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Carolyn Fornoff

@c4noff.bsky.social
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Associate prof of Latin American studies at Cornell. Mex + CAm studies. Environmental humanities, 📚, 🎥, 🎨.

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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 13h
The Cornell AAUP Chapter is outraged by the sexual violence that was committed at Chi Phi in 2024. We call for the community to come together on Monday, October 5 at 4:30pm in Ho Plaza, to stand in support of the survivors of sexual violence. Our full statement is here.
We are outraged by the continued culture of misogyny and by the continued pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at universities and colleges across the country. We are outraged that so many women at Cornell have reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact. 

We are deeply disturbed by Cornell University administration’s response and communications to the community, initially in 2024 and now. Cornell administrators point community members to resources, but do not exercise leadership in creating space to process the harm, the outrage, and to change the culture of misogyny. In moments of crisis such as this, we need leaders, not administrators. 

The Cornell administration’s responses reveal its failure to understand and respond appropriately to actual harm and threats to safety on campus. It has used its internal communications to issue elaborate accusations, and it has imposed excessive discipline against students for political protests where there was no threat of harm or violence. And yet, when it comes to sexual violence, Cornell’s communications have been oblique or silent, leaving the community frustrated, fearful, or angry about the administration’s lack of transparency about how it will take effective responses.

We stand in solidarity with victims of sexual violence. We are outraged by the treatment of Jane Doe. We stand in solidarity with student organizations who have been demanding better, with faculty, staff, and students who have been organizing spaces to process and demand change. We do not yet know precisely how or why this case was so egregiously mishandled. What we do know is that it is the most recent example of the systemic failure of Cornell to protect its community — from patients at Cornell Weill to Cornell students — from sexual violence. This system must change.
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Proud of the student journalists at Cornell who have tenaciously pursued this shattering story www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @mexicanists.org · 17/09/2026
Novel Distortions: Postnationalism and Literary Form in Mexico and Central America, by @tamaramitchell.bsky.social is here! mexicanists.org/novel-distor...
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Novel Distortions: Postnationalism and Literary Form in Mexico and Central America
by Tamara L. Mitchell University of Pittsburgh Press The novel emerged in lockstep with the nation-state, serving as the cultural counterpart to political form in the modern era. However, these dyn…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In some ways, writes @c4noff.bsky.social, “The Suicides” by Antonio Di Benedetto and “String Theory / Teoría de Cuerdas” by Karen Villeda couldn’t be more different. But “both books are fundamentally preoccupied with how the suicides of others informs the self.” www.publicbooks.org/literature-i...
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Literature in the Time of Suicide - Public Books
“In both these Spanish-language novels, thinking about suicide is not only to grapple with someone else’s decision to die, but also inevitably with one’s own decision to go on living.”
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Check out my latest essay for Public Books about how Latin American literature thinks about suicide and grief
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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Submit by 10 November for a special issue of PMLA. Mapping Indigenous Literatures asks how the field of Indigenous humanities criticism has influenced the broader field of Indigenous studies. Learn more about the special issue and how to submit an essay at mla.org/PMLA-Submissions
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Focaccia!!
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Latest garden haul 🪏
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Tom Fornoff @tom4noff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Hyper is a remarkable novel by @agri.bsky.social recommended by @c4noff.bsky.social, whose @coffeehousepress.bsky.social subscription introduces books she might not ever find on her own. For both of us, Hyper is a happy discovery. I've reviewed it at readthinkdraw.substack.com/p/2nd-genera...
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2nd Generation Refugee$$
Ismail’s Novel, Hyper, Explores Paths Through Western Materialism
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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
¿Quién me invita a un panel para LASA2027? Normalmente no voy, pero en mi ciudad, en el campus de mi alma mater, sí quiero.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"public funding for book culture is exponentially higher in Spain than it is in the United States. The Spanish government sponsors book fairs, gives subventions to small presses, funds travel for Spanish authors, and pursues a range of other initiatives both domestically and internationally." 😭😭
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026
An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This game has been fabulous!!!
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Paraguay!!! Shoot outs always make my hands so sweaty 😅😅😅
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
3:30 on a Friday is a ridiculous time for this but: WE STARTED A NEW SERIES! Stela: Science and Technology in Latin America, with editors David Dalton and Diana Montaño This basically means that if you work on just about anything in Latin American studies you’re now *required* to send it to me.
Stela: Science and Technology in Latin America, David S. Dalton and Diana J. Montaño, eds.
NEW SERIES: We are actively soliciting submissions. The title of the series, Stela, finds inspiration from its plural, stelae, the remarkable carved stone monuments of ancient Mesoamerica that served as technologies of communication, a medium for monumental art and storytelling that provided a public record of genealogies and political achievements within the community. This series is committed to establishing a similar platform in the present by fostering collaboration and preserving the valuable insights of scholars in Science, Technology, Society, and Culture Studies (STSC) from the Americas and throughout the world. We welcome submissions of monographs and edited volumes in the humanities and social sciences that explore the intersections of science and technology in Latin American society and culture. Topics of interest include (but are certainly not limited to): digital humanities; engineering; history of medicine; history of science; history of technology; medical humanities; philosophy of science; posthumanism/transhumanism; science and literature; technology and culture. We especially welcome projects that introduce new archival discoveries, propose new theoretical approaches to STSC in Latin America, explore the relationship of subaltern and understudied populations with scientific and technological discourse, cross disciplinary boundaries, and challenge us to rethink the various canons of Latin American thought.
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
My partner Jon released a new album! It's instrumental math rock. Two drums + two pianos = 🔥. Check out "Our Neighbors the Giants" on your platform of choice 😁 open.spotify.com/album/7wCpWW...
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Our Neighbors the Giants
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
less A quotas and more of this! THINKING remains the sine qua non
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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I've got to say that I'm becoming a bit sick of ecocritical readings that are basically celebratory: "Ooh look at the ecological ethic promoted by this novel!" What happened to looking for tensions, contradictions, the unsaid? Reading against the grain tends to be a lot more interesting.
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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I published the speech I read during the Latiné Student Celebration in my newsletter. If you wish to read it, link is in the photo
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
ok for real who wants to be the next MLA exec director, let's get a dynamo and get in formation
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Explosive audio evidence indicates that the Trump administration is funding a misinformation campaign to discredit leftist leaders in Latin America. The ring leader is Juan Orlando Hernandez, the corrupt, cartel-aligned ex-pres of Honduras, who Trump pardoned 😡 english.elpais.com/internationa...
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‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There is no excuse for Kotlikoff to back up into a group of students 😠
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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Kotlikoff Drives Into Student and Recent Grad Following ‘Harassment’
President Michael Kotlikoff backed his car into a student and drove over the foot of a recent graduate after what he called a "harassment and intimidation incident" in a Friday email blast to the...
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) & provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." Disinvestment in the humanities is one way we've reached the current moment. Double the budget instead. Triple it.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.
In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than five months and began translating short fiction by prominent Mexican and Cuban writers. These stories, as he wrote to a friend, explore “the revolutions and uprisings, sugar cane, Negroes, Indians, corrupt generals, [and] American imperialists,” and are “mostly all left stories, because practically all the writers down here are left these days.” But when Hughes proposed publishing the stories as a book, to be titled Troubled Lands, his agent discouraged him from further pursuing the project and it remained unpublished, until now, with only a handful of the translations making their way into contemporary magazines. This volume presents Hughes’s translations of these stories together for the first time as he originally envisioned. Edited by Ricardo Wilson, the book also features an introduction and brief biographies of the included writers.

Troubled Lands features thirty-three stories by eighteen writers, including Rafael Felipe Muñoz, Nellie Campobello, Lino Novás Calvo, Luis Felipe Rodríguez, Germán List Arzubide, Pablo de la Torriente-Brau, and Juan de la Cabada. The collection depicts Mexico in the wake of its revolution and Cuba in the years between the brutal regimes of Machado and Batista
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
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March 18, 2026
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Inspiring win by Indigenous land defenders, who stopped plans to privatize the Amazonian Tapajós river and expand it into a megacanal to facilitate the export of soy products by Cargill www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway
Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
1. The footage shows Homeland Security is lying when he got indoors and was wearing prison booties I doubt are good for the cold. 2. Nurul Amin Shah Alam apologized to police BEFORE he was tasered when he was originally arrested. wapo.st/3OCwNx8
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Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage
Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Our book is published!!! mitpress.mit.edu/978191598348... There is supposed to be an open access version available, which does not seem to be actually available, and which I am doggedly pursing, but for now: hurrah! Print enjoyers, get your copies!
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Low Carbon Research Methods
Current research norms are increasingly unsustainable for the planet and scholars alike. Dominant modes of research and research dissemination place a premiu...
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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Awful, painful, terrifying day in Mexico yesterday. Here's a summary of the many many news I've been reading. I share it not as an expert, but to help myself make sense of things, so maybe it's useful for others who want to know what's going on but can't spent 5 hours reading the news. It hurts.
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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · 16/02/2026
I found this piece generative. As someone who initially hit the job market during the brief period in which you could get a job in DH, is co-editing a Debates in DH volume, trying to build support for “DH” on my campus, & co-teaching a class with Matt called “Books as Data,” I have thoughts!
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"Baila sin miedo Ama sin miedo" made me tear up. Go Benito 🔥💖
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
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Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says
Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 03/02/2026
BREAKING: A U.S. District Court judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end protected status for about 330,000 Haitians living in the United States with Temporary Protected Status.
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Hundreds of Ohioans show support for Haitians, federal judge blocks TPS ending for Haitians • Ohio Capital Journal
Hundreds of Ohioans gathered at a church in Springfield on Monday to show support for the Haitian community in Springfield.
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Congrats, Cornell, and every other university that bowed down to the bully.
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Once an exclusively white enterprise, the last forty-five years have witnessed the emergence of a disproportionately Latinx immigration law enforcement workforce. This article addresses the question of why Latinxs elect to work for agencies that have systematically targeted the ethnic communities to which they belong. Where existing scholarship has often implied Latinxs may self-select into immigration law enforcement due to a lack of identification with the immigrant-experience, a dissociation with ethnic identity, and generally restrictionist immigration attitudes, this article finds little empirical evidence to support such an assumption. Analysis of interviews with sixty-one Latinx Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across Arizona, California, and Texas reveals, instead, Latinxs elect to work in immigration law enforcement in service of economic self-interest and survival, with “money,” “a good job,” and “benefits” cited as the primary motivation(s) behind applying for and accepting a job in immigration. This pattern holds irrespective of individual agents’ levels of identification with the immigrant-experience and particular attitudes toward immigration, and suggests a diversity in the demographics of immigration law enforcement agencies that extends beyond mere race and ethnicity, to include a diversity of perspective and potential for empathy.
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @mexicanists.org · 27/01/2026
introducing AntiAnte, a platform for critical thought into politics and culture in and across Latin American, Caribbean, and Hemispheric contexts antiante.org
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AntiAnte
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @mexicanists.org · 26/01/2026
Trilce is a blazingly vivid revelation of what poetry can be, at once a love poem, a poem of erotic urgency and frustration, a poem of family life, of political fury, a lament for the dead, a work of intense privacy and an address to the world. www.nyrb.com/products/tri...
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Trilce
A new translation of the Peruvian poet's most groundbreaking, infamously obstuse work, a collection that stretches the limits of human language and predicted the Surrealist movement of the 1920s and 3...
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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Friends in Spanish, Portuguese, and other language departments, do you offer a pro seminar for your grads? if so, do you have materials you'd be willing to share? Thank you!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...
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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I much prefer the way the Minneapolis Star Tribune calls them "residents." That's what they are: residents standing up for their community
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
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