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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Looking forward to taking part in #StorytellingForJustice in 2 weeks time - if anyone else in the northern hemisphere fancies doing an all-nighter in the digital realm (the other papers look amazing, worth it!) registration is here & free: shorturl.at/9SPt5

Storytelling for Justice symposium flyer

Text describes the Storytelling for Justice symposium, noting that speakers will share old and new knowledges and provoke conversation about how to story and listen in ways that disrupt and interrupt dominant knowledge dynamics, offering alternative, more-than-academic ways of knowing and engaging with communities and commonalities. Keynote speaker is Dr Margaret Harvey.

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Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

He is not just attacking ‘diversity initiatives’. He is being racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic - all these- clearly implying that a diverse workforce is not as capable or efficient as that made of white heterosexual men. He is disgusting.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Arboreal cryptid. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

Black and white photo of a longhaired tabby cat crouched on a tree branch, looking down toward the camera.

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

had a video flash up on IG of an influencer trying on a pinstripe denim co-ord (can you guess where this is going?), her excited take: “it’s giving cool girl” *me mentally* it’s giving concentration camp

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today‘s theme in Media 2.0 was media audiences; talking with students about being a ‘subscriber’/‘consumer’/‘fan’ on social media and one talked about how she feels it’s shaped her vocabulary. I asked for an example, she blusters for a moment & and a guy from the back shouts “rizz”. Props props 🫰

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Natasha Roy @natasharoy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

ICYMI: Last month @rewirenewsgroup.com published a comprehensive guide to protecting your reproductive health during the next Trump administration, including how to stock up on birth control and abortion pills, and how to protect your digital privacy rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/12/16/h...

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How to Protect Your Reproductive Health During Trump’s Second Presidency

Our comprehensive guide for protecting your access to birth control, medication abortion, and emergency contraception before Donald Trump takes office.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

You could write this in a movie but people would say it was too dark and unrealistic

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Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

My new book looks at many aspects of sexual consent, and many kinds of time. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-legal-t... #temporalities #consent #LawAndTime

Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent contents page:
1. Introduction: legal temporalities and the Sexual Offences Act 2003
2. Tempo: acquiescence as consent and sexual history
3. Life times: age of consent and contraception
4. Rhythm: identity deceptions
5. Social time: intoxicated consent
6. Disabled time: disability and consent
7. Changing times: harassment, grooming and coercive control
8. Conclusion: composing consent time

(Chapter 7 also looks at image-based sexual abuse.)

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Colleagues! I am putting together a small panel for a Challenging Research Network meeting on the theme of hope - could you or someone you know share some insights on doing such research (broadly defined) & holding hope close? Is hope a helpful lens for such work? Please reply/DM me names, TIA 🌱

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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Nina Paulovicova @ninjak.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Excellent article about the rift between Holocaust scholars. This rift also unfurles into personal attacks, censorship and has a far reaching impact on the interpretation of the past.

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Klaus (2019) is my favourite Christmas film - it is perfect and I love it, no notes! 🎄🎁✨ (Honourable mentions for The Polar Express (2004) and The Santa Clause (1994)).

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Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Shame has changed sides

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

“Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?” by Mari Cohen who interviewed everyone in the field for this extensive and exacting analysis of the political and conceptual crisis highlighted and accentuated over the past 13 months. jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

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Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?

A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Brain: Colours Art brain: Rothko Academic brain: A Very Short Introduction

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I never knew any of these stories from my home county! Both of my parents are from the Wirral, grandparents Glasgow/Bolton/Warwickshire (big on internal UK-based migration my family!) but I can’t believe I’ve missed such rich Salopian witchy folklore ✨🌿 thank you @g0blinegg.bsky.social!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Something that has stripped me of almost all hope for the future has been the fact that Israeli soldiers can openly confess to horrendous war crimes in an Israeli newspaper and people will still deny that Palestinians are being exterminated. Read it here: archive.ph/NVG4p#select...

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

great piece, especially what Sophie writes about audiences hearing (or not) disclosures of sexual violence: “an essential feature of male power is being allowed to choose not to listen – to reason, to conscience, to evidence, to a woman’s testimony, whatever its form” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial

Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

NEW: We interviewed women behind bars who exposed the widespread sexual abuse of US prison officers, but who have struggled to get relief. They are pleading with Biden for clemency. “After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”

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Survivors of prison sexual abuse scandal ask Biden for clemency: ‘Give us a chance’

Incarcerated women seek relief after exposing harassment, retaliation and assault by staff

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Yesterday I passed my PhD viva, therefore a bio update was needed! The second photo is my thesis abstract & I’m looking forward to sharing forthcoming publications asap - it’s very much time for this work to be out in the world 💪

Screenshot of my updated Bluesky bio following a successful PhD viva exam.

I am now Dr Lauren Cantillon, bio reads: feminist interdisciplinary academic, writing about gender, memory & power via Jewish women’s stories of sexual violence during the Holocaust | teaching critical culture & media studies at department of culture, media & creative industries at King’s College London.

My PhD thesis abstract, part of which reads:

A work on gender, memory, and power, this thesis centres on Jewish women's own sense-making of their memories of sexual(ised) violence during the Holocaust as shared in testimony interviews in the holdings of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA). The thesis explores what acts women frame as sexualised) violence, how they convey this personal understanding, and what emotions and feelings are present in their disclosures. I highlight the heterogeneity of Jewish women's disclosure practices, from overt to more covert disclosures. Across this continuum, I propose and apply an analytical framework rooted in sensory memory, mediating objects, spatiality, and emotional timescapes which enables me to hear numerous women's disclosures within their Holocaust memory narratives, subverting structures of epistemic injustice that work to obscure women's stories of sexual assault. By theorising haptic sense memory, the thesis demonstrates how personal memories of touch can disrupt euphemistic screening language that conceals the brutalising realities of sexualised) violence in conflict as something banal and of little consequence. It offers memory, Holocaust, genocide, and conflict studies an analytical tool through which to overcome hermeneutical injustices of sexualised) violence. This thesis also makes an empirical contribution to the field of Holocaust studies because the women's disclosures offer fresh insights regarding where and when Jewish women and girls were subjected to sexual(ised) violence across the Holocaust landscape, as well as who did the abusing.

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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Excellent new blog @activehist.bsky.social on how "residential school denialism in Canada has become a common feature of the surge in imperial apologetics across the former British Empire." By @seancarleton.bsky.social Adele Perry, Alan Lester, and Omeasoo Wahpasiw activehistory.ca/blog/2024/12...

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Exposing Residential School Denialism’s Transnational Network

Residential school denialism may have its origins in Canada, but it is increasingly circulating and being used around the world as part of a wider matrix of imperial apologetics – a transnational n…

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Lilith Magazine @lilithmagazine.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Hello! Are you a fan of independent, Jewish and frankly feminist writing, art, and events? Alternately, do you have a soft spot for reclaiming demon-goddesses who were maligned by myth and history? We're here!

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

From @haaretzcom.bsky.social @nirhasson.bsky.social Historian Lee Mordechai built a database of thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documents the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Massive database of evidence, compiled by a historian, details Israel's war crimes in Gaza

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

So proud of my students’ plans for their assessment toolkits on diversity in the CMCIs. Topics include +++opportunities for working class creatives in the UK screen industries, greater East Asian representation in the West End, and challenging racism, sexism & homophobia in gaming and comics - hope!

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Nina Vindum Rasmussen @ninavindum.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Publication news! 🎺 It’s Wrapped season… and Taylor’s (@taylorannabell.bsky.social) and my article on our Spotify (Un)wrapped project is now out in the Journal of Gender Studies. The article outlines how creative workshops can be used to critically analyse ‘algorithmic events’ like Wrapped.

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Spotify (Un)wrapped: how ordinary users critically reflect on Spotify’s datafication of the self within creative workshops

Each year, Spotify nudges users to share aesthetically pleasing data stories ‘wrapped’ and repackaged from their listening behavior. This article approaches Spotify Wrapped as an annual algorithmic...

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

📢 Join us on Thursday for a fascinating event in person at the Library and online... Professor Dan Stone will examine the murder of the elderly during the Holocaust, discussing how the brutal treatment of the elderly exemplifies Nazi ideology Get tickets: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid...

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Hybrid Talk: When the Nineteenth Century Ended for Jews: The Elderly and the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library

The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute (HGRP) are pleased to invite participation in the public keynote lecture for its closed doctoral workshop, Older People and the Holoca...

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I have just learned that a team of gardeners and volunteers at the National Trust property Cotehele in Cornwall have been putting an epic garland of dried flowers up in the Great Hall every year since 1956. How exquisitely beautiful it is; the tradition and the thing itself.

An immense garland of dried wildflowers grace the rafters of a Great Hall; a man finishes putting on last flower in, with a smile.

No image credit, but was posted by the National Trust facebook page

A closeup of the garland with thousands and thousands of dried flowers: a riot of white and pink and fushia and blue and purple and green, in all kinds of floral shapes.

No image credit, but was posted by the National Trust facebook page

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I did not know the Reform party supported the Just Stop Oil protestors, you learn something new etc

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/11/2024

We have got to stop acting like everybody is getting information in some sort of pure form and then making illogical decisions. Unrestrained algorithms and growth hacking are the largest scale ecological disaster in history and we are finally beginning to pay for it.

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Fascinating to me that someone could think of “the suppression of speech that is judged to be harmful to disadvantaged groups” as a negative thing. So you want to cause harm? (Yes I *know* the answer is yes, but 🤯). Also, language is always evolving & changing, so what? The culture is gonna culture!

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

📢 New Call for Papers! The 8th Beyond Camps & Forced Labour Conference, taking place in January 2026, is now accepting applications. The aim is to bring together scholars engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution Find out more:

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Had a teaching observation today and it went well! Yay for colleagues who take the time to listen and turn feedback into a conversation ☺️ (Tbh it would have been a bit awkward for everyone if I had been dreadful as I’ve been teaching at KCL for 4+ years now but good to check in…!)

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/11/2024

Reminder: If you are a Holocaust scholar or institution, let me know and I will add you to this! If you are interested in the topic, please follow! go.bsky.app/7mxC2NF

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

In the department of shameless self promotion, I was honored to give the annual Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture at the Magnes Museum at UC Berkeley. With great thanks to the German Historical Institute and the Center on European Studies! vimeo.com/1031683591/1...

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2024 Annual Feldman Lecture by Paul Lerner | Radio, Propaganda, Terror: Austrian-Jewish Refugees and the Media

Drawing from his larger research project on how Central European émigrés reimagined American life in the wake of fascism, Paul Lerner examines radio…

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Border-crossing in Jewish Studies University of Glasgow 7-9 July 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS FOR #BIAJS2025 Proposals due by 30 Jan. See website for details of how plus guidance: bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/7944-2/

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Timely as we’re shortly having a Challenging Research Network planning meeting. I’ve done a looot of pacing around @wienerlibrary.bsky.social after hearing women recount being sexually assaulted in their Holocaust testimony. It’s upsetting, infuriating & heavy. Crying, writing, crying while writing…

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Catching up on the sickening action of Greater Manchester Police at the weekend: herding Traveller children who attempted to go to Christmas markets on to random trains out of town, apparently solely because of their ethnicity. This is pure racism. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

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Call for investigation after traveller children 'forced out of Manchester'

GMP put a dispersal order in place, but is facing growing calls to explain its actions

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I wrote about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s various weird ideas about HIV/AIDS, and why they could soon become the rest of the world's problem if he becomes HHS secretary. In the words of one expert I spoke to, "I can't believe we're having this conversation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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RFK Jr. has made false and dangerous claims about AIDS. That could become a global problem.

Will the United States abandon life-saving efforts to research and fight the virus?

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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Anyone looking for a case study on the politics of memory……

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Very interesting to note the selective reporting the BBC & established press continues to engage in... I don't remember this level of scrutiny of Boris Johnson, a man who had lied as a journalist, and then made a number of misleading statements, and told lies, as PM. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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MPs raise questions about Chancellor Rachel Reeves' CV

Claims the chancellor embellished her work achievements were seized on by Tory and Reform MPs at PMQs.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

All this goes to show that there are still so many diverse stories to be uncovered from WWII, that we haven't exhausted discussing it. Set My Hand Upon The Plough is beautiful, do seek it out. It was a privilege to help bring it back into the world. (9/9)

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