Aurora Santiago Ortiz

These prisons need bodies to make $$ so they don’t care and this is the conversation that needs to be had. Bodies for profit above all else.

Smells like a midterm scheme.

If?

a statement without regret!!

This madness could be stopped. Why the dragging feet?!

A ray of light in this dystopia.

Trash.

Under the influence?

Democracies are not immune to corruption. They aren’t self regulating systems.

Punch is my Moo Deng.

Muere Ivonne Acosta Lespier, autora de libro fundamental sobre persecución a independentistas La historiadora publicó en 1987 ‘La Mordaza’, que relató por primera vez, con gran detalle, la represión a mediados del Siglo XX a partidarios de la independencia

Muere Ivonne Acosta Lespier, autora de libro fundamental sobre persecución a independentistas en Puerto Rico.
Por Benjamín Torres Gotay. @torresgotay.bsky.social

www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/loc...

People need to prepare for the SAVE act now. Mutual aid fund for id changes.

Freedom summer.

Influencers, Developers, Crypto Currency Tycoons: How Puerto Ricans Are Fighting Back Against the Outsiders Using the Island as a Tax Haven A growing number of wealthy outsiders are moving to Puerto Rico to take advantage of the island’s tax breaks. The government says Puerto Rico needs the money. Critics say it's not worth it.

time.com/5955629/puer...

No one likes Logan Paul. He is the symbol of Act 60 settler colonialism. And BB knows this.

Cover of Promises Beyond Memory: Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America by Vikki Bell. The upper part of the design features a faded image of two people with their eyes closed, flanking another image of a gold altar with a woman's face superimposed on it. The title is below the image in large, gold serif font, and the subtitle and author's name in smaller white text on the right side.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Promises Beyond Memory" by Vikki Bell, which examines how archives of contemporary political violence in South America create new possibilities for circulating stories of violence to defend against future attempts to rewrite the past. buff.ly/qZp8Um0

We have a Very EXPLETIVE Cool event tonight in-store with Marla A. Ramirez + Cindy I-Fen Cheng who will be discussing their work around migration, asylum, the US-Mexico borderlands, and the mirage of legal citizenship. I lit cannot think of a more timely event. 6pm at room. Book signing to follow.

What is a check? What is a balance?

Very exciting! Great cover! Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies, a forthcoming anthology edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz @santiaaurora.bsky.social & Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social.

@dukepress.bsky.social
DISCOUNT CODE: E26PRSTD
www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin...

In a moment when our ability to imagine a future is under attack, I had the privilege of co-editing w @santiaaurora.bsky.social this volume gathering so many incredible scholars and activists thinking about the future of Puerto Rican Studies. The book comes out on April 21 w @dukepress.bsky.social

Image of a book with the words Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies with gradient colors of black, blue, yellow, red.

Cover reveal day! @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social and I’s co-edited volume. We are thrilled to be in the company of such wonderful cutting edge scholars. Preorder at www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin....

C’mon man. A landslide is not a guarantee. Legislation protecting the polls, election observers, and a freedom summer is the answer.

Tracks.

@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social

The electric power poles are a reference to the outages as a result of the archipelago’s frail infrastructure.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a UW–Madison assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, assisted in writing historical narratives to accompany videos for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History The Place of Sugar in Modern History

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

Did anyone else note the DEI undertones in all of the commercials? The AI commercials were ridiculous.

All of this.

A group of people stop in front of a mural of Bad Bunny's face in San Juan. A headline reads: "How Bad Bunny Gives Voice to Puerto Rico's 'Crisis Generation'" Photo by Erika P. Rodriguez for The New York Times.

Young Puerto Ricans say that Bad Bunny, 31, has opened the world’s eyes to their generation’s challenges, and to the island’s fraught territorial relationship with the U.S. government. “He has been able to put us on the map,” said one university student in San Juan. trib.al/Ev0iF1u

Keep the potential snitches closer. But if one cracks, it may be the final straw.