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Travels with Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde

Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A. Kinnahan and Susan Rosenbaum

Artist and writer Mina Loy (1882-1966) traversed continents, participated in Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and depicted poetic and painterly vistas ranging from lunar landscapes to the gritty streets of the Bowery. Travels with Mina Loy offers an illustrated tour of Mina Loy’s long and varied career, contextualized with in-depth explorations of key places that shaped her life and work.

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Human* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community

Devin Proctor

Human* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community is an ethnographic exploration of the Otherkin—a technologically-mediated community of practice whose members identify as other-than-human—breaking down barriers of identity and calling into question assumptions about what it means to be a human.

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Shifting Blind Identities in Higher Education: Stories of Selfhood

Alison Cook-Sather

Shifting Blind Identities in Higher Education features accounts of how blindness and low vision intersect with other dimensions of identity for both students and faculty in higher education. Contributors from a range of institutional contexts illuminate “common but not comparable” experiences, as well as importantly different ones, and explore different intersections of identity while navigating higher education spaces.

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Practice Dialogues: Listening to the Wisdom of Care Work

Alice Lesnick, editor, and the Practice Dialogues Collective

Attending to the wisdom that emerges through care work, Practice Dialogues uplifts the complexity, creativity, and interconnection of care across fields of endeavor. Written by a collective of practitioners, Practice Dialogues calls readers to learn from, not simply about, care work and those dedicated to it.

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Lever Press announces membership in OIPA

OIPA recently welcomed Lever Press as an associate member of its organization

Published August 27th, 2026

Lever Press Publishes Its 50th Book

In April 2026, Lever Press published its 50th book!

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The Lever Press Oversight Committee welcomes three new committee members.

Published January 21st, 2026