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Michelle Vasquez Ruiz

@mvasquezruiz.bsky.social

Oaxaqueña in LA researching histories of Indigenous immigration. UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA || PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity @USC https://michelle-vasquez-ruiz.com

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How Faculty and Staff Can Support Undocumented & DACAmented Students Amid Growing Fear and Worry Over the last few days, there have been growing fears and worries among students who are members of undocumented or mixed-status families (where at least one member is undocumented). Many are fearf…

From the amazing Professor Carolina Valdivida (UC Irvine): How Faculty and Staff can Support Undocumented and DACAmented Students:

mydocumentedlife.org/2025/01/29/h...

04.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 19    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

I'm trying to stay calm. This, plus the Laken Riley legislation, will criminalize migrants for the most minor infractions and put them in a legal grey area. Twenty years of invisible human rights abuses, committed with impunity. No one will see what is happening to them there.

30.01.2025 00:54 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Border czar Tom Homan is on CNN complaining that Chicago is “very well educated” and people “know their rights” too well for ICE to be able to enforce mass deportations. Good work, neighbors.

28.01.2025 17:46 — 👍 10358    🔁 2910    💬 268    📌 622

Truly honored to receive this award. I’m grateful to the award committee and to all the folks that have supported my research.

And congratulations to @verognzlz.bsky.social for also winning this award!

28.01.2025 02:00 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations @verognzlz.bsky.social!!

28.01.2025 01:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Application deadline extended! Are you passionate about accessibility in your professional organizations or experience navigating access needs? Consider applying as a Discussant for a virtual Working Group on Accessibility, Disability, and #PublicHistory. Submit at ncph.org/conference/o... by 12/15.

04.12.2024 14:00 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

I feel you. I have a running document of “orphan sentences,” where I place all my sentences that are too beautiful to be deleted.

20.11.2024 21:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ah, yes, it’s those pesky grad students making less than $50k a year in one of the most expensive metropolitan areas in the country who are to blame for austerity and the collapse of the humanities.

20.11.2024 19:03 — 👍 177    🔁 42    💬 6    📌 4
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Latina/o/x Studies & Scholars Join the conversation

Thanks for sharing more names to this starter pack. There are now 123 or so scholars who work on Latina/o/x studies included in this list. Please share and also send also send more recommendations of folks to include! ¡Entre más mejor!

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15.11.2024 23:00 — 👍 131    🔁 53    💬 36    📌 1

Thanks for putting this together Jorge! Your social media skills are unmatched.

20.11.2024 05:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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