Aurora Santiago Ortiz
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Profe caribeña.
I love discussing Love Island with other academics.
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Here we are.
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9 days ago
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Called it.
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19 days ago
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So many people on this platform and none are talking about interest convergence. Surprised by how surprised some of y’all are.
26 days ago
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The Associated Press
27 days ago
Instructure, the company behind the online learning system Canvas, has reached a deal with hackers to delete data stolen in a cyberattack.
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Deal reached with hackers to delete data stolen from the Canvas educational platform
Instructure, the company behind the online learning system Canvas, has reached a deal with hackers to delete data stolen in a cyberattack.
https://bit.ly/4uK5G2Y
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I’ve BEEN saying. Freedom Summer.
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29 days ago
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US Exceptionalism forgets the summer of 2019 in Puerto Rico.
about 1 month ago
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
Duke University Press
about 1 month ago
Our Spring sale starts today! Save 40% on in-stock books & journal issues, and save 50% if your order totals $100 or more. Use coupon SPRING26.
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Our book is in Leeds!
@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
Duke University Press
2 months ago
Save 30% on
#NewBook
"Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies" edited by
@santiaaurora.bsky.social
and
@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
, which examines the disciplinary and epistemic transformations that have given way to new understandings of the field of Puerto Rican studies.
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Not going to lie I shed a tear after watching this.
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2 months ago
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I clocked communion but the elegy…
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2 months ago
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All we can do is imagine more just and liberatory futures.
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2 months ago
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Roxane Gay
2 months ago
In other news, I am really excited to share some new initiatives we're launching at The Rumpus including increased pay, writing and editorial fellowships, and microgrants.
therumpus.net/2026/03/31/e...
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Exciting New Rumpus Initiatives - The Rumpus
Debbie Millman and I are thrilled to share some exciting new initiatives we are launching with The Rumpus. Beginning on April 1, 2026, we are increasing
https://therumpus.net/2026/03/31/exciting-new-rumpus-initiatives/
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So really it all boils down to it’s only a matter of time.
2 months ago
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Call the bluff.
3 months ago
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What a mess.
3 months ago
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I need someone in Europe to get me these and send them to me.
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3 months ago
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Mountainhead, amirite?
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Project Salt Box
3 months ago
A review of Puerto Rico business records shows that SK2 LLC — the firm ICE hired in November to broker the purchase of warehouses around the U.S. — filed to dissolve the company in February. The company had just been added to the WEXMAC TITUS contract vehicle in January.
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Tim Onion
3 months ago
Bernie... thank you
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This madness could be stopped. Why the dragging feet?!
3 months ago
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A ray of light in this dystopia.
3 months ago
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Trash.
3 months ago
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Punch is my Moo Deng.
4 months ago
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
Larry La Fountain
4 months ago
Muere Ivonne Acosta Lespier, autora de libro fundamental sobre persecución a independentistas en Puerto Rico. Por Benjamín Torres Gotay.
@torresgotay.bsky.social
www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/loc...
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Muere Ivonne Acosta Lespier, autora de libro fundamental sobre persecución a independentistas
La historiadora publicó en 1987 ‘La Mordaza’, que relató por primera vez, con gran detalle, la represión a mediados del Siglo XX a partidarios de la independencia
https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/muere-ivonne-acosta-lespier-autora-de-libro-fundamental-sobre-persecucion-a-independentistas/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQB5_1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeqlgM-cpvpMvBZWfpMFAlXcd10asn7X_X2GY3Xz3LIRAzbGRkuBcWu-FaWE0_aem_Bz5f9MOJGZbYq38udtup8Q
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People need to prepare for the SAVE act now. Mutual aid fund for id changes.
4 months ago
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
Duke University Press
4 months ago
Save 30% on
#NewBook
"Promises Beyond Memory" by Vikki Bell, which examines how archives of contemporary political violence in South America create new possibilities for circulating stories of violence to defend against future attempts to rewrite the past.
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
queer & trans bookstore
4 months ago
We have a Very EXPLETIVE Cool event tonight in-store with Marla A. Ramirez + Cindy I-Fen Cheng who will be discussing their work around migration, asylum, the US-Mexico borderlands, and the mirage of legal citizenship. I lit cannot think of a more timely event. 6pm at room. Book signing to follow.
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Larry La Fountain
4 months ago
Very exciting! Great cover! Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies, a forthcoming anthology edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz
@santiaaurora.bsky.social
& Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
.
@dukepress.bsky.social
DISCOUNT CODE: E26PRSTD
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
4 months ago
In a moment when our ability to imagine a future is under attack, I had the privilege of co-editing w
@santiaaurora.bsky.social
this volume gathering so many incredible scholars and activists thinking about the future of Puerto Rican Studies. The book comes out on April 21 w
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Cover reveal day!
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and I’s co-edited volume. We are thrilled to be in the company of such wonderful cutting edge scholars. Preorder at
www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin...
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4 months ago
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The electric power poles are a reference to the outages as a result of the archipelago’s frail infrastructure.
4 months ago
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
American Association of Geographers
4 months ago
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a UW–Madison assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, assisted in writing historical narratives to accompany videos for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
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andré carrington
4 months ago
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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Did anyone else note the DEI undertones in all of the commercials? The AI commercials were ridiculous.
4 months ago
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All of this.
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4 months ago
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
The New York Times
4 months ago
Young Puerto Ricans say that Bad Bunny, 31, has opened the world’s eyes to their generation’s challenges, and to the island’s fraught territorial relationship with the U.S. government. “He has been able to put us on the map,” said one university student in San Juan.
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Misogyny makes the(ir) world go round.
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4 months ago
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
4 months ago
Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.
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Essay: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show will be a history lesson for the ages
Historian Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo hopes Bad Bunny's halftime show will combat "acute ignorance" about Puerto Rico and its ongoing entanglement with the United States.
https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2026-02-05/bad-bunnys-super-bowl-halftime-show-will-be-history-lesson-for-ages
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This is ridiculous especially because the interference was widely thought to have been done by the right wing party (statehood) in the 2020 election and 2024. What a crock.
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4 months ago
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
Princeton University Press
4 months ago
Congratulations to Bad Bunny, whose album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS won Album of the Year at the 2026
#GRAMMYS
! 🎉 🏆️ Did you know that the album’s accompanying YouTube visualizers were written by
@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
, author of Puerto Rico: A National History? (1/3)
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This is not enough.
4 months ago
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Sufran haters.
4 months ago
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BENITO.
4 months ago
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Freedom Summer.
4 months ago
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Do not give up the voter rolls.
5 months ago
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Masks enable impunity.
5 months ago
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