Lauren Nofi

Honestly I am still thinking about how 13min of the hottest people on earth performing with joy reached across the whole world to ignite pride & unity in a way that has never happened before and will probably never happen again unless we CHOOSE RIGHT NOW TO KEEP THIS MOMENTUM IN OUR HEARTS AND DEEDS

Still trying to collect myself because I couldn’t live tweet but the piragua cart and the dominos and the bodegas had me in a chokehold because that survived the Diaspora and was a huge part of my childhood in East Harlem with abuelita and titi!!! *screams*

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I have been trying to find the words for my joy and pride regarding Bad Bunny, but nothing in English or my limited Spanish can suffice. Just a phenomenal time to be Puerto Rican at this moment, even as a Diaspora Nuyorican!!! 🇵🇷

Unfortunately for the 12th graders, they are doing their Beowulf unit, and the lesson plan specifically includes a section where I am supposed to talk about early medieval England to my heart’s content.

I hope you will forgive the confusion, as my people don’t have a name for the continent, and I didn’t want to appropriate Turtle Island as an outsider to the cultures that use that terminology.

Just wanted to clarify with the scare quotes around “American” in the previous thread referring to the bison: I mean the landmass not the colonial and imperial entity. I mean that this land is their land, not that the bison should be seen as part of the occupying cultures.

You are being fed propaganda by the cattle industry. If you actually care about #conservation of this sacred and life-giving land, open your eyes. Bison are as “American” as any animal can be.

Bison belong in America. If the history doesn’t move you, you are weak. But the science is also irrefutable. Our ecosystem has suffered without them. Bison are grass-fed and therefore adapted for American prairies. They produce meat that is lower in fat and thus healthier for us to consume.

Bison are theeeeee large herbivores of this continent since time immemorial. The US gov with the help of settlers and businesses orchestrated an extinction-level campaign against them to deprive Native peoples of the Great Plains the key species in their subsistence and societies.

You may not have heard about the new policy from BLM regarding classifying bison: bison are no longer allowed to freely graze on public lands in MT. This is just the start, unfortunately.

A registered nurse was doing his duty to check on/care for a fellow human who had just been assaulted and ICE executed him on the street for it. That is America today, and for the foreseeable future, unless ICE is fully abolished.

ICE is murdering people unchecked in the streets. They are murdering people in the concentration camps. They are MURDERERS.

Every time a congressperson is denied access to an ICE facility no one can tell me why they didn’t show up with armed dudes actually loyal to the constitution and sledgehammers because it is the LAW they be granted access.

ABOLISH ICE

Just saw The Bone Temple. Ralph Fiennes and Erin Kellyman were fantastic; Jack O’Connell was levels of insane we have come to expect; and the actors who play Spike and Samson just do amazing and heartbreaking things with their faces.

It’s just like…I am supposed to get up and do chores and go to work like the world isn’t a mess mostly because of my shit country???? And teach the kids with some iota of hope in my heart so they don’t become apathetic to suffering and injustice????

Even though this is my serious business social media presence, it feels like lying by omission to not say that I have been crying every day. About everything. And everyone I love. And that is just the new normal, huh?

I saw a meteor this morning! First time not in a recurring “shower” so that was very cool. No one was talking about it online or at work, so I doubted myself, but Reddit eventually had a thread.

Space is cool and terrifying!!!!

Just fyi if I am ever confronted by ICE, I will calmly ask for a warrant and then try to leave if not presented with one, and, when they ultimately shoot me in the face anyway, please remember that whatever they said I did was a lie even if there is no video.

ABOLISH ICE

MURDERERS AND FASCISTS SHOULD BE RUN OUT OF THE COMMUNITIES THEY TERRORIZE AND THE COMMUNITIES THEY LIVE IN!!!!!!

My UK friends have come to this realization (a little too slowly of course) because they are also an international embarrassment. But the rest of the colonizers? Thick.

Hey rest of Europe, you’re making SPAIN, the OG colonizers, the people who raped and murdered their way across what is now Latin America, look like the one slightly reasonable regime on your continent!

The last thing I taught in my US history course was American imperialism in the 19thC. I hope my students were paying attention and have the critical thinking skills to make the connections.

The United States is a bad actor.

I am gonna be completely honest, it has been in my head since 2002, so the public resurgence has awoken me like a sleeper agent.

Remember those little electronic disco balls from the late 90s? I am gonna put it on strobe and stand ominously in the corner while “All the Things She Said” plays on repeat to ring in the new year.
IYKYK.

Drove into the city today, stepped out of the car, and 3 pigeons were eating a slice of pizza. Ahh New York.

Catch me crying over “Heated Rivalry” for the foreseeable future!

The pain in my mom and titi’s faces when me and dad (white) come in singing our parts in the aguinaldos…🇵🇷🐸