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The Measure of the World By attending to the vibrant specificity of Black life, poet Dionne Brand contests the cruel mathematics of empire.

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Profile of Dionne Brand. The Measure of the World. By Claire Schwartz

This stunning mountain bluebird….
Nature blesses us with such beauty… 🥰
🐦

Post Andy Borowitz.

Stephen Miller

Thank you to Mexico 🇲🇽 for stepping up and helping in Texas!

Plush Pony #5: Portrait of a lesbian woman with hands on her hips starring directly into the camera. They have a short cropped, greaser-style haircut. They are in front of a typical photo studio backdrop, but are inside of the Plush Pony lesbian bar.

Plush Pony #6. Portrait of three woman dressed in club outfits who are implied to be lesbians. The first and third woman are wearing dresses, but the second woman in the middle is wearing a polo and slacks. They are posed closely together and smiling indicating they have a friendly bond between them. They are in front of a typical photo studio backdrop, but are inside of the Plush Pony lesbian bar.

You’ve heard of the Pink Pony Club, but what about the Plush Pony Club?

During the early 1990s, Plush Pony was an iconic lesbian bar located in the El Sereno neighborhood of East Los Angeles that catered to working-class Mexican and Chicana women. [🧵1/3]

A model, José, poses in front of a laundromat in Lynwood, California. A Mexican-American man, he is dressed in the style of a modern cowboy. He wears a white cowboy hat, a leather belt, and a button-up shirt with a print that features a cowboy lassoing a cow. However, there are elements of the outfit that challenge queer assumptions of how a cowboy, or ranchero, dresses. Namely, the shirt is mostly pink and teal- a bright colorway that isn't typical of most cowboy getups. Secondly, José wears several pieces of jewelry: multiple hoop piercings in his ears, two or more medallion and chain necklaces, and three rings on his right hand. He leans confidently against a concrete post in front of the entrance to the laundromat, gazing down at the viewer in confident defiance.

Cowboys are icons of conventional American masculinity: hyper-masculine, hyper-straight, & usually white.

But, with this photograph, Fabian Guerrero reclaims the aesthetic, usually denied to queer men, while also reclaiming the significance of the ranchero in Mexican & Mexican-American culture. 🇲🇽

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case

Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base.

This man has no citizenship now.

Aid seekers in Gaza continue to be targeted as Israeli attacks kill 26 Gaza’s Health Ministry says that in the last 48 hours, 202 people have been killed in Israeli attacks.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says that in the last 48 hours, 202 people have been killed in Israeli attacks.

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

conversation with the visual artist felipe baeza. open access. ✨💖

This will have a huge impact on state libraries and museums. Yikes!!!—word is, RIP to the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

2000 people at ICE protest outside Los Angeles City Hall

24 hours from now President Trump is set to unleash a series of aggressive executive orders targeting immigration. Here are seven things he appears set to do (or attempt to do).

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Another world is possible if we fight for it

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Continuing to try to bring communities together as people migrate here. If you want to connect with folks currently and/previously at UT Austin. Friends of Longhorns welcome, please let me know if you want to be added. 🤘🏽 #UTAustin #UTAustinAlums #HookEm

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Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.

Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback
The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.
By Carina del Valle Schorske @fluentmundo.bsky.social
November 17, 2024
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Dissatisfactions
Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style
by Joshua Javier Guzman
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Next year’s ASA conference in Puerto Rico will focus on “Late-Stage American Empire.” Official CFP coming soon.

black and white photo of Wong Kim Ark, American of Chinese descent. He is looking straight at the camera.

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant.

I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester.

Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: ""For my work, both in this essay and elsewhere, the questions that Hammonds asks throughout her remarkable essay on the unfathomable 'Black (W)hole' pinpoint not a political problem (though the exclusion of “us” would be considered as a political one for the better part of a decade), but a theoretical one, or a problem for queer thought. The construction of bodies outside of queerness proliferated popular theoretical paradigms like queer of color critique as an interventionist strategy—one that for all of its rigor and charm still produced itself in opposition to a vacant space masquerading as an impenetrable brick wall. There was simply no there, there. There is no 'queer theory,' no talk of sexuality without the imprint of centuries of commerce in bodies that mattered."

"What does it mean to labor in a field (figuratively and literally) under constant and reoccurring erasure?" — from our latest issue, read Sharon P. Holland's "Black (W)holes: A Problem for Feminist Thought" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...