Shakti Castro

Will someone in history or another social science share their teaching statement with me? I'm struggling a bit to wrap my mind around it as I write one for job apps.

Real Duterte-level BS here.

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Honestly, the way these criminal wackadoos are behaving, they must know doomsday is coming. They're definitely treating this planet like they got another one to go to.

Exciting to hear as 1. Someone who is fascinated by all the moving parts of nyc governance shaping our lives and 2. As a parent of a public school student myself ##uha2025LA

Ansley's paper explored control of NYC schools and where city and school policy intersected when the city's mayor was in charge of the system

Brian's been working on a massive book project on the over 400 year history of Black folks in NYC, inclusive of Caribbean and African migrants, and how they've shaped the city, the U.S., and each other's cultures.

Brian Purnell and Ansley Erickson gave great presentations on their panel New Histories of New York #uha2025LA

#uha2025LA was a wonderful conference. Was so glad to see Latinx history centered in a non-ethnic studies conference setting. Many kudos to @aksandovalstrausz.bsky.social Daniela Sheinin and the programming and local arrangements committees for their amazing work!

The toxic behavior I'm always here for

Bumping this

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

With the solemn acknowledgment that the world is indeed on fire, would anyone have a good spreadsheet template for tracking job and post-doc applications?

We're not free until we're all free. These people are a joke.

I'm so embarrassed to still be a registered Democrat.

I joked a few weeks ago that Columbia’s initial concessions meant that Trump had acquired a university. I do not want to have been right. But…

Although this letter is not an official statement by the Columbia History Department, it was signed by 41 members of the department.

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

Dems stood by and did nothing while a Black man was forcibly ejected from the chamber. What a fucking shock. Pathetic cowards.

Adobe ruins on Chispa road, near massacre site. Taken by Derrick Perrin, June 23, 2009

#OTD on January 28, 1918, Texas Rangers massacred fifteen men and boys at the village of Porvenir, Texas, in what is perhaps the single most notorious and consequential event in the history of the Ranger Force. /1

Logo in orange with green outline that reads Bronx Móvil.

Follow Bronx Móvil on Bluesky: Harm reduction must be 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and culturally and linguistically centered.

Siga a Bronx Móvil en Bluesky: La reducción de daños debe realizarse las 24 horas del día y los 7 días de la semana, y centrarse cultural y lingüísticamente.

Promotional tile featuring the cover art from the latest issue of Feminist Formations accompanied by the text Urgent Archives:A How-to-Guide What does it mean to be the one who remembers? How can physical objects from the past help us survive and thrive in the present? What becomes possible when we come together and share our stories? Read free thru 16 Feb

“What does it mean to be the one who remembers?” asks Ted Kerr in Feminist Formations

What do we mean when we say ‘archives,’ and how do those archives relate to the future of BIPOC world-making, HIV/AIDS movements, and others?

Read free thru 16 Feb

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What I'm doing:

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Is that the mayonesa McDonald's dude working in the kitchen in the Debí Tirar Mas Fotos short film!?

Concejal de Missouri envía carta a empleadores de turista sospechosa de quemar cuatro negocios en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico - El Diario NY Los hechos se reportaron el 2 de enero luego de que los propietarios de uno de los establecimientos negaran servirle más bebidas a la mujer que estaba borracha

A tourist set fire to four local establishments in Cabo Rojo, PR, and was allowed to fly back home to Missouri as if nothing happened? eldiariony.com/2025/01/04/c...

The #AHA25 Exhibit Hall is now open! If your book is on sale here, take a selfie with it, mention the booth where your fellow historians can find it, and we will repost it!

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Me on this express bus to #AHA25 because the MTA Might Take Awhile.

Say hi if you see me at #AHA25 tomorrow!

I need to brainstorm with fellow historians because this dissertation is kicking my butt.