Andrea Constant

I passed my dissertation proposal defense today 😁🎉

What a journey these many years have been. It feels unreal.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Hey you!

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

I really need be back on a beach in Samaná 😭

Thank you!!

Excited to share that my first, first-author article is out! 🎉

This topic is very dear to me and we must continue to call out the systems which have historically and continue to enact harm on Black youth.

The article is also open access and accessible through this link: shorturl.at/YMGSC

Coworking with friends on Zoom while pursuing this PhD has literally saved me from procrastination time and time again lol.

A bit late sharing but my co-authors and I wrote a piece on Latina Girlhoods for the Sage Encyclopedia of Education and Gender!🎉

My co-authors (sister scholars) and I loved writing this piece together to reflect upon our own understandings of Latina Girlhood(s).

No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.

“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”

We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51 Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives

"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"

"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

i am an academic (lol sigh) but i am incredibly aware of what i know & don't know; i am so glad & grateful that i've had the ability to learn from community organizers, labor organizers, & activists over the years & i will continue to learn

This has been the most transformative experience within my graduate career. We discussed how our own understandings of Latinidad shaped our girlhood(s) and how working across disciplinary rules and boundaries led us to this work ❤️. We have some wonderful stuff coming so stay tuned 🤓!

Sociological processes are at work in the field of sociology
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Headed to NWSA this week? My co-authors and I are presenting a roundtable on Latina Girlhood(s) ☺️.

I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed artistry like that before 😭❤️

About to spend my evening watching Jon Batiste play the piano in person. No one can ruin my mood.

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

Ahhh, the annual countdown for PAA submissions 😅

The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game.

September 15th to October 15th marks #HispanicHeritageMonth! This month, scholar Andrew Mitchel reviews the relationship between the United States, the Dominican Republic, and the game that both love.⁠

#Baseball #DominicanRepublic

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

🚨With the McNair program on the chopping block, Chandra Reyna @isutriomcnair.bsky.social reflects on the ways her own GED-to-PhD journey exemplifies McNair's power to enrich our intellectual and social worlds:
contexts.org/blog/ged-to-phd-mcnair/

#sociology #highereducation #McNairProgram

I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.

On Thursday, October 2 at 6:30, join Courtney Thorsson as she discusses her book THE SISTERHOOD in a virtual conversation as part of the Schomburg Conversations in Black Freedom Studies. go.shr.lc/3KsLuR9 @courtneythorsson.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Check it: “Misogynoir is vast and shows up more frequently than we may realize, and it has impacted Black women and Black nonbinary, agender, and gender-variant folks for centuries, but that does not mean that it cannot be mitigated.”

70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men.

His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary

My first day of community college was 11 years ago 😵‍💫 where has the time gone?

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

This is so sad and scary and awful. ChatGPT helped him end his life. As a mom, my heart breaks.
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...