November 22, 2023
From the closing years of the nineteenth century, women received subtle—and not so subtle—messages that they shouldn’t be in public. Or, if they were, that they were not safe. Georgina… READ MORE
November 7, 2023
This week, we’re celebrating the publication of Dr. Crystal Leigh Endsley’s book Quantum Justice: Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry. Grounded in her experience of “putting a mic… READ MORE
September 25, 2023
During his sixteen-year tenure writing issues of Uncanny X-Men, Chris Claremont revamped the X-Men franchise and lifted the mutant team to meteoric success. Even thirty years after his unprecedented run… READ MORE
June 7, 2023
UT Press is celebrating queer life in literature and scholarship with Pride Month book recommendations from our staff featuring great reads on LGBTQIA+ themes and works by queer writers! Check… READ MORE
February 7, 2023
In a Washington Post op-ed titled “The fall of Roe forecasts trouble ahead for key LGBTQ rights,” author Wesley Phelps outlines the connections among several Supreme Court battles that have… READ MORE
March 19, 2021
From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral… READ MORE
November 11, 2019
Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl’s transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has… READ MORE
February 26, 2014
This Sunday, Ellen DeGeneres will host the 86th Academy Awards. DeGeneres and her career comprises a full chapter of Linda Mizejewski’s new book Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics. Other chapters… READ MORE
