Dr Lauren Cantillon

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.

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

Obstetric violence is such a horrible, disturbing and heartbreaking thing to read about. Would love to know if Briance terms this as being “examined internally” and if she recalls it through any sensorial descriptions?

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.

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

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

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

was honestly expecting something more nsfw (“raw, next question” could have been interesting) vm.tiktok.com/ZGdA6GeNu/

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 🫰

The cruel optimism of main character energy

not too cringe! search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3...

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.

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...

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

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

UCL is hiring a Jewish Collections Project Cataloguer
Fixed-term/full-time
Closing Date 24 Jan

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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.)

My new book looks at many aspects of sexual consent, and many kinds of time.

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#temporalities #consent #LawAndTime

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 🌱

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 🌱

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.

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)).

thank you!

Shame has changed sides

@dirkmoses.bsky.social I would also love to read the full piece please - my email is lauren.cantillon@kcl.ac.uk

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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.”

“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...

Brain: Colours

Art brain: Rothko

Academic brain: A Very Short Introduction

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!

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...

ergo, it’s not an issue of speakability - she’s spoken! she’s spoken as bluntly/codified as it’s possible to speak & yet not been heard. the problem is audiences being unwilling to hear stories that disrupt patriarchal socio-cultural norms around the monsterised rapist. so yes read Sophie’s piece!

for example, a woman recalls being raped by a midwife (yes, she says raped) but b/c of reluctances to recognise that women and medical professionals perpetrate sexual violence, & the euphemistic veneer of banality (my term) of ‘body searches’, her disclosure of finger rape (my term) is not heard

this is a personal gripe I have with a lot of research on sexual violence during the Holocaust - the “it happened to me” testimonies ARE out there in spades, suggesting that rather than focus so much on the speakability of these stories, there is work to be done re their *hearability*

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...

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”
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