dr. antonia alvarez

Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded the Portland State University Early Career Research Award.

It’s been a journey..! Padayon! (Onward!)
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Experiences of racist encounters among Asian Americans: analysis of #thisis2016 Asian Americans have a history of discrimination and othering in the US. In October 2016, journalist Michael Luo put out a call for Asian Americans to tweet racist encounters using the hashtag, #th...

Check out our articles from the 2016 era of anti-Asian racism to support this argument..!

Farina, A. S. J., Klumpner, S., Alvarez, A. R. G., Azhar, S., & Nguyen, C. M. (2023). Experiences of racist encounters among Asian Americans: Analysis of #thisis2016.
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We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

No Excuse The report, “No Excuse: Inadequate Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care for Black Women in the United States Mississippi Delta,” documents that state and federal policies and a lack of investment in pr...

As the world focuses on the politicization of DEI, important health equity work is continuing, like this new report, the work of community researchers in the Mississippi who investigated reasons why cervical cancer rates among Black women there are so inexcusably high. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

Make soup!
Practice mutual aid.
Resist.

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!

Read, print & distro freely!

Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:

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Same

Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy and

We knew it was coming— absolutely horrific. The language alone is disturbing, violent, misleading, abhorrent.

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Smithsonian to close diversity office after Trump order The Smithsonian Institution is closing its Office of Diversity, freezing federal hiring and ordering employees back to in-office work, according to an email sent by Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III.

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JUST IN: Six transgender service members are suing Trump/Hegseth over new ban on trans people serving in the military. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Message to the NSF PI Community Jan. 28, 2025 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-25-13, issued on January 27, 2025, directs all Federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of their financial assistance programs to determine programs, projects, and activities that may be implicated by the recent Executive Orders. Therefore, all review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis. NSF has created an executive order implementation webpage to ensure the widest dissemination of information and updates. We will continue to communicate with you as we receive additional guidance. Feedback All NSF grantees must comply with these Executive Orders, and any other relevant Executive Orders issued, by ceasing all non-compliant grant and award activities. Executive Orders are posted at whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions. In particular, this may include, but is not limited to conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant

All NSF grantees must comply with these Executive Orders, and any other relevant Executive Orders issued, by ceasing all non-compliant grant and award activities. Executive Orders are posted at whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions. In particular, this may include, but is not limited to conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks or violates Federal anti-discrimination laws. Please work with your institutional research office to assist you in complying with the Executive Orders. You can also direct your questions through this webform. Feedback Thank you for your work advancing science, engineering, technology and innovation for our nation.

This is the statement from NSF that was in the now-deleted post

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH Please click the link to complete this form.

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
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Horrific

NIH clarifies restrictions on staff after Trump's broad freeze sparked chaos Ongoing clinical trials can continue, and scientists can keep publishing their findings, a memo shows.

Health and Human Services has shut down most of its communications. No new studies at the National Institutes of Health can be launched. www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/n... 5/12

Tracking the impacts….

Per an NIH source:

“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

An important way to demonstrate resistance and community care.

Wow

NEW lawsuit from transgender woman in US custody challenges Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ executive order - storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚫 #BoycottTarget

So, #academicsky, what are the best practices we’re seeing in how universities are supporting/communicating with their jr faculty & faculty who study vulnerable topics in light of the massive undermining of NIH this week? Silence / lack of a game plan is not a viable response. Who has done well?

Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the

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Pausing the NIH study sections is BAD….!!!

Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president, has died | CNN Cecile Richards, a women’s rights crusader who served as president of Planned Parenthood as the nation approached a critical inflection point over reproductive freedom, has died, her family said Monda...

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