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Electric Eyes: Erica Toffoli on Border Surveillance and Visual History
Jul 14 2026
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.
Come to My Cottage: Queer Pleasures and Female Fandom in the Silent Hollywood Era
Jun 30 2026
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.
DEI is Out. But We Can Keep Doing the Work, with Science and Joy
Jun 08 2026
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 on the Sounds, Silences, and 'Specters,' of Black Oakland
May 20 2026
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."
How Prisons Manage Gender Boundaries—and How That’s Changed Over Time
May 20 2026
Author Joss T. Greene traces how changing prison systems have shaped the treatment of transgender prisoners across decades.
Q&A with Tara Mulder, author of "A Womb of One's Own"
May 05 2026
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.
What the Artemis II Astronauts Revealed About Awe in Space
Apr 16 2026
Author Deana Weibel on the ultraview effect and what the recent Artemis II mission shows us about the powerful experience of awe.
Meeting Microbes Halfway: A Conversation with the Authors of a New "Gastronomica" Special Section
Apr 15 2026
Two special sections of "Gastronomica" place the spotlight on microbes to explicitly draw our attention to this invisible layer of life in foods and food systems.
When is a Diaper More than a Diaper? More Often than You Might Think.
Apr 09 2026
Author Jennifer Randles on the social, economic and political significance of diapers for families in the US.
The Mystery of the Mishnah
Mar 20 2026
What exactly is the Mishnah? Author Ishay Rosen-Zvi scratches the surface of one of the most daring Jewish intellectual projects of antiquity.