In the latest issue of TOPIA, Rebecca Noone (Rebecca Noone) and Arun Jacob (Arun Jacob) explore how location data and #geofences are used to target abortion seekers and accelerate tenant evictions in the US. Read more in TOPIA 48: bit.ly/TOPIA48e UTP Journals University of Toronto Press

In “The Spook Who Sat by the Door: Creating Black Studies in the Canadian Academy,” afua cooper explores the issues with developing Black studies programs in Canadian universities. The article is #FreeToRead until June 23: bit.ly/TOPIA-AC

In recognition of National Indigenous History Month (#NIHM2024), a selection of UTP Journals articles are #FreeToRead until the end of June, including Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s “Pinery Road and Concession 11” from TOPIA 46. Read the article online: bit.ly/3RrG1Ll

“Is the Canadian academy committed to making Black studies central to its curricula, or will it continue to marginalize and tokenize this branch of knowledge?” Read more in afua cooper’s article in TOPIA 44, #FreeToRead until June 23: bit.ly/TOPIA-AC

Read Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s “Pinery Road and Concession 11,” which reflects on Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return, considering place, belonging, and diaspora. Available #FreeToRead until the end of June: bit.ly/3RrG1Ll

Dr. Afua Cooper has been travelling around the world, tracing the journey of Thomas Peters, a Black revolutionary who escaped slavery in 1776, fought for the British army, and campaigned for the rights of Black people. Read more on the UTP Journals blog: bit.ly/TOPIA-AC

New on the UTP Journals blog, TOPIA contributor afua cooper describes her current research creating a biography of Thomas Peters. Read “The Thomas Peters Project: The Life and Journey of a Black Atlantic Revolutionary”: bit.ly/TOPIA-AC

In recognition of National Indigenous History Month (#NIHM2024), a selection of UTP Journals articles are #FreeToRead until the end of June, including Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s “Pinery Road and Concession 11” from TOPIA 46. Read the article online: bit.ly/3RrG1Ll

“Is the Canadian academy committed to making Black studies central to its curricula, or will it continue to marginalize and tokenize this branch of knowledge?” Read more in afua cooper’s article in TOPIA 44, #FreeToRead until June 23: bit.ly/TOPIA-AC

In “The Spook Who Sat by the Door: Creating Black Studies in the Canadian Academy,” afua cooper explores the issues with developing Black studies programs in Canadian universities. The article is #FreeToRead until June 23: bit.ly/TOPIA-AC

Read Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s “Pinery Road and Concession 11,” which reflects on Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return, considering place, belonging, and diaspora. Available #FreeToRead until the end of June: bit.ly/3RrG1Ll

“Platforms are no longer things outside of or adjacent to us, whether hand-held or screen-mediated; instead, they are now embedded, both literally and figuratively, in our lives and bodies.” Read more from Lindsay Balfour in TOPIA 48: bit.ly/TOPIA48d UTP Journals University of Toronto Press

In recognition of National Indigenous History Month (#NIHM2024), a selection of UTP Journals articles are #FreeToRead until the end of June, including Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s “Pinery Road and Concession 11” from TOPIA 46. Read the article online: bit.ly/3RrG1Ll

In the latest issue of TOPIA, Victoria Sands of Toronto Metropolitan University explores how the “girl-oriented intimacy” of popular UK influencer channel FreddyMyLove “might have been challenged and/or (re)negotiated in response to the Black Lives Matter protests”: bit.ly/TOPIA48h

Explore the new issue of TOPIA! Volume 50 is a special issue that delves into new and renewed formations of “queer,” and calls for the imagination of new queer possibilities beyond the binaries of inclusion and exclusion. Read the issue: bit.ly/topia50 JRJChairBlackCanadianStudies

New research in TOPIA 50 reflects on the liberatory possibilities of hope, speculative fiction and creative practice to mobilize communities to worldbuild a better future. Read the full article today: bit.ly/topia50-f syrus marcus ware #CulturalStudies

The latest issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies explores the impacts of western #activist ideals on the subjectivities of queer and trans of colour organizers within Toronto, Ontario. Read “I don’t feel like an activist" in TOPIA 50: bit.ly/topia50-e

TOPIA 50 explores the relationship between queerness and Indigeneity within Niitsítapi (Blackfoot) territory, centering the experiences of Niitsitapi women and 2SLGBTQI+ members engaged in queering approaches to #GenderJustice. Read more: bit.ly/topia50-c UCalgary Political Science

Delve into the new issue of TOPIA 50 for a roundtable with contributors reflecting on the evolution of #QueerActivism and their thoughts on homonationalism over the past decade. Read more: bit.ly/topia50-b Gary Kinsman Feminist Institute of Social Transformation (FIST) JRJChairBlackCanadianStudies #CulturalStudies

TOPIA 50 is a special issue titled Beyond Homonationalisms: Queer(er) Possibilities of Elsewhere and Imagining Otherwise, exploring new and renewed formations of “queer” and calling for the imagination of new #QueerPossibilities. Read more: bit.ly/topia50 JRJChairBlackCanadianStudies