Depraved. Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya Refugee Dumped by Border Patrol, Dies in Cold – Mother Jones www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Speaking of CUNY's Lost & Found project: just look at this *fantastic* collection of research projects — from Gloria Anzaldúa poetry to Stuart Hall's educational work to the Buffalo poetry scene to "othermothering" + radical pedagogy to Black Arts jazz liner note poems (!) to Richard Pryor as poet

Until this country reckons with police and policing, nothing will improve.

Repeatedly watching how she pulls the mic away when he speaks on private equity & I can't stop thinking about the way that our employment system forces people into craven cowards that have to do real-time self-preservation calculus that results in actions that conflict entirely with class solidarity

Reynaldo Rivera’s latest photobook, Propiedad Privada, is mesmerizingly tender. I adore how he captures everyday intimacies, the softness of queer of color relation.

Ruben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.

a passage that continues to ignite my own wanderings in queer of color fantasying as method, fantasy as the composing of worlds within the stifling, destructive one we must endure.

rainy day re-read of Muñoz’s, The Sense of Brown.

PROFESSION is becoming an annual issue of PMLA! Here's this year's CFP: www.mla.org/Publications...

yesss very much this. I’ve contacted folks about teaching their work for years. Even better is when I can have them come into the class to discuss their work!

Waiting to see how long it takes institutions reinstate the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs they shut down, re-hire those they pushed out, and rewrite all the language they rushed to change. Something tells me it'll likely be a long wait.

Six months ago today, scholar and teacher Ricardo Ortiz suddenly passed away. New at PB: Maia Gil’Adí (@maiagiladi.bsky.social) remembers his life.

Since it’s Audre Lorde’s birthday, here is part of my ongoing engagement with her thinking. open.substack.com/pub/keguro/p...

Congratulations, Marcos!

Revolting Indolence recieved an honorable mention for the Alan Bray Book Prize. What an honor for my monograph to be recognized as one of the best books in Queer Studies by the MLA & ASA! 🪩💫

2 month old babies in detention centers. the depravity of ICE knows no bounds.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Puto," edited by Jennifer S. Ponce de León, Richard T. Rodríguez, and Randall Williams, the first-ever collection of the works of groundbreaking playwright Ricardo A. Bracho. buff.ly/cOu1R85

gazania flower (native to South Africa)

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

Deadline to apply is February 10th!

dismantle this entire agency.

ICE does not need to exist.

Weaponizing civil rights law against the very groups it was written to protect is a hallmark of neofascism. It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want. This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.

For Liam.

"Texas A&M offered a bachelor of arts degree, a bachelor of science degree, an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies. The program has 25 students seeking a major and 31 seeking a minor." www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...

We’re hiring! UC Press is looking for an Editorial Assistant (hybrid, Oakland) to support acquisitions, work with authors, and help bring scholarly books into the world: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...

you have to USE impeaching Noem to make a BROAD public case to dismantle DHS.

I don't think they want power, they certainly do not want responsibility. I think they want easy jobs and are always annoyed when begrudgingly compelled to do anything at all, most of them anyway.

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

You should not piss off nurses.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Bovino embarrassed them by failing, not by being a Nazi His replacement will be a Nazi because it’s Nazis all the way up and down over there

1/26: 10:15 a.m. CBP 🧊 cluster raids starting in Koreatown, Pico/Union, Salvadoran Corridor this morning. ICE also in Riverside

this cover, this book, this playwright—I need this book now!

first day of classes tomorrow cancelled—a snow day!

They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

"Trump is using all the instruments: quotas for ICE arrests; paramilitary force of thugs drunk on their own brutality; spectacle of random violence; postmortem vilification of victims. Our brains struggle to find logic. This logic has a name. It’s called state terror www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

this guy just wanted to help defend his community and they murdered him for it and the highest officials in the nation are lying about what multiple camera angles are showing the nation this cannot stand

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

One day will be the last that they commit an execution in the streets and we can and must bring that day closer however we can

The Senate Switch Board Number is: (202)224-3121.

executions in the street.

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.