adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Baldwin (my cute little tree) would like to let you know that today is my memoir's American book birthday :) Order link below, or get it from your local indie bookstore!!! (Yes, both tree and book are James Baldwin namesakes. Can you tell who my favorite writer is?) uncpress.org/978146969663... 020
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026what my books see when I'm about to sign my 65th copy at the exhibit 120
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026happy Canadian book birthday to my debut memoir :) 140
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Seattle folks, I'll be back in the city this weekend - come hang at Mam's Books in the International District for my book launch and conversation with Moon-Ho Jung! @uwapress.uw.edu 062
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Reconnection, like return, might feel innocent to us Filipino diaspora folk, but actually entangle us in a web of exploitative relationships with the nation-state that occupies the islands and calls itself our "homeland." Thanks to my patient editor Mike Baccam, and my friends and colleagues! 010
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026While we might think about the balikbayan as a post-1970s legal and cultural category, we can find its roots in late Spanish revolutionary nationalism and American empire. "What does it mean to go home?” is one of those feel-good clichés that, the more you peel back, the more convoluted it gets. 100
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026BALIKBAYAN is a strange and unexpected history of return migration, and diaspora's ideological and economic relationship with colonial nationalism, settler state formation, and imperial territoriality. It begins with that fundamental diasporic question: What does it mean to go home? 110
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 28/12/2025got a cute not-so-little ARC in the mail (forthcoming may 2026 in canada, oct 2026 in murica) 4121
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Swipe Irvin Ibargüen's new book EXPEDITIOUSLY!!! Game changing history of the Mexican state and its relationship to transborder migration! (Selfie snuck during department meeting) @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968958... 041
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025DR. ANN NGOC TRAN (UCLA) - MY FRIEND AND FIRST PHD STUDENT - WON THE ASA DISSERTATION PRIZE 😤 050
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 02/11/2025THANK YOU FOR THIS POSTSEASON MY INCREDIBLE CHILD 010
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 29/10/2025me watching the WS today after watching the entire game last night and teaching all my classes 020
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Yall better grab a copy of my homie Irvin Ibargüen's new book!!! A pathbreaking study of the Mexican state's relationship with US-bound migration and border control. And watch our for some events we'll be doing together next year 👀 uncpress.org/978146968958... 021
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Yall better grab a copy of my homie Irvin Ibargüen's new book!!! A pathbreaking study of the Mexican state's relationship with US-bound migration and border control. And watch our for some events we'll be doing together next year 👀 uncpress.org/978146968958... 000
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Sinners is going on my Asian American history syllabus next Fall, whew! 130
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025me, a Raptors fan, rocking with the Knicks and Pacers this year: 020
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025after seven years of work, a lot of personal upheavals, and four moves to new cities, done and submitted. forthcoming Jan/Feb 2026. 2313
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025NYU got three Asian Am historians on faculty this year 😎 0110
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 10/01/2025the Pacita Abad retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario is a complete showstopper 010
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Happy New Year and happy germination to my next book, approved by @uwapress.bsky.social for publication in early 2026! An unconventional history of the Philippine nation-state told through return migration. Very proud of this one. "Going home" won't be the same after reading this, promise! 073
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 30/12/2024best part of the replyallpocalypse was the colleague who introduced us to their dog Onion worst parts were the weird edgelord rage baiters otherwise pleasant, save people changing the thread titles and circumventing my mutes anyway here's Onion. if that colleague is here I'd love to hang out 🥹 150
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 29/12/2024yall I gotta show this new place in Toronto I found while looking for a hookah spot. Ilocos Pride on Dufferin and Lawrence. It's so hard to find a Filipino place that specializes in my regional cuisine (most non-northerners don't get it right), so this is a gift. If you're in the city pls support 😭 1151