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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The irony that students, faculty, and staff got an email telling us to conserve energy on campus while the University installed the biggest scoreboard in college football. (Whose lights are visible in neighboring towns.)

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This notion that we as not only Puerto Rican scholars but more importantly Puerto Rican scholars in Puerto Rican Studies do our work in opposition or even outside of Puerto Rico as a matter of choice or professional privilege/advantage is a dangerous assertion and a hurtful one…

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ok. This is my annual promise to myself that I’ll post more often.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It’s always great to be in good company, especially at ISCHE!

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Please be kind to me. My away message is gone. This is who I am again for the next 9 months. Emails. Meetings. Five conference papers this fall that winter me committed us to…

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If I say yes to three activities in one day, assume one of you will be canceled on.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Don’t forget to attend online presentations for @ische-news.bsky.social ! (US scholars: some great papers on Black education, industrial education, etc.,by our brilliant colleagues.) But also a great chance to learn from our colleagues abroad.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Interesting panel on the status of history of education across the world , from our various societies. Obvious, and sad, that we are linked by a disinvestment in our field no matter where we are. (HistEdUSA being represented well!) #histed #ISCHE2025

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

They know what they’re doing…restricting our access to information, limiting our ability to do research. This allows their revisionists histories to be written, allowing them to celebrate and center whiteness, teaching lies.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I have very little expectation from a government built off of genocide, dispossession, and history of enslavement.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

So glad Paddington didn’t end up in the U.S. They would have deported that poor brown bear.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Reminder of why our work is important as historians of education. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

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Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

“But if a critical mass of Americans do wake up, then the court’s stand will be indispensable to justice and — critically — accountability…”

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Opinion | The Supreme Court Can’t Save America, but Here’s What It Can Do

The justices and the American people must hold the line together.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Or the valuable contributions of international students and faculty, who help us make society better.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

People celebrating cuts to/attacks on higher education and research grants really don’t understand how things work or are created. Including the phone they’re typing in their nonsense/internet they’re using to troll us/ or who trained the doctors they desperately need to treat them.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Every time I read one more news item detailing the f*ckery that is our current political climate, I’m thankful I was able to see Prince perform Purple Rain live once in my life.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’m at the point of this administration where I can see why people would agree to be Severed in order to have a break from reality. Lumon , do your thing!

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I forgot how much of the book writing process entailed me reheating the same cup of coffee, walking around my house slowly sipping that cup while I think/process until the cup gets cold, and then having to reheat it again. #histed

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It’s frustrating to see politicians (both sides) just sit back and allow the dismantling of agencies in place to serve and protect people. (Also, Elon Musk is one ugly mofo whose only talent is his bank account.)

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Also, having spent almost a decade in a red state, who had some of the worst rural healthcare in the country, that population consistently voted against initiatives that would have improved their healthcare.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Did I hear that right? AI to provide healthcare to rural communities?

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Unlike those people applauding today’s executive orders, I could still afford my carton of eggs and have good healthcare. (And I’m literate too to boot.)

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Forget a mental health day, I’m about to take a mental health four years.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Wrapping up a research trip to the archives and I am reminded of how much of our community histories still need to be told.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I don’t think I’ll ever be as funny as I was in 2022 Twitter.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Bad Bunny’s new album was a gift to us. Whether on the archipelago or diaspora, we carry home with us, grounded in our resistance to coloniality, and hope for our future.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The best part of Thankstaking dinner this year was my daughters’ father/my ex declaring (about his childhood friend): He voted against my two daughters who are of child-bearing age on Election Day. Fuck that dude. I’m not buying shit from his kids fundraiser.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

“He who can persuade you to believe absurdities can persuade you to commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Governor S*itt is garbage. One of the things I’m most proud of my time at U of Oklahoma is developing this course that is under attack/helping train teachers who were going to support and love all our students. Teachers who still message me to say thank you for creating this space.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Although I’m exhausted (and now sick) from being nonstop for the last three weeks, I’m feeling inspired to get back to writing. Our histories and stories matter. Now more than ever.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 14/11/2024

One of several great recent books on Chicago education history

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Good opportunity to get @melli75.bsky.social's book on Puerto Rican Chicago with a discount!

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It's a great book! Learn about how Puerto Rican students & families experienced - and changed - Chicago schools. 🗃️ #edusky

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Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

If you haven't already bought and read this great book, then this is a great opportunity. I'm excited to share it with my grad students in "Education, Organizing, and Activism," next semester #histed #edhist

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Don’t have a copy of my book, Puerto Rican Chicago? Use promo code ASA24 for 50% off during this weeks American Studies Association conference! Expires Nov. 24th. @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=27...

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I had the joy of serving as a keynote this week at Northeastern Illinois University where I spoke a little on the importance of Puerto Rican history in Chicago. The real joy came from listening to stories from young Puerto Ricans who reminded me of why this work matters. 🇵🇷💕🇵🇷

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I guess I’m back. I was having FOMO.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Its been years since I’ve been part of a Parranda… 🇵🇷 www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1...

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Gov. S*it ending DEI programs in Oklahoma is a reminder of the good work folks I care about are doing in my old state to undo the harm initiated by him/others.

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Aurora Santiago Ortiz @santiaaurora.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Submit!!

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

To be told your homeland is no longer your home is a trauma from which you can’t recover. You carry it with you. Your children pick up the sadness. It’s a wound you pass on.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

The amount of coffee I have in my body today should be illegal.

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

This is beyond a conversation on liberation. This is a conversation on survival. And yet they’ll find a way to rewrite history. #Palestine 🇵🇸 #Genocide_in_Gaza

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Mirelsie Velázquez @melli75.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

It is easy to justify setter colonialism and genocide when you don’t view a people as humans.

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