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Leah Pennywark
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Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
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Explore Mark Minch-de Leon’s Indigenous Inhumanities, on reclaiming power and prophecy through California Indian intellectual resurgence and anticolonial resistance #2025ASA #ASA2025
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November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Dive into Brian Bartell’s On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution on the Black Power movement’s contributions to theorizing the politics of automation #2025ASA #ASA2025
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Don’t miss Joanna Hearne and Karrmen Crey’s By Their Work, a first-of-its-kind collection to transform our understanding of digital media from Indigenous women creators on Star Trek’s twenty-first century reinventions #2025ASA #ASA2025
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Check out The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim, ed by Owen Clayton & Iain McIntyre, foreword by David R. Roediger. It’s the first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers’ newspaper columnist & musician, T-Bone Slim #2025ASA #ASA2025
Cover: Red with beige letters and rules evoking vintage newspaper. Below, a person behind an Industrial Worker newspaper with only hands and cap showing
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Cruise by the Minnesota booth at ASA and check out Rebecca Monteleone’s The Double Bind of Disability, a bold new study exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation #2025ASA #ASA2025
Cover: X-ray of hand from which a piece is torn to reveal syringe, ampoule, IV drip, EKG, and BP meter where finger bones should be. Title in white.
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Come see Mixed-Blood Histories by Jameson R. Sweet at ASA or online at z.umn.edu/amst25 #2025ASA #ASA2025
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November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Don’t miss Eric A. Vázquez’s States of Defeat at ASA! Read about the cultural reverberations of Central America’s failed revolutions on US intellectual thought #2025ASA #ASA2025
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November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Hey, ASA! Check out KJ Cerankowski’s Nothing Wanting: advancing asexuality studies in new, queer directions—beyond identity and beyond the human #2025ASA #ASA2025
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November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Good morning, ASA! Stop by the Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social booth today to check out new American Studies books and sign up for our newsletter to get a free book! #2025ASA #ASA2025
University of Minnesota Press booth at the book exhibit at the American Studies Association conference
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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KJ Cerankowski's book is almost here! "Beautifully written, politically imaginative, and intellectually nuanced, Nothing Wanting uncovers an entirely new horizon for asexual scholarship and trans studies."—Nathan Snaza
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October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I'm so excited to have my copy of Umayyah Cable's @umayyah.bsky.social Mainstreaming Palestine! So grateful I got to be a part of making this book!
Cover feature a silhouette of Palestine blended behind red and green filters and dust specks. Title above, subtitle below in large type. Author name between.
October 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Officially out tomorrow, but I'm so excited to be holding a copy today! Our newest Forerunner: Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown by Michael Rubenstein
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October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Relatedly, I love Igor Omulecki's iconoclastic and playful portrait of Janion on the cover!
Author on bench with false foot on her hand; gnome figure on other side of bench. Red, high-heel shoes and another false foot litter grass before them. Forest and dark sky above.
September 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Our latest Forerunner, Andrea Righi's Three Economies of Transcendence, is here!
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August 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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It's here! Very excited to hold my copy of Leon J. Hilton's Counter-cartographies in my hands!
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August 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I'm so thrilled to see The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim coming out this month! Owen Clayton & Iain McIntyre did a phenomenal job creating a vivid portrait that adds valuable context. As Franklin Rosemont says, "T-Bone Slim wrote the way an arsonist sets fires."
red cover with yellow serif text on the top half reading "The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim Edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre Foreword by David R. Roediger" and a photo of a person holding a newspaper spread open in front so that only hands and hat are visible.
June 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Staying strong and fighting ableism
A black cane in front of a weight rack at a gym
May 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I got my copy of Daniel Scott Snelson's new book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats! This latest addition to the Electronic Mediations series is officially out in June, but you can order it now at www.upress.umn.edu/978151791882...
May 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Check out Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film by Beenash Jafri, a cinematic study of Asian–Indigenous relationality #SCMS25 #SCMS2025
April 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Explore Tessa Laird’s Cinemal, a foray through the wilds where experimental films and animals collide #SCMS25 #SCMS2025
April 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Dive into Lisa Yin Han’s Deepwater Alchemy on how underwater mediation has transformed deep-sea spaces into resource-rich frontiers #SCMS25 #SCMS2025
April 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Don’t miss Adam Kotsko’s Late Star Trek on Star Trek’s twenty-first century reinventions
April 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Cruise by the Minnesota table at #SCMS25 and check out Jules O’Dwyer’s The Seduction of Space, a bold new study of French queer cinema
April 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Don’t miss Joshua Gooch’s Capitalism Hates You at #SCMS25! Read about what contemporary horror films teach us about the cruelties of capitalist society
April 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Come see The Abyss Stares Back by Stacy Alaimo at SCMS or online at www.upress.umn.edu/scms25/ #SCMS25
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM