers—like visibility, algorithmic anxiety, and self-branding—has spread to artists and creative workers navigating platform-dependent worlds.

How state violence fractures communities and how solidarity can rebuild them.

Judges can give us hope despite the deeply flawed among them.

Stories resist carceral logics, affirm survival, and show why Black women’s reproductive freedom must be told from the margins.

Watch this year's "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" Annual Lecture featuring Pablo Mijangos y González, a preeminent historian of the Catholic Church and the law in Latin America.

Enjoy limited-time free access to current issues of UC Press's music journals during the joint American Musicological Society-Society for Music Theory Annual Conference.

Authors Allyn Walker and Aimee Wodda discuss how to fight for queer justice in a time of continued criminalization and targeted attacks on queer communities.

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our October 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!

Authors Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr ask how can being affected by an atmosphere produce knowledge?

Editors Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller explain what we can learn about Indonesian music from missionary archives.