Leah Pennywark
@lpennywark.bsky.social
Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
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
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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
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!
October 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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!
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
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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
Relatedly, I love Igor Omulecki's iconoclastic and playful portrait of Janion on the cover!
September 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Relatedly, I love Igor Omulecki's iconoclastic and playful portrait of Janion on the cover!
Our latest Forerunner, Andrea Righi's Three Economies of Transcendence, is here!
August 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Our latest Forerunner, Andrea Righi's Three Economies of Transcendence, is here!
It's here! Very excited to hold my copy of Leon J. Hilton's Counter-cartographies in my hands!
August 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It's here! Very excited to hold my copy of Leon J. Hilton's Counter-cartographies in my hands!
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."
June 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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."
Staying strong and fighting ableism
May 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Staying strong and fighting ableism
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
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...
Don’t miss Adam Kotsko’s Late Star Trek on Star Trek’s twenty-first century reinventions
April 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Don’t miss Adam Kotsko’s Late Star Trek on Star Trek’s twenty-first century reinventions
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
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
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
Come see The Abyss Stares Back by Stacy Alaimo at SCMS or online at www.upress.umn.edu/scms25/ #SCMS25
Hey, #SCMS25 Check out Reem Hilu’s The Intimate Life of Computers, a feminist perspective on the early history of personal computing, revealing how computers were integrated into the most intimate aspects of family life
April 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hey, #SCMS25 Check out Reem Hilu’s The Intimate Life of Computers, a feminist perspective on the early history of personal computing, revealing how computers were integrated into the most intimate aspects of family life
Good morning, SCMS! Stop by the @uminnpress.bsky.social table today to check out new film and media books and take 30% off! #SCMS25
April 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Good morning, SCMS! Stop by the @uminnpress.bsky.social table today to check out new film and media books and take 30% off! #SCMS25
Melody Jue's absolutely beautiful Forerunner, Coralations, is here!
February 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Melody Jue's absolutely beautiful Forerunner, Coralations, is here!
Some good news: Suzanne Bost's Quiet Methodologies is here! This innovative book reimagines humanities scholarship with humility and inclusive attention.
January 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Some good news: Suzanne Bost's Quiet Methodologies is here! This innovative book reimagines humanities scholarship with humility and inclusive attention.
Add Joshua Gooch's @joshuagooch.bsky.social Capitalism Hates You to the top of your TBR pile now!
January 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Add Joshua Gooch's @joshuagooch.bsky.social Capitalism Hates You to the top of your TBR pile now!
Just in and such a great start to the weekend: Jules O'Dwyer's @julesod.bsky.social The Seduction of Space
January 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just in and such a great start to the weekend: Jules O'Dwyer's @julesod.bsky.social The Seduction of Space
I'm so excited to be holding Beenash Jafri's Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film in my hands!
January 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I'm so excited to be holding Beenash Jafri's Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film in my hands!
We’ve got Lisa Diedrich’s @lisadiedrich.bsky.social Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism and other new and wonderful Forerunners on sale!
January 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We’ve got Lisa Diedrich’s @lisadiedrich.bsky.social Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism and other new and wonderful Forerunners on sale!
