@marinegron.bsky.social
Puerto Rico x Palestine | Author of Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings | scholar teacher mamademic | narrative & meaning making | expressive culture | intellectual history
I’m really excited to be presenting new work at Brandeis next month! If you’re in the Boston area, come check it out. Also, since I’ll be in Boston for five days, I’m welcoming suggestions on cool things to do: feminist/queer bookstores, sex shops, cafes or art spaces, fun non-stuffy museums, etc.
📣New Book Alert: Dr. Joseph Winters (Religious Studies) - Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
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So many questions...what year did they sign the contract? Did someone else sign because they were under age? Are they fighting for the copyright to the songs *and* the sound recordings? Who arranged the music? Who owns that copyright? Don't know but hope they smash that (metaphoric) entail.
Artist Profile: Bad Bunny
"Helping Puerto Rico overcome the lasting devastation caused by Lin Manuel Miranda" 😂
Amid book bans, attacks on DEI: How did this young activist learn to think critically & find the confidence to act: In a current events class at an inclusive, secular, inexpensive, and culturally affirming homeschooling cooperative that meets every Wednesday in San Antonio.
Or anywhere else.
He still faces deportation and not everyone supported his release. There have been taunts on social media, people saying he deserved to be detained and thrown out of the country. Milford police escort him to destinations to and from his home for safety. #AbolishICE #FreePalestine
new coloring book page just dropped.
chinga la migra, ICE out of LA!
Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. #ICEProtests
Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions.
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The Timely Example of Dr. John Carlos
As the 1968 Olympian turns 80, his life provides a lesson for our times: Don’t sell out.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Australian reporter shot with rubber bullet while covering anti-Ice protests in Los Angeles
Hundreds of Edgewater neighbors came out in a sea of rainbow yesterday to support
Drag Story Time. blockclubchi.co/3Hy8flr
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and police abolition.
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
"Would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment?" interc.pt/4kT2vku
@haymarketbooks.org *F R E E E-B O O K S* #AbolishICE #AbolishPolice
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-fr...
So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...
Puerto Rico to Palestine, LA to Laos—Solidarity!
There’s always money in the fascist banana stand, Michael.
Today I screened Massacre River: The Woman Without a Country about Trujillo's 1937 #genocide of Haitians & the denationalization ethnic Haitian Dominicans in my class Borders, Diasporas, & Transnational Belonging. Streaming live? Anti-Haitian march in Santo Domingo by La Antigua Liga Dominicana.
"Resisting the New McCarthyism and Complicity from UMass to Palestine" with Rabab Abdulahdi @UMass Boston
"Zionism will come to an end"
Andres Torres Research Award @ Gastón Institute @ UMass Boston: $5000 research grant for recent PhD (since 2014) to finish a scholarly piece of writing.
Deadline: APRIL 25
Excerpts from the dissenting opinions by #SCOTUS justices #Sotomayor (first two images) and #Jackson. See the full ruling at static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
ASU has recommended that all international students carry a copy of their passport, their visas, and proof of their immigration status on them at all times.
This is gross as fck
