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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I still insist that whoever becomes the first Anti-AI university will have record demand, and their graduates will most likely ride out the AI maelstrom better in the long term. It's so low-hanging fruit, it's embarrassing that no one has done it.

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My article shows how we can use postcolonial lenses to navigate something we as yet don't know how to acknowledge or talk about well: premodern, non-European people doing things that look a lot like what we now call blackface. read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...

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Performing Blackness in the Medieval Muslim Metropolis: Arabic Literature and Tropicalization

This essay aims to chart a path between premodern blackface performance and postcolonial theory that escapes colonial teleologies. It analyzes moments from the Abbasid through Mamluk era (ca. 750–1517...

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Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

One of my favorite contemporary authors who is known for her creative reinterpretations of the colonial past in contemporary writing will be at Howard on March 26. Thank you to @mia1va.bsky.social for supporting/cordinating Yolanda's talk this month at #howarduniversity.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/03/2026

Study: Humans Evolved Opposable Thumbs To Signal ‘All Good’ To Buddies After Falling Off Roof theonion.com/study-humans-evolved-o…

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H-Net Journals @h-net-journals.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚨🚨 New from the Journal of Festive Studies 🚨🚨 We just published Volume 7: Joy as Resistance, guest-edited by @mia1va.bsky.social. Our electronic ToC links to the many contributions and reviews that engage with the emerging field of critical joy studies. 🔗 journals.h-net.org/jfs/issue/vi...

A print created by the artist Bracho. The print is in green and black depicting various people and a white creature on the bottom left. The text reads: "Journal of Festive Studies, 2024, Volume 7, Joy as Resistance."

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We know you would, that's the entire problem

Liberal carrying a sign saying "if kamala was president we would all be at brunch"

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/03/2025

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... it’s a horrible thing to get deported without cause or due process. But to be deported to a country that is not yours because you have a tattoo??? Are you waiting until they come for citizens to start doing something? Immigrants are humans with rights. #resist

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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos

The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My author's copy of new 'Handbook of #AmericanPoetry' with my essay on "Poetry as #FeministCritique" (focused on the 1970s/80s) in which I read #SharonOlds, #AudreLorde & #SusanHowe but also discuss other poets has arrived! It is very thick & pretty #Feminism #GenderStudies #AmericanStudies #Poetry

Photo of a book with blue and purple cover propped up on the sheet music stand of a piano. There is a plant next to it in a pot in the shape of a girl's or woman's head and torso. The female figure is smiling contently, while the plant looks like wild ideas sprouting from her head.

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

New open access book from @ucpress.bsky.social : Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires by Sidney Xu Lu www.ucpress.edu/books/collab...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Folks in Washington DC: there are signed copies of Humans: A Monstrous History at @politicsprose.bsky.social Conn Ave. and it’s members’ discount weekend this weekend! #books #history #politics #dmv

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Say it with me now: HANDS OFF HIGHER ED. Government intervention is government intervention is government intervention. As the Palestine exception becomes the universal rule of state interference in this country: HANDS OFF HIGHER ED. nypost.com/2025/02/25/u...

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Gov. Hochul orders CUNY remove Hunter College ‘Palestinian Studies’ job posting, calls for probe into ‘antisemitic theories’

The job listing has since been removed from CUNY’s website.

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Sharina Maíllo-Pozo @smaillopozo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My book, Bridging Sonic Borders, is coming soon! It explores the deep ties between Dominican literature, migration & music, shedding light on overlooked voices in Dominican & US Latinx traditions. Click on the link to pre-order a copy today: sharinamaillopozo.com/books/

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

1619 in Global Perspective: and why we need to study the history of slavery and the African diaspora globally #slaveryarchive t.co/JCD87bVNxe

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Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Celebrating authors I've worked with & books I've worked on from my 35 years in publishing every day of #BlackHistoryMonth Day #22 @mia1va.bsky.social recovers the history of festival performances by Black people in Mexico City that captured and sustained "defiant joy." @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I mean if we made Target bankrupt, other companies might start to get the idea. Just sayin’

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Jessica Marie Johnson @jessicamariejohnson.com · 18/02/2025

"My deepest wish, as I see jokes about deportation come from the mouths of the descendants of African slaves, is that we remember white supremacy has never stopped at borders, bodies or race." - Clarissa Brooks calling Black women in. God, I love this. forgeorganizing.org/article/soli...

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Solidarity Is Not a Transaction - The Forge

Clarissa Brooks, Editor In Chief at The Forge unpacks the phenomenon of solidarity being misunderstood and corrects the record on the origins of the purpose of global solidarity efforts for marginaliz...

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The British library had a grad student placement to help survey the history of Afro-Brazil in their print collection www.bl.uk/more/researc...

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This little book remains as important as when it came out five years ago

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It arrived scratched scratched but dying to devour it, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social

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Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Celebrating authors & books from my 35 years in publishing every day of #BlackHistoryMonth #2 - Daina Ramey Berry’s bk was a game-changer (1st to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives—& to coin the term soul value).

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

For those interested in urban Caribbean music beyond Bad Bunny. Here is a very talented young woman (17 at time of concert), Jay Noa feels a Dominican barrio. youtu.be/LwDRLLPuOA4?...

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J Noa: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

JUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were *commuted* from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you’re in LA Feb 21-22 and want to early about the Caribbean in the 16th and 17th centuries

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Countdown! Join us in 48 hours for the #Slaveryarchive Book Club with James H. Sweet's new exciting book. Register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Some of you or your students might be interested in this

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

AI has ruined academic research online

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Latin American colonial scholars: cuáles eran las "preguntas generales" de la Real Audiencia de la Nueva España, esp. s. XVI? I'm assuming – though not Inqusition – if they were heretics or knew any heretics? B/c las "preguntas de ley" were biographical.

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Looking forward to this in April

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God @thegodshow.com · 18/01/2025

The party of “real masculinity” has moved the inauguration indoors cause it’s too cold.

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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Excited for @cristinaele.bsky.social's first curated exhibit, Unseeing the Tropics at the @suartmuseum.bsky.social! The show pairs historical objects with the work of Joiri Minaya to challenge ideas of "tropicality." Running from Jan 21 to May 10, there’ll be related events you won’t want to miss!

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

what's new in mexican intellectual history, colonial and 19th cent? (2010-present)

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

what's new in mexican economic history, colonial and 19th century?

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

what's new in mexican Agriculture and Domesticated Animals history, colonial and 19th cent?

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

There’s still time join our ICA panel series in Novi Sad, Serbia 28.01 - Vidas afrocoloniales latinoamericanas, ss. XVI-XIX ica2025.uns.ac.rs/ica2025-eng/

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ICA2025.eng – ICA2025

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Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

call for help there's a newish huge cultural studies/philosophical/ critical theory/encyclopedic dictionary i can't recall its title atm it's a short title

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