Leah Pennywark

2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.

Letter From Minnesota: This is Actually What’s Great About America After the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a spotlight immediately glared upon the Japanese community. My Japanese American parents were ten and fourteen; for months their families lived in …

"The resistance in our city comes out of how our children have come of age within a diversity that so many fear and we here celebrate." David Mura in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy :
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Phil’s book came in the mail today!

Looks excellent and also so relevant for students of religion

Late Theory: Fredric Jameson, or the Persistence of Reading

Long Take A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director   For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. “It would turn out to be nothing but t...

Out today! Very excited to see Anne McKnight's translation of Long Take, an intimate, provocative, & revealing portrait of Kurosawa from his own writings, conversations w/writer Inoue Hisashi & director Yamada Yōji, & essays by daughter & colleague Kurosawa Kazuko www.upress.umn.edu/978151790329...

Skating Away from the Binary Reimagining sport beyond the gender binary, where movement and identity break free from tradition   Skating Away from the Binary takes a critical look at th...

Erica Rand's Forerunner, Skating Away from the Binary, is out today! Through exquisite writing, Rand offers a vision of sport as a space where all people can experience joy and freedom in their bodies and identities. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792055...

Organizing Reading List — Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities.

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Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…” Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…

The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...

The perilous edge between patriotism and fascism | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 128 The work of Maria Janion, one of Eastern Europe’s most profound intellectuals, who witnessed the rise of authoritarian nationalism in Poland, German occupation during World War II, Soviet control, and...

🆕 🎧 The perilous edge between patriotism and fascism: On the work of Maria Janion, with Marta Figlerowicz and @noahfeldman.bsky.social
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‘The Obsolescence of the Human’ by Günther Anders reviewed by Sam Ben-Meir When The Obsolescence of the Human first appeared in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed to many an eccentric, overheated meditation – part philosophy, part moral jeremiad, part specula...

"In an age increasingly defined by technological acceleration and ethical diminishment, Günther Anders’ work stands as a grim but indispensable companion" marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2246...

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

BREAKING: Federal agent shoots man in south Minneapolis A Bring Me The News reporter was near the scene, and recorded multiple gunshots.

South Minneapolis this morning
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the population of Minneapolis is about 425,000

Empty parking lot at a Minneapolis Target during a statewide strike with many businesses closed today. Target has remained open.

With negative temperatures and a lot of outdoor protest today, the one product people may go in for is sold out at their stores - hand warmers.

This Page Intentionally Left Blank: Review of KJ Cerankowski’s Nothing Wanting Ellie Campbell Under Review:Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence. KJ Cerankowski. University of Minnesota Press, November 2025. I have read many academic books that include an earl…

"Nothing Wanting reveals not only how much our world is built on constructing absences and overlooking presence through compulsory sexuality, but how much we might miss when that is the only lens available."
Review of KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING
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"Leon J. Hilton’s Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance (Minnesota UP, 2025) is a book that does what it says." socialtextjournal.org/on-counter-c...

Another shooting by ICE agents tonight in North Minneapolis. Word is that two people have been critically injured by ICE. 😡😡

If you were at MLA, you could've bought a copy of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, seen at bottom right (thanks for the pic @kristinbluemel.bsky.social!)

If you weren't or didn't, you can still get a 30% discount buying directly from @uminnpress.bsky.social using code MN94920!

DIVEST!

Neighbors standing guard over churches so that parents can have secret meetings about how to keep daycares safe. This is what's happening in the Twin Cities right now.

The boy holding a bag of haribo confectionary is questioned by a masked IcE agent while three others with weapons stand by

The boy has head bowed, holding his confectionary, as he is taken away.

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.

He was bundled into the van & taken away.

Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”

I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

MLA is over, but you can still still visit our books online and take 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

Book spotted in the wild #MLA2026 @uminnpress.bsky.social to purchase: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...
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I’m tickled pink. @uminnpress.bsky.social featured my book Enchanted Wood on their banner for MLA 2026. We all need some ideas about survival through beauty and books to get us through this brutal winter.

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Explore Günther Anders’s The Obsolescence of the Human, now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology #MLA26

It’s the last day to visit @uminnpress.bsky.social at #MLA26, but you can still visit our books online and take advantage of our sale at z.umn.edu/mla26

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Explore Leif Weatherby’s Language Machines ar MLA or online at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

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Dive into Our Fire Survives the Storm by Daniel Heath Justice, the twentieth-anniversary edition of the path-clearing study of Cherokee writing in English, with an emphatic refocus on voices from the three Cherokee tribal nations at MLA or online at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

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Check out Jonathan Eburne’s Exploded Views at MLA or online at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

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Come see Ideal Subjects by Olga Goriunova at MLA or online at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at MLA! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at z.umn.edu/mla26 for 30% off! #MLA26