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Juan Antonio Trujillo

@juantrujillo.bsky.social
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Latino exmormon writer, filmmaker, and analog photography enthusiast. Emeritus R1 faculty in language and cultural studies with an emphasis on jotería and other Latinx topics. (he, él) 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸/🇨🇦

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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Here's what has been keeping me out of trouble the past couple of weeks. Get your tickets today!
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I haven't plugged my book project lately. The distributor is raising prices in February and because margins are slim, I'll have to bump things up a bit too. You can get a great discount if you order directly from editorial.elinverso.com/objetos before December 31!
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's October!? This month marks the 1st anniversary of the release of Objetos de [des]amor and yes, it's available at a discount through November for all of you who find yourself in an introspective space or working through grief. Hit the link at editorial.elinverso.com/objetos
Lith self-portrait with death mask; triple exposure with distressed negative.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Apparently Dallin Oaks is finally getting his shot on the throne of the LDS church. Expect regression on LGBTQ topics from this man who oversaw the electroshock torture of gay men at BYU and spearheaded the vile Proclamation on the Family. May his reign be brief.
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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching @uoregon.bsky.social
"I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. 

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously- consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. 

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, l've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point."
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
As I ponder a move to Canada, I've thought about life in exile and Gonzalo Rojas came to mind. I studied with him at BYU where he lived in exile before the return of democracy to Chile. I am awed by his capacity to retain his sensitivity and fervor for life in the face of state brutality and loss.
Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas stands at a podium during a presentation.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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ICEBlock Official @iceblock.app · 17/04/2025
We must #resist in every way possible! Everyone should install #ICEBlock to protect themselves and their communities. You can see reported ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius of your current location. It's free, anonymous and could literally save someone's life. apps.apple.com/us/app/icebl...
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Hey folks, it's a good time to be in community with queer and BIPOC people to share our vision for the world. Join us for the Vueltas: Wheels of Memory program tomorrow (6/22) at Milagro from 1-3. There will be art, music, writing, snacks, and a lot of empathetic faces.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Mike Lee’s reprehensible behavior and comments on MN and so many other things are not just about Lee, they are a reflection of the lack of moral character of every voter in UT who put him there, & every cowardly Republican colleague and the Mormon Church who refuse to say a word.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Join me for a reading from my book Objetos de [des]amor along with new work from longtime collaborators Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, Ivonne Saed and phenomenal guitarist María E. Olaya. We'll be at Milagro's Zócalo on June 22, 1-3 pm! Come early to chat and enjoy our art installation!
Background features a large spoked wooden wheel, images of the 4 event participants are at the top and at the bottom the title reads Vueltas: Wheels of memory.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Come see me tonight at Literary Arts!
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I really need to figure out who can take care of my garden so I can move part time to Canada.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I miss teaching my food and ethnic identity class, I would love to explore yesterday's Trader Joe visit with students. The store was blasting a "Cinco de mayo" playlist (mostly rancheras). There is a fine line between celebration and tokenization and they were on the wrong side of it for me.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Hey y'all, I'm participating in a reading at Literary Arts just a month from today. There will be 3 featured readers offering work around the theme "Ritual" and some time for community conversation. Info at literary-arts.org/event/incite...
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Incite: Queer Writers Read
Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated, bimonthly reading series for Queer writers. Incite’s hope is to create conversation, connection, and greater understanding both within the Queer community and ...
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I'm experimenting with trolling (on my own page) on Fb before I burn it all down. Latest musing is basically this: If all y'all wanted a king, you could do much, much better because no current European monarch is as despotic and lacking in taste.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
My biggest jump scare this week: Hegseth mentioning the Overton window. His comment reflected poor understanding of the concept but it reveals that cabinet-level officials are knowingly softening the public to accept greater atrocity from an increasingly authoritarian regime. Chilling.
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Tag! Queer Shorts Festival @tagqsf.org · 03/04/2025
We're just a couple of days away from the big event! Get your tickets today from hollywoodtheatre.org and we'll see you on Saturday and Sunday to watch all of these great shorts. @hollywoodtheatr.bsky.social
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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LDS Ex-Gay Torture Therapist Gets 15 Years To Life - Joe.My.God.
Salt Lake City’s NBC affiliate reports: A former Provo counselor who specialized in counseling gay men will spend at least 15 years and up to life in prison after admitting to nonconsensual sexual con...
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
April 1 was more fun when we were told true things by the news on other days.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Lapses in worldwide TB prevention and treatment may hit closer than you think! In another life I was an LDS missionary who came home from MX with a latent TB infection that was halted due to community-based, no-cost screening and treatment. Don't let the regime's stupidity endanger more people.
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Tag! Queer Shorts Festival @tagqsf.org · 20/03/2025
Cheery film promos might seem frivolous next to posts describing the escalating cruelty and lawlessness of the felonious president and his handlers. Tag! believes that telling our stories and celebrating our lives is anything but trivial. It is resistance. Join us at this year's festival. tagqsf.org
White spray paint-style words on a black background: Create. Gather. Resist. Tag! logo is at the bottom.
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Tag! Queer Shorts Festival @tagqsf.org · 20/03/2025
Tag! posters are going up bit by bit. Got a good spot? Write to Tag! at info@tagqsf.org and we’ll get some to you or put them up.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Collaborators with the fascists.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I wasn't sure it would get shipped in time! But hey, you can get your own copy of Objetos de [des]amor, the discount has been extended through the end of the month. Find the link at editorial.elinverso.com/objetos/
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Objetos
Objetos de [des]amor is the inaugural publication from El Inverso Editorial. Order your copy today of this gripping memoir that explores themes of loss and longing in prose, poetry and original photog...
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The big festival is just a month away! Help spread the word since Tag! has sworn off Meta advertising this year!
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Spread the word! The festival has sworn off Meta advertising and needs your help filling the Hollywood this year!
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My ideal world does not have countries and stock markets, but nonetheless my material conditions are largely determined by how they function. The incompetence and cruelty of this regime is staggering. Anyway, I'm hanging my Canadian flag today, let's turn this around. 🇨🇦
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
You don't have to be in the film community to participate, I'd love to have a whole beautiful spectrum of folx show up if you enjoy the safety to do so.
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Tag! Queer Shorts Festival @tagqsf.org · 25/02/2025
Tag! invites YOU to speak out and put a human face on the queer communities targeted by the global right. We will feature your 30s (max) videos here and on screen at the Hollywood in April. Interested? Visit tagqsf.org/lmite/ for submission details for the Look Me In The Eye project.
Background of street art eyes with Tag! logo and web link to tagqsf.org/lmite
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If you're planning to be in Portland the first weekend of April, check out the Tag! Queer Shorts Festival! #queer #lgbtqia2s+ #pdx #filmfestival #tagqsf vimeo.com/1057985447
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Things are sooo busy with @tagqsf.org right now and there is indiscriminate destruction of institutions in progress but hey, I would still love for folx to read my book, Objetos de [des]amor, and Ingram is about to raise prices. Visit editorial.elinverso.com/objetos/ and get your copy now! 🌈📚
Face of a piggy bank
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Oregonian put the crowd estimate at 1,500–seemed like more (not from this spot). Portland can turn out bigger and rowdier protests but this was enough to come away feeling like today was a good start.
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Javier Corrales @javiercorrales.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/02/2025
NEW: Owen admitted in plea agreement documents that, as a therapist, he was in a special position of trust when he had sexual contact with his patients, which he told them was “part of their treatment process.” With @sltrib.com
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Utah Man Pleads Guilty to Sexually Abusing Patients “Using His Position as a Therapist”
The plea comes after an investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica about the former therapist, who built a reputation as a specialist for struggling gay Latter-day Saints men.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Let's see some accountability. They've covered for abusers for literally decades. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...
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Mormon church accused of failing to report child sex abuse in OR and WA; faces $25M suit
“A teenaged girl should not have been repeatedly sexually abused for months in two separate states if church leaders had information to stop it,” said attorney Peter Janci, who filed the suit.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I've written an essay that contextualizes my perceptions of this week's political fuckery as an academic and unusually well-traveled person. It won't fit here and I won't put it on a Meta platform, feel free to swing by and take a look at editorial.elinverso.com/essay/
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 31/01/2025
The Census webpage is done. Census data is used to allocate federal funding, congressional representatives and electoral votes. This is a coup. www.census.gov
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Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage
The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
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Tag! Queer Shorts Festival @tagqsf.org · 31/01/2025
Selection messages go out tomorrow! These are the program blocks for 2025. EMERGENCE brings stories of finding self and new relationship paths. LOCAL ACTION showcases PNW films. ¡PRESENTES! is a great collection of Latinx/Hispanx work and CONNECT is all about community. Details soon at Tagqsf.org!
Tag festival banner with program block names
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Yikes, February already! Not down with the heteronormative spectacle that is Valentine's Day? Objetos de [des]amor may be the book for you. It looks at absence and heartbreak through poetry and original darkroom photos. On sale during Feb! editorial.elinverso.com/objetos/ 🌈📚 #gayartist
Close-up of a clay heart with a fracture.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Possibly unpopular observation for academics from targeted groups: build coalitions at your institutions but do not assume that colleagues with official DEI/EOAA positions have your back. Those offices and their processes can and will be weaponized under pressure from reactionary leadership.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
My first royalty check came yesterday, $12.70! This only covers about 10 days during launch month, but memoir writing is an act of devotion, not greed. Know what? That's $12.70 more than I ever got from any of my academic publications. Get your copy from editorial.elinverso.com/objetos/! 🌈📚
Copies of Objetos de [des]amor stacked on a table.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
As of this moment, the entire federal government is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment —not b/c the government has ended DEIA programs, but b/c the government is discriminating against employees and new hires based on the color of their skin. My latest in @thenation.com
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Trump’s Attacks On DEI Are a Green Light for the Government to Discriminate
Under the guise of eliminating racial discrimination against white men, the Trump administration is launching a frontal assault on the country’s civil rights infrastructure.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Wow, 3 months have gone by since the release of my memoir! This work of poetry, prose, and photography is an expansion of my pre-retirement autoethnography work. Any Latinx/religion/queer scholars interested in writing a review? Let's talk! editorial.elinverso.com/objetos/ 🌈📚
Title page from the Objetos de [des]amor book.
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I'm not a fan of organized religion but I can admire anyone who speaks truth to (undeserved and ill-gotten) power so fearlessly.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
ACT UP, 1990
A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"
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Juan Antonio Trujillo @juantrujillo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
If anyone who supported this followed me here from other socials, you can GTFO and the sooner the better. There is no consensus to be had with those who come to the table expecting racism, misogyny, queerphobia and similarly inhumane ideologies to be accommodated and that is what you voted for.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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