TrustMiguel

Your boy got a Rocket Grant! 🚀

I work at a community college and I witness the truth of this statement every day.

Does anyone know how to become fluent in Japanese in 5 days or less? 🤣

#Tokyo #DisneyTokyo #Kyoto #Nara #Osaka #KansasToKansai

I'll try to post on my socials because I want to share the fun, excitement, frustration, gratitude, and the humble privilege it is to be able to make this trip. And you're coming with me in my heart, in my thoughts, and in my camera 💙 😍 📸

#Tokyo #DisneyTokyo #Kyoto #Nara #Osaka #KansasToKansai

There's something I CAN announce: I'm heading to Japan 🇯🇵 ❗️

I didn't get the residency at the World Expo 🌐 and I got super depressed for many related reasons. Then my best friend said we should just go to Japan anyway. Why not? 🤔 😀 ✈️ ⛩️

#Tokyo #DisneyTokyo #Kyoto #Nara #Osaka #KansasToKansai

I've had some good news but I can't quite share just yet because organizations like to make announcements on their socials first. It's not a book or anything like that but it is literature 📚 and #farmworker 👩‍🌾 related.

Hey friends, I've been sporadically on and off the socials since November. Trying to put some constructive irons in the fire 🔥

Whenever I do check in on the socials, I see all the amazing and inspiring stuff you're all doing 🥹 Thank you do much for that 💖

Excited to be part of this vital conversation and to explore the many connections and meanings food has for us as individuals and as a community
#Food 🌽 #Culture 🪅 #Climate 🌧️ #Farmworkers 🦋

Abraham Lincoln, Letter to George Latham, 1860 🎩

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This has been my email signature for 25 years.

"In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily." - Abraham Lincoln, Letter to George Latham, 1860

An illustration of two blue-green outstretched hands on a light blue background, cradling a fuschia book with lavender headphones. The letters “QLL” are on the book cover. A wispy purple ribbon curls around the hands, framing them. Black handwritten text surrounds the hands, top and bottom: “100k CHECKOUTS IN 2025! PUTTING QUEER BOOKS WITHIN REACH”

y’all really love queer books, huh? we’ve reached 100k checkouts so far in 2025, and we’re not even halfway through the year! 🌈📚

which of your QLL reads this year have resonated with you? what titles are you itching to read next?

(big thanks to QLL volunteer @junkyjo.bsky.social for their art!)

Pope Leo XIV — son of the United States and Latin America — pray for us farm workers and immigrants of your native land.

ADHD is more than just quirky memes about your goblin friends.

It's a disability, often a debilitating one, and it can be dangerous to live with a brain that doesn't necessarily hold onto relevant information like when that candle or stove was lit.

¡Felicidades to Aideed Medina! Fresno Arts Council wisely selected her to be the next #PoetLaureate of Fresno!

I can't thank her enough for her contributions to the #FarmworkerPortfolio I coedited for The Common and for her support of #farmworkers and lifting their voices! 🦋 💙

This flooded field was caused by March's heavy rains in Merced County, CA. Workers missed 4 straight days of work. The loss of wages affected their abilities to pay rent and cover their families expenses. #WeFeedYou

1 Screenshot from the movie "1984" (1984): First, a man in a dim, decaying room sits on a chair writing in a journal while a giant screen shows a stern face above the word "INGSOC." Second, a close-up of the journal reveals the handwritten date "April 4th, 1984."

Apr 4th 1984 - Winston Smith started a diary.

📽️📅 1984 (1983)

#ItMe

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility 🤸🏽 Now through April 30, use code TDOV25 🏳️‍⚧️ for 20% off all Gender Diversity titles at www.JKP.com including our chonky little anthology!
#FATandTrans 🏳️‍⚧️ #FATandQUEER 🏳️‍🌈 #TDOV2025

I got my passport today! I've applied to be a performer at the USA Pavilion for #Expo2025 大阪・関西万博 in Japan 🎌 They're supposed to notify the selected artists this month. I thought I should to be ready for good news 🤞🏽 Please send good thought for your miguel! 💙

So excited for this #AWP25 panel. I'm honored to be with 4 who embrace & share stories of their #farmworker lives. There's many others doing the same. I wish they all were on the panel. Please come support us & let's have some real talk about #FarmworkerLit. 🦋

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The return book drop made me smile today 😀 I wonder if they know that one of the editors works in the library 🤔
#FATandQUEER 🏳️‍🌈 #FATandTRANS 🏳️‍⚧️

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ICE detains loved one: Remember your rights

ICE detains loved one: Have the right information

ICE detains loved one: Find an immigration attorney

ICE detains loved one: Locating a detained friend of family

We are following reports of the presence of Border Patrol in Kern County, California 

IF YOU SEE ICE/CBP IN YOUR COMMUNITY REMEMBER YOUR RIGHTS 

Don’t let yourself be intimidated! Together, we will overcome anxiety by being well-prepared.

L.A. writers impacted by the wildfires who need emergency assistance “The Authors League Fund is an emergency fund providing non-taxable charitable support. We help in times of urgent need, when a writer cannot afford to pay for necessities.” authorsleaguefund.org/apply/

Happy New Year's Eve from the Brooklyn Bridge 🥳 🗽

If you cannot send a holiday card write a review, "I like this book"! #flowersong

Happy Holiday Time from your library friend ❄️ 🎁 🎄

Trans women in the bathroom are not interested in you; do not flatter yourself! On the contrary, they are trying to take the perfect selfie.

Mass Deportations - A Dark History Returns There have been two "Mass Deportations" of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent that have happened before in the United States. You don’t know about it because this history isn’t taught.

There have been two mass deportations of Mexicans in US history.

Both swept up hundreds of thousands of US citizens in the process - many of them children. open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

Mace introduces bill to bar trans women from Capitol restrooms Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Monday introduced a bill to bar transgender women from facilities on Capitol Hill that match their gender identity. The resolution, which would prohibit members, officer…

when the time comes & this bill has a number or is rolled into a rules package, we absolutely need cis folks to call reps about this. even GOP reps.

if 1 democrat lets this go without a fight, a national bill won’t be far behind. and if the GOP isn’t unanimous, there’s a chance they won’t even try.