Please find below a link to my newest short story "La Oscuridad" (title in Spanish, story in English) recently published by the academic journal _Label Me Latina/o_. #ShortStory #PuertoRico #Writer #LiteraryPost #NewPublication

This and every season. Always. Tenfold. #Karmamagnified

#Icetapo2025 #ICE #Icetapo

This country needs a plague of frogs! 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

#Portland2025 #PDX #Portland

By matching clownery with clownery and buffoonery with buffoonery, Portlanders are showing us, in the midst of the Icetapo invasion, that there is hope by demonstrating what those "Keep Portland Weird" bumper stickers are about. Weird as in magnificent, relevant, and brave. #Portland2025 #PDX2025

By artist Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social

My first foray into fiction writing. Intense but fun. Although the title is in Spanish, the story is written in English. Let me know your thoughts. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

If you are on StoryGraph, let's connect. My handle is @crllugo. Also, if you are not on StoryGraph but are on Goodreads, make the switch. Goodreads is owned by Amazon. StoryGraph by an individual (a woman). You can import your library from Goodreads to StoryGraph. #booksky #AcademicSky #bookworm

"We cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza." More than 900 figures from the cinema world have signed an open letter denouncing “genocide” in Gaza and the movie industry’s failure to speak up about it. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/zteiq

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

#LatinxStudies #LatinoStudies #LatinaStudies

So yesterday we were surprised with the printing of our new article, "Managing life and managing death: the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, bio/necropolitical production, and a new wave of settler colonialism." Check it out! First 50 downloads are free :). www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UV5YX...

Hey BlueSky! Just joined and excited to connect. I’m a singer and interdisciplinary artivist creating at the intersection of love and liberation. My latest song, No Es Mi Presidente Remix, just dropped and is streaming everywhere! Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1e9...

US CBP has authority to board a bus or train without a warrant anywhere within this 100-mile zone. About 200 million people, reside within this expanded border region. Most of the 10 largest cities such as NYC, LA, and Chicago are included. Florida lies entirely within this border band. ACLU

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency tasked with patrolling the border and border-like areas, claims a territorial reach “within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States” defined as 100 air miles from any external boundary of the U.S. (ACLU)

Gulf of America does not mean what he thinks it means.

Those who like to find fault on other's political actions, thinking they're never enough, STFU. Yes, SU before criticizing someone for choosing to fight one thing over others. We can't all focus on all of it. That's the point of the EO blitz. But, we can create networks and keep tabs on each other.

Your neighborhood ethnic studies/american studies scholar here. (Re)read Naomi Klein's book _Shock Doctrine_. The blitz of executive orders aims to shock us all into inaction. The strategy for those with an ounce of energy left should be to concentrate on something that matters to them, and fight.

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊

Let's flood Bluesky with MLK Jr. today. Here's a quote, timely and timeless. "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." --From his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

When you are trying your hardest to hide from the world, but your ear betrays you. #schnauzersofbluesky

Here's a little piece of me for 2024. Wishing everyone a peaceful and happy 2025 (because we need it!). Feliz año nuevo a todos/as/es.

I believe that Jimmy Carter spent his life atoning for the things he did during his presidency. The one President who showed us that good intentions are constrained by the parameters of the presidency, which has built-in mechanisms to protect the interests of U.S. capital and its elites. RIP, Sir.

Feliz Navidad!

Here, Bluesky, enjoy a trio of holiday gnomes next to a duck. Because why not?

These days you need to take a moment to sort satire (like this) from actual news. Still, pretty funny. With a dash of sad for all the people who read this and believe it's real. And and even bigger dash of sad for the world we live in, making it possible for people to believe this could be true.

As a Genxer (b.1970), I don’t think it’s fair to compare boomers and millennials. Boomers are the reason the world is literally and metaphorically burning to the ground. Millennials are the reason I don’t get a soap bar at hotels and get body wash instead. Both annoying but not equivalent.

At least people are talking about the high cost of health care once again. #SilverLining

Alright, folks, here are a few words we all need to learn to spell and use. 1. Authoritarian—the new President is an authoritarian giblet. 2. Fascist—the US’s fascist regime is headed by an orange clown 3. Oligarchy—the US is being burned to the ground by it’s oligarchy and a bankrupt felon.

A starter pack on Ethnic Studies Professors. Hit me up to add you to the pack.

Hi everyone, here’s a starter pack I put together of Puerto Ricans thinking Puerto Rico on Bluesky. Hit me up if you want in. go.bsky.app/NWYE6Pb

When you try to fix your own beard and make it worse. #schnauzers #schnauzersofbluesky #schnauzergang

Chronicles of a bilingual person (getting older edition): saying a word in one language and then wondering whether that’s an actual word or a whether you just took a word from the other language and modified the ending.

Hi everyone, here’s a starter pack I put together of Puerto Ricans thinking Puerto Rico on Bluesky. Hit me up if you want in. go.bsky.app/NWYE6Pb

All those academic articles from the previous decade with "...and the fall of Authoritarian Regimes" in the title didn't age well, did they? Sigh.

So, when do we start referring to it as the American oligarchy instead of the American democracy?

I finished my last lecture of the semester in one of my classes and the students stood up and applauded. This is the 3rd or 4th time in my career it’s happened. And every time I’ve kicked myself afterwards because I forget to take a bow. I just stand there, uncomfortable, and all shy, and stuff 🙄.

When you wake up from a morning nap and want to make sure at least one of your mommies is still around. And can someone please fix the bed beard. #schnauzers #schnauzersofbluesky #schnauzergang

Want to join of a community of Latinx/a/o Scholars broadly throughout academia? Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! Shout out to @larrylafountain.bsky.social for bringing us together! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr

Chilean dictator A. Pinochet appointed generals as provosts of the universities, imposed strict penalties (including dismissal) on teachers and professors who failed to follow the regime's mandates on what could be taught in the classroom, and imposed a universal voucher system form of education.

A starter pack on Ethnic Studies Professors. Hit me up to add you to the pack.

Our two hooligan #schnauzers #minischnauzers #schnauzersofbluesky wish everyone a great Friday evening.

Who knew back then that _The Three Stooges_ would have such enduring relevance.

A pic of my #schnauzer to make sure this thing is working. First post jitters. 🙂