Until recently, The Feminist Wire—a pro-feminism, social justice publishing company—has exclusively shared content (from poetry and novels to political articles) online. Now, they’re partnering up with the University of Arizona Press for a new book series that’ll showcase critiques on anti-feminist representations in U.S. popular culture, media and politics. 

The UA Department of Gender and  Women’s Studies plans to incorporate the book series into the classroom. The department is actually collaborating with the School of Journalism in developing an online master’s program in social justice publishing, where students will learn about acquiring, editing, producing and marketing books, a press release from UA Press says.

“Activism. Policy work. Writing. The work that I do has always been about connecting to academic and nonacademic audiences,” says Monica Casper, professor in the Department of Gender and  Women’s Studies and managing editor of The Feminist Wire, in a press release. “This partnership is just a logical extension of that. We are reaching across the university/public life divide.”

There is going to be a celebration for the launch of this new project on Friday,  Sept. 11 at noon at the UA Libraries Special Collections, 1510 E. University Blvd. Casper, co-founder of The Feminist Wire Tamura Lomax and Darnell Moore, senior editor at Mic will be among the speakers. 

This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2015.

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4 replies on “UA Press to Release Print Book Series with Social Justice Online Publisher The Feminist Wire”

  1. How many truly dumb ideas can Tucson come up with? Every ethnic group, every gender group (there are only two, the rest are an over represented fringe few) and every religion (except Christians and Jews) needs to make the World aware that they are the oppressed.

    I had no idea that white males were so powerful! Perhaps they should unite and take back the World from these nitwits. Unfortunately, as a Catholic, male of Mexican descent I cannot join, but I can cheer them on from the sidelines.

  2. As a special class of citizens they should have more rights than the rest of us. Do we take rights from others or create new ones for them? You go go girls.

  3. Looks like Maria just let us know she is a full fledged SJW. You know what I do when I see a gender studies degree major on an application? Throw it into the trash.

    Between your social justice of hating America and loving illegals and David Safier’s Portlandia White Guilt – this paper has morphed into a complete rag.

    Tucson may be more liberal than Phoenix, but we are not retarded. Take your agenda somewhere else, like New Mexico.

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