"Puto" is the first collection of the works of Ricardo A. Bracho, a playwright who has been breaking ground since the 1990s by dramatizing the lives of gay Black and Brown partisans of anti-capitalism and decolonization. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/feyuzc6

👀👀👀 LASA Central America in Costa Rica? Yes please. “Centroamérica en la encrucijada: Resistir en tiempos de asedio” americas.lasaweb.org/es/call-for-...

Want to learn more about what’s going on in Venezuela? Check out this curated guide from NACLA (cc @llchristyll.bsky.social @gabrielhetland.bsky.social): nacla.org/a-curated-gu...

Here's a notable new acquisition:

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.

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Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...

My latest newsletter of Latin American collections at Penn Libraries! View the new issue or past ones and sign up to receive them in the future! mailchi.mp/f9fd44465891...

My latest newsletter of Latin American collections at Penn Libraries! View the new issue or past ones and sign up to receive them in the future! mailchi.mp/f9fd44465891...

Hey folks, you can preorder my new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves at a 25% discount right now from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar... (and it's also discounted at bookshop.org, if you prefer that!). Published in April!

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Watch Trump give himself the $50 million reward

Fantastic news for a new year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

PSA: Penn Press 40% off holiday sale continues through 12/31! If your loved ones didn't give you enough books, treat yourself! www.pennpress.org

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

With CECOT being in the news, I want to repost this article my wife wrote about our adopted kids' birth father. He finished a prison sentence and was deported to El Salvador and landed in CECOT. If anyone can help with this, please contact me. We're feeling pretty helpless.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Caribbean Studies Seminars 2026 @ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social 27 Jan Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott shorturl.at/iWnlI 24 Feb Cricket, Caribbean Migration, & Remaking of Postwar England shorturl.at/YvyM6 24 Mar Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands shorturl.at/3o1CZ

Acabou de ser publicada! 🎉 Uma nova tradução da lição de Anthony Picón Rodríguez + Miguel Cuadros: doi.org/10.46430/php... Estamos gratos ao Bernardo de Souza pela sua tradução. Obrigado a Diogo Paiva + Luís Ribeiro Gonçalves pelas revisões, e obrigado a Joana Vieira Paulino pela edição. ✨

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

Really seriously please take the 30 seconds and actually fill out the form.

How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’

From U.S. deportees arriving in Guatemala to survivors of Hogar Seguro, the latest Central America Monthly documents the human cost of impunity, systemic neglect, and the enduring legacies of war in Central America. beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-fr...

Upon landing in Guatemala City, most deportees pass a wall advertising jobs for carpenters, drivers, or waiters — but positions are in the city, while many come from rural areas a day’s travel away. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

The CFP for ACH2026 is now live: ach2026.ach.org/en/cfp/ The theme this year is Emergence/ia and the conference will be virtual and bilingual. Submit proposals by 11:59pm on 2/2/2026 and save the date for June 24-26, 2026!

We are now accepting submissions for Mapping Indigenous Literatures, a special issue of PMLA. The issue seeks to center Indigenous authors and communities, asking how Indigenous humanities criticism has influenced the broader field of Indigenous studies. www.mla.org/Publications...

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.

"To attempt to find useful information + instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product... You think about how different it all was: when pages loaded quickly, half the internet wasn’t locked behind paywalls..."

Ashamed as an alum of the gutting of NSSR’s legacy. “…40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” gothamist.com/news/the-new...

AAUP is livestreaming the rally and press conference against extreme austerity measures and the proposed termination of 40% of full-time faculty at The New School! Join the livestream tomorrow, December 10 at 4pm ET. Link below 👇

Ashamed as an alum of the gutting of NSSR’s legacy. “…40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” gothamist.com/news/the-new...

Hi sky people. I’m now the admin of a Wordpress site and haven’t really done much with WP in some years and have only basic web skills. The site is way overdue for a theme update. How nervous should I be about borking everything when I change themes?

For the first time in nearly two decades of our surveys of U.S. Latinos, most say they think the situation of Hispanics in this country has worsened in the last year. And about a third of Latinos say they have considered leaving the country in the last six months. www.pewresearch.org/...

Hi sky people. I’m now the admin of a Wordpress site and haven’t really done much with WP in some years and have only basic web skills. The site is way overdue for a theme update. How nervous should I be about borking everything when I change themes?

📣 The Recovering US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference/Association for Documentary Editing has extended their deadline to submit a proposal to January 12. #humanidadesdigitales bit.ly/recoveryade26

My book is now out in paperback! 📘 A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment bit.ly/3NEXFbA For anyone researching bookbinding, this is a development worth noting; and for those studying book prices: use the discount code LAHIS26

A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."

🧵 of good free #zines on ethical+safe digital preservation of protest & advocacy: * always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues the question: Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital? Start with Part 1 here:

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:

I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...

🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨 A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws. Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...

I think this is the most recent book on the assasination of the 4 U.S. women in #ElSalvador, 2 December 1980.

Not sure if any single part of academia felt more like a weird cheat code than Interlibrary Loan. Like, I just say a book I want, basically any book, and this crack team of experts just *get it*????

This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work. Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.

"The heroic excavators of government secrets" - Author Stephen Kinzer on 40 years of the National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/o...