After last night I’m just like… besides ruling over Puerto Rico what do you even do congress.

Dems stood by and did nothing while a Black man was forcibly ejected from the chamber. What a fucking shock. Pathetic cowards.

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2025

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2025
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As a scholar of language, transness, and empire with a background in Russian AND Puerto Rican Studies, I feel like the imperial chess of officiliazing English’s hegemony, anti-trans policy, and the geopolitical backlash of Trump’s temper tantrums would be hard to parse without the humanities.

But freedom of speech is back 💀

Need la guillotina to make an appearance as a way to do protest aesthetics bc the church revival fans are not cutting it for me

He said no more NAFTA… we just gonna tariff each other over and over again

I’m so tired of the fluidity 🤣

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Historically!!?

Beam me up Scotty I’m over it

Bad Bunny calls on UW-Madison professor to harmonize history, music of Puerto Rico with new album MADISON, Wis. -– More than a billion people have listened to singer and rapper Bad Bunny’s newest album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” on Spotify -- but many may not know

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Gave a book talk today at UT Law where I was a law student many years ago. My respondent, Sandy Levinson, was one of my MA/JD thesis advisors. Full circle moment for me!

Tyrant is my cowboy Carter top 3 and it ain’t 3

Ppl tb they don’t listen to cowboy carter but they gotta fav song… so you listened lmao

A lady shaming ppl bc they like reading fantasy bc it’s not real when these books legit give the same gist as intimacies of four continents and silencing the past is crazy.

Sometimes when reading reviews I gotta leave it alone or come back bc ppl will be like this needs a citation and it’s deadass embodied knowledge and common amidst Ricans. I be typing “see more on *** in my left pinky toe” and then I know it’s time for a nap or walk

📢I'm excited to announce that the exhibit my students curated on the History of Latine students at Duke is traveling once again and is on display at the Museum of Durham History. If you're local, be sure to check it out! t.co/6cJ9QIUyUX

Chicago friends—we officially launch of The Petro-state Masquerade on Thursday, February 20 @SeminaryCoop. I’ll be joined in conversation by oil scholar par excellence, Michael Watts, and Caribbean philosopher (and Hyde Park legend) William Balan-Gaubert. www.semcoop.com/event/ryan-c...

I’d feel more bad about the NSF delays but people are literally getting deported, parents are getting their babies out of schools, and other things that make my stomach hurt

It sucks yes but I mean it’s not passing a 5 on the scale of 1-10 w everything else poppin off

At the end of the day… they say gotta end

And that’s how I’m making it rn

New (January 2025): Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence – By Maia Gil′Adí | Duke University Press | More information can be found here: www.dukeupress.edu/doom-patterns

ICE cream truck was at Hamlin elementary in 773. 🍦🍦 tell a friend

I have so many onyx storm and fourth wing theories

What’s the last fiction book you read and why should I read it ?

Heyyyy lol how yall doin

I believe that Azriel from ACOTAR is actually a part of a lineage descended from the high fae queen and Aidas. That’s why his dagger responds to him and why he is the shadow singer. In this essay I will debunk fan theories and draw on the Maas multiverse—

Book cover of La otra Julia by Mayra Santos Febres

Currently reading “La otra Julia” the newest book by Mayra Santos Febres!!!! 🔥🔥🔥