Sonya Bonczek
Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣
Currently reading: White Power by Gautham Rao (out May 12, a W. Hodding Carter III book) and The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- A marathon, not a sprint
- OpenAI argued that “the ads would be “useful” to users” adding more 😂😂😂😂
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekI'm quoted (and my book is mentioned!) in this excellent piece by Jennifer Schuessler about the President's House site in Philadelphia and our broader fight over George Washington and slavery. My first time ever having my name in the NYT, pretty excited about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
- As book coverage takes another devastating hit, I’m reminded how lucky we are to have Sarah and @indyweek.bsky.social championing stories that matter. Grateful for Sarah's care and vision and speed with this excerpt! Hope everyone clicks and reads and shares.
- Up now on @indyweek.bsky.social, an excerpt from this essential new @uncpress.bsky.social release. It tells the story of Wyatt Outlaw - a voting rights crusader and Graham’s first Black elected official. He was lynched in 1870. There are no public markers for his life yet, but now there’s a book.
- Important piece from @uncpress.bsky.social author Robert Bland on how today’s voting-rights battles echo the unresolved conflicts of Reconstruction
- The Supreme Court is considering a case challenging Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — and it’s expected to overturn it, a change that legal historians say would make it easier to dilute Black voting power and roll back decades of political gains. buff.ly/RZRPeWs #polisky
- Being Palestinian is not an identity crisis. From Rana Barakat's Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine.
- This was going to be me if the kids school called and said they're home again tomorrow
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekMedia coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
- Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Been thinking about our publishing friends in the Twin Cities, proud to be in community with presses doing this kind of work and sending lots of support www.upress.umn.edu/books-for-un...
- I'm deep in Rachel’s forthcoming (and excellent) book and every breaking news story about the Supreme Court feels different once you know this history. The Court we treat as timelessly secretive is anything but 👇🧵
- The idea that the Court should operate entirely in secret is a modern phenomenon. The idea that the Court should be separated from the public is a modern phenomenon. Earlier generations did not accept a powerful, isolated & secretive Court and we shouldn't either 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
- Love reading and tuning in to @civilwarmemory.bsky.social, @antheabutler.bsky.social, and @johngmarks.com's Substacks. I want to follow more of our authors so please let us know 📣📝
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekNew book from @gauthamrao.bsky.social! Looking forward to digging into this one.
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekThere are so many great publishers in Minneapolis—one thing the rest of us can do is support their books. Here are a few recent novels from Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed sure to give the goons from ICE a stroke: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekBREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekAre you a creative and intellectually curious editor ready to grow lists in environmental history, history of medicine, urban history, and labor history? We’re hiring an Acquisitions Editor to help shape our history lists 🙌 Interested? You can learn more here👇 uncpress.org/now-hiring-a...
- What a review!!
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekAbolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
- Ice, you could have put a trigger warning for publicists first 😩
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekHistorians! We’ve gotta stay motivated. Keep bringing your expertise to the public. It’s imperative.
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczekthey're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekWe’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
- NEW: Federal agents have detailed a Spokane 10-year-old and her father. They remain in a Texas immigration detention center. The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
- Publicity likes to move fast over at @uncpress.bsky.social 😎
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekThe removal of the slavery exhibit from the President's House site might feel unprecedented, but nothing could be further from the truth. We've been fighting over slavery's place in George Washington's legacy for 250 years. I wrote about it for @time.com. Book info here time.com/7357382/geor...
- The future of book publicity is going live on Substack.
- Academic Booksky really doing the work this morning. This is exactly how social media should be used. Scholars sharing context, amplifying one another, helping the public make sense of the news in real time.
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek***DEEP SIGH*** This is just the latest in our centuries-long fight over how to commemorate George Washington's involvement in slavery. It began while he was still alive, and continued immediately after his death, in the lead-up to Civil War, through Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and Black Lives Matter.
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[This post could not be retrieved]
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekI know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- 🧵📚Suuuper helpful thread about what does (and doesn’t) work when it comes to book publicity for scholars. With the one and only @amandaice.bsky.social - follow her and listen to this interview!
- Been thinking a lot about Prince & Minneapolis (thanks to @drrashadshabazz.bsky.social's new book) and this piece puts so much of that into focus.
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekPeople can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekI do not just want ICE abolished. I want the entire system that enabled this razed to the fucking ground. And no, I do not think that is an unreasonable ask.
- So these beauties just landed on my desk. If you need an ARC for review or feature, LMK! @gauthamrao.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Like if bus thread means anything to you
- My fav book publicist and fav person @amandaice.bsky.social on what academic authors need to know about promoting their books: yourwordsunleashed.com/ep-99-book-p...
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekFinally got my copy. Thanks @uncpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
- Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost. Learn more: minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/park…
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- This history helps explain why policing and punishment have operated the way they have in the Southwest and why those patterns persist. Grateful for this review of @historybrian.bsky.social's "excellent" new book, BROWN AND BLUE
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya BonczekSecond edition. That’s what’s up. Out February 2026. #monuments #booktok #readbannedbooks @uncpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Have to share the whole Publishers Weekly review because it's chef's kiss 💜 Snippet: "@drrashadshabazz.bsky.social's innovative music analysis imbued with geography, history, & social science deserves a standing ovation." PRINCE'S MINNEAPOLIS officially drops Feb 17!
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sonya Bonczek[Not loaded yet]
