Victoria Kannen

Never been interested in a Marvel film, let alone Fantastic Four, but for some reason I feel an urge to see this one. A desire, a need. Weird. Can’t figure out why

Today I submitted the final edits for my upcoming book - A Gamer's Introduction to Programming with MonoGame (@monogame.net). That means it'll be in production and available sooooon! 🚀 ⚔️ 🕹️

Two book covers featuring shields. One is cornflower blue and the other is gold in color. They are for programming books.

So many people are using @monogame.net to make their games!!

If you're new to coding or to #MonoGame and want in on the action, I've written some books to help! A Gamer's Intro to C# (out now) and A Gamer's Intro to #MonoGame (coming soon).

Art & illustrations by @guildedhut.bsky.social.

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Victoria Kannen, PhD on LinkedIn: #iwd #bookgiveaway #routledge | 10 comments ✨Book Giveaway✨ In honour of International Women’s Day (March 8), I thought I’d put something nice out into the world and give away a paperback copy of my new… | 10 comments on LinkedIn

I posted an IWD giveaway of my new book over on LinkedIn.

Here is the link if you want to enter for a copy! 🤍

www.linkedin.com/posts/victor...

I just submitted 100K words of #MonoGame awesomeness to my publisher. It'll be a while yet, but things are officially in motion.

I'll share more when I've recovered from the marathon writing/editing sessions of the past few weeks, but here are some screenshots for now.

@monogame.net
#authorSky

My partner is writing and my kid is out for a few hours, so the only logical thing to do is to watch Twilight, drink wine, and eat dark chocolate. On occasion, being a cliche feels pretty fine.

I’m not great at self-promotion…BUT for my last few books, I get my nails done to match the book cover. In my mind, that’s as much promo as anyone needs!? 😂💅🏽💋

Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Snowman made of cheese.

Someone help him. ☃️🧀😨

Transforming Bodies: Gendered Stories of Embodied Change Transforming Bodies: Gendered Stories of Embodied Change provides unique and original research on gendered bodies. It explores the ways that bodies transform and change, and how these transformations ...

For full description: www.routledge.com/Transforming...

Cover of Transforming Bodies: Gendered Stories of Embodied Change by Victoria Kannen. Black background, white text. 3 cartoon-like arms of various colours with some fun clothing shown.

📣 So excited to announce my new book is available for pre-order at all major bookstores!

‘Transforming Bodies: Gendered Stories of Embodied Change’ shares stories of how bodies transform over the course of our lives.

It is an honour to be entrusted to share them. I’m forever grateful. 🤍

And my semester is a bit easier because it’s technically my first full-time year ☺️

Instead of grading, let’s post what classes we are teaching next semester?!

Sexuality and Politics
Diversity and Inclusion
Dimensions of Social Inequality
Intro to Pop Culture

Poster for 2022-2023 annual femicide list (Date range is November 26, 2022 to November 25, 2023)

Over the last 52 weeks, there have been 62 women and children killed in Ontario.

They were loved. They were members of our communities.
They should still be here.

Please bear witness. Know their names. Then fight like hell to ensure it never happens again.

Report : www.oaith.ca/assets/libra...

When you write about gendered bodies, it always brings on the feels.

I walked into a meeting and the admin assistant had my book open on her desk with post-its in it and folded corners.
🥹🥹🥹

That’s quite the discount on the hardcover of our book!
But, why is it so $$$ in the first place ? 😵‍💫🙃

This week I taught a class to business students on gender and social inequality.
After, a student thanked me for my teaching and asked for more resources on gender, etc. He said he wants to be “more gentle” & “help create a better environment for those around him”.

A prof can’t ask for more. 🤍

A patterned reddish square with the words “I am very tired and I would like the world to be different” in block letters.

This is about where I am this week, on the Inspirational Quote front.

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

"X is now an app that forcibly puts abhorrent content into users’ feeds and then rewards financially the people who were the most successful in producing it, egging them on to do it again and again" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

One of my fave course eval notes was “I wish you were my mom”. 😌

Today, one student said my outfit was “fetch” and another student said my lecture “killed it”.

I should probably retire, right ?

A mini-monstera, well-lit on a coffee table.

Lighting.

So grateful when someone lets me know that they’ve read Gendered Bodies and that they couldn’t put it down.

That’s a big deal for an academic-ish book! ☺️🤍

(For those who I’m just meeting on here, I wrote this: canadianscholars.ca/book/gendere...)

A picture of me.

A picture of me in front of my front door.

Lecture hall. No people.

It’s Mom’s first day too. 🤍😘

A box of tea that says “Man & Woman Tea” with a white man and woman embracing seductively.

What flavour is this?! ☺️

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Only Murders in the Building

The most Canadian thing I do is say “yeah, no, for sure” every single day.

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That’s so great! I hope you enjoy it!!