Leah Pennywark
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Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
Slim’s "critiques of inequality, state violence, and the manipulation of truth resonate powerfully, reminding us that the struggles of the early twentieth century are far from resolved."
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OWEN CLAYTON and IAIN MCINTYRE (eds) The Popular Wobbly: Selected writings of T-Bone Slim. Reviewed by Michael Jongen - Newtown Review of Books
T-Bone Slim’s critiques of early twentieth-century America resonate with contemporary US attacks on healthcare, unions, and immigrants.
https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/owen-clayton-and-iain-mcintyre-eds-the-popular-wobbly-selected-writings-of-t-bone-slim-reviewed-by-michael-jongen/
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Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
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In this collection of essays that I edited recently (it came out June 2025 with
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Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919184/postpolitics-and-the-aesthetic-imagination/
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I’m so grateful to the people who invented coffee.
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Alex Menrisky on why his new book is titled "Everyday Ecofascism," or the ways that ecofascism is not solely a far-right governmental structure but a genre, a mode of storytelling.
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Expanding Our Sense of Ecofascism: Everyday Ecofascism with Alex Menrisky | ASLE EcoCast Podcast
What is ecofascism and who "is" ecofascist or "does" ecofascism? Alex Menrisky walks us through why his new book is titled "Everyday Ecofascism," or the ways that ecofascism is not solely a far-right ...
https://asleecocast.podbean.com/e/expanding-our-sense-of-ecofascism-everyday-ecofascism-with-alex-menrisky/
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Listen up! Becca Monteleone talks about the intersection of disability and technology
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433. How to Think About Disability (ft. Becca Monteleone)
We chat with Becca Monteleone — author of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority — about the critical intersection of disability and technology. Among many thing
https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/433-how-to-think-about-disability-ft-becca-monteleone
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A book launch in Pilsen, Chicago, Saturday.
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University of Minnesota Press
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📚✨Books for them, books for you: Our holiday sale is on!
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"If you want to be an ally and understand Indigenous culture, think about the land you're standing on." A fantastic watch: Sean Sherman on The Daily Show, talking his new cookbook Turtle Island (& not to mention its precursor, The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen!)
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Sean Sherman - "Turtle Island" & Fighting Native American Erasure With Food | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ypQ5V5fUI
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University of Minnesota Press
17 days ago
Drooling over the
@ebbooksellers.bsky.social
holiday catalog! So many goodies here (including several of ours!)
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Holiday Catalog 2025
Holiday Catalog 2025
https://simplebooklet.com/holiday-catalog-2025#page=1
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It’s the last day to visit
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at American Studies
#2025ASA
#ASA2025
, but you can still visit our books online and take advantage of our sale at
z.umn.edu/amst25
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Book sale: American Studies Association 2025 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you order using... READ MORE
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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
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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
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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
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹
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Ram's Rambles on Speculative Whiteness
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Tiny Book BIG impact #scifibooks #nonfiction #bookreview #speculativefiction #hugoawards
TikTok video by Ram's Rambles 📚
https://www.tiktok.com/@rams.rambles/video/7574901016206920982?_r=1&_t=ZP-91ZsG3qdxdP
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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
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It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at ASA! Stop by and see us
@uminnpress.bsky.social
or check out our online exhibit at
z.umn.edu/amst25
for 30% off!
#2025ASA
#ASA2025
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Book sale: American Studies Association 2025 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you order using... READ MORE
http://z.umn.edu/amst25
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University of Minnesota Press
19 days ago
🎧 Fantastic new podcast episode: Rebecca Monteleone and
@ashleyshoo.bsky.social
in conversation about medical technologies, bodily authority, and how users navigate complicated constraints.
share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be
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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
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Come see Mixed-Blood Histories by Jameson R. Sweet at ASA or online at
z.umn.edu/amst25
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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
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Get 30% off American Studies books at
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#2025ASA
#ASA2025
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Book sale: American Studies Association 2025 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you order using... READ MORE
http://z.umn.edu/amst25
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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
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19 days ago
Our Forerunners series of print and digital publications are all under 30K words and booksellers and educators love them.
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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉
18 days ago
Free UMP book! If you’re at ASA, get it.
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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
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Ashley Shew — Free Link!
20 days ago
Congrats to Rebecca Monteleone whose book, The Double Bind of Disability, came out today!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791768...
I got to ask her questions about it for this podcast (which also came out today):
share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be
(UMinn Press does some really cool things.)
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The Double Bind of Disability
Exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation As medical advancements continue to shape the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disability and il...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917685/the-double-bind-of-disability/
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"Bring back the spirit of T-Bone Slim!"
www.fifthestate.org/archive/417-...
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Let's Sing Like the Wobblies! - Issue 417, Winter 2025 - Fifth Estate Magazine
Fifth Estate Magazine, radical publishing since 1965
https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/417-winter-2025/lets-sing-like-the-wobblies/
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Happy pub day to our newest Forerunner: Grant Farred's The Prettiest Woman!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...
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The Prettiest Woman
Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America “We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurf...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918323/the-prettiest-woman/
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Eric A. Vázquez's States of Defeat is out now!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...
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States of Defeat
The cultural reverberations of Central America’s failed revolutions on US intellectual thought The thwarted Central American revolutions during the latter ...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919900/states-of-defeat/
20 days ago
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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸
21 days ago
If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my
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book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends! Thurs Nov 20th 9:45 to 11:15 AM Convention Center Ballroom A Salon A
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Very excited to see Rebecca Monteleone's The Double Bind of Disability out today!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791768...
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The Double Bind of Disability
Exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation As medical advancements continue to shape the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disability and il...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917685/the-double-bind-of-disability/
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Matt Seybold
21 days ago
Among several reasons to recommend this episode is the lengthy good faith discussion of what fascism is, both during my convo with
@aprilanson.bsky.social
& Alex Menrisky, & during the Q&A that followed. Inspired in part by Alex’s great book, published this year by
@uminnpress.bsky.social
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Everyday Ecofascism (Vandal Live at 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium)
with April Anson, Alexander Menrisky, & Jeffrey Insko
https://open.substack.com/pub/theamericanvandal/p/everyday-ecofascism-vandal-live-at?r=hykx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class
23 days ago
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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"I turn to literature for guidance and models of how to navigate this strange world . . . black writers, especially black women writers, have always served as models for me."
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Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
24 days ago
These banger essays (and mine, banger or not you be the judge—the others definitely are) were made possible by a University Press
@uminnpress.bsky.social
Happy University Press week!
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Natalia Cecire
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Read my sister's book
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹
29 days ago
oh hey — Speculative Whiteness has been reviewed in Science Fiction Film and Television!
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Project MUSE - <i>Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right</i> by Jordan S. Carroll (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974210
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UPColorado
28 days ago
Honk if you love UPs
#UPWeek
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Rebecca Colesworthy
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I'm obsessed with this stat: "with more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital [publishing] infrastructure is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits"
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I'm back from Texas and so excited that KJ Cerankowski's Nothing Wanting is out! Moving beyond identity and representation, Nothing Wanting is playful, fascinating, and provocative as it conceives asexuality as additive and expansive rather than lacking.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791643...
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Nothing Wanting
Advancing asexuality studies in new, queer directions—beyond identity and beyond the human We’ve all seen the page that states “this page intentionally...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916435/nothing-wanting/
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Steven Swarbrick
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New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with
@uminnpress.bsky.social
🍉
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
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Divest
A manifesto for liberating desire from the grip of capital and colonial violence in PalestineCould a psychoanalytic theory of masochism help us to understand...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921484/divest/
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Ancillary Review of Books
about 1 month ago
Re-upping
@jgbridgergilmore.bsky.social
's review of Brooks E. Hefner's BLACK PULP (
@uminnpress.bsky.social
); hoping THE MARTIAN TRILOGY leads to more of these genre stories from "Illustrated Feature Section" & other Black serials getting rediscovered!
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Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner
Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner Garrett Bridger Gilmore Under Review:Black Pulp. Brooks E. Hefner. University of Minnesota Press, December 2021. In hi…
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2022/02/11/black-genre-fiction-reimagined-review-of-black-pulp-by-brooks-e-hefner%ef%bf%bc/
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Lisa Nakamura
about 1 month ago
A link to my new book cover and table of contents.
www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
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The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816699063/the-inattention-economy/
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University of Minnesota Press
about 1 month ago
👻🎃📚 Final stretch! 30% off books in our Ghosts and Monsters collection with code MN93980.
www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...
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Bethany Wasik
about 1 month ago
FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up! FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by
@aupresses.bsky.social
(HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI.
#ReadUP
#PublishUP
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Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
YouTube video by The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute (The Proctor Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SSTWTl7e_g
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Jason Weidemann
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Our fearless leader, retiring after 27 years at the helm of the University of Minnesota Press. Doug Armato's editorial adventurousness was based on a forward-thinking approach to the business of books. He's shaped the press, and university press publishing, in profound ways.
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹
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if you are wondering why the Trump administration is creating racist memes with images from Halo and Lord of the Rings
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Speculative Whiteness
Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917081/speculative-whiteness/
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For the first time in years, I woke up in my home state of Texas and had breakfast tacos
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Matthew Archer
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*very* excited about
@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
’s new book, out next year w/
@uminnpress.bsky.social
🤖 🚫
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
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Techno-Negative
A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/
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