Menopunk roll call! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/15/m...

“Resisting White supremacy, fucking with words, making new ones, and experimenting with ideas and language has a long tradition in America and in punk.” open.substack.com/pub/michelle...

Establishing English as official lang will not only streamline communication for thin-skinned monolinguals but also reinforce shared national values (or provide the appearance of doing so) and create the fantastical illusion of a more cohesive and efficient society. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...

TODAY join us at 5:30 PM PT to celebrate the launch of Alcove Chapbook Prize finalist, MARISOLANDIA by @menopunk.bsky.social! Michelle will be reading from MARISOLANDIA, conversing with author Stephen Gutierrez, and answering questions from our audience. Be sure to register here: bit.ly/3QRfPsC

📚 Celebrate the release of MARISOLANDIA by @menopunk.bsky.social with a virtual event featuring a conversation with guest Stephen Gutierrez. Don't miss this chance to explore themes of identity and belonging through an engaging discussion. ✨ 📅 April 4th at 5:30 PM PDT RSVP here: bit.ly/3QRfPsC

¡Chicana poder en acción!

My new work #Marisolandia #awp2025 @wtawpress.bsky.social

Join us at our AWP off-site readings!📚✨ On March 27, our event features WTAW Press stars: ✨ @anitafelicelli.bsky.social ✨ LIZ GREEN ✨ @menopunk.bsky.social ✨ STEPHANIE AUSTIN Poetry Northwest's stars are: @billcarty.bsky.social, Kevin Craft, @katharinewhitcomb.bsky.social, and Nikia Chaney.

LEARN: Lang Equity in Academia Reimagining kNowledge con CFP!! Propose a session @lingthusiasm.bsky.social @languageonthemove.bsky.social @vocalfriespod.bsky.social @meganfigueroa.bsky.social @becauselanguage.com @subtitle.bsky.social @cadlin.bsky.social @cccr.bsky.social forms.gle/xFiGAdAiMpqs...

We're so happy to announce MARISOLANDIA by @menopunk.bsky.social is published today! On shelves everywhere. 📚✨ To celebrate this book's publication, we are hosting a virtual book launch event on Wednesday, April 3rd at 5:30 PM PT with guest, Stephen Gutierrez. Register here: bit.ly/3QRfPsC

Thank you to our friends @clmporg.bsky.social for including HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS by @anitafelicelli.bsky.social and MARISOLANDIA by @menopunk.bsky.social on their 2025 Women's History Month reading list! 📚✨ Learn more about HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and MARISOLANDIA: bit.ly/3CLvaYB

“This was not how she wanted them to know her, a wreck of a girl from the republic.” Today’s #firstlinefriday features MICHELLE CRUZ GONZALES's (@menopunk.bsky.social) forthcoming book, MARISOLANDIA, a finalist for the 2024 Alcove Chapbook Prize. 📚✨ Preorder Marisolandia now: bit.ly/4jR6aQd

We're so excited for the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles! Visit us at booth #T330 and have your books signed our brilliant authors! Author signings will include: @janishubschman.bsky.social, @menopunk.bsky.social , @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, LIZ GREEN, and @henryhoke.bsky.social.

Two beautiful WTAW Press books publish next month: 2024 Alcove Chapbook winning book, THE HAUNT by LIZ GREEN and 2024 Alcove Chapbook finalist, MARISOLANDIA by MICHELLE CRUZ GONZALES (@menopunk.bsky.social)! Preorder copies of these two books here: bit.ly/3CLvaYB

Today's #firstlinefriday features MARISOLANDIA by MICHELLE CRUZ GONZALES (@menopunk.bsky.social), finalist for the 2024 Alcove Chapbook Prize. Marisolandia is available for preorder now: bit.ly/4jR6aQd

Can’t wait for this! 🖤

Preorder 2024 Alcove Chapbook Series finalist MICHELLE CRUZ GONZALES's (@menopunk.bsky.social) forthcoming book, MARISOLANDIA. When you preorder a copy of this book right now, you will receive 20% off. Marisolandia will be out everywhere March 25th. Preorder your copy: bit.ly/4jR6aQd

You can preorder my gritty, punk rock, dystopia now while we live in one of our own!https://www.wtawpress.org/product-page/marisolandia

@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov 🤬l’m tryna call the capitol number to leave a message. People aren’t able to get past hold music. I hope this just means that the lines are jammed. Calling to say STOP Elon!!! He hasn’t been confirmed. Get his hands off social security y todo eso!!!!!

"When our campus posted the internal job announcement for the DEIA position, I knew I had to apply, but I knew I shouldn’t." substack.com/@michellecru...

Ummm, do we ever ask acts who sing in English this question🙄

This notion that ICE is suddenly active again is not accurate. ICE has been doing this since 2003. Arrests and deportations happen daily.

“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

2) Now for practical matters, my son lives across the country from us, and so l just asked him to keep a photo copy of his passport in his wallet

1) Whether blocked in court or not, this nativist, racist, MAGA appeasing order is designed to make us live in fear, to feel the hate, to shrink, to obey in advance #donotobeyinadvance

Queremos desvergue! Ratas en Zelos in Oakland ✊🏽

ALL EYES ON CHICAGO!! RESISTORS!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!! The DJT Regime will begin Mass deportations and raid ice Patrols into Chicago beginning Tuesday. WE RESIST!! WE FIGHT BACK!! Help my home town from being Ground Zero!! #makeitgoviral #savechicagomigrants

I used to love reading dystopian fiction in high school. Reaaaaally not enjoying living through dystopian reality as an adult.

I’m not even a Xmas song hater, but I really do hate this one www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8N7NATR/

Full-time tenure track position in English at Las Positas College open now; closes 1/27/25 clpccd.peopleadmin.com/postings/317...

#linguisticjustice content from my easy chair #jldillard www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8NFQPJ2/

You've heard of push-out factors, no? Circumstances in a country that push people out, circumstances like political instability. Now the U.S. is that country.

Michelle Cruz Gonzales’s “The Spitboy Rule” is one of the best rock memoirs I've ever read. Honest, gritty, passionate, and very working-class. michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/06/30/r... #punk #memoir #books #writer #spitboy @menopunk.bsky.social

Planning spring and summer 2025 around conferences and punk festivals--why are both so expensive!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... Word of Mouth is great and v accessible for a general audience.

"I know a lot of White people who speak really good Spanish. I sort of fucking hate it." open.substack.com/pub/michelle...

Why does Martha Stewart hate red flowers so much?