MY dispatch fm. Emory Univ., incl. interview w/faculty author of "motion of no confidence" in pres. Fenves, and w. K'iche' Maya prof. who was arrested: stop cop cities everywhere DEACTIVATED theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Columbia University's response to campus activism today is much more severe than in 1968, says co-host Juan González, who helped lead the historic protests 56 years ago. democracynow.org/2024/4/23/anti…

Felicidades a Nadia Villafuerte, gran narradora y ahora doctora NYUSpanishPortuguese, que se graduó hoy y comenzará un puesto tenure-track en UCSD en otoño. Qué alegría colaborar con Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez en la dirección de su hermoso proyecto de tesis! Venga el libro! #fronterasur #chiapas

📢📢📢 ¡Para ir agendando! Se viene un tremendo coloquio internacional con motivo de los 40 años de la publicación de "La Ciudad Letrada" de Ángel Rama.

🕯️ This year marks 10 years since the forced disappearance of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. Join us on 09/26 at 4:30 PM for a discussion with Anabel Hernández, Diane E. Davis, Karla Quintana Osuna and Oswaldo Zavala. Keynote by Prof. Claudio Lomnitz.

"Todos podemos sentir que esta vez será diferente." 🇵🇷 #LaAlianzaVa Discurso de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez en Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, 16 de octubre de 2024. #PorPuertoRico Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which houses the College’s Women’s Studies Program, invites apps to fill a tenure-track appointment, beginning August 2025, at the rank of Assistant Professor, with a concentration in Black Sexualities/Queer Studies.

Today, my FSEM students listened to @FrancescaDenns1 discuss her new project on cuiring the AIDS pharmacological archive in the US-Mexico Borderlands🫶 Can’t wait for her to publish her second book. Es lo que toca cuando visitas a amigues😘

Por una universidad pública accesible y democrática. Este 5 de noviembre, vota por Juan Dalmau para gobernador y por la Alianza de País. 🇵🇷 #LaAlianzaVa #PatriaNueva patrianuevapr.com

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El juez Raúl Candelario, nominado por el PNP para presidir la CEE, acaba de resolver que las mesas de adjudicación de voto adelantado pueden operar solo con la presencia del PNP, aportando un saco de arena para consolidar la desconfianza de la ciudadanía en las instituciones.

𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 20 de noviembre, 7:00 PM Teatro Tapia, Viejo San Juan, PR GRATIS Con Aurora Levins Morales, Víctor Hernández Cruz, @roquevallejo85 y Larry La Fountain. Auspicia @HumanidadesPR givebutter.com/latino-poetry

For my New Yorker debut (and the magazine's first feature about salsa!) I profiled my all-time favorite Nuyorican musician Eddie Palmieri. Featuring comments from Rubén Blades, Spike Lee, iLé, & more, we all agree... he's the GOAT: newyorker.com/culture/person…

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Call for Pitches | Desiring Temporalities + Playful Aesthetics nacla.org/call-for-pitch…

Hey Naclistas! Monday 12/1 is the deadline to submit proposals for our Summer 20206 issue on on creative practices that spark critical and dissident imagination. Submit your proposals! Guest edited by Ángeles Donoso Macaya and Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez nacla.org/call-for-pitch…

President Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. "Meanwhile, fishermen on boats in the Caribbean who we have never been tried or charged with anything are shot and killed from the air."