Telling Stories, Reimagining Aging
Catherine Marienau and Gail Zelitzky on the inspiration behind Women Over 70 and the “Six Cs” that define vital aging.
The Fourth Research Tradition: A Conversation on Vulnerability, Intellect, and Two-Hand Reading
Author Marsha Myrie Obi reflects on writing The Fourth Research Tradition, exploring two-hand reading, vulnerability in research, and decolonizing the Commonwealth Caribbean academy.
The Technology of Black Madness: How Neurodiversity Could be a Gateway to Collective Liberation
Black Madness Theory (BMT) speculates that Black Madness is a neurodiverse psychic state that acts as a catalyst for technological intervention through creative dissidence leading to the disruption of biological, psychological, and social status quos of neurotypical hegemony.
Lived Experiences Conference to Advance Scholarly Research, Inclusivity and Knowledge of Historically Marginalized People
LPP’s Virtual Event Takes Place Oct. 22-23 and is Free to Attend New York, NY — September 3, 2026 — Faculty, scholars, activists and others have partnered with Lived Places Publishing (LPP) to facilitate a virtual conference to explore how human identities – race, gender, ability, culture, and more – shape the way people
Dressed to ‘Reclaim America’: Smart Casual Style and the American Far Right
Patriot Front’s Fourth of July march featured a uniform of khakis and polos– ordinary preppy style repurposed for far-right politics. Kealy-Morris traces how that look got tangled up with race, class and belonging in American suburbia.
Inherited Memory: How Displacement Shapes Generations Who Never Fled
Eleni Chasioti reflects on growing up shaped by her great-grandparents’ forced displacement, and how clothing and textiles carry the memory of migration across generations.
A Prison Within a Prison: An Evocative Autoethnographic Approach to Being a Transgender Man in a Women’s Prison in England
A transgender man’s autoethnographic account of surviving England’s prison system as a birth-registered woman, blending academic research with poetry and storytelling to fill a gap literature has ignored.
Temple University Libraries: A Case Study in Using Book Awards to Focus Collection Development on Diverse Voices
How Temple University Libraries uses book awards as a proxy for author identity, building a replicable model for diversifying collections.
Creating Inclusive Metadata Using the Homosaurus
The Homosaurus is a community-led controlled vocabulary reshaping how libraries catalog LGBT+ identities, and it’s a resource under real political pressure.
COVID-19 and the Communities Left Behind
COVID-19 didn’t affect everyone equally. This book explores the pandemic’s toll on vulnerable and marginalized populations — from access to treatment to housing and incarceration — through real-life narratives and lessons for social justice.