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Dr Lauren Cantillon

@lmcantillon.bsky.social

feminist interdisciplinary academic, writing about gender, memory & power via Jewish women's stories of sexual violence during the Holocaust | teaching critical culture & media studies @ dept. of CMCI @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social | 🌱✨

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Prof. Pragya Agarwal@drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Dr Lauren Cantillon@lmcantillon.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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 🫰

Natasha Roy@natasharoy.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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.

rewirenewsgroup.com

Dr Lauren Cantillon@lmcantillon.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 🌱

Dr Lauren Cantillon@lmcantillon.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 🌱

Nina Paulovicova@ninjak.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Dirk Moses@dirkmoses.bsky.social · 2y ago

In the Journal of Genocide Research Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Shira Klein has published “The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dr Lauren Cantillon@lmcantillon.bsky.social · 2y ago

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)).

Dr. Vaughn Joy@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Merry Christmas Eve Eve, lovelies! My husband and I watched Klaus last night for his first time, and I cannot recommend it enough. It's stunning visually and in heart, perfect pacing, good humour, and has my favourite messages of any Christmas films. I give it 9/9 reindeer AND all 5 golden rings.

Dirk Moses@dirkmoses.bsky.social · 2y ago

“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...

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.”

jewishcurrents.org

Dr Lauren Cantillon@lmcantillon.bsky.social · 2y ago

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!

NearlyKnowledgeable@g0blinegg.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 NEW POST 📣 I have completely rewritten my witchcraft article to reflect new research. Read all about Shropshire's complex relationship with witchcraft and some notable Shropshire witches below. nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2024/01/witc... #Folklore #Shropshire #Witches #History

Dr Lauren Cantillon@lmcantillon.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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...

lrb.co.uk

Sam Levin@samtlevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

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”

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

theguardian.com

Dr Lauren Cantillon@lmcantillon.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.
Jen Evans@jennifervevans.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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…

activehistory.ca

Lilith Magazine@lilithmagazine.bsky.social · 2y ago

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!