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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷

@justjessp.bsky.social
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Editor: "Porque Estamos Aquí: Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire" (The Feminist Press, 2025) Author: "Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora" (NYU Press, 2018)

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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Dear Comrades in Feminist Study and Struggle… www.nwsa.org/news-events/... #FeministStudies
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Statements - National Women's Studies Association
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I do not think it is a coincidence that the moment when women of color are in positions of “power” in academia is the same moment where the basic privileges of being in academia are being destroyed.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Many of my colleagues studying race, sexuality, and gender don’t get to resign on their own terms—they are being fired, replaced, reassigned, and downsized…” www.jessicapabon.com/blog/2026/03/20/friends-i-am-better-than-ok
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Friends, I am better than OK. — Jessica Nydia Pabón, PhD
Resignation, for me, has been a journey marked by various emotional states (fear, freedom, alignment, regulation, joy) and this blog post is my attempt to think critically about them.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
<3 #feministbook msmagazine.com/2025/12/19/b...
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2025 ‘Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year
You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read the other one, for the rest of us. Here are Ms. magazine's top feminist books of 2025.
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Taina Asili @tainaasili.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
In a time when books + scholars are under attack, it feels vital to uplift radical literature. I am honored that my words have been included in several anthologies over the years. Now my work is featured in Porque Estamos Aquí by @justjessp.bsky.social . Join us in Boston on 12/15!
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A  Groundbreaking Collection As much as I hate the way we are all tracked online...I love a Google Alert. Yesterday I received this one: It's hard to explain how seen I feel in this feature of our anthology. It never occurred to me that folks would remember my Feminists for Puerto Rico (FPR)…
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A  Groundbreaking Collection
As much as I hate the way we are all tracked online...I love a Google Alert. Yesterday I received this one: It's hard to explain how seen I feel in this feature of our anthology. It never occurred to me that folks would remember my Feminists for Puerto Rico (FPR) efforts and tie them to the anthology and that all of this work would come to fruition in this political moment when Borikén is being remilitarized and occupied by US empire and feminists more broadly are paying attention to and resisting that imperialism largely in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Are you going to the NWSA conference in San Juan, PR this year? We recorded a little podcast for the NEWBIES! #NWSA2025 @theenwsa.bsky.social youtu.be/F3nbX15uNac
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#FeministFrequencies E6: A Webinar for First-Time Conference Attendees
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I am so honored to announce that I've been elected President of the National Women's Studies Association. My term begins at the end of our November conference in Puerto Rico. I think I'll be the first Puerto Rican President, and I'll assume that role in Puerto Rico. This fact makes my heart sing.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I just keep thinking (a la Douglass): What, to the professor of race, gender, sexuality, disability, is academic freedom? www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses
The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
you should probably go ahead and pre-order our anthology before it is banned for anti-a m e r i kkk a n sentiment. also, you can't beat $23.20 for a 375 page anthology. bookshop.org/p/books/porq...
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Porque Estamos Aquí: Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire
Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
oh NBD, just sharing a page in the @feministpress.bsky.social catalogue with Michelle Tea.🤩
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Dear National Guard, You too can resist. #losangeles
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Have ya'll read this yet? #PuertoRico www.publicbooks.org/its-about-ti...
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It’s About Time We Fail: A Puerto Rican Poetics of Exhaustion - Public Books
The term “resilience” originated in ecology. But its shift from the natural to the social has normalized human-made structures of inequality.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Find me a diasporican who visited homeland and *didn’t* record the coqui’s song on their phone to listen to as needed. I’ll wait.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Thrilled to share that the anthology we all need is now available for pre-order. It's been a dream of mine to publish with The Feminist Press, and HERE WE ARE. #wepa! #feminism #PuertoRican #liberation #decolonial
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
if you truly cared about mothers, you wouldn’t blow them up and starve their babies.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I miss Bitch Magazine. still. always. forever.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Did you know that @theenwsa.bsky.social will be in #PuertoRico this year? And did you know that there is a Puerto Rican feminisms pre-conference? And did you know that it is being organized by the Puerto Rican Feminisms Interest Group? Now you know! www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...
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Pre-Conferences - National Women's Studies Association
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
they definitely killed Giuffre. cause that's what happens to too many survivors who claim their voice. i hate it here.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I demand that Alvarez Diaz and Villalon drop out of the Esencia project immediately! This private city will only further destroy Puerto Rican land and displace more of our people. We deserve a Puerto Rico for Puerto Ricans! #NoAEsencia @advfirm
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
not to make light of things but I'd love to opt out of this Handmaid's Tale/Hunger Games/Parable of the Sower mashup
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 22/04/2025
Robin D.G. Kelley on “The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide”
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Robin D.G. Kelley | "The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide: The Long Durée."
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When you leave #academia, the institution and those who protect it will not grieve. But the students will continue to stand beside you. 😭🥰 www.instagram.com/p/DIwNUgDsDW...
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A.J. @andynear70.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Total dominance.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
wakes up. sees a decapitated Palestinian toddler. reads about 3rd graders disappeared by the frozen people. cries in rage. wishes more folks who are turning away would watch. would hold. would witness. would FIGHT. WE'VE ALWAYS KNOWN YOUR "PRO-LIFE" STANCE WAS GENOCIDAL BULLSHIT.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A colleague and I wrote a little something about #DEI in a "blue state" as fellows of SUNY's DEISJ program. Check it out. #SocialJustice #FreePalestine medium.com/@justjessp/b...
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“Blue” New York’s Empty Promise
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion without Social Justice
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Serious question: so you’ve packed your go bag, WHERE are you going? If the go bag is suddenly needed, will airports be working? Will trains be running? Will highways be open?
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
When Ricky Rosselló and his lil’ group chat were exposed…https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/01/how-music-took-down-puerto-ricos-governor/
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
this is the energy. call out the fuck up energy.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Are you submitting your proposal for NWSA2025? Due 4/1 @theenwsa.bsky.social
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Lesson from the neoliberal #university: When the top priority of your institution is the bottom line and that bottom line is threatened…you fold.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
did we just drive over an hour (one way!) as Sam’s transplants to explore the world of Costco and buy everything? Yes we did. Why? DEI bitches.
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a woman in a hat is standing next to another woman in a closet .
ALT: a woman in a hat is standing next to another woman in a closet .
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Listen. If Borikén gets free from US empire, I am OUT OF HERE. I'd much rather lend my life to efforts to rebuild the archipelago than stay and fight this bullshit right here. (My preference is of course that the US pay reparations, but we all know that ain't happening.)
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
SpaceX is actually ACME, isn’t it
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Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Airbnb was a popular choice for many travelers until a recent boycott. How did this popular travel site get put on the do-not-book list? Let’s discuss.
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Here’s Why Travelers Are Boycotting Airbnb | Black Girl Nerds
If Airbnb is about community, now is the perfect time for them to take action.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thich Nhat Hanh delivering my state of the union address.. youtu.be/yzCWBpS67jg?...
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Healing is Possible at Every Moment | Thich Nhat Hanh, 2013.03.10
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
medicine.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Apparently, I’m once again in a place where I need someone to remind me to take my meds because all the robots I have doing the job of reminding are getting ignored.
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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Big Tech has lived by, “Move Fast and Break Things.” So they destroyed everything quickly and now we are here. No more. Indigenous practices have always shown us that the way is to Move Slow and Repair Things. Plant, grow, replenish, reparations, regenerate.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
so I should limit my scrolling to BlueSky today. fine. hi!
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a white cat is laying on its back on the floor and says `` hello . hello ... ''
ALT: a white cat is laying on its back on the floor and says `` hello . hello ... ''
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NPR @npr.org · 28/02/2025
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
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A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
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Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Puerto Rico Among the 10 Countries Most Affected by the Climate Crisis periodismoinvestigativo.com/2025/02/puer...
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Puerto Rico Among the 10 Countries Most Affected by the Climate Crisis
A study by the organization Germanwatch estimates that damages in Puerto Rico totaled $2.6 billion in 2022, in addition to disrupting potable water service for a million residents and causing the deat...
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I still like Threads better. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It’s not that a one-day targeted boycott won’t “do ANYthing.” It won’t affect their pockets or (policies?), but it WILL (can?) bring a whole bunch of people who’ve never met together for a common purpose. And that, in the time of isolation and fear, is something.
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷 @justjessp.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
@joyannreid.bsky.social was the last good reason to watch cable news. Thank you for all your good work, we know you’ll land somewhere you’re appreciated!!
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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Empire regards land only as a resource to own and plunder. They view the entirety of Turtle Island and beyond (e.g. Greenland) as an opportunity to exploit. Empire is death.
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