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Dr. Lorgia García Peña

@laprofelgp.bsky.social
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Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton. Author of Community as Rebellion. Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom. www.lorgiagarciapena.com

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 11h
Early October marks the anniversary of the massacre of over 20,000 ethnic Haitians and Black Dominicans from the borderlands who were brutally murdered by the Dominican state following an order from dictator Trujillo in 1937. To date no plaque or monument commemorates this immense loss.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 20h
This country is abducting and imprisoning working people, NOT criminals, for having born elsewhere. Meanwhile r*pista roam free. This is fucked.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 20h
And that’s the thing. It’s not just about raising awareness of the issue. Women been knowing sexual violence is an issue. It’s about showing society, men included, care enough to change it, to end the violence.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 20h
RIP Maricarmen. May your struggle teach the people of the world to stand up and unite.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 20h
None of this is an accident. Nothing is a surprise. They wrote it all down in their project 2025. And there’s more cruelty to come.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 20h
Shit meant the people are fighting everyday in the streets while they’re in their house watching Netflix or whatever they do instead of that.
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bplum.bsky.social @bplum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thousands of Cornell Students Protest for Accountability in Rape Case truthout.org/articles/tho...
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Thousands of Cornell Students Protest for Accountability in Rape Case
In a 2025 survey, 35 percent of undergraduate women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time at Cornell.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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‘Racist ideology lodges itself amid austerity politics’: newly elected French mayor on tackling far right
Bally Bagayoko, who was targeted by racist abuse after winning Saint-Denis mayorship, vows to tackle inequality to stem deepening divisions
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 20h
Sí se pudo! #chingalamigra
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 20h
All eyes on Spain right now.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This month I’m celebrating the 10th year anniversary of my first book, The Borders of Domincanidad published by @dukepress.bsky.social I’m sad that it’s still so relevant but grateful that many readers still find it helpful. Gracias for a decade of dialogue. Cover by Pepe Coronado.
Book cover. Has maps of island of Ayiti and USA. Book is yellow
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not hard enough for it not to be done. Obviously it requires work but it is clearly possible.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Every time I read about something wonderful #mandani is implementing I have mixed feelings. I’m both really happy that it is happening AND really enraged that it’s so obvious that this is not so hard and yet it hasn’t been done until now.
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Mybuddysully @mybuddysully.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hundreds join protest at Cornell University to call for frat members to be expelled after rape allegations
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Hundreds join protest at Cornell University after fraternity gang rape lawsuit
Demonstrators held signs reading: ‘Jane Doe deserves justice,’ ‘Alcohol is not consent,’ and ‘Hold them accountable’
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Holy shit indeed.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This month I’m celebrating the 10th year anniversary of my first book, The Borders of Domincanidad published by @dukepress.bsky.social I’m sad that it’s still so relevant but grateful that many readers still find it helpful. Gracias for a decade of dialogue. Cover by Pepe Coronado.
Book cover. Has maps of island of Ayiti and USA. Book is yellow
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I will be in a panel Friday, October 23, at 730 p.m with the great Rita Indiana and the incredible @sharina Maillo Pozo. It has to be the first time three Domincan womxn writers do this so please come if you can filnyc.org/filnyc-2026/
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Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York
FILNYC · Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York. Octava edición: del 21 al 25 de octubre 2026.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If all survivors of sexual violence took to the streets, the world would stop. That’s how widespread and massive this is.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As 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.
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BloomBitch @sarasmartass.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think people understand just how enraged survivors are right now. I don’t think any of these a-holes thought for a second about the fact that a good portion of the population has had their lives derailed by sexual violence. And like Giselle Pelicot, we know the shame isn’t ours to carry.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Police attacking peaceful protesters in Spain. Just remember that the nation won’t save you. Look across borders for solidarity.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve never met a woman raised in the Dominican Republic who hasn’t had an experience of sexual violence or assault. Never. Not one. This is a pandemic and needs to end. Enough. Basta.
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 04/10/2026
A friend gave me @laprofelgp.bsky.social "Community as Rebellion" to read as a faculty member of color in various #HigherEd places and talking a lot about those experiences. Really powerful work, and helped me process a lot of my experience of Harvard and why I quit. bookshop.org/a/23044/9781...
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Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color
An inspiring personal testimonial woven with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on the possibilities of creating spaces of freedom within the university for students and fa...
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you for reading it. I’m very happy that it helped you navigate that wretched place.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In case, like me, you look for hope. Firefighters in Madrid refuse to help with evictions marching alongside tenants for housing rights.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trujillo, who was a fascist dictator in my native DR, assaulted HUNDREDS of women. Along with racist and xenophobic actions, sexual violence is at the center of these types of governments. You all just don’t wan to see it. It’s racism. It’s homophobia. It’s misogyny. It’s greed and cruelty.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Exactly.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Police attacking peaceful protesters in Spain. Just remember that the nation won’t save you. Look across borders for solidarity.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sending love 🫂. I’m really sorry. This is so fucked.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/10/2026
The US has been heavily intervening on behalf of right wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday’s elections.
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In Brazil’s Elections, Trump Seeks to Tighten Right Wing Grip on the Americas
The US has been heavily intervening on behalf of right wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday’s elections.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Because they’re persecuting, hunting us really, is exactly why we can’t stay silent. GET LOUDER.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/10/2026
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it. n.pr/4y2SrM3
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Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As 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.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m tired of the cruelty. It’s just everywhere and it’s exhausting.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s like not that hard. Tax the super rich. Protect the environment. Share the resources so everyone has food, shelter and healthcare. It’s infuriating that it’s this fucking simple.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I want to move to NYC
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s inmoral. All of this.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Solo el pueblo salva el pueblo. The people need to unite.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spain. Showing us all how to do it. Wish I could teleport to Madrid right now. #thepeopleunited
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Far from tackling violence against women, far-right activity has actively disrupted frontline women’s services – and ultimately left victims more vulnerable.” Including services aimed at providing protection against domestic violence. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…
Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t know how we are not all in the streets, refusing to work.
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Jason Garcia for MPRB District 4 @jason4parks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Periodic reminder that ICE is a rogue, lawless agency and must be abolished.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trujillo, who was a fascist dictator in my native DR, assaulted HUNDREDS of women. Along with racist and xenophobic actions, sexual violence is at the center of these types of governments. You all just don’t wan to see it. It’s racism. It’s homophobia. It’s misogyny. It’s greed and cruelty.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With my eyes on Spain. Si se puede!
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In case, like me, you look for hope. Firefighters in Madrid refuse to help with evictions marching alongside tenants for housing rights.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy birthday! And happy Libra season.
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