Ideas on Fire

Major props to Ideas on Fire author Allie Martin! Her book Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC is out now from Oxford University Press. Learn more about this Black feminist audio-analysis of gentrification's sounds in DC. https://lnkd.in/eWcsnN2v

Bravo to Ideas on Fire author Oliver Haimson on his new book, Trans Technologies, out now from MIT Press. It is a creative analysis of how trans communities shape technologies and how technologies make possible new trans practices. https://lnkd.in/gCgq3YYJ #IoFAuthors

Peer review is critical to academia, but few are formally taught how to produce truly useful reports. Here are Adrienne Shaw's tips to produce critical but non-jerky reviews that help colleagues present the best versions of their work. https://lnkd.in/gQbvZSp #PeerReview

Congratulations to the DISCO Network on the release of its new book Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal—a Black disability media studies embrace of skepticism as a tool for mitigating technological harms from Stanford University Press.

Shoutout to Ideas on Fire author Sig/Sara Giordano! Their new book, Labs of Our Own: Feminist Tinkerings with Science, an analysis of queer feminist decolonial science practices and experimentation, is out now from Rutgers University Press. ?? https://lnkd.in/gRPWezJN

We’re cheering on Ideas on Fire author Kit W. Myers for the release of his new book The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States, which offers a nuanced critique of the racial politics of adoption. Out now from the University of California Press. https://lnkd.in/en7W93nA #IoFAuthors

Congratulations to Ideas on Fire author Jabari M. Evans whose new book Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom is out now from the University of Michigan Press ?? https://lnkd.in/g-JgUk-X #IoFAuthors

?? Let’s have a big round of applause for Ideas on Fire author Jordache Ellapen on his fantastic new book Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness, out now from Duke University Press! Indenture Aesthetics offers a multisensory exploration of the Afro-Indian visual and performance art reimagining race in post-apartheid South Africa. https://lnkd.in/endG3q4r #IoFAuthors #QueerStudies

Join us in congratulating Ideas on Fire author Brittany Friedman on her new book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, out now from the University of North Carolina Press! This no-holds-barred indictment of the anti-Black racism and genocidal logics at the heart of the US prison-industrial complex would make a great addition to your next syllabus or reading list. https://lnkd.in/edRN9Wue #IoFAuthors

When’s the last time you’ve thought about how you take notes? Note-taking may seem simple, but how you record the information that you’ve learned can unlock new ideas and connect any dots you may have missed. The start of a new semester can be a great time to revisit and ponder your approach to note-taking. Try these strategies: https://lnkd.in/gTc_tP6 #WritingTips #Notetaking