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Paloma Checa-Gismero

@palomacg.bsky.social
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Modern and contemporary art historian at Swarthmore College. Author of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (Duke, 2024). www.palomachecagismero.com

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Farm workers are silently in the background of all of our lives working tirelessly to deliver the food we eat. Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long. act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Swarthmore AAUP @swarthmoreaaup.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Swarthmore faculty: Join us on Nov. 19 at 4:15pm.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
oh god the micromanaging mid level admin emo
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
what pill can I swallow to have all the institutional knowledge needed to create a position for a student without having to go through the million meetings with hr?
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
first day of classes, back into an almost empty building. it's just the philosophers and the art historians left to our own devices inside the only campus building that hasn't been touched in decades. the medium is the message! #AcademicSky
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
‪The Vow, the documentary series on NXIVM, is the best account of Trump world
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 30/05/2025
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!
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DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The time between fucking around and finding out for messing with the climate and environment is long, and attribution is sometimes difficult. So conservative politicians have gotten away with appointing imbeciles to positions of power in these areas. However, no such luck for them in public health.
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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This week’s actions are the latest in a pattern showing RFK Jr. disregard for science, public health, and the federal workers who keep this country safe from multiple health threats. Nurses demand he resign or be fired immediately as head of HHS. www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
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Nation’s largest RN union: Time for DHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go
the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of He...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 25/08/2025
“What is our responsibility at this moment, as artists, activists, as revolutionaries? Is it to create things that are pretty and can sell? Or is it to delve deep into our value system and create work that challenges people to believe that a different world is possible?” —Miami artist Agua Dulce
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With Cafecito Cups and Direct Action, Miami Artists Rise Against “Alligator Alcatraz”
As the notorious detention center faces legal setbacks, an exhibition in Little Havana underscores the need to keep resisting.
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
disgusting
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
As this baby turns one year old, I'm excited to be back in @bsky.app after my much enjoyed human baby-induced hiatus. Excited to meet/reconnect with cool folks in arts/academia/criticism/et al as the world continues to burn @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/biennial-boom
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This is not just disastrous on the short term, but one sad shortsighted effect of Harrisburg's ineptitude that will have long term impact on Philly's life. Public transit makes healthy social life, cleaner air, and happy pockets.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
ABOLISH ICE
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm honored to be publishing my essay "Aesthetic Conversions at the Borderlands" today, in this special issue of LASA Forum: Borderlands 2.0. Las nuevas fronteras. forum.lasaweb.org/articles/56-...
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Aesthetic Conversions at the Borderlands - 56:2 - LASA Forum
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
for the first time seriously thinking about leaving academia. thoughts? recommendations? others who´ve done it successfully and are happy with the move?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/07/2025
Absolutely HORRIFIC decision by UPenn. Will scrap all of Lia Thomas' wins, will adopt "biological definitions" for Title IX under Trump's order, and more. Some of this could lead to bathroom bans at UPenn too given the admin views bathroom usage as in violation.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/07/2025
It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The President finds time to attend the “grand opening” of a new concentration camp on a Florida swamp, but not to attend the funeral of an assassinated Minnesota lawmaker Never forget.
A photo inside a detainment tent at Alligator Alcatraz/Alligator Auchwitz. It shows cages that will house detainees, which have rudimentary bunk beds in them under the canopy.  This photo is a credit to Jason Delgado, Florida Capitol Correspondent for Spectrum 13 News.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 30/06/2025
Between 1983 and 1992, the Blood Sisters hosted 12 blood drives, demonstrating sustained commitment for nearly a decade. Read the full story here ⤵️
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How a Group of Lesbians Provided Lifesaving Care During the AIDS Crisis
Amid abandonment and fear surrounding the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, a group of lesbians became a lifeline for AIDS patients.
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Worth a read. On the impact of endowment tax hikes in SLACs' economies --esp on financial aid and day to day operations. www.chronicle.com/article/smal... @chronicle.com
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Small Colleges Are Banding Together Against a Higher Endowment Tax. This Is Why.
These liberal-arts institutions rely on their endowments to fund much of their operations and financial aid.
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"Now that Donald Trump’s tariffs have been halted, his big, beautiful bill has been stymied, and his multi-billionaire tech bro has turned on him, how does he demonstrate his power?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state | Robert Reich
The national guard’s deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the results
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We feed you. They hunt us.
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SquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Heading to Home Depot’s in my area to get in front of ICE
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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
new coloring book page just dropped. chinga la migra, ICE out of LA!
An image of a California Grizzly holding her children, surrounded by california poppies. The text reads CHINGA LA MIGRA, ICE OUT OF LA. chinga la migra translates, more or less, to FUCK ICE.
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
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Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/03/2025
BREAKING: The AAUP & chapters @ Harvard, Rutgers, & NYU; & the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit to block the Trump admin from carrying out arrests, detentions, & deportations of students & faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests & protected 1st Amendment activities.
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AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,...
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 25/03/2025
Today is #EqualPayDay, a reminder of the gender pay gap. In 2024, women were paid 18% less than men per hour, on average. Black & Hispanic women experience even larger pay gaps. The Trump admin's recent actions will worsen this gap and harm women & workers of color. www.epi.org/blog/gender-...
Heading: EQUAL PAY DAY
Text: March 25 represents how far into 2025 women would have to work on top of the hours they worked in 2024 simply to match what men were paid in 2024. 

On an hourly basis, women were paid 18.0% less on average than men. 

Graph titled: Black and hispanic women experience the largest pay gaps
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
ayer mentí big time
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
holahola my book BIENNIAL BOOM: MAKING CONTEMPORARY ART GLOBAL is at 50% off ~~ what a deal what a steal www.dukeupress.edu/biennial-boom
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Stefanie Fox @stefaniefox.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
As a Swarthmore alum, I'm deeply distraught that my alma matter is suspending and disciplining students for opposing genocide -- literally charging students for "assault" for using a bullhorn during a nonviolent protest. Please sign to support our students: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...
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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The public art we all need
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Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
BREAKING: Chuck Schumer arrested 11 young people who were at his office demanding he fight for our generation and block Trump's disastrous budget. He wouldn't even face them. No more cowardice. Step up or step aside.
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
i miss writing
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
same
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.
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Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Artists and Cultural Workers Protest Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
Dozens of artists and academics, including Palestinian-American painter Samia Halaby, condemned the “targeting of immigrant students” in an open letter.
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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Just because other people are unraveling other parts of the fabric doesn't mean you should stop weaving your piece. We need connections and collectivity more than ever.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On the occasion of International Women's Day, this unforgettable 1971 letter from artist Nancy Spero to critic Lucy Lippard www.aaa.si.edu/collections/...
Text of a letter: NY Oct 29/ Dear Lucy/ The enemies of women's liberation in the arts will be crushed./ Love/ Nancy (the latter signed in cursive)
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Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
spent a couple of gorgeous days in the bay area spending time with good old girlfriends and i'm so rejuvenated vivan las amigas
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