This #BannedBooksWeek, #FeedingTheElephant acknowledges resources to #LetBooksBe as well as efforts to preserve and protect the larger data and information landscape, including ways to volunteer.
@dawnd.bsky.socialDawn Durante
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Editorial Director at @uncpress.bsky.social • acquiring books in history, Black studies, girlhood studies, carceral studies • H-Net's #FeedingTheElephant
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@jimcrowcapital.bsky.socialReposted by @dawnd.bsky.socialI'm so sad to miss @asalh-bhm.bsky.social this year, but I see Policing Passengers! 🎉 Plus many books cited in it!
@asanews.bsky.socialReposted by @dawnd.bsky.socialThe new book edited by ASA members Jonathan Coley @jonathancoley.bsky.social and Golshan Golriz brings together work by leading scholars of social movements, religion, and gender and sexuality to better understand the activism of the queer faithful. @uncpress.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.socialReposted by @dawnd.bsky.socialAre you writing a book about food justice and race?
Learn more about our Black Food Justice series with series editor Ashanté Reese and @lucaschurch.bsky.social next week at this online lunch and learn👇
@dawnd.bsky.socialCongratulations to all the finalists!
@dawnd.bsky.socialI’m honored to serve as a judge for @asalh-bhm.bsky.social’s Felix Armfield Dissertation Lightning Round Competition at #ASALH2026.
@dawnd.bsky.socialIt was a great first day at #ASALH2026! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth today. Looking forward to catching up with more people tomorrow!
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.euReposted by @dawnd.bsky.socialThe Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent"
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
theatlantic.comWhat the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return RevealsA previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
@dawnd.bsky.socialSuch great advice! It is also useful for editors trying to learn more about your work. If I see an interesting panel in a conference program, for example, I’ll look someone up. What I find online can confirm if that scholar’s work lines up with my acquisitions work and inform whether I reach out.
@dawnd.bsky.socialEarlier this week, an author told me how helpful they were finding all the #PeerReviewWeek info that was circulating! Here’s what #FeedingtheElephant added to the Peer Review Week mix.
@dawnd.bsky.socialAnd hitting the @uncpress.bsky.social book exhibit at the @asalh-bhm.bsky.social conference next week!
@dawnd.bsky.socialAmazing! Thank you!
@dawnd.bsky.social😂
@rachelshelden.bsky.socialReposted by @dawnd.bsky.socialTerrific review of SUPREMACY by @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social alongside my book, THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT:

@dawnd.bsky.socialAnd my picture does not do the cover justice. It is even more gorgeous IRL!
@dawnd.bsky.socialIt is also the first book in @uncpress.bsky.social’s Black Women’s History series, edited by @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social, Talitha LeFlouria, and Daina Ramey Berry.
@dawnd.bsky.socialCongratulations to Kathryn Benjamin Golden! THIS INSURGENT GROUND: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp is out in the world! This is a tremendously well-written and insightful history of Black women’s fugitive world making.
@monicalmercado.bsky.socialReposted by @dawnd.bsky.social"To understand Dolly, you have to read her as a writer. Writing her own story was the most radical, precise way to define herself in a world that kept trying to fit her into a box."
-- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social