Another softball season (save playoffs) in the books!

Mark and I won the tennis tournament (doubles)! ❤️🙏🏼🎾

About to play my first ever tennis tournament—and doubles, to boot! I’m pretty new to doubles, and haven’t really played with my partner Mark before. But he’s a super awesome guy and player, so I’m so excited! ❤️🎾

It is not lost on me that many of the professors I have had and many of the professors I admire hold jobs in tenure lines, departments, and centers created in the 1960s and 1970s as the result of student movements.

In light of events unfolding across our campuses, I think folks who are (or soon to be) tenured and tenure-track faculty would all do well to remember that many of our jobs are the result of hard-won battles between students and university/college administrations.

I heard something knocking. It wasn’t at the door, but at one of our windows. And it wasn’t a person. It was an iguana.
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Incredible! Thanks to ⁦Michael J Bustamante, Ph.D.⁩ for sharing the news! We have been waiting for access to this #FordFoundation backed oral history collection since Dore presented it at a grad smr at Yale in 2006. #Historians of #Cuba let’s get to work! blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/2023/10/0…

It’s heeeeere!!! Grab your copy of Ana Minian’s new book: In the Shadow of Liberty.

I preordered Ana Minian’s new book, In the Shadow of Liberty! You should, too! It’s brilliant and necessary—just like its author. Te adoro, mi amor. ❤️

The New Books in Cuban Studies webinar featuring Catherine Mas's book and mine will take place this Thursday! Comment by Julio Capó Jr.! You can still sign up though the link below.
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via @NYTOpinion. My piece in the ⁦The New York Times⁩ on the links between immigrant detention and incarceration. A peek into my new book In the Shadow of Liberty ⁦Viking Books⁩. Thanks to amazing NYT editor ⁦Isvett⁩ for all her support. nytimes.com/2024/04/14/opi…

3 years ago my friend & tennis buddy took me out for some drinks. And then we became much more than friends. I love you, Patrick. ❤️🥰😘

Such a beautiful #OAH2024 conference.

Got to see so many people I adore, commented on an incredible panel (Queer Spirits of New Orleans), and as chair of the Nominating Board, I had the honor of announcing the OAH’s INCREDIBLE new VP: Dra. Natalia Molina!

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United States of Attica by Faith Ringgold (1972), a map detailing many Indigenous, slave, and immigrant uprisings in each state since the 1700s and dedicated to the men who died during the 1971 Attica prison riots in upstate NY.

Eager to read this, Clay Henderson! So necessary.

Working for Big Business, Ron DeSantis signed a law gutting local “living wage” laws and undoing workers’ safety protections against heat exhaustion.

Publix & AT&T & U.S. Sugar & Florida Chamber are behind this total disdain of Floridians.

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With a $100,000 grant from the Monument Lab, Green School faculty Julio Capó Jr. and Dan Royles with artist and filmmaker Dudley Alexis will raise the visibility of Miami’s HIV/AIDS history by activating and organizing community-engaged planning for a series of local AIDS…