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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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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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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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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
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I don’t think there’s an answer per se, other than if you’re really struggling perhaps go research something else for a while. The heaviness is part of the deal, as Des Pres wrote back in 1976…!
November 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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This week’s DM teaching: Social class and socio-economic diversity in the CCIs.

Before starting I overheard a student disclose they haven’t eaten properly for a few days because their bursary is late. They’re living on cereal and tea (at their unpaid internship). Student also works p/t. 😬👍
A PowerPoint title slide for a university seminar on ‘Social Class and Socio-Economic Diversity’ in the culture and creative industries. Background image is of a quote from bell hooks: “As long as women use class or race power to dominate other women feminist sisterhood cannot be realised”. The quote has been graffitied onto a red brick wall.
November 20, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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The other even morrrre lovely thing about post-submission life is being able to cook properly again! Have been dreaming about making kopytka from scratch for months… (‘laurenka angielka kopytka’) 👩‍🍳☺️
Two plates of kopytka (a type of Polish potato dumpling), boiled but not yet fried.
November 13, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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One of the post-submission joys is to be able to give more time & energy to teaching again - here’s what was on this morning’s CMCI seminar menu (next week is social class and socio-economic diversity ☺️)!
Title slide of a seminar on Gender, Care & Cultural Work as taught in the KCL Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries. The image background is of the production crew of the film Band Aid (2017). With the exception of actors, the film was produced with an all-female crew.
November 13, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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On what planet is this deemed okay? “Good night, sweet dreams, oh and here’s footage of someone falling to their death”. My TikTok is filled with fantasy & romantasy literature recos and junk journalling (yes I want a Hobonichi) videos - wtf???
Image of a notification for TikTok on a iPhone screen, stating ‘Good night [account name], “Liam Payne’s fall caught on CCTV”
November 12, 2024 at 11:11 PM