Stephanie Levin Interviewed on the “Demand and Disrupt” Podcast
Lived Places Publishing author Stephanie Levin was interviewed about her book, Picking Up the Pieces on the “Demand and Disrupt” Podcast.
Story Merging in Writing Biography: Learning from Léa Roback’s Advocacy and Activism
In Tara Goldstein’s biography of her aunt Léa Roback, she uses a writing approach called story merging, where she recounts how her aunt’s activism influenced her own educational and theatre activism.
Reverse Engineering as a Curriculum Development Process
FREE SEMINAR AUG 7, 2025: In this conversation between Anne Cecil and Dr. Reham El-Morally, they discuss the practice-based pedagogy of starting with current trends and deconstructing their influences – not only to build connections between the past and present but also to encourage students to reflect on how historical cycles, subcultures, and innovations influence contemporary identities and cultural narratives.
Adaptive Clothing: Addressing Inequity in Fashion for People with Disabilities
Although adaptivewear is a formally recognized category of clothing, it is not given much attention in fashion education programs. Adaptive clothing is often presented as a separate category and is not integrated into mainstream fashion assignments and educational collections. This can lead to a sense of separation that limits the visibility of adaptive clothing as a design and production opportunity for students.
Black, Queer, and Fabulous: Reclaiming Joy Through Fierceness
FREE SEMINAR JULY 17, 2025: In this conversation between Dr. David B. Green Jr. and Seutaʻafili Dr. Patrick Thomsen, they discuss the intersection of identity, music, acceptance, and resistance through the life course from childhood to adulthood.
What the United States Can Learn from Postwar Czechoslovakia
by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus | Today, as I watch troubling developments unfold in the United States, I can’t help but feel history knocking—not softly, but insistently. The parallels between the collapse of Czechoslovak democracy in 1948 and the democratic backsliding occurring in the U.S. under the Trump administration in 2025 are unnerving.
The Ongoing Epidemic of Violence Against American Indian and Native Women & Girls
Violence against American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women is ongoing in the U.S. – and it’s personal for Lara Neel and Lisa Neel. On February 13, 1872, their grandfather’s great-grandmother was murdered. Today, they use their historic dressmaking work to tell a woman-focused, Cherokee-centered story that has relevance today.
El Salvador and U.S. Policy Then and Now: Memoirs and the Present
In 2025, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported from the U.S. to El Salvador, where torture is systematically practiced to this day. Lifelong activist David Hinkley shows how urgent it is that outrage inspires a new generation to join and lead the fight.
The Construction of Latinidad Within Speculative Fiction
In this conversation between Dr. Gabriel A. Cruz and Dr. Chris McAuley, they explore how contemporary speculative fiction constructs Latinidad in ways that advance humanizing depictions of Latinx people, as well as those cases where narratives reinforce reductive understandings about Latinidad.
Lived Places Publishing Launches on the University of Michigan Publishing’s Fulcrum Platform to Enhance Access and Discoverability of Social Identity Scholarship
Lived Places Publishing (LPP) proudly announces its official launch on the Fulcrum.org platform. This milestone marks a significant advancement in the accessibility and discoverability of scholarly content focused on social identity and the lived experience of place.
