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Tackling Simplified Sign System Handshapes: Five Basics to Get You Started

Read Tracy T. Dooley's introduction to the Simplified Signs system's handshapes.

The Possibility of Signs

This is the first of a series of blog post on one of our latest titles 'Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations'. Read William B. Bonvillian's reflections on the Simplified Signs project.

‘Thieves’ marks’ and ‘tinder-wolves’: The Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law

Read Adèle Kreager's take on our new title 'A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law'.

On 'Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora' by Grace Aneiza Ali (ed.).

Read Domenic Rotundo's reflections on our forthcoming book 'Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora' by Grace Aneiza Ali (ed.).

Photography and Protest

Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography & Imaging at Tisch New York University and co-editor of 'Women and Migration', shares her powerful reflections about photography, history and protest in the context of the BLM demonstration taking place all around the world.

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