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Puerto Rico’s Radical History Is Being Rediscovered Jorell Meléndez-Badillo worked with trap superstar Bad Bunny on his new album to inform fans about Puerto Rico’s history of popular struggle. His work as a historian is part of an important political ...

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo worked with trap superstar Bad Bunny on his new album to inform fans about Puerto Rico’s history of popular struggle. His work as a historian is part of an important political moment that Puerto Ricans are now going through. jacobin.com/2025/02/puer...

Bust of Karl Marx in the form of a money bank, on sale at the Centre Pompidou gift shop, Malaga

Late-stage Kapitalism

The cover of Samantha Langsdale’s book “Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics.”

Sam Langsdale’s book “Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics” won the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society. While many books about representation catalog problematic elements, Langsdale searches for progressive alternatives. 1/8

MLA 2027 CFP for 3 panels sponsored by the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum:
I. Migration in Children's and YA Graphic Narratives
II. Heated Rivalries: Sports, Games, and Graphic Narrative
III. The Hernandez Brothers, Page-by-Page

I made a whole guide about finding free-to-use, openly licensed and public domain images! pressbooks.cuny.edu/studentguide...

i need an emotional support perogi

Great news--congratulations!

😸 Little Oreo cat having Fun

'A party and a protest': What to expect from Bad Bunny on Super Bowl Sunday Petra River-Rideau, co-author of the Bad Bunny Syllabus and the new book P FKN R, says the Puerto Rican artist often wields joy as resistance.

Petra River-Rideau, co-author of the Bad Bunny Syllabus and the new book P FKN R, says the Puerto Rican artist often wields joy as resistance.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Just learned the patriots were in the Super Bowl. Told my partner, and he said, yeah it’s all anyone talks about at work. To which I responded, no one at my job has said a thing about this.

Call for Papers at Latinx Talk
Loss and Liberation: Latinx Studies and the Question of Palestine
Series Curators: Sara Awartani and Karma R. Chávez. latinxtalk.org/call-for-pap...

The Librarians: Heroes Stemming Book Banning Tide This most recent crackdown on “controversial” books began in 2021, when a Texas State Representative compiled a list of 850 books to be targeted for removal from libraries.

“When asked what people should take away from this film, Snyder emphasized the immense courage of these everyday workers who choose to show up and fight, even though they have everything to lose.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

This Puerto Rican Deaf Performer Will Be Joining Bad Bunny During Super Bowl Halftime Show Bad Bunny isn't the only Puerto Rican performing at the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show! Read more about who's joining him.

This Puerto Rican Deaf Performer Will Be Joining Bad Bunny During Super Bowl Halftime Show remezcla.com/sports/puert... #a11y

Flyer for 2/20 Event: Celebrating the release of... THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us Edited by Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo and Kevin Gannon February 20th, 2026 | CUNY Graduate Center About The Campus Crisis Toolkit New from SUNY Press, this is the first book to address campus crises that's by and for faculty, staff, and students—the true heart of higher ed and the people who make it work. The volume brings together more than forty contributors from colleges and universities across the United States and beyond. Essays address a range of aspects of the current polycrisis, including declarations of financial exigency, program closures and faculty layoffs, campus closures, political interference, and outbreaks of violence. Authors draw on their own experiences—and those of their colleagues and students—to share what worked, what didn't, and what they learned along the way. If crisis hasn't come to your campus yet, don't worry, it will. When it does, this book will help. Available March 1, 2026. Lunch and Learn Feb 20 | 12-3PM | Room 9207 Hear from contributing authors and the volume editors, connect with other faculty, staff, and students , and discuss strategies that you've used to help navigate your campus through crisis over the past several years. Register for Lunch and Learn: https://cuny.is/cctk-lunch Evening Panel: "The University & the Polycrisis" 5:30-7pm | Segal Theatre / Livestreamed Reception to follow. Welcoming comments from Joshua Brumberg and Cathy Davidson. Panel Discussion on "The Univeristy & the Polycrisis" featuring Joel Christensen, Lisa Di Bartolomeo, , Kevin Gannon, Robin Isserles, Luke Waltzer and Amy Wan. Register for "The University & the Polycrisis": https://cuny.is/cctk-polycrisis

On February 20 we'll host two events @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social to celebrate the upcoming release of _The Campus Crisis Toolkit_ (SUNY Press).

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolomeo will be joining us for a day of reflection, connection, and solidarity.

Shutting down (the stellar) books coverage at WaPo is a real telling move when your owner is literally Jeff Bezos

Manhattan from this morning‘s train back to Providence.

Every time I teach Foucault, I realize that I still haven't learned how to spell archaeology and genealogy right on the first try

“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932

Picture shows grey Lego shark on wooden table top.

Another Lego shark has been found! It was discovered on Sunday by Emma Fraser Trecurno at East Portholland beach in Cornwall. It's one of 51,800 Lego sharks that fell into the ocean on 13th February 1997.

Picture credit: Emma Fraser Trecurno

CFP: CUNY English Student Association Graduate Conference on Beauty, Pleasure, Value. Proposal deadline 2/20.

Thanks Jennifer!

I am also not an artist, but I am a crafter and a fellow Spidey writer, so taking a page out of Jody's book to contribute to #Comics4Liam

Please visit comics4liam.com for more info on how you can help our immigrant communities 🕷️🕸️❤️

Abstract Once an exclusively white enterprise, the last forty-five years have witnessed the emergence of a disproportionately Latinx immigration law enforcement workforce. This article addresses the question of why Latinxs elect to work for agencies that have systematically targeted the ethnic communities to which they belong. Where existing scholarship has often implied Latinxs may self-select into immigration law enforcement due to a lack of identification with the immigrant-experience, a dissociation with ethnic identity, and generally restrictionist immigration attitudes, this article finds little empirical evidence to support such an assumption. Analysis of interviews with sixty-one Latinx Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across Arizona, California, and Texas reveals, instead, Latinxs elect to work in immigration law enforcement in service of economic self-interest and survival, with “money,” “a good job,” and “benefits” cited as the primary motivation(s) behind applying for and accepting a job in immigration. This pattern holds irrespective of individual agents’ levels of identification with the immigrant-experience and particular attitudes toward immigration, and suggests a diversity in the demographics of immigration law enforcement agencies that extends beyond mere race and ethnicity, to include a diversity of perspective and potential for empathy.

Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

CFP: CUNY English Student Association Graduate Conference on Beauty, Pleasure, Value. Proposal deadline 2/20.

rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!

liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

Very, very grateful to 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘺 for giving me space to sing the praises of Chase Gregory's 𝘈𝘴 𝘐𝘧!, a much-needed book about the limits of identity-based scholarship:

momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout

teaching a class on The Novel and The Archive, so I got this shirt from the Lesbian Herstory Archives.

During first day of class introductions this week, a student said that she was from Minneapolis and has never been prouder to be a Minnesotan, and the whole class applauded.