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Antero Garcia

@anterobot.bsky.social

Associate Professor at Stanford University. NCTE President Elect. Education. Speculative Imagination. Healing. Dad of twins. he/him/his lacuenta.substack.com

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Fronteras: Researchers give voice to immigrant families, break down the costs of being undocumented Researchers aim to humanize immigrants by sharing their stories.

On #Fronteras:
What's the cost to immigrants living undocumented in the US?
Alix Dick shares what it has cost her...financially, mentally, and physically in The Cost of Being Undocumented, written with @anterobot.bsky.social. @beaconpress.bsky.social
@texaspublicradio.bsky.social
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18.07.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Authors Alix Dick and Antero Garcia discuss their new book, β€œThe Cost of Being Undocumented” Antero Garcia says studies show individuals labeled as undocumented pay for themselves, and offer support to the country, as Alix Dick shares her story of living as an undocumented child and the…

One of the biggest examples of how much we don’t know about undocumented life is how people categorized as undocumented have to navigate the US healthcare system. Emergency care is almost impossible. @anterobot.bsky.social

25.07.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Q&A: Authors of New Beacon Press Book Explain β€˜Inhumane Math’ of Undocumented Life In this interview, Alix Dick and Antero Garcia, cowriters of The Cost of Being Undocumented, discuss the human and financial price many immigrants pay for life in the United States.

Alix Dick would like people to understand that the decisions immigrants make are never made lightly. Nobody leaves home by choice. What happened to her could happen to anybody. It’s a privilege to think that tragedy will never hit you. @anterobot.bsky.social

07.07.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing matters to this administration except the grift. Still worth pointing out that, based on current champs, UFC is not the sport for demonstrating the greatness of the U.S....

07.07.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Uncaring Healthcare: The Impossible Cost of Being Undocumented and Ill in America Early one Friday morning in the spring of 2022, I get in my car while the sky is still gray. The directions I received the night before take me forty minutes south as I follow the turn-by-turn step…

β€œIn an era where the world’s accumulation of knowledge is instantly accessible, I am forced to seek illicit medical triage in the back of a beauty salon.” On the impossible cost of being undocumented and sick in America.

26.06.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Authors Alix Dick and Antero Garcia discuss their new book, β€œThe Cost of Being Undocumented” Antero Garcia says studies show individuals labeled as undocumented pay for themselves, and offer support to the country, as Alix Dick shares her story of living as an undocumented child and the strug...

www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v... great interview with Alix Dick and @anterobot.bsky.social Antero Garcia’s The Cost of Being Undocumented, just out from @beaconpress.bsky.social

02.07.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Uncaring Healthcare: The Impossible Cost of Being Undocumented and Ill in America Early one Friday morning in the spring of 2022, I get in my car while the sky is still gray. The directions I received the night before take me forty minutes south as I follow the turn-by-turn step…

The US frames certain immigrants as nonhuman and β€œillegal.” Policies and media depict immigrant communities as a threat to US health. It’s a tradition that goes to the core of America’s settler-colonial foundation. #July4th @anterobot.bsky.social

04.07.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vital City | Who Trump’s Mass Deportations Would Hurt, and How Removing undocumented immigrants by the millions would harm the economy and cause major collateral damage.

ICYMI: Mass Deportations Would Hurt Us All.
Even a small shrinking of the number of people living in the U.S. means a contraction of the economy, potentially leading to fewer workers for businesses to grow and higher rates of inflation.

www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/who...

24.02.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

20.02.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5106    πŸ” 1140    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 53

Just a few miles away from where the Grammys are taking place, an immigrant rights protest shut down the 101 freeway this afternoon.

So this vocal support for wildfire relief takes up any and all space for Grammys attendees to address the multiple atrocities hitting this country right now?

03.02.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Generative AI and the (Re)turn to Luddism This article examines the historical and contemporary mobilizations of β€˜Luddism’ as a mode of resistance to technological inevitability, particularly in response to the integration of generative AI...

*New publication alert*

Writing with @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social, we trace three waves of Luddism to articulate the possibilities - and pitfalls - of a contemporary Luddite identity and praxis in the struggle against automation and obnoxious machines in education.

30.01.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

Warnock. On MLK day.

Hope he knows that MLK would have thought he was nasty as hell

20.01.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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β€œguilting your good days”: Books and Music in 2024 Like last year, I probably missed a few books in the tally below, but seeing as the year is winding down, I’m calling it. For the 15th year in a row, here is my annual reading and listening summary…

I can barely reply to most emails but I've somehow managed to (generally) keep track of the books I've read for going on 15 years now... here's my summary of the 172 books I finished in 2024.

29.12.2024 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"But Like, Do They Have Papers?" Maria Lopez on starting @Ytienepapeles and "the reality of dating someone and just not being able to connect because they’re U.S. citizens and they don’t really get it."

Really appreciated this conversation with the creator of Ytienepapeles. We'll run the second part next week - if you haven't checked out the work happening at La Cuenta, please join us over there! lacuenta.substack.com/p/but-like-d...

19.12.2024 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An amazing story! Words of encouragement can really carry us. I instantly think of @anterobot.bsky.social whoβ€”when things were toughβ€”said just the right thing I needed when I was close to quitting my PhD. Wouldn’t be a Prof w/o him.

And if Dr. Crusher remembered me, I’d prolly die. πŸ––
#AcademicSky

09.12.2024 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The phony comforts of useful idiots On Casey Newton and the shallowness of anti-skepticism.

I wrote about Casey Newton's essay on AI skepticism, the uselessness of a "AI is real and dangerous" v. "AI is fake and sucks" dichotomy, and the limits of AI boosterism. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-...

08.12.2024 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 953    πŸ” 234    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 22
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I’m part of this AERA Division G webinar with some amazing folks today, discussing critical theory. Join us!

05.12.2024 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot say enough about how much I love this special issue - format, content, all of it shines with the possibility when we treat life as precious and unto itself.

Please, read, share, use, and did I mention share?

04.12.2024 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

*Taps microphone* Ahem… it’s weird that every year we celebrate just how good a company is at surveying our data use even though being in the top nth percentile of streaming your favorite musician doesn’t mean they are earning a living wage.

Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.

04.12.2024 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can we get verified blue checkmarks added to this site so I don't look like a fucking loser nobody whenever i post please. Thank you.

30.11.2024 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 13100    πŸ” 834    πŸ’¬ 194    πŸ“Œ 30
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Probably shouldn’t be called Riverdance if water will be at all calamitous to the performance.

28.11.2024 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NCTE 2025 Call for Proposals Submit your proposal for the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention! Share innovative ideas and practices that empower educators to dream, collaborate, and inspire equity and justice in English language arts edu...

Fun prompt: dreaming up proposal ideas about dreaming. After #ncte24, what would you like to see at #ncte25 and/or what are you dreaming up?

Thank you, @anterobot.bsky.social, incl for the inspiring design! convention.ncte.org/cfp/

27.11.2024 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I’m hearing reports that horses are terrible politicians.

Every time they hold a vote, the neighs have it.

27.11.2024 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, I am rewatching Station Eleven. Everyone, DO NOT get me started on how this limited series (streaming on Max) is the most powerful artistic statement on community, memory, art, and living after the worst has happened. I will literally talk about it until the end of time #literacies

27.11.2024 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 3

Oh you didn’t hear? The Venmo receipts related to Orko are pretty damning…

27.11.2024 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Breaking: Trump appoints Gargamel to lead National Institute of Smurfs.

27.11.2024 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Appreciate this note.

26.11.2024 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

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