Aaaahhhhhhhhhh 😱😱😱 My first ever book award nomination 🥹🥳 and it’s for the ELGIN AWARD? Staaaappphhhh

I looked at the astronaut candidate job posting at NASA just for funsies and this made me giggle 🤭

“We are a mirror reflecting you. If you like what you see, then just look a little deeper.” JEREMY STAHP I CANNOT CRY ANY MORE 😭

Welcome home, Artemis team! 🪂

Having seasonal allergies is so embarrassing because what do you MEAN the trees are trying to kill me? 💀🌳

My Moon joy 🌕 is currently balancing out my Earth anxiety 😬

Ad Astra Per Aspera ✨ Through hardship, to the stars 📷 taken April 6, 2026 by nasaartemis astronauts

Oh my god. The photos 😍 📷 NASA

Seems like a good day to reshare this poem I wrote a few years ago. More true today than ever. 🌒🌑🌘

Cue the tears again 😭

I am nerding out over this photo. If an iPhone can capture that amount of detail, the high res photos are going to be absolutely stunning 😍🌕

Just tearing up over Carroll’s crater over here… anyone else? 🥲

Happy MOONday! 🚀🌕

I am going to be absolutely LOCKED IN tomorrow afternoon/ evening 🌕🚀

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

I watched the Artemis II launch today with my refugee students. It was a moment that transcended language and spoke to our shared humanity. For a brief time we were all connected in awe and wonder, regardless of language, race, religion, or any other way they want to try to divide us.

Me for the next 10 days 🚀

Go Poll from the Artemis II crew: "This is Victor. We are going for our families. “This is Christina. We are going for our teammates.” “This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.” 😭😭😭

<— this user will forever be a nerd for space 🚀🌕

Morning. Is it coffee time yet? ☕️

This is a good thread on why we cannot stop at just marches 👉

I cannot stress this enough. Please please PLEASE don’t let your activism stop after one protest. Connect with community orgs. Engage in mutual aid. Donate. Call your reps. Annoy the ever living heck out of your local school board. Whatever you can do where you are, do it. Just don’t stop. 🙏🏽

Together, we are América 🗽

Let’s bring this back 🪄

“Kuña Mbareté - Mujer Fuerte - Strong Woman” From yesterday’s event, Honoring Womxn’s Work, a fundraiser for the Immigrant Women’s Academy 🦸🏻‍♀️

Eid fit 💁🏻‍♀️✨ for our class party

Gonna be, gonna be golden ✨

I went on the radio this morning to talk about the benefit this Sunday for Ulster Immigrant Defense & the Immigrant Women’s Academy 🎙️ Tickets are $25 at the door, and 100% of proceeds will go to immigrant women and families 🦸🏻‍♀️ Hope to see you there 🙏🏽

Join us next Sunday as we raise money for the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network and the Immigrant Women’s Academy 🦸🏻‍♀️ There will be music, art, food, and fun prizes! $25 to enter (cash only, please!) 100% of proceeds will go helping immigrant women and their families

Happy Friday, friends 🫶🏼

It’s so surreal to see Paraguayan symbolism front and center at an international event! For those wondering, these figures are Taú and Keraná - two central figures in Guaraní mythology. Thank you to @hausfuerpoesie.bsky.social and @ag.grafik for the brilliant design. See you in Berlin this June!

“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”

High of 77 degrees today and a low of 29 degrees on Thursday. Welcome to Upstate NY 🙃

Looking for an #internationalwomensday read? SEVEN LEGENDARY MONSTERS is an unapologetically feminist retelling of Paraguayan mythology that centers the voices of survivors and honors the sacrifices of women throughout history. Get it now from your favorite online bookstore!

It is done 🙌🏽

Every time I go to write a synopsis, I forget everything I ever knew about how to write a synopsis. I can’t be the only one with this problem, can I? 😅

Lunar eclipse, you say? I guess it would be a good time to mention that I’m working on an indigenous Romeo & Juliet retelling based on the Guaraní myth of the solar and lunar eclipses 🌕🌑 complete with a celestial jaguar that swallows the moon 🐆

I’m sad to announce that my literary agency has closed its doors as of today, and I am without representation once more. I’ll greatly miss my kind, supportive agent, Atifa, who championed my stories and helped get the best deal possible for SLM. Back to the query trenches I go!

I had too much coffee this morning and now I can feel my teeth. 😬 Happy Friday!

Update: She almost made it! Just one more chapter to go! 🥳

Can Clara focus long enough today to finish writing this book? Stay tuned to find out! 👀

instead of inches I use this novel snowfall measuring system called “how cake is my backyard table” (very, very cake)

🥹💕 Praise for SEVEN LEGENDARY MONSTERS Thank you to everyone who took the time to leave a review! 🫶🏼

New headshot 💁🏻‍♀️📸

I am terrified for my students (even more so than I was before). They have faced so much trauma already. They did everything right in their legal process to come here. It’s heartbreaking 💔

“Indefinite detention” of refugees WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN SCREENED in a planned network of gigantic warehouses. A concentration camp is a concentration camp is a concentration camp.

The 2 mo baby being held in detention became unresponsive last night and was rushed to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with bronchitis. Rather than give him treatment, he was deported along with his mother and left abandoned at the Mexico border. Their cruelty knows no bounds.

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Honored to see SEVEN LEGENDARY MONSTERS included as part of these amazing lists on Bookshop, StoryGraph, Pagebound and Goodreads! Many thanks to @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social for curating the list to feature indie Latine authors like me 🥹🇵🇾