New Books in August by Ideas on Fire Authors

by Cathy Hannabach | Aug 1, 2025

Join us in congratulating these Ideas on Fire authors for their new books! We are honored to have worked on these books as well as support this type of groundbreaking interdisciplinary research.

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Cover of Radiophonic Feminisms, with a pink illustration of a person speaking into a microphone.

Esther Díaz Martín

University of Texas Press

An insightful analysis of Latina voices reshaping media through feminist broadcasting.

Cover of Body Problems, with passport-style photos of Sally Gross

M. Wolff

Duke University Press

A profound meditation on embodiment, justice, and religion through South African intersex activism.

Cover of Counter-cartographies, with numbers and lines falling off a ruler

Leon J. Hilton

University of Minnesota Press

A wide-ranging read of autistic and neurodivergent performance in film and culture.

Cover of Everyday Futures, with a hand shaped as a road and person looking down the road

Stephanie L. Canizales and Brendan H. O'Connor

Stanford University Press

A nuanced exploration of Indigenous youth language survival in diaspora.

Cover of Speculative Relations, with a colorful quilt-style tapestry of abstract shapes and people

Joseph M. Pierce

Duke University Press

A transformative look at Indigenous relations, speculation, and healing.

Cover of Queer Relajo, with a masked person in a cape with their arms raised above their head

David Tenorio

University of Michigan Press

A provocative journey through queer nightlife and resistance in Mexico City.

Cover of The Human in Bits, with an abstract painting of red dashes on blue background

Kris Cohen

Duke University Press

A groundbreaking study of racialization in computer history, media theory, and Black abstract art.

Cover of Knowing as Moving, with a person walking on a trail in the mountains above Los Angeles

Susan Leigh Foster

Duke University Press

A creatively embodied exploration of how moving through the world enables human connection and communal knowing.

Dr. Cathy Hannabach is the founder and CEO of Ideas on Fire where she helps interdisciplinary academics transform vibrant ideas into powerful books and public projects that can spark meaningful social change.

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