Beautiful news my friends. Sharing the cover of my newest book, a titanic international anthology featuring the words of 140 Daughters of Latin America. It’s out August 15, 2023. It’s been a sublime honor to curate the texts of women whose words illuminate, free & empower.

RT @RuthSantiagopr: “We aren’t against solar panels … We are against the use of our agricultural land to site solar panels and flood our ho….

Historic and exciting times. The Autumn of Freedom in the oldest colony of the World.

RT @AlbertoMedinaPR: Earlier this year I wrote in @curaffairs that there were signs support for Puerto Rican sovereignty had grown. The lat….

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An honor to b in conversation with a legend, one of my heroes #jamaicakincaid at the WIT Festival. There are tickets left. Miss Kincaid has a glorious new book in collaboration w visual artist Kara Walker: An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

RT @Vinod_r108: @Kamillascsilva Humanity ♥️

A government that allows a private corp to bury toxic ashes & build streets, housing, malls on top of the same toxic soil is an evil entity. Full stop: Estudio—cenizas de carbón con altos niveles de arsénico hasta en Jardín Botánico de Caguas. Puerto Rico

Hurricanes at this time of year—and this strong— are not normal. Blessings for all those on the path of this petite monster caused by fossil fuels. God bless us all:.Hurricane Beryl devastates Grenada: ‘In half an hour, Carriacou was flattened’

New Report Recognizes the Harm of Columbia River Dams on Northwest Tribes. Now the Feds need to keep going coz the damage is far and wide. 👋 Puerto Rico

A nightmare: At least 20 dead in massive inferno at lithium battery factory after explosions rip through burning plant in South Korea

This is how a U.S. veteran is living in the colony of Puerto Rico. He’s been waiting for access to his home while city gov ignores. No matter what party is in office, he says, he’s being screwed: human drama in Luquillo—“We are asking to access our homes.”

Happy Juneteenth beloveds. Check out this great film Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom (official documentary trailer) from Our Daily Bread's Voices Collection - YouTube

Still recovering from Wednesday’s power outage as I read that the unelected, undemocratic board that governs Puerto Rico— imposed by a US president that Puerto Ricans did not elect — continues to block solar renewable energy efforts. It’s abusive.

Imperial French government is killing Native People in one of their Pacific colonies who r tired of their imperialism/occupation since 1898. They r sending military to quell the uprising. The Kanaky People r fighting for their lands. Colonialism must end

RT @midnucas: One running gag in Tina Fey’s sitcom 30 Rock (that she created and starred in) is that the word “Puerto Rican” is a slur like….

“Morrison curated The Black Book to challenge master narratives of the history & culture of Black people in the U.S. In the same way, you curated a tome that catalogs the vast experiences & stories of daughters of Latin America to challenge conventional notions of Latine women.”.

Thank you @JPryorRamirez for a brilliant, thoughtful and clear understanding of what I was attempting to do with Daughters. 🙏🏾.

I was in college—Rutgers— when we protested the school’s investments in South Africa & the response from college presidents was similar. Kids: don’t let up. Apartheid is inhumane. Ask me, I was born a colonial subject in the oldest US colony, Puerto Rico.

We Want to Be Free (2024), ceramic, glass beads, plastic beads, nylon fringe, tin jingles, nylon thread, canvas, Glimpse into Native American artist, Jeffrey Gibson’s Historic US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. ✊🏾

A giant of letters, the extraordinary storyteller, Guadeloupean Maryse Condé is now in the ancestral plane. So honored to have published Discovering Celia Cruz, one of her last writings, in Daughters of Latin America. If you haven’t read her work, do. 🕊️✊🏾