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El Norte Recuerda

@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
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author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Honored and excited to once again serve as Poetry Faculty for McCormack Writing Center's Winter Online Workshop! Come work with me! Applications open now, due on September 28: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/177619/
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hi! Please pay attention. The Department of Education will now scan your tax data four years after graduating, and whatever degree program you graduated from, those degrees that earn below a high school diploma will no longer be eligible for student loans. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
U.S. Department of Education Issues Final Rule to Hold All Colleges and Universities Accountable for Low-Earning Programs

Today, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) announced a final rule establishing a long-overdue postsecondary education accountability framework. Under the new Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability rule, undergraduate programs will be required to demonstrate that their graduates earn more than the typical high school diploma holder, and graduate programs will be required to demonstrate that their graduates earn more than the typical bachelor’s degree holder.  

If a program fails to show at least this modest financial return on investment for its graduates in two out of three consecutive award years, it will lose eligibility to participate in the federal Direct Loan program.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...
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Lance Ellisor @ellisor.net · 13/04/2026
check this out (h/t @john.tibbettsfamily.com) ktla.com/entertainmen...
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He recorded 10,000 concerts on tape, now they’re streaming for free
The music collection of a 59-year-old Chicago man who attended more than 10,000 concerts and recorded them on cassette tapes is slowly being digitized and released online for free. Like many GenX k…
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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Join us THIS SUNDAY for our next Craft Lab with @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social! events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Not only are the murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti still walking free, but they're still working and getting paid by DHS while the Trump administration covers up their crimes. Renee Good's killer also reportedly illegally received $750k from GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/support-ic...
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...
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The Rumpus - El Alboroto
El Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizás no encajan en publicaciones más tradicionales. Nos interesa e...
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 16/03/2026
Ryan Coogler accepts his first-ever Oscar to a standing ovation “To my parents who are here, thank you for making me believe in myself… Memories are all we have. I hope we give you some great ones.”
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
there is a macroeconomic reason novels are not written in the third person anymore and it is not good www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Hey friends, if you have taught MAGICAL/REALISM in your classes, or if as a student, it has been assigned to you, could you let me know your university or school? It would be hugely, tremendously helpful. Thank you so much!
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hey LA! I will be at Skylight Books tomorrow talking with Alvaro Enrique, author of Your Dreamed of Empires, to introduce his new novel, NOW I SURRENDER! This is an incredible expansive book and I can't wait to chat with him about it. Come on out! 3/6, 7pm! www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...
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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Join us online on Sunday, March 29 for our next Craft Lab: “Poetic Cartographies” with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social. In this craft lab, we’ll investigate the link between language and the land. Sliding scale options between $25-$150!  brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...
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Craft Lab: Poetic Cartographies w/ Vanessa Angélica Villarreal — Brooklyn Poets
March 29, 5-8pm (ET) with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal  / online
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Teaching the basic concept of the Global South just got even more danceable
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Losing sight of the importance of hemispheric discourses in the break from empire, however, risks overstating the status of the nation-state system as a necessary outcome of the American revolutionary period."
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
My Poets & Writers class sold out! BUT, there is a waiting list, so maybe if enough people request a spot they'll open it up! I'll be talking about "mnemonic reading," and how pop culture can help us fill gaps in personal and public memory. Excited to teach it! www.pw.org/content/work...
Poets and Writers Course: 404 File Not Found, or Where Cultural Essay Meets Critical Memoir with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

An incomplete or contested family history. Historical silences. Absence. Conflicting accounts. Painful, incomplete memory. In telling our stories, as writers, sometimes we encounter corrupted files, missing fragments, or even worse, that 404 moment: FILE NOT FOUND.

How do we ethically write through those moments of contestable memory? What other texts do we attach to our own, and help us fill the hole where a memory once was? How do we make our stories legible through pop cultural touchstones? This class will focus on writing the creative-critical essay, braiding criticism with the personal, or framing the self within a historical or pop cultural moment.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Farm workers. The fields on the field. The legacies of slavery and colonialism—the sugar cane plantation, labor power, power crisis—despite it all, the future reaches through the tv to the past to make our postcolonial present. The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Not sure what you mean by theories, but there is very little knowledge production on Latine racial identity. Latines are taught to assimilate as part of an ongoing colonial project to empty the land of indigenous people, artificially inflate white majorities, and fight communism in Latin America
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Should I submit my 20th faculty application of this academic year or make another Jon Snow edit for Tiktok 😭 it's been an absolutely brutal couple of years man, holy shit
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Childless Dog Lady is on sabbatical. 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I keep thinking about these poor kids seeing their mom arrested for doing her job.
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Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I just finished teaching a j-term course on neofascism at middlebury, and I framed the class around the idea that the main distinction between pre- and post-war fascism is the dominance of the cult of death. fascism pre-war seeks the state; post-war seeks immolation of self, state, volk, and nation.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I want to start a press that sells $5 mass market paperbacks, with introductions by contemporary figures. Not a boutique press because reading is not a luxury. We’ll need to be subsidized to keep the price point, but we can’t let mass market pbs die to $50 hardbacks and Anna’s Archive 💔
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
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5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
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Keith Wilson @divisionbyzero.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The mass market paperback is what most people think of when they hear the word "paperback." It's the printed edition meant for the regular person. It's smaller and cheaper than the hardback & trade paperback, and it's going away.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...
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Mass Market Paperbacks are discontinued
Publishers Weekly last month reported that ReaderLink, the largest full-service distributor of
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
There are few poets I trust more who can capture the constant present of the shattered colonial real, the specter of the past, the looping nature of un-time, unreality, that is forced into a procession line of exit and erasure, than Chaun Webster. lithub.com/letter-from-...
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Letter From Minnesota: This Occupation is Strange But Familiar
This is the second dispatch in our ongoing series of Letters From Minnesota in which we invite writers to share their experiences, as both witness and warning, of American authoritarianism. _______…
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Most people do not grasp how warped our reality is that ICE even exists. Immigration and Naturalization Service, formerly INS, was a CIVIC agency—part of the Department of Labor. Racism and xenophobia alone militarized it under George W Bush following 9/11. This cannot be reformed. ABOLISH ICE NOW
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026
Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher: "A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction," Wednesday evenings Feb 4-April 29, 5:30-7PM ET. Online via YouTube. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... #books #liberation
Promo image, via Haymarket Books, for the hybrid online seminar "Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher," Wednesday evenings Feb 4-April 29, 5:30-7PM ET. A colorized image of a black-and-white photo of Fanon illustrates the announcement.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Photo by me
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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I interviewed Ethan Hawke today at Sundance. How’s y’all’s day going?? @vulture.com
A screenshot of a Vulture instagram story of moi, Angelica Jade, on the left in a tan leather chair wearing leopard print speaking animatedly to Ethan Hawke in double denim with his hands in a prayer formation.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
What we’re seeing in Minneapolis began in Ferguson in 2014. Militarization of police, IDF tactics, gassing protestors w/ the same gas used on Palestinians. Between 2009-2016, Obama deported 3 million people without criminal records. And Palantir began operating in 2019. You weren’t paying attention.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
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just Dave @justdave.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Liam Conejo Ramos’ little Spider-Man backpack is destroying me. A five year old used as bait, and detained. No one protected him, not even the heroes of our imagination. May all our fantasies be revealed as the imperialist propaganda and failure of imagination they are.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It's my birthday today. No celebration. Instead, I'm getting on a plane at 7pm tonight to be with my mom for her breast cancer surgery tomorrow. My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...
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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"Migration is an act inextricably bound to childhood the wolf womb, the open portal, the time-wound, the dark pines shining back eyes" Happy birthday to El Norte Recuerda! Watch Villarreal perform an excerpt of her poem "Architect 3" in this film created with Haymarket Books.
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 15/01/2026
Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
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Support Calvary Food Shelf: Emergency Response Fundraiser on GiveMN
Help us respond to urgent community needs
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Another immigrant, Luis Gustavo Nuñez Cazares, died in ICE custody in Conroe, Texas. The cause was heart failure. Rest in peace, Luis.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
ICE can now spy on every phone in your neighborhood. www.wired.com/story/securi...
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ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood
Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/01/2026
Border Patrol agents beat and tased Anastacio Hernandez to death on video in 2010. If you don't remember that, it's because you weren't paying attention.
A video still showing a group of 15 agents beating a man to death
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
My latest @npr.org story: The United States could be headed toward the largest-ever decline in representation by Black members of Congress if the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting n.pr/49tevoK
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A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress
If the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, it could usher in the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is heartbreaking, and also upsetting to see it amplified instantaneously when video shows her wife crying and talking about their kid at school. We have no idea what kind of family dynamics are at play and a same-sex partner is vulnerable to being muscled out of the story, so we should use care
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
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