COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Students have taken over Hamilton Hall.

This escalation is in line with uprisings in 1968, 1985 and 1996, which Columbia repressed then and celebrates today.

All power to students putting their bodies and livelihoods on the line to stand against genocide.

these are the type of student protests which eventually helped bring down apartheid in South Africa

the state is brutalizing 19 year olds for a foreign government

S/o to tallerentreaguas (Taller Entre Aguas) for modeling alternative collective ways of being in the academy

Thank you for the love - and community as I finished writing this labor of love! 🙏🏽

I am now Dr. Daniel Morales-Armstrong. So glad I got to celebrate this moment with my family. As I said in my defense today, I wrote this dissertation so my baby would know the stories of our people. Ashé. 🧿

Defense in 2.5 hours. Go time!

Join TEA x BTP on April 25, 2024 from 2pm-4pm EST for a special virtual event titled, Mareas de Memoria: Black Puerto Rican History and Genealogy.

Guest Speakers:
Dr. Jada Benn Torres
Melanie Maldonado Díaz
Dr. Ellen Fernandez-Sacco

Please register with the link in our bio.

still looking for participants to interview for my dissertation on Black identity + mental health. If you’re a Black woman who was born in Haiti, Nigeria, Ghana, or Jamaica and now lives in the NYC metro area, I’d love to talk with you.

The Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship supports post-doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose research advances the study of Afro-Latinx communities in the U.S. #afrolatinx

Apply by 4/30: latinxproject.nyu.edu/miriam-jimenez…

Sitting here in the baby’s room 🧿reading over my dissertation while she sleeps. Defense in 8 days.