Meet renowned scholar Dr. @OnekaLaBennett! Join us for her Global Guyana book talk, exploring environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana. Reception to follow! Details: bit.ly/3ZwDnJ9

Introducing the Caribbean Coalition @ Berkeley, fostering an intraregional community & supporting the self-determined futures of the Caribbean. Meet our founders: Anna Palmer Alexandre Georges @theblackgeo j’anna-mare lue Jimena Perez & nani #caribbeanstudies #caribbean

Please APPLY! Scholarship for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs anywhere The Palestinian American Research Center @parc_us_pal announces the 3rd Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences. --> dev.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-as…

Y’all assign these in your classes!! Added these to my methods class and two of the most helpful and insightful things I’ve read lately! Plus gorgeous writing from Elyabeth Alcantar🔥🔥🔥”Indian time, walking as mapping,” and “Unforgetting place.”

As application season rolls around again, here's your reminder that materials from my successful applications are available on my website (NSF-GRFP, Google PhD Fellowship, Stanford data science postdoc, and CS faculty job search): anjalief.github.io/statements.html

Today’s the day! Don’t miss Dr. @onekalabennett’s presentation at 3:30 PM in 575 McCone Hall on her book Global Guyana and the chapter “Transplanted Beaches and Silica Cities.” Reception to follow. See you there! Berkeley Geography #CLACSBerkeley

Yesterday, Dr. @OnekaLaBennett delivered an incredible talk on #GlobalGuyana! We kicked off the day with great conversations over lunch with members of our Coalition. Stay tuned for the full event recording! 🎥 #CaribbeanCoalition

Some in this California beach town insist the Tijuana River is poisoning them. Officials disagree latimes.com/environment/st…

Queridxs: La luche sigue... We remain committed to uplifting work by LxG scholars who continue to remind us another word is possible: Our *2025 LxG Graduate Student Paper Award* Call for Papers is now available --> tinyurl.com/2025lxgaward

Hola todxs: We also remain committed to supporting graduate students...& therefore have reopened our Mutual Aid Fund. Please share & consider applying ---> tinyurl.com/lxgmutualaid

It was a pleasure to host Dr. Ryan Cecil Jobson this week. Dr. Jobson presented on his new book, Petro-State Masquerade, which elucidates the masquerades of the state and ordinary people in Trinidad and Tobago through through historical ethnographic analysis.

HISTORIC VICTORY! On November 18th the Huntington Park City Council unanimously voted to pass the city's first ever #RentControl ordinance which prohibits property managers/owners from increasing rent more than 3 percent each year. The law is set to take effect Dec 19th

UC Berkeley is hosting the Imagining Caribbean Futures Symposium April 10-11, 2025! This conference aims to connect scholars identified as Caribbean or who support Caribbean self-determination. We encourage researchers and cultural workers to apply. shorturl.at/oD4eG

Save the date! Join us for Imagining Caribbean Futures, a two-day symposium at UC Berkeley on April 10-11 with exciting panels, a keynote by Dr. Kevon Rhiney, and a film screening. RSVP now: bit.ly/CaribbeanFutur… Berkeley Geography Townsend Center for the Humanities

Thank you to Berkeley Geography & Latinx Geographies 🎉 Much gratitude to my mentors, peers, friends, and family for the support and guidance. I am excited to one day publish this work on my home of Southeast Los Angeles and the lessons it has taught me about care and living otherwise 💘

Yesssss Jimena ❤️‍🔥