Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026What a beautiful evening! Thank you all for blessing my little novel! 🙏🏽🕊️💜 📸:Joey S. Kim🙏🏽 010
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Thank you for the love and support! ¡Bendiciones!🕊️💜🕊️ nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948040... 000
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Think my account was hacked. So terrible! 000
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioDr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As a survivor of sexual violence, this shit is triggering as fuck. As a professor who has witnessed, reported and watched how the university protects predators, I’m just done. But when you have a predator in chief, what can you expect. Fuck all this. Honestly. Too much. 312117
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Honored to be included in this stellar list. Read Latinx books! 💜🙏🏽🕊️ www.bookpage.com/tag-page/his...bookpage.comHispanic Heritage Month 2026These books allow us to celebrate, consider and explore Latinx heritage through fiction, history, recipes and more. Que vivan los libros! 020
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What a beautiful evening! Thank you all for blessing my little novel! 🙏🏽🕊️💜 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948040... 041
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Please help me spread the word. It’s a great time to also ask your local libraries to stock this book. Thank you all so much! nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948040... 000
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioBocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026📣Sept’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! New Caribbean releases, upcoming events & Aug’s bestsellers at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social! trinidadexpress.com/features/loc... #bocas2026 @ayendy.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @nupress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social 112
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Last night was the perfect way to commence my Bless Me, Papi book tour. I feel enormously grateful to all who were there in person and in spirit. 🙏🏽💜🕊️ 020
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026🕊️💜🙏🏽My dique book tour! Michigan, Ohio, and New York friends, come through. I’d love to see you! 🕊️💜🙏🏽 010
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioJoey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026CFP! @ayendy.bsky.social and I are co-editing an awesome book on 19th and early 20th c. Latinx-Asian relationalities. Proposals for 4-6k word essays due 10/8. Please dm me for more info and share widely! 024
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioNorthwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"Because, aren’t pigeons doves in disguise? And aren’t doves a symbol of the Holy Spirit? I had no doubt that my pigeons were holy. Those coos were prayers we mistook for something lesser." 2/2 BLESS ME, PAPI by Ayendy Bonifacio, out August 15. nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948040...nupress.northwestern.eduBless Me, Papi - Northwestern University PressA coming-of-age tale of a young Dominican American boy facing a grave loss and a feathered phantomBetween the looming buildings of Brooklyn, a young Dominica... 011
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Thank you to the brilliant Renee Hudson for this very smart and generous review of Dique Dominican. Read it in Latinx Talk: 052
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioRenee Hudson @renhu2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My review of @ayendy.bsky.social's searing memoir, Dique Dominican, which explores the failures of the American Dream framed by toxic productivity and the too-high demands academia makes of us. Read it now at @LatinxTalk: latinxtalk.org/2026/08/25/b...latinxtalk.orgBook Review: Bonifacio, Ayendy, Dique Dominican - Latinx TalkResisting the American Dream: On Ayendy Bonifacio’s Dique Dominican Ayendy Bonifacio’s memoir, Dique Dominican (2026), is a referendum on the American Dream. In Bonifacio’s hands, the narrative of upl... 154
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioJill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 25/08/202619th-century - modern researchers, take note! 022
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026CFP! @joeykim.bsky.social & I are editing The Latinx-Asian Commons, an interdisciplinary collection on Asian-Latinx relationalities from the nineteenth century to 1965. We welcome 300–500-word proposals. Due October 8, 2026. Graduate students & contingent faculty encouraged! See photo for more info. 074
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioJoey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 23/08/2026CFP! @ayendy.bsky.social & I are editing The Latinx-Asian Commons, an interdisciplinary collection on Asian-Latinx relationalities from the nineteenth century to 1965. We welcome 300–500-word proposals. Due October 8, 2026. Graduate students & contingent faculty encouraged! See photo for more info. 022
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Dominicans in the house! Honored to share the printed page with la grade, Elizabeth Acevedo in Bookpage. Read the review here: www.bookpage.com/reviews/bles... 030
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Thank you all so much! 🕊️🕊️Bless Me, Papi🕊️🕊️ 010
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 19/05/2026⭐️Bless Me, Papi just got a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.⭐️ I can’t wait to share this story with you! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...kirkusreviews.comBLESS ME, PAPI | Kirkus ReviewsA young teen mourns the death of his father. 020
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioJoey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Honored to be short-listed for the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) First Book Prize! BARS is the UK’s leading national organization for promoting the study of Romanticism. Congrats to the fellow honorees--excited to see the winner next month!!! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6441...bars.ac.ukBARS First Book Prize 2026 Shortlist Announced – BARS Blog 081
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioJoey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The fall 2025 issue of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US (MELUS) is out, and my conversation with Ocean Vuong is included in it! If you’d like a pdf, let me know! academic.oup.com/melus/articl... 042
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioJoey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I'm officially tenured!!! I'm deeply grateful to everyone who supported me through it all. I'm humbled and honored to continue this work as an Associate Professor. 🎉🙏🤩 2171
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Still reeling from this fabulous event! Thank you, Profe! 🙏🏽💜 010
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Behind every major movement are countless silently abused women and girls. 011
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioJoey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Headed to my present my paper on the Aenikkaeng Koreans of 1905 at the C19 conference! Part of an awesome panel on the Latinx-Asian Commons of the Long Nineteenth Century with other papers on Chinese, Punjabi, and Mexican relationalities in print and literature! Co-chaired w/ @ayendy.bsky.social! 021
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Super excited to be in conversation with all this brilliance as we conceptualize a “Latinx-Asian commons” at @c19americanists.bsky.social conference! Would love to see you there! 💜🙏🏽 010
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioShannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 27/02/2026JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...apply.workable.comDirector and Curator, Special Collections and Archives - Middlebury CollegeReporting to the Dean of the Library, the Director and Curator of Special Collections provides leadership, vision, and budget oversight for Middlebury’s special collections, including its rare book an... 211781
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I’m honored to be a part of this conversación! Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University effroncenter.princeton.edu/events/2026/...effroncenter.princeton.eduNew Books in Latinx Studies: Conversations with Authors 010
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Thank you so much to Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce for covering the launch event for Dique Dominican. Please check out La Prensa Ohio and Michigan Bilingual Newspaper, northwest Ohio’s oldest and continuously running Latinx newspaper. 💜🙏🏽 laprensanewspaper.com/index.php/20...laprensanewspaper.comDr. Ayendy Bonifacio’s Book Release: Dique Dominican - La Prensa NewspaperAt The University of Toledo By Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio’s book, Dique Dominican, is finally out, and the book release presentation was held at The University of Toledo (UToledo) on... 000
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioUnsolicited Press @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social · 25/01/2026DIQUE DOMINICAN is the powerful debut memoir from Ayendy Bonifacio, born "near a mango-steepled, river-scented town" in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn after migrating as a child. #books asterismbooks.com/product/diqu... 021
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I am incredibly humbled and grateful! Congratulations to my fellow poetas: winners, finalists, semi-finalists, and contributors! Palante mi gente. This is a big one. 🙏🏽💜😭🇭🇹🇩🇴 041
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I’m placing a new order today. Let me know if you’d like a personalized copy in English, Spanish, or Spanglish. $30 includes shipping 🙏🏽💜 000
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I’m heading to the post office and still have a few copies left. Let me know if you want one. $30 (includes shipping) 000
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Friends, join Dr. Lorgia García Peña and I today at 1:30 PM for the virtual launch of Dique Dominican. I’ll be giving away a free signed copy of the book to a lucky attendee in addition to, what I know will be, a great conversation. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69... 020
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 13/02/2026I’m enormously grateful to all those who attended the book launch for Dique Dominican as well as all who were there in spirit. Thank you so much! 010
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 12/02/2026¡Mi gente! I have signed copies for sale. They come with a custom Dique Dominican bookmark. Email me at ayendy9 [at] gmail, or private message me if interested. $30 (including shipping). 🙏🏽💜 041
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 09/02/2026¡Palante, mi gente! news.utoledo.edu/index.php/02...news.utoledo.eduEnglish Professor Explores Identity, Anger, Belonging in Revised Memoir | UToledo NewsDr. Ayendy Bonifacio’s “Dique Dominican” blends personal history with cultural analysis to challenge the feeling that you are not who you are “supposed” to be. 000
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioJoey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 31/01/2026“I begin here, with this, because despite how it reads, I loved my father…I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.” Happy pub day to @ayendy.bsky.social! 152
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 31/01/2026It’s official! Today, Dique Dominican is out in the word! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏🏽💜🥳 www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dique... 051
Reposted by Ayendy BonifacioInsurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies @insurrecthistory.bsky.social · 27/01/2026"Historically, empires have never been, and will never be, the arbiters of morality or ethics, especially when it comes to migrants and border politics." Read Ayendy Bonifacio's "Colonial 'Illegals': Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants,": www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...insurrecthistory.comColonial “Illegals”: Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants — INSURRECT!“Experience is our best teacher, and we must check time: remember what we have lost, who we have been, and commit to supporting, in whatever ways we can, the communities and networks of undocumented w... 131
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Read about it here www.clmp.org/news/books-l... 021
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 24/01/2026¡Advanced copies of Dique Dominican are here!💜🥳🙏🏽🇩🇴🇭🇹 www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dique... 082
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Please join us for my book launch! It’ll be great to see you. I’ll be giving away a couple of books to two lucky winners. @laprofelgp.bsky.social // Register por fava: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69... 0105
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendybonifacio.bsky.social · 11/12/2025New poem! Thank you @driftwoodpress.bsky.social 042
