Ada Ferrer

He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.

#LatinoHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth.

He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

My home Internet went kersplat, and I raced to the library for its wifi and ample table outlets for my work laptop. I worked for five hours straight.
LIBRARIES.
They have been there for me all my life.

The New Yorker…

This is fantastic!

Thank you! And happy birthday to him!

Erasing History: Project 2025's Vision for Tribal Nations The implementation of Project 2025 isn’t just reshaping policy—it’s erasing history. From the Pentagon’s removal of Navajo Code Talkers to the deletion of federal reports on missing Indigenous women, ...

Navajo Code Talkers erased from Pentagon records. Tribal flags stripped from public buildings. Reports on missing Indigenous women deleted. Under Project 2025, the U.S. is reclassifying Native sovereignty as “DEI”—a calculated strategy to enable cultural erasure.

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Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and his...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/t...

BAR Book Forum: Judith Weisenfeld’s Book, “Black Religion in the Madhouse” | Black Agenda Report This week’s featured author is Judith Weisenfeld. Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. Her book is Black Religion in the Mad...

I'm grateful to Roberto Sirvent of @blackagendareport.bsky.social for interviewing me about *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake*

New Jersey is just running circles around everybody this week. Get with it, rest of America.

Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Lecture: “Cuba: The Scales of History” with @aditaferrer.bsky.social. Amphitheater 2, General Studies, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, on April 3, 2025, at 2:30pm (EST).

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American History Lessons Edited to Comply with Anti-DEI Standards “Images of ‘Enola Gay,’ the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiati...

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“I am tethered to the generations before me by ambiguous and even unspoken beginnings—expressed in skin too light, features too fine, hair too limp. I am the heir of misunderstanding, misapprehension, and mistaken identity. Who do I think I am? To begin, I am a daughter of Nancy.”

— Martha Jones

Likewise!

And again. With a promise to self not to check before bed.

Giving this a try.