New Books in January by Ideas on Fire Authors

by Cathy Hannabach | Jan 1, 2026

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 A Black Queer History of the United States, with bold yellow and black writing on a pink background

A Black Queer History of the United States

C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost

Beacon Press

A landmark chronicle of queer Black lives, movements, and desires across US history.

Cover of Co-Motion, with abstract multicolored celestial shapes on a dark background

Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances

Paola Bacchetta

Duke University Press

A new transnational feminist theorization of global alliances, solidarity, and practices of freedom.

Cover of The Souths in Her, with a person in a dress underwater

The Souths in Her: Black Women Writers and Choreographers and the Poetics of Transmutation

Nicole Morris Johnson

Columbia University Press

A transformational study of how Black women artists intertwine movement and creativity in the service of freedom.

Cover the The Quiet Zone, with an abstract black liquid sculpture with legs

The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance

Petal Kimberly Samuel

Rutgers University Press

A provocative analysis of Caribbean quiet as a tool of social and sonic control.

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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