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Pamela Zabala Ortiz

@pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social
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She/her/ella • Afro-Latina Scholar and Sociologist • Assistant Professor • Studying race making, identity, and belonging • Boston • 📚☕️🇩🇴 www.pamelazabalaortiz.com www.substack.com/@pamelazabalaortiz

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br00t4c @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026
ICE bleeding staff at record rate as firings and resignations soar: report Impunity time's almost over, kidnappers. Resigning won't hide your crimes. www.rawstory.com/ice-employees/
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ICE bleeding staff at record rate as firings and resignations soar: report
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is losing employees faster than at any point in its history, with thousands of recent hires quitting or getting fired shortly after joining, according to federal wo...
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On the one hand, the diaspora wars popping off every three business hours is annoying. On the other hand, it tells me the book I’m writing is relevant and makes me excited to finish it and put it in the world. #staytuned
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chicago is such a cool city
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
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Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Look what popped up on campus this week 👀
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“I just finished reading White Fragility”
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There is a delicious irony here. www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...
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Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
ICE sent them away under a controversial policy without knowing where they were going or what would happen next.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Year three. Here we go.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This time of year, I have what I like to call Schrödinger’s syllabi.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/08/2026
More than six years after protesters in Richmond toppled an iconic statue of Jefferson Davis amid national civil rights demonstrations, work crews quietly removed three remaining Confederate monuments from their pedestals across town.
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Three remaining Confederate statues removed from Virginia’s Capitol
A former state senator who spearheaded the effort said it was not erasing history but making room for a conversation about whom to honor next.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Found a coffee shop with empanadas and a fire playlist. I may move in.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
One of my favorite things about Dolly Parton is that she recognized structural problems require structural solutions. Kids aren't reading? Let's put books in their hands during their crucial developmental years. Social change requires joy AND actionable solutions, and she embodied that.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton has died at 80
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’
Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The country music legend was known for songs including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5.” She also starred in movies like ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘T...
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly noooo 😭
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Target removed the Jim Crow Jr costume from their shelves.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The race science/eugenics bros never have cohesive points. Or chins.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Again, cruelty is the point.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It was wonderful to hear Darializa Avila Chevalier speak at CUNY today for the Resisting Authoritarianism conference.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree in Mississippi Has Been Identified as Tasia Fortune Mississippi authorities have investigated other high-profile cases involving tree-hanging deaths in the past year. capitalbnews.org/black-woman-...
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Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree in Mississippi Has Been Identified as Tasia Fortune
Mississippi authorities have investigated other high-profile cases involving tree-hanging deaths in the past year.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The best part about the conferences being in NYC is that they always coincide with the Dominican day parade 😆 🇩🇴
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Did a show at a brewery in Harlem and there was not a dog to be found in the whole establishment . 🙌🏾
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As someone who dabbles in the humorous, it’s cool to see comedy being considered as a tool for social change in academic spaces.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Drive it into the ocean
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
ICE agents really made up their own slur for the undocumented because the slurs that already exist aren’t violent enough apparently.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New words by me. Nothing is less surprising than hearing that ICE agents were caught using racial slurs, because duh, of course they were. But here’s why we can’t ignore the obvious. open.substack.com/pub/pamelaza...
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ICE agents use racial slurs and the sky is blue
I'll take "things that are surprising to absolutely no one" for 200, Alex.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/08/2026
This is incredibly disturbing. The number of cases in Mississippi alone of Black people who met their deaths in dubious/highly suspicious ways, only for authorities to shrug it off and do a piss poor job if investigating...there are so many names
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Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home
The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Happy holiday! 🪑 🎆
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Bopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🐈🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌎 @bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ah, conference week. Looking forward to acquiring ten new beige tote bags.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
ICE killed, another, man. Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies The detainee had an extensive medical history, incl epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
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Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In other news, Afro-Latina decides to Afro-Latina.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
After years of random tweaks and edits, I finally got my website to a place that I really like. I hope my one monthly visitor from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada enjoys.
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 01/08/2026
"Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30, 2026, after a years-long struggle with non-small cell lung cancer. She was 55."
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Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian and prison abolitionist, makes her transition
Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30.
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Bobby Rivera @bobbyrivera21.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Johanna Fernandez, RIP! 😭💔
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If Sunday scaries were a month, they would be August.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 27/07/2026
Per @asanews.bsky.social email, after being cut off by NSF, ASA is ending the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
AS American Sociological Association
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing with important information about the ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG), which has been funded by the National Science Foundation for the past six years.
After learning that we will not be receiving our next funding increment from NSF, we are suspending the ASA DDRIG program and will not be opening the 2027 application cycle. This does not affect any student who currently holds an ASA DDRIG.
Over six application cycles, the ASA DDRIG program awarded 153 grants to students at 62 institutions. We would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all the reviewers who have made the program possible and to all the students, both applicants and grantees, whose work has inspired us. We are actively seeking other funding opportunities and will be back in touch with the sociology community if funding becomes available in the future.
In the meantime, we encourage you to write to your representatives in Congress to let them know how the cancellation and suspension of research funding impacts you, your students, and your colleagues. Please visit ASA Action Center to view our current action alerts on this matter. Feel free to customize your message if you received an ASA DDRIG or NSF DDRI and share how the program helped shape your trajectory.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support of ASA's efforts to promote the work of sociologists and the discipline of sociology.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sunday Taquitos #30: Flock This! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social
A cartoon of two people standing under a flock camera speaking to each other. The man says “I’m fine with mass surveillance ‘cause I’m not doing anything wrong.” The woman responds “… Until someone changes the definition of what’s ‘wrong.’”
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
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ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It’s a crime how quickly the summer goes by.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Blessed by the airline gods with an empty middle seat. Moments like this are the closest I get to religion. 🙌🏾
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The racist backlash to Chris Nolan’s Odyssey is a kind of stolen valor, an attempt by the right to claim credit for achievements they had nothing to do with in order to justify racial hierarchy in the present. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Fear of Black Greeks
White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New edited volume on “Mechanisms and Mechanics of Racial Hierarchy” coming soon 📕 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Mechanisms and Mechanics of Racial Hierarchy | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,
Recent efforts to advance conceptualisations of racial hierarchies have led to the emergence of new debates about the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of racism and racial
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Pamela Zabala Ortiz @pamelazabalaortiz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Last week, I got to spend time doing research in the Dominican National Archives and workshop my book manuscript with fellow Dominican writers in Santo Domingo.
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