Congratulations to Carolina Ortega, our newly elected Section Secretary of Mexican Studies!

I’m super excited to work alongside Jorge Ramirez-Lopez (who’s going to be chair of the section) over the next year! We already have lots of ideas 🤓🤓

Friendly reminder that the Newberry Library BLS Seminar meets NEXT Friday, January 17 ON ZOOM 💻 to discuss Caroline Tracey (cetracey on blusky)'s work-in-progress on the history of the Presbyterian Church's role in sanctuary and religious colonialism. The incomparable Juan Gonzalez will serve as respondent.

I was lucky enough to grow up in communities, neighborhoods and a city shaped by Jose "Cha Cha" Jiménez's audacious vision of social justice. QDEP Cha Cha (1948-2025) #Palante

In the coming days, you’ll encounter ideas (and flat out misinformation) about sanctuary —both sanctuary churches and sanctuary cities. For such a time as this, I share my 7-episode podcast series “Sanctuary: On the Border between Church and State.” redcircle.com/shows/a2b3982f…

Really proud of this piece, written with my podcast co-host and buddy Lloyd D. Barba, on what sanctuary cities can still do to protect undocumented residents. Sanctuary practices, long under attack, remain some of the most effective tools to resist the deportation machine.

✨I am thrilled to share the cover of my book —The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice— which will be published by Duke University Press on April 25, 2025.✨🧵

🚨Check out this CFP! 🚨 Excited to be co-editing a special issue of The Public Historian with Delia Fernández-Jones and Dr. Chantel Rodriguez on Public History in the Latinx Midwest. Proposals due May 31, articles due early next year. Send us your pitch! online.ucpress.edu/tph

EXCLUSIVE — CBS News has obtained internal Trump administration plans to revive Title 42 and expel migrants on public health grounds. The first Trump administration cited COVID. Now it’s made plans to label migrants vectors of diseases like tuberculosis. cbsnews.com/news/trump-tit…

The cover of my forthcoming book by UNC Press. I'm glad this story (and the character-driven stories in the book) on 1960s and 1970s high school student activism will get out to the wider world.

NEW: The Trump admin is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority, known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to speed up deportations of certain immigrants in the coming days. It is expected to come in the form of a presidential proclamation. W/ Jennifer Hansler + Alayna Treene.

Sanctuary cities are not new. Since the 1980s, communities have challenged deportations by crafting sanctuary city policies time.com/7264323/sanctu…

She’s here! The exclusive cover reveal, excerpt, & interview are live on BookishBrews 😭 I’m so excited to share the absolutely STUNNING cover of Twin Tides with you all. Many thanks to Reiko Murakami for art and Trisha Previte for design bookishbrews.com/twin-tides-hie…

Social Media Cover Reveal 🌊 Isn’t she stunning? Twin Tides is my YA debut about a ghost, long lost twins, and the legacies we inherit as diaspora ❤️💖 #yabooks

Ryan White died thirty-five years ago today. To mark the occasion and to celebrate Ryan’s remarkable life, Teen Vogue has published this excerpt from my new book. teenvogue.com/story/ryan-whi…

So proud of this co-written piece, put together with my compa Lloyd D. Barba, in the latest edition of Dissent Magazine. We review the history of the sanctuary movement and what it means for faith-based migrant justice movements today.

Thrilled to announce I've signed a book deal. Super grateful to everyone who helped make this possible.

Glad to see kang covering the history of the Sanctuary Movement and the broader story of sacred resistance in The New Yorker. There's a crop of new scholarship on the topic - including 2 books I'm co-authoring with Lloyd D. Barba, out this fall - that should be of interest!