Mirelsie Velázquez

Please be kind to me. My away message is gone. This is who I am again for the next 9 months. Emails. Meetings. Five conference papers this fall that winter me committed us to…

If I say yes to three activities in one day, assume one of you will be canceled on.

Don’t forget to attend online presentations for @ische-news.bsky.social ! (US scholars: some great papers on Black education, industrial education, etc.,by our brilliant colleagues.) But also a great chance to learn from our colleagues abroad.

Interesting panel on the status of history of education across the world , from our various societies. Obvious, and sad, that we are linked by a disinvestment in our field no matter where we are. (HistEdUSA being represented well!) #histed #ISCHE2025

They know what they’re doing…restricting our access to information, limiting our ability to do research. This allows their revisionists histories to be written, allowing them to celebrate and center whiteness, teaching lies.

I have very little expectation from a government built off of genocide, dispossession, and history of enslavement.

So glad Paddington didn’t end up in the U.S. They would have deported that poor brown bear.

Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past

Reminder of why our work is important as historians of education.

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Opinion | The Supreme Court Can’t Save America, but Here’s What It Can Do The justices and the American people must hold the line together.

“But if a critical mass of Americans do wake up, then the court’s stand will be indispensable to justice and — critically — accountability…”

Or the valuable contributions of international students and faculty, who help us make society better.

People celebrating cuts to/attacks on higher education and research grants really don’t understand how things work or are created. Including the phone they’re typing in their nonsense/internet they’re using to troll us/ or who trained the doctors they desperately need to treat them.

Every time I read one more news item detailing the f*ckery that is our current political climate, I’m thankful I was able to see Prince perform Purple Rain live once in my life.

I’m at the point of this administration where I can see why people would agree to be Severed in order to have a break from reality. Lumon , do your thing!

I forgot how much of the book writing process entailed me reheating the same cup of coffee, walking around my house slowly sipping that cup while I think/process until the cup gets cold, and then having to reheat it again. #histed

It’s frustrating to see politicians (both sides) just sit back and allow the dismantling of agencies in place to serve and protect people. (Also, Elon Musk is one ugly mofo whose only talent is his bank account.)

Also, having spent almost a decade in a red state, who had some of the worst rural healthcare in the country, that population consistently voted against initiatives that would have improved their healthcare.

Did I hear that right? AI to provide healthcare to rural communities?

Unlike those people applauding today’s executive orders, I could still afford my carton of eggs and have good healthcare. (And I’m literate too to boot.)

Forget a mental health day, I’m about to take a mental health four years.

Wrapping up a research trip to the archives and I am reminded of how much of our community histories still need to be told.

I don’t think I’ll ever be as funny as I was in 2022 Twitter.

Bad Bunny’s new album was a gift to us. Whether on the archipelago or diaspora, we carry home with us, grounded in our resistance to coloniality, and hope for our future.

Uncle Billy, you bastard.

The best part of Thankstaking dinner this year was my daughters’ father/my ex declaring (about his childhood friend): He voted against my two daughters who are of child-bearing age on Election Day. Fuck that dude. I’m not buying shit from his kids fundraiser.

“He who can persuade you to believe absurdities can persuade you to commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

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Governor S*itt is garbage. One of the things I’m most proud of my time at U of Oklahoma is developing this course that is under attack/helping train teachers who were going to support and love all our students. Teachers who still message me to say thank you for creating this space.

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Although I’m exhausted (and now sick) from being nonstop for the last three weeks, I’m feeling inspired to get back to writing. Our histories and stories matter. Now more than ever.

One of several great recent books on Chicago education history