Leah Pennywark
@lpennywark.bsky.social
Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
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2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.
The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota."
Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."
This presser worked like a charm.
Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."
This presser worked like a charm.
Homan in Minneapolis: "Effective immediately, we will draw down 700 people effective today."
February 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.
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"The resistance in our city comes out of how our children have come of age within a diversity that so many fear and we here celebrate." David Mura in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy :
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Letter From Minnesota: This is Actually What’s Great About America
After the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a spotlight immediately glared upon the Japanese community. My Japanese American parents were ten and fourteen; for months their families lived in …
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February 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
"The resistance in our city comes out of how our children have come of age within a diversity that so many fear and we here celebrate." David Mura in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy :
lithub.com/letter-from-...
lithub.com/letter-from-...
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Phil’s book came in the mail today!
Looks excellent and also so relevant for students of religion
Late Theory: Fredric Jameson, or the Persistence of Reading
Looks excellent and also so relevant for students of religion
Late Theory: Fredric Jameson, or the Persistence of Reading
February 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Phil’s book came in the mail today!
Looks excellent and also so relevant for students of religion
Late Theory: Fredric Jameson, or the Persistence of Reading
Looks excellent and also so relevant for students of religion
Late Theory: Fredric Jameson, or the Persistence of Reading
Out today! Very excited to see Anne McKnight's translation of Long Take, an intimate, provocative, & revealing portrait of Kurosawa from his own writings, conversations w/writer Inoue Hisashi & director Yamada Yōji, & essays by daughter & colleague Kurosawa Kazuko www.upress.umn.edu/978151790329...
Long Take
A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. “It would turn out to be nothing but t...
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February 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Out today! Very excited to see Anne McKnight's translation of Long Take, an intimate, provocative, & revealing portrait of Kurosawa from his own writings, conversations w/writer Inoue Hisashi & director Yamada Yōji, & essays by daughter & colleague Kurosawa Kazuko www.upress.umn.edu/978151790329...
Erica Rand's Forerunner, Skating Away from the Binary, is out today! Through exquisite writing, Rand offers a vision of sport as a space where all people can experience joy and freedom in their bodies and identities. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792055...
Skating Away from the Binary
Reimagining sport beyond the gender binary, where movement and identity break free from tradition Skating Away from the Binary takes a critical look at th...
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February 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Erica Rand's Forerunner, Skating Away from the Binary, is out today! Through exquisite writing, Rand offers a vision of sport as a space where all people can experience joy and freedom in their bodies and identities. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792055...
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An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities.
standwithminnesota.com/read
standwithminnesota.com/read
Organizing Reading List — Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
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January 31, 2026 at 4:57 PM
An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities.
standwithminnesota.com/read
standwithminnesota.com/read
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The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
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January 28, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...
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🆕 🎧 The perilous edge between patriotism and fascism: On the work of Maria Janion, with Marta Figlerowicz and @noahfeldman.bsky.social
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The perilous edge between patriotism and fascism | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 128
The work of Maria Janion, one of Eastern Europe’s most profound intellectuals, who witnessed the rise of authoritarian nationalism in Poland, German occupation during World War II, Soviet control, and...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:18 PM
🆕 🎧 The perilous edge between patriotism and fascism: On the work of Maria Janion, with Marta Figlerowicz and @noahfeldman.bsky.social
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"In an age increasingly defined by technological acceleration and ethical diminishment, Günther Anders’ work stands as a grim but indispensable companion" marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2246...
‘The Obsolescence of the Human’ by Günther Anders reviewed by Sam Ben-Meir
When The Obsolescence of the Human first appeared in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed to many an eccentric, overheated meditation – part philosophy, part moral jeremiad, part specula...
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January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
"In an age increasingly defined by technological acceleration and ethical diminishment, Günther Anders’ work stands as a grim but indispensable companion" marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2246...
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So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance
Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…
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January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
South Minneapolis this morning
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BREAKING: Federal agent shoots man in south Minneapolis
A Bring Me The News reporter was near the scene, and recorded multiple gunshots.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
South Minneapolis this morning
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the population of Minneapolis is about 425,000
A windchill of around -30F didn’t stop what organizers say was 50,000 from marching through Minneapolis in one of, if not the largest, march in Minnesota history.
Protesters demand accountability in the killing of Renee Good and removal of the federal agents that have upended daily life in MN.
Protesters demand accountability in the killing of Renee Good and removal of the federal agents that have upended daily life in MN.
January 24, 2026 at 12:55 AM
the population of Minneapolis is about 425,000
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Empty parking lot at a Minneapolis Target during a statewide strike with many businesses closed today. Target has remained open.
With negative temperatures and a lot of outdoor protest today, the one product people may go in for is sold out at their stores - hand warmers.
With negative temperatures and a lot of outdoor protest today, the one product people may go in for is sold out at their stores - hand warmers.
January 23, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Empty parking lot at a Minneapolis Target during a statewide strike with many businesses closed today. Target has remained open.
With negative temperatures and a lot of outdoor protest today, the one product people may go in for is sold out at their stores - hand warmers.
With negative temperatures and a lot of outdoor protest today, the one product people may go in for is sold out at their stores - hand warmers.
"Nothing Wanting reveals not only how much our world is built on constructing absences and overlooking presence through compulsory sexuality, but how much we might miss when that is the only lens available."
Review of KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING
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Review of KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING
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This Page Intentionally Left Blank: Review of KJ Cerankowski’s Nothing Wanting
Ellie Campbell Under Review:Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence. KJ Cerankowski. University of Minnesota Press, November 2025. I have read many academic books that include an earl…
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January 20, 2026 at 5:29 PM
"Nothing Wanting reveals not only how much our world is built on constructing absences and overlooking presence through compulsory sexuality, but how much we might miss when that is the only lens available."
Review of KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/01/19/t...
Review of KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/01/19/t...
"Leon J. Hilton’s Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance (Minnesota UP, 2025) is a book that does what it says." socialtextjournal.org/on-counter-c...
Making sure you're not a bot!
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January 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
"Leon J. Hilton’s Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance (Minnesota UP, 2025) is a book that does what it says." socialtextjournal.org/on-counter-c...
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Another shooting by ICE agents tonight in North Minneapolis. Word is that two people have been critically injured by ICE. 😡😡
KARE 11 is working to confirm details of what happened on North Lyndale Avenue.
Reports: Shooting involving federal law enforcement in north Minneapolis
KARE 11 is working to confirm details of what happened on North Lyndale Avenue.
www.kare11.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Another shooting by ICE agents tonight in North Minneapolis. Word is that two people have been critically injured by ICE. 😡😡
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If you were at MLA, you could've bought a copy of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, seen at bottom right (thanks for the pic @kristinbluemel.bsky.social!)
If you weren't or didn't, you can still get a 30% discount buying directly from @uminnpress.bsky.social using code MN94920!
If you weren't or didn't, you can still get a 30% discount buying directly from @uminnpress.bsky.social using code MN94920!
January 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
If you were at MLA, you could've bought a copy of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, seen at bottom right (thanks for the pic @kristinbluemel.bsky.social!)
If you weren't or didn't, you can still get a 30% discount buying directly from @uminnpress.bsky.social using code MN94920!
If you weren't or didn't, you can still get a 30% discount buying directly from @uminnpress.bsky.social using code MN94920!
DIVEST!
My forthcoming book, DIVEST, is available for preorder. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148... Get 30% off using the discount code below. That’s less than a cup of coffee in some places! @uminnpress.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
DIVEST!
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Neighbors standing guard over churches so that parents can have secret meetings about how to keep daycares safe. This is what's happening in the Twin Cities right now.
January 14, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Neighbors standing guard over churches so that parents can have secret meetings about how to keep daycares safe. This is what's happening in the Twin Cities right now.
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A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
MLA is over, but you can still still visit our books online and take 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26
Book sale: Modern Language Association 2026 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association in Toronto. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you order using promo code MN94920.Offer... READ MORE
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January 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
MLA is over, but you can still still visit our books online and take 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26
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Book spotted in the wild #MLA2026 @uminnpress.bsky.social to purchase: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...
use this code MN94920 for 30% off.
use this code MN94920 for 30% off.
January 11, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Book spotted in the wild #MLA2026 @uminnpress.bsky.social to purchase: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...
use this code MN94920 for 30% off.
use this code MN94920 for 30% off.
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I’m tickled pink. @uminnpress.bsky.social featured my book Enchanted Wood on their banner for MLA 2026. We all need some ideas about survival through beauty and books to get us through this brutal winter.
January 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM
I’m tickled pink. @uminnpress.bsky.social featured my book Enchanted Wood on their banner for MLA 2026. We all need some ideas about survival through beauty and books to get us through this brutal winter.
Explore Günther Anders’s The Obsolescence of the Human, now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology #MLA26
January 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Explore Günther Anders’s The Obsolescence of the Human, now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology #MLA26
It’s the last day to visit @uminnpress.bsky.social at #MLA26, but you can still visit our books online and take advantage of our sale at z.umn.edu/mla26
Book sale: Modern Language Association 2026 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association in Toronto. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you order using promo code MN94920.Offer... READ MORE
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January 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
It’s the last day to visit @uminnpress.bsky.social at #MLA26, but you can still visit our books online and take advantage of our sale at z.umn.edu/mla26