Laura Penning

Laura Penning

@laurapenning.bsky.social

#FirstGenAcademic│Queer Kinship in SFF │Probably in the middle of rewatching You've got mail for the 300th time │she/her 🌈🌹

918 Followers 90 Following 3 Posts Joined Sep 2023
2 years ago
A poem called If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer 

If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze–
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself–
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale Photo of Refaat wearing academic robes and smiling at the camera- taken from his Twitter profile

I’ve followed and interacted with Refaat for years. He was killed three days ago in Gaza with his brother, sister and her four kids. Here is a poem he wrote. I am heartbroken.

(Here is a link to a book series he edited of stories from young people in Gaza justworldbooks.com/books-by-tit... )

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Entschuldigt, liebe Kinder. Wir konnten die Klimakatastrophe leider beim besten Willen nicht verhindern. Wir mussten ja die Schuldengrenze einhalten. Das müsst ihr verstehen.

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2 years ago
Ein überraschtes pikachu

Arbeitgeber, wenn Gewerkschaften zu dem wirksamsten Mittel im Arbeitskampf greifen, um ihre Forderungen durchzusetzen

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🚨 We’re looking for a Full Professor of Sociology to join us! Expertise in the areas of work and social inequality is particularly desirable @univie.ac.at
⏰ Closing date: 15th January 2024
See t.ly/v32Fv for detailed information!
#sociology #professorship

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Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex PGR Studentship : University of Sussex PhD Scholarship, Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex Postgraduate Research Studentship

🚨PhD funding 🚨 2x fully funded Stuart Hall Foundation PhD fellowships available to Black, British scholars starting their PhD studies in October 2024 at Sussex. Proposed research should clearly address social justice issues.

www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

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Job alert ✨🚨 We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Disability Studies at ASU! This is an interdisciplinary role. If you work across these fields, please consider applying! Deadline: 11/27 apply.interfolio.com/134120

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ATTTTTTENNNTION:
#jobAlert #jobPosting in English and/or American literary and cultural studies at Uni HH
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#Dauerstelle

More here: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Bundeskongress Politische Bildung: Faeser nimmt Kürzungen zurück Innenministerin Nancy Faeser (SPD) nimmt geplante Kürzungen bei der Bildungsarbeit zurück. Allerdings stehen Haushaltsverhandlungen noch bevor.

Das sind gerade jetzt tatsächliche erstmal gute Nachrichten: Die Mittelkürzungen für die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) werden zurückgebommen:

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2 years ago

Hey library folks! I'm co-editing a special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction, and the CFP is available. Proposals are due 12/18. Questions? Email the journal email in the CFP or me. cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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Please join us! On Thursday October 19th at 10am EST, Emma Awe (Carleton History), Kaileigh LaBelle (Queens U History) and Noe Bourdeau (Carleton History) will present their research in a webinar on New Directions in Queer History. Part of #2SQHMCan

carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/98006514511

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Call for paper about a special issue of C21 Literature on 'Novel media/Media novel: Theorising Digital Media Cultures in the Contemporary Novel'. Post image

My colleague Dong Xia and I are so excited to announce that we will be editing a special issue of C21 Literature! Full call attached; deadline for abstract submission is 1 December 2023. We are looking forward to hearing about your ideas! Any questions, contact us at novelmedia@st-andrews.ac.uk 🎉🤩🤓

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✨ 🔉 Hi! Here's my CFP for a special recurring series on queer/trans sound art for Resonance: The Journal of Sound & Culture. I'm seeking guest essays, audiovisual media, commentaries, interviews, and other editorial items *in addition* to peer-reviewed scholarship! online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

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Das Heft der Universität Göttingen zum Thema "Leitfaden zur Erstellung barrierefreier Lehrvideos im universitären Kontext."

Projekt DaLeLe4All

Für alle, die sich mit lehre beschäftigen und Barrierefreiheit: hier auch der Link zum Download: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/667664.html

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Call for proposals: Pop culture made me do it — 364 Days We are excited to share with you a call for book chapter proposals for an edited collection exploring how popular culture informs our life choices, work, and identity. At this point in time, we are ...

Hey #AcademicSky #PopCulture friends I have a #CFP that has just gone out.

Pop Culture made me do it: call for book chapter proposals for an edited collection exploring how popular culture informs our life choices, work, and identity.

Want to participate?

www.364days.org/call-for-pro...

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JOB POST: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF TRANS STUDIES: Gender & Sexuality Studies Program - Northwestern Un...

The Gender & Sexuality Studies program at Northwestern University is hiring a tenure-line Assistant Professor of Trans Studies! Please share far & wide with your academic networks. The deadline for applications is October 23. Happy to answer any questions. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
***JOB ALERT***
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History and/or the History of Sexuality
University of Glasgow
Deadline 3 October 2023

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCN544/l...

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Pleased as punch to see the first volume of our DFD Network's output, open access to boot! Just in time for Queer History Month. Know anyone interested in the German state of the field of queer/trans history? This is for them.

www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/7b...

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Grafik mit den Bildungsabschlüssen von Akademiker- und Nichtakademiker-Kindern.

Deutschland ist kein Land mit Chancengleichheit. Wichtiger Artikel “Der unsichtbare Vorteil” von Carla Neuhaus und Ann-Kathrin Nezik in der aktuellen ZEIT

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CFP below for 'Affiliations: Towards a Theory of Cross-Temporal Comparison', an international conference that will be held in Oxford, 24-25 May 2024. Please share (and submit your abstracts!)

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New Research Reveals How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People Last year, a German court officially recognized the persecution of trans people by Adolf Hitler's regime

recent research has uncovered new details about how trans people were some of the very first to be persecuted by the Nazi regime, basically from the moment Hitler took power in 1933. good piece: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-...

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Thank you, Felipe 😊

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Thank you!!

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Happy graduation day to me! Successfully defended my thesis today and can finally call myself Master of Arts! 🎓👩‍🎓🎉

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