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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.

Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage do

An inspiring humanitarian, doctor, and advocate of global health equity, Paul Farmer leaves behind an immense legacy. With the tragic news of his passing on February 21, 2022, our Executive Editor Naomi Schneider shares a tribute to his work.By now you might have heard that our author, Paul

This Valentine's Day, UC Press explores expanding our definitions of love to include care for our communities. Focusing on activism and social change, the books featured highlight movements and ideas to make the world more inclusive from the first half of the twentieth century to the mutual-aid grou

By Nayan Shah, author of Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger StrikesIn February 1989, I traveled to Durban, South Africa. I was twenty-two years old and had just graduated from Swarthmore college. I was visiting apartheid South Africa on a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study religion and com

We're proud to share that the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has awarded Jana Lipman honorable mention, Ferrell Book Prize for In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates! Learn more about the book in the interview with historian Jana Lipman below, and visit

Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block have a combined total of twenty years of on-the-ground reporting of Arizona’s painful immigration battles. Both authors covered the landmark Melendres racial profiling lawsuit against Sherrif Arpaio and subsequent legal troubles for the sheriff, in addition

A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and

Smithsonian Folkways has just announced artist and activist Nobuko Miyamoto's new album, 120,000 Stories. The album will release January 29th and is now available for pre-order.From the Smithsonian Folkways press release:120,000 Stories is...her first release since 1973’s seminal A Grain of