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Dr Lauren Cantillon
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feminist interdisciplinary academic, writing about gender, memory & power via Jewish women's stories of sexual violence during the Holocaust | teaching critical culture & media studies @ dept. of CMCI @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social | 🌱✨
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Dr Lauren Cantillon @lmcantillon.bsky.social · Dec 17
Yesterday I passed my PhD viva, therefore a bio update was needed! The second photo is my thesis abstract & I’m looking forward to sharing forthcoming publications asap - it’s very much time for this work to be out in the world 💪
Screenshot of my updated Bluesky bio following a successful PhD viva exam. I am now Dr Lauren Cantillon, bio reads: feminist interdisciplinary academic, writing about gender, memory & power via Jewish women’s stories of sexual violence during the Holocaust | teaching critical culture & media studies at department of culture, media & creative industries at King’s College London. My PhD thesis abstract, part of which reads: A work on gender, memory, and power, this thesis centres on Jewish women's own sense-making of their memories of sexual(ised) violence during the Holocaust as shared in testimony interviews in the holdings of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA). The thesis explores what acts women frame as sexualised) violence, how they convey this personal understanding, and what emotions and feelings are present in their disclosures. I highlight the heterogeneity of Jewish women's disclosure practices, from overt to more covert disclosures. Across this continuum, I propose and apply an analytical framework rooted in sensory memory, mediating objects, spatiality, and emotional timescapes which enables me to hear numerous women's disclosures within their Holocaust memory narratives, subverting structures of epistemic injustice that work to obscure women's stories of sexual assault. By theorising haptic sense memory, the thesis demonstrates how personal memories of touch can disrupt euphemistic screening language that conceals the brutalising realities of sexualised) violence in conflict as something banal and of little consequence. It offers memory, Holocaust, genocide, and conflict studies an analytical tool through which to overcome hermeneutical injustices of sexualised) violence. This thesis also makes an empirical contribution to the field of Holocaust studies because the women's disclosures offer fresh insights regarding where and when Jewish women and girls were subjected to sexual(ised) violence across the Holocaust landscape, as well as who did the abusing.
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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
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.
January 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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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.
January 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Arboreal cryptid. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
Black and white photo of a longhaired tabby cat crouched on a tree branch, looking down toward the camera.
January 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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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
January 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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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 🫰
January 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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...
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.
rewirenewsgroup.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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You could write this in a movie but people would say it was too dark and unrealistic
amandalitman.bsky.social Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · Jan 17
Anti-abortion advocates are running ads to find & encourage men to betray and sue their partners. This makes me sick. wapo.st/40nfmD2
Antiabortion advocates look for men to report their partners' abortions Boyfriends and husbands can have uniquely personal and specific information necessary to help surface new lawsuits in states with abortion bans. This partner-focused approach will shift to a more public phase next month when Texas's largest antiabortion organization launches an advertising campaign on Facebook and X to reach the husbands, boyfriends and sex partners of women who have had abortions in the state - with the goal of recruiting them to file lawsuits against those who assisted the women in ending their pregnancies.
January 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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UCL is hiring a Jewish Collections Project Cataloguer
Fixed-term/full-time
Closing Date 24 Jan

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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My new book looks at many aspects of sexual consent, and many kinds of time.

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-legal-t...
#temporalities #consent #LawAndTime
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.)
January 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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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 🌱
January 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
lmcantillon.bsky.social
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 🌱
January 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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ninjak.bsky.social
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.
dirkmoses.bsky.social Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · Jan 8
In the Journal of Genocide Research Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Shira Klein has published “The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
lmcantillon.bsky.social
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)).
gvaughnjoy.bsky.social Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · Dec 23
Merry Christmas Eve Eve, lovelies!

My husband and I watched Klaus last night for his first time, and I cannot recommend it enough. It's stunning visually and in heart, perfect pacing, good humour, and has my favourite messages of any Christmas films.

I give it 9/9 reindeer AND all 5 golden rings.
December 23, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Shame has changed sides
December 21, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Snippet
December 22, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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dirkmoses.bsky.social
“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...
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.”
jewishcurrents.org
December 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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ncrenic.bsky.social
Brain: Colours

Art brain: Rothko

Academic brain: A Very Short Introduction
December 18, 2024 at 10:47 PM
lmcantillon.bsky.social
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!
December 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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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...
December 19, 2024 at 8:29 PM
lmcantillon.bsky.social
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”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 18, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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samtlevin.bsky.social
NEW: We interviewed women behind bars who exposed the widespread sexual abuse of US prison officers, but who have struggled to get relief. They are pleading with Biden for clemency.

“After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”
Survivors of prison sexual abuse scandal ask Biden for clemency: ‘Give us a chance’
Incarcerated women seek relief after exposing harassment, retaliation and assault by staff
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:12 PM
lmcantillon.bsky.social
Yesterday I passed my PhD viva, therefore a bio update was needed! The second photo is my thesis abstract & I’m looking forward to sharing forthcoming publications asap - it’s very much time for this work to be out in the world 💪
Screenshot of my updated Bluesky bio following a successful PhD viva exam. I am now Dr Lauren Cantillon, bio reads: feminist interdisciplinary academic, writing about gender, memory & power via Jewish women’s stories of sexual violence during the Holocaust | teaching critical culture & media studies at department of culture, media & creative industries at King’s College London. My PhD thesis abstract, part of which reads: A work on gender, memory, and power, this thesis centres on Jewish women's own sense-making of their memories of sexual(ised) violence during the Holocaust as shared in testimony interviews in the holdings of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA). The thesis explores what acts women frame as sexualised) violence, how they convey this personal understanding, and what emotions and feelings are present in their disclosures. I highlight the heterogeneity of Jewish women's disclosure practices, from overt to more covert disclosures. Across this continuum, I propose and apply an analytical framework rooted in sensory memory, mediating objects, spatiality, and emotional timescapes which enables me to hear numerous women's disclosures within their Holocaust memory narratives, subverting structures of epistemic injustice that work to obscure women's stories of sexual assault. By theorising haptic sense memory, the thesis demonstrates how personal memories of touch can disrupt euphemistic screening language that conceals the brutalising realities of sexualised) violence in conflict as something banal and of little consequence. It offers memory, Holocaust, genocide, and conflict studies an analytical tool through which to overcome hermeneutical injustices of sexualised) violence. This thesis also makes an empirical contribution to the field of Holocaust studies because the women's disclosures offer fresh insights regarding where and when Jewish women and girls were subjected to sexual(ised) violence across the Holocaust landscape, as well as who did the abusing.
December 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM