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Sideways Selves Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas by PJ DiPietro How trans and non-binary networks engage in decoloniality across hemispheres. @utexaspress.bsky.social 344 Pages Series: Latinx: The Future Is Now Sales Date: July 22, 2025 utpress.utexas.edu/978147733177...

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What say you?! Seems to me like the @dukepress.bsky.social sale illustration looks a lot like the cover for MADE IN NUYORICO: #Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings! Take the hint. Order it now at 40% off for your fave #music lover #salsera #NewYorker #Boricua #Nuyorican

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Now Available! Centro Journal's Summer Issue: Caudal: Rasanblaj of Contemporary Feminist and Queer/Cuir Perspectives on Puerto Rico & the Dominican Republic. Explore feminist & queer voices amplifying resistance & resilience. Eds. Carlos Decena & Celiany Rivera Velázquez. Order at centropr-store.com

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Ah, yes, it’s those pesky grad students making less than $50k a year in one of the most expensive metropolitan areas in the country who are to blame for austerity and the collapse of the humanities.

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Judge denies injunction request in lawsuit over banning Gaza protesters from UCSC campus lookout.co/judge-denies...

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Our Fall Sale begins today! Save 40% or more on most in-stock titles with coupon FALL24. www.dukeupress.edu/e...

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🎉 Brief review of Made in NuYoRico by Dusty Groove 🎉 "The legendary Fania Records is way more than a record label....Fans of the label have always known that, but that legacy is given even greater focus here in an excellent book..." #NuYoRico #NuyoricanStudies #Fania @dukepress.bsky.social

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According to Hegseth: "Though intercourse was not consented to, there was no duress because the girl drank herself into unconsciousness. Both criteria must be satisfied for rape."

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Meridians article on the Puerto Rico Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, a feminist collective that draws on the legacy of Black feminist & decolonial praxis as expressed in the Combahee River Collective Statement, in mobilizing politically, direct actions against the state, & mutual aid projects.

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My memorial piece "José Quiroga (1959-2024): Leading Cuban Literary and Cultural Studies Scholar" is now available in LASA Forum 55, issue 3 (October 2024). (Scroll down to the "In Memoriam" section.) José passed away on January 11 of this year. My essay is open access. forum.lasaweb.org

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Delighted Barbara Carrasco’s mural portraying LA’s history finally found a home after 40+ years being censured hyperallergic.com/966721/chica...

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Ahead of his celebration of Max Roach, trumpeter Charles Tolliver talks to Gabriel Bristow about playing alongside the legendary drummer, studying at Howard University with Donny Hathaway & Stokely Carmichael, & the legacy of Strata-East Records www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/i... Photo: Jimmy Katz

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Police in body armor escorted these thugs through the streets of Boston

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Here we go 🙄

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Hello! I began a starter pack with some folks working on Latina/o/x Studies, it's broadly defined and a work in progress for sure. Please share and also send more recommendations of folks to include! go.bsky.app/Rmi3sGW

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Call for Papers: Spring 2026 CENTRO Journal centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/opportunitie...

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So excited for this book!!! Such a dope collection of essays and art images. I have a chapter in it on Frank Espada 📸 and Black Boricua life in Chicago! ✊🏾🇵🇷 Read the intro ⤵️

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Fantastic book panel on Petra Rivera-Rideau’s Fitness Fiesta! at the ASA conference in Baltimore, which included four extraordinary readings by Vanessa Díaz, Inés Casillas, Kirstie Dorr, and María Elena Cepeda. The book is a rigorous and critical exploration of zumba as an activity and an industry.

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New #openaccess book review -- Christopher Courtheyn on Jennifer Lynn Kelly's "Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine" antipodeonline.org/category/boo... @dukepress.bsky.social

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Congratulations to @arlenedavila.bsky.social and Yasmín Ramirez on the publication of the beautiful "Nuyorican and DiaspoRican Visual Art"

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Check out the excerpt posted by @thewiremagazine.bsky.social from my book Made in NuYoRico, where I analyze the opening scene of Our Latin Thing #salsa #Fania #RayBarretto #Loisaida

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Want to join of a community of Latinx/a/o Scholars broadly throughout academia? Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! Shout out to @larrylafountain.bsky.social for bringing us together! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr

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It was an honor to present The Angela Y. Davis Award for Public Scholarship in recognition of Gianinna Braschi's 40+ years of creative work, her activism, and her profound influence across multiple spheres.

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Salsa panel at the American Studies Association in Baltimore: Rican/Structing Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings: Musical Practices, Diasporic Communities, and the 2023 Banco Popular Christmas Special, with Marisol Negrón, Jossianna Arroyo, Wilson Valentín, and Neyda Martinez. Faith Smith is the moderator.

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