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cetracey.bsky.social
escritora aridoamericana / writing a queer book about salt lakes for WW Norton / cetracey.com
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For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote the first installment in a series about the controversial energy development plan called Plan Sonora: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/what-is-pl...

For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about photographer David Taylor’s exhibition COMPLEX and what it can teach us about keeping watch on border surveillance: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/americas-g...

Wishing a merry “important tax return documents enclosed” season to all freelancers

Flying out of DIA where they just paged David Harvey. Guess he’s taking an airplane to get a spatial fix

there’s a thing one can do called quitting

-In English how do people say, like, ‘ash’? -I dunno maybe like ‘ugh’? -Pero sí dicen ‘ash.’ -No…not really… -Ash.

Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/

“Qué significará ‘DIP’” “It’s like a place where the road goes down” “No, no soy PENDEJA, sé que es un ‘DIP,’ pero quiero saber qué significan las LETRAS del ACRONYM de esos que a ustedes gringos les MAMAN, Dive Into Pavement o una mamada así” “Oh no…in this case it’s just a word” “Oh ok”

🏞️ My first piece for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers’ Grant, about the artists and scientists grieving and reviving the Santa Cruz River, is up! www.theborderchronicle.com/p/1c71708f-c...

I’m thrilled to be joining @theborderchronicle.bsky.social to cover arts and the environment—and to participate in building a scrappy, nerdy, Tucson-based newsroom alongside @mdelbosque.bsky.social and @rolltodd.bsky.social!

“Aquí en la shamba” [ya andamos en el norte]

“Calidad e inocuidad de la leche”

“¡Higiene y buen trato!”

I feel as though every book I have read this year has mentioned David Wojnarowicz (including mine)

Vienes a México a a̶d̶q̶u̶i̶r̶i̶r̶ ̶l̶i̶b̶r̶o̶s̶ pasar navidad en familia

If anyone is interested in workshopping my draft about the pre-history of the Sanctuary Movement with me, please join next month’s Newberry Borderlands/Latinx Studies Seminar! Thanks @nellstra.bsky.social for sharing the link:

Honored and grateful to have received the inaugural On the Brinck | Places prize! I’m looking forward to continuing my research about the Sanctuary Movement and its prehistory, and to many more years of public scholarship from the Southwest.

“Espotted de así, spots”

If you had to guess, what novel written in the 21st century has the most scholarship written about it?

Me for the hundredth time: “Hawk! A hawk!!!” My wife: “You have forbidden to say ‘Hawk.’ From now on birds should be something internal” My wife 10 minutes later: “Hawk! Hawk!! A HAWK!!!”

Finishing a draft of a 6000 word article this afternoon if anyone wants to bring me a bag of gummy worms

Europeans watching Americans fix their healthcare system with gun violence

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve started the Arizona Journalists starter pack. Bluesky has had a pretty sizable increase in users and active users since. If you know of any az based journalists I ought to add, let me know. go.bsky.app/S6vs7Gx

Nuestra charla del neocolonialismo verde en el norte de México y suroeste de EU ya es mañana! No se la pierdan! RSVP aqui! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Freelancer Thanksgiving tradition of an editor sending you edits on Tuesday for a piece you filed three weeks ago and then “following up” on Friday at 7am asking if you could please send them back by the end of the weekend

El próximo martes 3 de diciembre bajo el signo de la serie DESERTING habrá una conversación entre Iván Martínez Zazueta y yo sobre la transición energética y sus impactos en el noroeste de México y el suroeste de EU. Manda correo a [email protected] para inscribirte!

El próximo martes 3 de diciembre bajo el signo de la serie DESERTING habrá una conversación entre Iván Martínez Zazueta y yo sobre la transición energética y sus impactos en el noroeste de México y el suroeste de EU. Manda correo a [email protected] para inscribirte!

Would love a starter-pack for interesting/provocative/lefty and or avant-garde essayists and narrative non-fiction writers. Help me?