Today’s #ResearchSpotlight centers APIDA/A youths in Michigan, tracing how identity, community, and belonging are shaped across local and diasporic contexts highlighting cultural voices and lived realities that often remain underrepresented in regional narratives. Read more: https://works.hcommons.org/records/ty0b6-yce12

This #ResearchSpotlight examines postmodern chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, tracing how comics engage questions of race, representation, and identity. Read more: https://works.hcommons.org/records/284q8-59s90

Today’s #ResearchSpotlight for AAPI Heritage Month reflects on "The Lowland" as a meditation on borders, memory, and the shifting meanings of home—tracing how diasporic lives unfold across distance, loss, and connection. Explore the full work here: https://works.hcommons.org/records/cg6ja-1xb63

This May, our #ResearchSpotlight celebrates Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month by highlighting scholarship that uplifts those voices and histories.These works explore narratives and movements shaping communities and futures. Discover & share research that honors these experiences.

This April, our #ResearchSpotlight shines on financial literacy — exploring open-access research that empowers communities with tools for economic equity, sustainable futures, and informed decision-making. Discover, read, and share knowledge for financial empowerment.

Our final #ResearchSpotlight this month looks at how feminist and anarchist movements have long shared a vision of freedom—challenging patriarchy, hierarchy, and oppression in all forms. Discover how these radical traditions continue to inspire new ways of organizing, imagining, and building collective power: https://works.hcommons.org/records/z70xx-ycx29#

For Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting work at the intersection of disability justice and feminist thought. This #ResearchSpotlight shows how rethinking the design of everyday academic life can transform access, knowledge, and belonging: https://works.hcommons.org/records/syvy5-1qs56

This #ResearchSpotlight highlights how transgender Shakespeare performance opens up new ways of thinking about gender, embodiment, and identity on stage. Celebrate Women’s History Month by exploring this conversation with performer Jess Chanliau on identities in flux and trans-inclusive performance:https://works.hcommons.org/records/vdt8x-eq781

This #ResearchSpotlight examines how digital spaces and creative self-expression fuel feminist resistance—transforming visual culture into a site of empowerment, critique, and reclamation.
Read the full study here: https://works.hcommons.org/records/gyb5v-bzv71

Today’s #ResearchSpotlight reflects on faith, survival, and the intertwined narratives of Black womanhood and liberation in the Caribbean, illuminating how spirituality becomes a source of strength and self-definition. Dive deeper into this work: https://works.hcommons.org/records/dj5d8-m1g51