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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

NEXT PUBLIC TALK APRIL 17, 2026 I’ll bring the vibe. LETS GO.

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Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 15/09/2025

Do you like comic books and want to think more seriously about the linguistics of them? Are you a social scientist or a linguist who wants to know more about nation-building or language planning in fiction? HAVE I GOT EXACTLY THE ARTICLE YOU NEVER ASKED FOR, on CAMP Anthropology. 🐦🐦

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X-Men, Krakoa, and Linguistic Sovereignty

by Erika Alpert Krakoan national co-founder Magneto explains to diplomats at the new Krakoan Embassy in Jerusalem why mutants have decided to create their own language, from House of X #1 (Hickman …

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

JULY 14th (2025) PSC-CUNY PRESS CONFERENCE @bradlander.bsky.social I attended as PRESS. Free to use. Media orgs that need explicit permission, please email me directly.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If a tree falls in forest with no one around… did it make sound? Answer: nobody cares. If an academic writes an article, and only 0.00001% of the population actually reads it… did it make a change? Answer: no. (And nobody cares.)

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

FUCK YES! Lookie what just came in mail 😎

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Overview of trip to TRANSLANGUAGING CLASSROOM SUMMER INSTITUTE lol

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Arrived at TRANSLANGUAGING CLASSROOM INSTITUTE, NEW MEXICO.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Self portraits in NEW MEXICO! Good morning NM.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

BREAKING: After LA rebellion, Trump declares all of Mexico is now a DEI nation-state.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

When it comes to threatening a MEXICAN’S family… Well… …what we are seeing in LA is the FIND OUT stage after one FUCKS AROUND.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Shots from GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY. Hunger strike.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Heading into the NYC protests. One of our students is participating in the hunger strike! 😱✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Brooklyn College students tend to LEAD the resistance 🥰🥰🥰

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

America is gonna learn: don’t fuck with Mexicans. This is OUR home too. Direct action. youtu.be/OOMIiINxY_Q?...

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FBI investigating Los Angeles protests over ICE raids

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

ARTICLE ACCEPTED!!!! My next article will appear (HOPEFULLY) in the inaugural issue of Racial Justice in Multilingual Education in August, right next to a bunch of other KILLER articles.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

NEW VIDEO FOR YOUR SYLLABUS! Let’s make our social theory accessible and fun! This one is for race theorists! But, if you like comics, well that’s just a bonus! WATCH FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/LVXDPWR1kG8?...

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

*NEW VIDEO for your SYLLABUS* What would W.E.B. DU BOIS say about race in comic books? This video explains “double-consciousness” theory in a FUN but nuanced way, using graphics, humor, and a bit rage!. 👇🏽👇🏽 youtu.be/LVXDPWR1kG8?...

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Black & Brown Superheroes are ANNOYING: On "double-consciousness" theory (Du Bois 1903)

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW VIDEO Video is already LIVE for PATREON MEMBERS www.patreon.com/c/SocialLife... For everyone else: WEDNESDAY! This video will help ya understand "double-consciousness" theory, via racialized superheroes. LET'S MAKE SOCIAL THEORY... NOT BORING, PLEASE.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

NEXT TALK! I'll be in New Mexico at the TRANSLANGUAGING CLASSROOM INSTITUTE (June 12-13). I'll also be facilitating a workshop of my "languaging representations" chart, or as I describe it, translanguaging theory made visual. :)

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This is me, having total FOMO from missing SLA conference. Literally the one I LIKE cuz it’s way smaller than giant ones… :(

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This last protest, I had a close call with an officer who was harassing one of my students. He looked at me, looked down at my beard, looked up at my face, and gave me a really fucked up little smile. He was saying: "I know what you look like now." I'm going to attend in PRESS shirts from...

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

NEW VIDEO COMING SOON! Can anyone guess the topic?? 🤫🫣🤭🫣🤫

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Students left as soon as they walked This is faculty all in back watching on screen. They wouldn’t let us take seats in audience either. It was the most depressing commencement ever. Many faculty didn’t even show, some refused to come in protest.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

the most depressing and violent Brooklyn college graduation commencement I’ve ever attended. This is how it looks every single time. “Don’t stand there.”

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

At very last minute BC faculty were told we couldn’t watch students walk. Mass absence of faculty in protest, These rows are supposed to be full.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is how you decorate an academic office with recognitions n stuff…

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The stories of trauma from last week are endless. One student said to me: “I’m glad you weren’t there Professor, they would have taken you.” The word “taken” indexes the extrajudicial policing tactics. No need for process: they just TAKE YOU. Students know that. That’s how it works.

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Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · 12/05/2025

Why is everyone sticking AI into everything? What's going to happen when this boom cycle goes bust? The con is on. An episode with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social about their new book "The AI Con", out now from @harpercollins.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/128760...

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118: The A.I. Con (with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna) | Because Language

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Had to move all classes to remote. Brooklyn College is swarming with cops. Students too scared to come to class. SIX cars at entrance.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

TERRIFYING DAY AT BC, NYPD PUNCHED STUDENTS IN THR FACE. VIDEOS ALL OVER THE PLACE.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Brooklyn College invaded by a fucking army of NYPD. Police brutality ALL OVER.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Being serious at hotel waiting to talk tonight!

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Don't be fooled, we are witnessing capitalism WIN, not it's destruction.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 10/04/2025

The Demystifying Language Project paired linguistics researchers with a high school student and an undergrad student to give the researchers feedback on whether their explainers were ACTUALLY acceptable, now 12 great essays here: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu -Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social

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Demystifying Language Project

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 10/04/2025

I'm at the #LingComm25 panel: Talking About Hard Stuff, Language Ideology and Identity featuring @drjpb.bsky.social @mikemena.bsky.social @riannawalcott.bsky.social and moderator @jessgrieser.bsky.social

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LingComm @lingcomm.org · 10/04/2025

What does it mean to talk like a person, and not like a journal? @mikemena.bsky.social: "It's more than switching vocabulary words. It's relating to a person on a different level." Try using YOU. Just addressing the reader gives it a whole different vibe. #LingComm25

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The boycott is here. 1000+ academics. SIGN: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Academic freedom is only REAL when academics fight for it. There are no laws protecting it. It’s on us. Not on our politicians and not on our students. (Students are already doing their part from both inside and outside institutions.) It’s OUR TURN TO STEP UP.

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Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

As a theorists, I believe we should seriously consider this new emergent conceptual biopolitical paradigm: TESLA as male birth control. Ready. Set. GO!

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