Y. Figueroa-Vásquez
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AfroBoricua. Hoboken. Professor at @hunter_college & Director of @CentroPR . Author: #DecolonizingDiasporas 🌊 PI @dslprojects
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I’m so honored to be appointed as the new director of
@CentroPR
I am excited to share that I will be joining the faculty of African American, Puerto Rican & Latino Studies as Full Professor & Tacuma will be joining the faculty as Associate Professor.
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The only reason Jessica Krug finally admitted to this lie is bec on Aug 26th one very brave very BLACK Latina junior scholar approached two senior Black Latina scholars & trusted them enough to do the research & back her up. Those two scholars made phone calls & reached out to...
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that she would have come out with the truth on her own. She made a living & a whole life out of parroting Black Rican trauma and survival. As a Black Rican I am PISSED.
The other thing is that, let historians tell it, her work is actually good, chick is smart- so why lie?
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other senior scholars & institutions with proof. There was no witch hunt, but there was a need to draw the line. Krug got ahead of the story because she was caught & she knew the clock was ticking bec folks started to confront her & ask questions. DO NOT BELIEVE FOR ONE SECOND..
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why chase the extra clout of being a hood raised Black Boricua? Why put on that life that isn't yours & attempt to play it so well that you block, beat, and bully others? incl shit talking Black women? Whiteness is a hell of a drug.
But also she needs to account for everything
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she has taken, everything she has gained, all that she stole by creating this identity & shrouding herself with Black & Latinx folks who defended, supported, and lifted her up. What does restitution look like when she won awards, grants, & fellowships for underrepresented folks?
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I can only imagine how her actual friends & community must feel right now. Gutted.
I count myself *lucky* to not know her personally.
She gaslit folks I know, was openly racist, & manipulated so many people.
One person's lies affect so many folks.
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Also, if y’all want to support the life work & scholarhsip of actual Black Latinas:::BLACK RICANS buy our books (a thread):
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It's *official*! This first gen AfroBoricua is a TENURED PROFESSOR!
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Also, Black & Latina scholars, plug your work.
We love you and hold you up. We support you and see you. We all we got. 🖤✊🏾
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Hi everyone, I am a first-gen Black Boricua scholar, teacher & writer.
My *very first* book is about to drop in a few weeks. I would be so thankful if folks would amplify this labor of love I created. Please share & buy it if you have the resources. Thx!
You can *Pre-Order* my very first book
#DecolonizingDiasporas
from
@NorthwesternUP
for 25% OFF w/promo code NUP2020
*My editors would like to know who might be teaching/adopting the book for their courses. Can you pls let me know so I can compile a list for the press?*
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🧵 Three weeks ago today I gave birth to a healthy baby after an uncomplicated pregnancy & an uncomplicated natural birth.
After baby was delivered I began to hemorrhage severely, losing half the blood in my body. I was rushed into the OR & was kept in the hospital for 5 days…
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Puerto Rico is a colony.
Puerto Rico is paying an odious & illegal debt on the backs of its working class ppl.
Puerto Rico needs the Jones Act lifted permanently.
Puerto Rico needs to reopen schools.
Puerto Rican’s want decolonized curriculum.
Puerto Rico is owed reparations.
Puerto Rico is warm.
Puerto Rico is beautiful .
Puerto Rico can satisfy your appetites ...
and that’s just the people !!
The weather, the scenery and the food are great too!!
Promise yourself one day you’ll go .
Or... just go now
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All this to say that people should have the choice to birth or not birth.
Abortion should be available to all who want/need it. Full stop.
Pregnancy & birth is dangerous, painful & too often deadly (especially in this country)
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WOWOWOW! The plot twist! The epic ending! The COLONY!
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Very excited to announce that the
#DiasporaSolidaritiesLab
has been awarded $2M x 3 years by the
@MellonFdn
.
Organized by
@DrYoFiggy
,
@jmjafrx
&
@taoleighgoffe
for the better part of a year, we are looking forward to bringing more Blk Feminist 🔥
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First day of classes yesterday + I discussed my email policy in the syllabus: be courteous + brief, use salutations, etc.
Today a student email opens with:
“Great Rising Queen”
😂 💀 👑🤷🏾♀️
I love these kids so much!
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Lucille Clifton’s children have reclaimed the century-old Baltimore house where their mother wrote some of her greatest work.
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In my talk last week i cited the myth that Puerto Rico is the “whitest” island in the Carib & how it creates a matrix of violence for AfroBoricuas & perpetuates the erasure of their lives/struggles/survival. So at dinner a Cuban colega referred to my talk & said “Cubans will want
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Look at all these Black Cuban doctors coming thru to help Italy during this pandemic.
We should be so lucky to have these world renown doctors on our side...but for our shitty nat’l politics.
Que viva Cuba libre 🇨🇺
educados y humanitarios 🖤
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Palestine on my mind. All day everyday a current of grief. I see my baby smile & my heart breaks for the people & children trapped in Gaza. If you can, donate, pls speak out, talk to your friends & fam, & amplify Palestinian voices.
I chose to donate to:
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The potential striking down of Roe means more death on the horizon, esp for women, girls & pregnant ppl.
Add this to the lack of bodily autonomy & we are essentially held hostage to a conservative strain of religious politicos & fanatics who’d sooner see us die than be free.
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🧵 A bunch of young white people zoom bombed our Bomba workshop, called our majority Black participants & children “N*” & show porn & some women got naked on screen.
It was a coordinated attack that was difficult to manage but we were able to regroup on a new link but damn!
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Another one bites the dust: a white prof claims to be Chicana...sigh.
Can y’all just stop it? Full stop.
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My niece is saging cops in the
#Hoboken
protest ✊🏾 get your copper ass cop bad juju outta here...
#BlackLivesMatter
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Excited to finally announce that
#DecolonizingDiasporas
has been awarded the MLA Prize in US Latina/o Literary & Cultural Studies!
I’m honored & grateful…just wow.
Many thanks to the selection committee, to my mentors & beloved colleagues & readers.
🖤🙏🏾🌈🌊✊🏾🥰
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ALL. TENURE. FILES. SUBMITTED.
*drops to the floor in the purest form of exhaustion*
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I received such excellent medical care by the midwives & nurses (& the doctor in the OR) that I was ASTOUNDED - Black women after all have the highest maternal mortality rate in the US.
Would I be alive if not for this v specific team who took me seriously as a human being?
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You can *Pre-Order* my very first book
#DecolonizingDiasporas
from
@NorthwesternUP
for 25% OFF w/promo code NUP2020
*My editors would like to know who might be teaching/adopting the book for their courses. Can you pls let me know so I can compile a list for the press?*
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It was a beautiful marvel to hold my baby after many years of losses & heartbreak.
It was likewise deeply traumatizing to be wheeled away from my partner & baby in the wake of birthing our miracle—wondering if I’d return to them.
Now 3 weeks later, I’m still recovering
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Excited to announce that book
#2
#TheSurvivalOfAPeople
(née
#ArchiveOfDisappearances
) is under contract & coming soon-ish with
@DukePress
.
Tracing fam hist, photos & intimate archives across the archipelago & diaspora, this book is a labor of love for my kin, les amo 💗
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@SassyE
Mine was taken for medical study bec they think the spike proteins in the virus attack the placenta…mine calcified. It was horrible.
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My book has arrived! I ran to my godkids’ house up the block to see my book in living breathing life! My copies are not here yet but I relished seeing the front & back cover & spine.
Mírala! 🌊🧿💙
#DecolonizingDiasporas
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Just found out that my book is available open access
#DecolonizingDiasporas
:
Get your PDF of the book here:
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@BKSistaScholar
Everyone wants to stay anon rn. Who knows what the blowback will be for Black Latina women...
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Missionaries just doing what they been doing for centuries. Vectors of disease & violence.
A plane carrying mostly Mormon missionaries brought
#COVID19
to Kiribati — one of the last places without any outbreaks.
Passengers tested positive after arrival on the island nation, which closed borders for 2 years, despite being vaccinated. Cases there are now at least 181.
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The truth about
#JessicaKrug
is now out. She is a white woman academic who pretended to be Black, Latina, & now Afro-Puerto Rican.
She isn’t the only one brownblackfishing in the academy & that’s disgusting to me. I have so much more to say abt this...
Why am I the LAST person to find out about the Hache Carrillo controversy? And what am I supposed to do with that now????
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I’m so f*cking happy to see this out in the world!!! My boo
@jmjafrx
has a beautiful book deal that is going to bring more Black histories into the world!
This 2-book deal c/o
@McKinnonLit
will bring
#DarkCodex
&
#ExSlave
into our hands 🤲🏾! Congrats boyfriend! Sending you ❤️🌊
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to have a word with you about that” —aka Cubans want the title of the whitest island in the Caribbean—& we both laughed bec we knew how absurd either one of those scenarios would be & we know that only white supremacy benefits from those kinds of claims.
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Today my abuela Santos is 100 years old. Born on All Saints day & named Santos.
My mami’s name is Santa & my papi’s name is Santo...let’s just say that I’m covered by the Santos. 🕯
Abuela, que Santa Clara te acompañe 💙🧿
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Just me minding my Black Boricua business 💫
Negra Antillana. Afrodescendiente.
Prietita de la Trocha en Vega Baja y la barriada Morales en Caguas. 🖤
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I'm struggling rn w the "secondary trauma" (my therapist's words) of writing these stories of Afro-Puerto Ricans, intimate family histories, arson, murder, disappearance, love & survival.
How can we write w/out hurting ourselves & others?
How can we surface survival & survive?
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This is so embarrassing (for her). Is this what she think afro-Latinx x Caribbean folks sound like?
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Today my family in PR, NYC, NJ, VA, FL & points beyond heard me talk abt my work/projects, Blackness in PR, our fam, etc.
4 the 1st time they heard what I do & it was on the radio in PR & in Spanish.
Idk why that makes me so emotional 😭
My next book is about them, for them 🖤
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How to teach with a puppy who is hell-bent on destroying your house...Caribbean diaspora edition.
[Yes I tied her to me with an old sheet.]
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Ejemplo: I experienced unparalleled levels of anti-Black racism in Colombia (in CARTAGENA!) AND almost all the Colombians that I’ve met in the US are dique blanquitos. BUT I would never buy into the myth that Colombia is a white country. The facts don’t hold for that to be true.
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There is more I want to say here but I think we are losing the opportunity for productive conversations in this forum.
Suffice it to say, nations & ppl who buy into nat’l myths perpetuate reductive narratives, is our job to complicate, disentangle & destroy them on sight.
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Ok so my official book launch for
#DecolonizingDiasporas
is "sold out" (it was capped at 300 ppl)
@NorthwesternUP
I am flummoxed..totally floored.
We are going to reopen registration soon (& shift to a webinar format) so that we can host up to 500 ppl.
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Today is the official *PUB DAY* for
#DecolonizingDiasporas
! It’s been many years in the making & I’m grateful, really truly.
I’m sitting quietly at home near my altar & signing & addressing copies to mail to mentors, kin, friends.
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There’s a limit to intellectualizing questions of race & anti-Blackness—at some point you realize the logics that underpin racist violence, exclusion & inequality are illogical, contradictory & stupid. Tired of work that undermines ppls lived experiences 4 the sake of research 😒
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This global workshop was infiltrated by people with such hate in their hearts.
I feel the most for Black students who are wholeheartedly putting their energy & joy into the class.
Im heartbroken for them but I’m not letting this break down the bonds & commitments we’ve made.
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Chiming in to remind folks that “Latinidad” cannot not exist without Blackness.
Happy Black History Month! ✊🏾
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You can *Pre-Order* my very first book
#DecolonizingDiasporas
from
@NorthwesternUP
for 40% OFF thru July 31st w/promo code SUN40
🌊🌊🌊💙💙💙☀️☀️☀️
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“Puerto Rico has all the characteristics of a sovereign nation except sovereignty itself”
—US/PR Commission 1966
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Our oped on the Krug deception is available at the
@guardian
.
@yarimarbonilla
& I originally titled it: “White Skin, Blackface: Jessica Krug’s Colonial Masquerade” but the title the Guardian chose gets to the point as well.
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my grad advisor never closed his office door when meeting with students, esp w/ women (and that was just the start of his protocol). he didn't even want the hint of inappropriate conduct to be in the ether.
every year I continue to be a prof I am like: yup, that was the move.
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We are home sheltering in place.
We are holding onto hope for the victims & their families. How long do we have to live like this?
BREAKING: Multiple people injured at Michigan State University after shootings at two locations were reported on the East Lansing campus, university police say.
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My Titi Monin still makes mundillo and gives free classes in Caguas. One of her pieces (a baptismal gown) is in the museum in the pueblo in Caguas too!!!
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Thrilled to be part of the next cohort for the Cornell Society for the Humanities
@sochum
! I’ll be working on book
#2
: ‘Archive of Disappearances: Afterimages of Afro-Puerto Ricans at the Edges of Empire’ a deeply personal book that reflects on fam hist & Blackness in PR & beyond
We're thrilled to announce our 2021-22 roster of "Afterlives" Fellows:
"The theme of afterlives asks us to consult both histories and imaginaries, theory and practice, to interrogate how cycles are reproduced or radically ruptured."
@CornellCAS
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It’s my birthday 🥳🌈
What a gorgeous thing to be alive
Feeling blessed beyond measure this year 🌊 and hopeful for our futures 🖤
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Proud to have worked on this grant with my UPR Rio Piedras colleagues (as editor, proofreader, etc.)!
Puerto Rico is getting an Afro-Diaspora Curriculum under the directorship of Mayra Santos Febres! HUGE NEWS!
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I opened my email. I have to go lay down. Goodnight.
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Just got off a transatlantic flight and my phone is in shambles! 😂
thank you all *so* much for your support & congratulations! It’s an exciting if daunting opportunity.
I will write a more detailed thread soon abt what this all entails
🌊🌊🌊🌊
Congrats
@DrYoFiggy
- So delighted to hear
@CentroPR
will continue to be in great hands. Pa'lante!
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The way that Black women like Nikki Giovanni & Audre Lorde had to school Baldwin…baybeeeee I love to see it!
Black feminist politics are and always have been capacious & relational…truly needed.
Points were made. Giovanni has to school Baldwin.
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I’ve been named an "Emerging Scholar" by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
Read the profiles for all the chosen scholars here: .
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Anyone else feeling rockbottom tired? I mean 😩😴 no rest is enough rest...and I promise I’ve been resting...
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🗣 My first portugués language article: “Diásporas Descolonizantes e Relações Afro- Atlânticas: O Caso para Estudos Caribenhos Afro-Latinx & da Guiné Equatorial” is now out in the journal
#Contempor
ânea!
Open access:
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Paper towel for that fucking payasoooooo!!! 🤡🤡🤡
A man wearing a Puerto Rican flag tosses paper towel over the fence toward the White House. “Never forget,” he said.
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And finally, I think we often talk alongside, around & over each other in the diaspora discourse.
It’s exciting to know how invested we are in each others lives & futures but it’s equally exhausting that we don’t always each other eye to eye across these conversations.
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One day, in the distant future, I might tell a few stories about how yt/mestizo Latinx academics tried to end my career before it even started.
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My book is out! 🥳🥳🥳
The translation of
#DecolonizingDiasporas
as
#Di
ásporasDescolonizadoras can be found at
@EEEmergente
🌊🌊🌊
📣 📚 Nuestro nuevo título *Diásporas decolonizadoras* de
@DrYoFiggy
y traducido por
@VeaCosaBonita
YA está disponible en nuestra tienda en línea. ¡Búscalo! ⬇️
#LiberaTuLectura
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I got some amazing news yesterday that a mega grant that I helped edit/develop alongside colleagues at UPR was funded!
I’m not even named on the grant, just a helper, and I am *so thrilled* to see this come to fruition!
Our colegas & comrades needed this win! ✊🏾
TBA soon 🌈
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1. My love + congrats to everyone who has been awarded a Ford Fellowship this year.
2. My love + solidarity to everyone who was not awarded. It’s hard. I was rejected several times before I won. You + your work are no less brilliant/valid bec of this. Pa’lante w your head high!
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Book Party Looks...
#DecolonizingDiasporas
*I am so thankful to the almost 80 ppl who made me laugh, cry, and feel so special tonight. I am overwhelmed with love and gratitude*
Thank you, a million times over!
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#MaKhiaByrant
should be alive right now. This minute. Alive.
Black girls deserve more.
Black girls deserve life.
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Update: I asked our local Black woman owned yoga studio to lead a trauma informed workshop on healing in the wake of racial violence & abuse. Belinda Thurston, owner of Just B yoga made a meditation video for my students & will be in our class on Mon 2 wrk w my beloved students.
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Ok I have to share this: my twin goddaughter & godson holding my book. I ran over there and snuggled them while they told me how I was on the book cover. 🥰🤩🌈💙 my whole heart just bursts looking at these! 😍
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Ok so…when I was an undergrad (early aughts) at Rutgers, there was a whole summit organized by & for West Indian/Caribbean students.
The dialogue culminated in a heated debate about “WHY LATINOS DONT CALL THEMSELVES WEST INDIAN?!” The Anglo-Carib students were big mad & the…
Dear Americans, people from the Caribbean are called Caribbean People or West Indian.
Never in your life Caribbeans
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as someone who has suffered multiple miscarriages, the most recent one just two months ago, I am so touched by the sharing of these stories. so many women suffer in silence, but there are many of us prepared to embrace you with love and understanding.
"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” Meghan Markle writes about her miscarriage. Today, we are sharing an essay by the Duchess of Sussex about the loss that she and Prince Harry suffered earlier this year.
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My first encounter with Asian Amer Studies was in grad school (Berkeley Comparative Ethnic Studies). I went 2 grad school to study Puerto Rican lit & was blessed with a training in Native Amer, Asian Amer, Latinx, & AfAm studies in relation. I’d been ignorant of Asian Am hist but
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Glissant on opacity//
“To feel in solidarity with him or to build with him or to like what he does, it is not necessary for me to grasp him. It is not necessary to try to become the other (to become other) nor to ‘make’ him in my image.”
//Poetics of Relation, 193
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My book has arrived (not to me!) but some of my students and friend have it!!!!
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Thank you for sharing Vanessa &
@prima_de_afuera
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APPLY! The Black Studies Collaboratory at
@BerkeleyAfroAm
invites you to apply to the inaugural Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab: June 28-July 2.
Mentors:
@profsassy
,
@moyazb
,
@DrYoFiggy
Keynote:
#OchyCuriel
& Hosts:
@professoroddjob
&
#TiannaPaschel
➡️
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This Wednesday at
@Hunter_College
Looking forward to sharing my current book project with my new colleagues!
✊🏾
@CentroPR
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Thank you
@jmjafrx
!!!
My 1st magazine piece is in this month’s
@Essence
where I talk abt Afro-Latinidad & Black women making relations & connections across diasporic differences.
And
@Lala
in the cover? *swoon* 😍
The best part of this Essence issue - bylines for the brilliant boyfriend
@DrYoFiggy
and gorgeous
@lala
on the cover. Taking the good of this y tirando el malo en la basura. 🗑Congratulations Dr. Figueroa-Vásquez!! If you haven't bought her book yet:
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Urgent call for amplification:
#TrifoniaMelibeaObono
has been detained in a notorious Equatorial Guinean prison & incomunicado since Friday.
She is an activist & writer, author of many novels incl “La Bastarda” the 1st LGBTQ novel of EG & is an advocate for human rights in EG.
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Why yes, I am on a solo writing retreat 1-hr away from my house bec I have so many 1/2 done projects & I need to focus.
Yes I’m also on Twitter, sad tweeting about finishing my 1/2 done projects.
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I am over the moon!!! 🥰⚡️🎉
CONGRATS to my boyfriend
@jmjafrx
for being awarded the
#2021ASA
@AmerStudiesAssn
LORA ROMERO BOOK PRIZE for
#WickedFlesh
!!! A well deserved honor my love!
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@MorganJerkins
She came out bec her cover was abt to be blown. This is not an apology it’s a Hail Mary.
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