cindy mosqueda

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

Too fragrant for their own good

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Still reeling from having our Upstate LSAMP alliance terminated in early May. Couldn’t agree more with this.

A Trivial Moment

Earlier this year I listed playing trivia and word games as one of the sources of joy when things seem hard. I was definitely feeling it in February, but even more now when the other shoe dropped in my work life (see: grants from NSF being terminated). Sean and I play several,…

The NC rich people were way too chill on that boat back for what happened the day before. At least the rich ladies seemed sobered by the shootings.

Welp that concludes my periodic close following of my UCLA sports. I’ll always love my Bruins, even when it’s painful to watch. 💙💛

And yay for my adopted state.

Am I reading into it, or are the footnotes kinda catty? Or is that just legalese, which I don’t read much.

This Week: Friday Five

One. I have a pretty gnarly cold and had to skip book club at church. Normally this would not have been an issue, but I volunteered earlier in the week to facilitate the discussion and bring snacks. The book for this month was Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from…

This reminds me of watching sports with my kid.

Let’s Go Bruins! 🐻💙💛

It’s An Old Song A few months ago I remember seeing a prompt on Bluesky from a contributor with This American Life. They needed stories from when someone said an off-hand remark that stuck with you for a long time …

New post on how I used to think I wasn't a musical person and how that's changed, especially with the influence of my kid: It's An Old Song loteriachicana.com/2025/03/29/i...

Patiently waiting for your takes on episode 6.

And some of those mysteries were solved with the help of a ghost writing them messages.

Red ribbon week really got through to some of us!

In these times

I've been getting flashbacks to early 2020 when we didn't yet know how COVID-19 was going to impact us. There were huge impacts in my work at a university. I had to pivot to cancel or figure out how to move programs online. I barely knew how to use Zoom before March 2020 and quickly…

We stopped shopping at Target and now we can afford eggs.

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To continue banging this drum: so many people are like "there's no protest music anymore!" and here's the biggest artist in the world (give or take) releasing a gorgeous concept album with a specific point of view on cultural imperialism, community, resistance, and more. Oh and also THIS:

Hey Mark, You catch up with Helly R? #Severance

Top haters (in no particular order): Roxane Gay, Elmo, Kendrick Lamar

Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation

Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB

Education Sciences Act of 2002

Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education

NSBE’s national convention is coming up… interesting to see what their career & college fair will look like.

I know some people who will be very happy

I just got a pair!

I’m so glad I read the alt text. 100% accurate.

It’s so sweet!

Shakira starting with Ojos Así 💙

Book Goals for 2025 and January Reads

One of my favorite things about the beginning of the year is updating my list of books I'd like to read. I've already added a bunch of the books friends with similar taste has listed as their favorites so my list keeps growing. It's not a bad problem to have…

So many REUs have deadlines around this time. I know students are stressed about eTAP being down.