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differences 36.1 is out now — featuring a dossier of essays from Selamawit D. Terrefe, David Marriott, and Lee Edelman, alongside writing from Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, and Iván A. Ramos: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/is…

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash, published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences_DUP (36:1). Read it for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

"Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," a special issue of @differences_DUP (36:1), is available! View the TOC and read "Ce n’est pas ça: Blackness, Sex, and the Set of Illegibles" by Lee Edelman, freely available through 9/5: buff.ly/FhdR7Ft

now available online: a recording of "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique," a colloquium featuring Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, and Lynne Huffer, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson — watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=PpEWtv…

Announcing the Twentieth Anniversary Edition of Judith Butler's 'Giving an Account of Oneself' with a new preface by the author #NewRelease @Teagan_Bradway @differences_DUP ow.ly/QVJJ50Vrtqf

join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/event…

"It was difficult to write Giving an Account of Oneself, since I included very little autobiographical detail" — from our latest issue, read Judith Butler's "Giving an Account: When, Where, for Whom, and Why?" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/ar…

"If queer theory has struggled to think of narrative in these terms, it is perhaps because we have defined narrative as one line driven toward closure" — read @Teagan_Bradway's "Renarratable Bonds: Queer Relationality in the Scene of Redress" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/ar…

The #WeeklyRead is “On Receiving Accounts from Others” by Sara Ahmed. The article appears in "Unaccountably Queer", a special issue of @differences_dup (35:3) edited by Teagan Bradway Read this article for free through March 31, 2025: buff.ly/3WzBM2D

"Another way of cohabitating and coming to justice out of historical conflicts will remain elusive so long as we turn to gender to change the world" — read Jules Gill-Peterson's "Who Is the Subject of Gender Self-determination?" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/ar…

differences 35.3 is out now! — edited by Teagan Bradway, "Unaccountably Queer" features essays from Gila Ashtor, Cassius Adair, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, and more. View the TOC: buff.ly/41DHOmh Buy this issue: buff.ly/3OXIBHh

differences 35.3 is out now! — edited by @Teagan_Bradway, "Unaccountably Queer" features essays from Gila Ashtor, Cassius Adair, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/is…

"To hold, to feel, to touch Black women’s sexualities, we must imagine and reimagine the event horizon of the ship’s hold and, for a moment, speculate" — read Kimberly Bain's "HOLD : SPACE" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/ar…

"What openings does spacetime provide that the maritime, perhaps, cannot as readily support?" — from our latest issue, read Petal Samuel's "Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/ar…

After 35 years of publication, we’re updating our advisory board! The scholars gathered here share the journal’s commitment to critical thinking about difference, and we are thrilled to have their support. Take a look at the new masthead here: differencesjournal.org/about

The #WeeklyRead is "Black (W)holes: A Problem of Feminist Thought" by Sharon P. Holland. Published in "Inside the Black (W)hole," a special issue of @differences_DUP. Read it for free through 12/31: ow.ly/RJzi50TMBrU

"Black scientists have been here the whole time" — read @IBJIYONGI's "The Cosmos Is a Black Aesthetic" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/ar…

"What does it mean to labor in a field (figuratively and literally) under constant and reoccurring erasure?" — from our latest issue, read Sharon P. Holland's "Black (W)holes: A Problem for Feminist Thought" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/ar…