UC Press Blog

Author Robert McRuer on the consequences of "one-dimensional disability" politics and looking beyond U.S.-centered models of disability identity.

Author Alberto McKelligan Hernández on how contemporary Mexican women artists are challenging state narratives of violence and creating art that imagines a more just and egalitarian Mexico.

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

Author Panpan Yang on studying the romance between animation and other visual mediums.

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.