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Book cover detail for "When Rebels Win" by Kai Thaler (Cornell University Press, 2025).
Why some rebel victories build states — and others break them
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Book cover art for “It Rhymes with Takei,” illustrated by Harmony Becker
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Author Louis Bayard is adapting his novel "The Wildes," which explores Oscar Wilde’s family life, for a staged reading at UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD Summer Series on July 10.
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Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck creates spaces for people to define themselves and be seen as they are.
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Melody Jue
A scuba diver pictured with a colony of soft corals in Fiji, 2020
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The sum total of our daily communication comprises our “social biomes.”
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Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies