July’s new releases from Ideas on Fire authors engage the categories, archives, and infrastructures that shape how we understand the world and ourselves.
These books move across environmental humanities, trans and queer studies, Black lesbian archiving, migration, and global digital culture, asking what it means to document, define, and resist in the face of shifting borders and mediated lives.
We’re proud to have supported these authors as they developed rigorous, boundary-crossing projects that open up new ways of thinking across disciplines.
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Cisgender: Disorienting a Category
Perry Zurn
A critical history tracing cisgender’s emergence while challenging norms shaping contemporary gender binaries.
We Must Document Ourselves Now: Black Lesbian Cultural Legacies and the Politics of Self-Representation
Stephanie Andrea Allen
A vital study of Black lesbian cultural production challenging invisibility through self-representation, care, and political storytelling.
Planet Digital: A Global Digital Cultures Reader
Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw, and Jonathan Gray
A global reader examining digital culture’s uneven development shaped by infrastructure, power, and regional histories.
Braving All Borders: TransLatina Testimonios and Decolonial Defiance
Karla M. Padrón
University of Washington Press
A powerful collection amplifying TransLatina testimonios of survival, resistance, and dignity amid systemic violence and marginalization.
Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature Across Land, Air, and Sea, 1926-2014
Nicole M. Rizzuto
A transnational literary analysis linking ecology, mobility, and empire across global texts engaging environmental crisis and planetary interconnectedness.
