UC Press Blog

Authors Tracy Thomas and Jennifer L. Brinkley discuss their new books on two groundbreaking women in law.

Author Paul Almeida on social movements and climate change.

Author Samantha Barbas on the history of the battles of regulating hate speech.

The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mexico from the Cristero War to the present.

Author Mona Sloane challenges AI's feared, inevitable transformation with a question we can ask when planning its infrastructure.

Author Sarah Brothers on the importance and challenges of "hit doctors."

Author Jia-Lin Liu speaks about the already determined futures for many children in China.

An interview between Public Seminar writer Gil Bittner and author Carly Thomsen about Thomsen's new book, Reproductive Justice, Queerly.

Author Michael Welch discusses the Bastille Effect, or the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally.

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