UC Press Blog

Author Colin Rhinesmith on how community coalitions can reduce technological harms and inequality by building local power and advancing digital equity.

Lauren M. E. Goodlad discusses what literary theory can teach us about large language models, why language is more than data, and what it means to put the “humanities in the loop” in debates about AI.

Author Sarah Bruhn on how immigrant women’s carework is as critical as public protest to contesting the hardships imposed by immigration enforcement practices.

Toffoli discusses the images & technologies that helped construct the Border Patrol's public image, the historical roots of today's surveillance culture along the U.S.–Mexico border, & why visual history remains essential for understanding contemporary debates over immigration & state power.

Author Diana Anselmo on how women’s queer pleasures in fandom are part of a century-long history of women using mass media to explore same-sex desire, gender nonconformity, and homoerotic fantasy.

Author William T. L. Cox on the future of DEI work, and how to actually change bias in our everyday lives based on scientific evidence.

Authors Alex Werth and Brandi Thompson Summers offer perspective on cultural geography and Black belonging in Oakland on the AAG panel, "Oakland as Subject and Setting: Doing Black Geographies in Place."

Author Joss T. Greene traces how changing prison systems have shaped the treatment of transgender prisoners across decades.

Author Tara Mulder on her unique perspective as a classicist and daughter of a homebirth midwife and how she reconstructed ancient women's lost stories of childbirth and pregnancy.

Author Deana Weibel on the ultraview effect and what the recent Artemis II mission shows us about the powerful experience of awe.