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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.

WHA award-winner Nicole Martin discusses the history behind who has had the right to possess homes and, by extension, American citizenship.

Who speaks out against fascism—is it only the most powerful or politically connected who can do so, or is it those whose rights are most in danger?

Author Carol Mason giving historical contexts for today's political rhetoric

We talk with Claudia Agostoni about her "Mexican Studies" article examining the training, work, and qualities of hospital nursing staff in Mexico City during the 1940s and 1950s.

Historians Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz use digital mapping technology to uncover a hidden geography of lesbian life in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing patterns of connection among lesbian women in urban areas, small towns, and rural America.

UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.

If you care about bodily autonomy and self-determination, the current times are very bad. We can learn a lot about what this moment demands of us by looking to youth-led social movements for reproductive justice.

Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago.

Read an excerpt from "Beyond the Binary," an exploration of early Hanafi legal thought that reveals early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, age, enslavement, lineage, class, and other social roles.