Miguel Valerio

A print created by the artist Bracho. The print is in green and black depicting various people and a white creature on the bottom left. The text reads: "Journal of Festive Studies, 2024, Volume 7, Joy as Resistance."

🚨🚨 New from the Journal of Festive Studies 🚨🚨

We just published Volume 7: Joy as Resistance, guest-edited by @mia1va.bsky.social. Our electronic ToC links to the many contributions and reviews that engage with the emerging field of critical joy studies.

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Pendejos

Wao. En Alabama?

Liberal carrying a sign saying "if kamala was president we would all be at brunch"

We know you would, that's the entire problem

It gets worse.

This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... it’s a horrible thing to get deported without cause or due process. But to be deported to a country that is not yours because you have a tattoo??? Are you waiting until they come for citizens to start doing something? Immigrants are humans with rights. #resist

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Photo of a book with blue and purple cover propped up on the sheet music stand of a piano. There is a plant next to it in a pot in the shape of a girl's or woman's head and torso. The female figure is smiling contently, while the plant looks like wild ideas sprouting from her head.

My author's copy of new 'Handbook of #AmericanPoetry' with my essay on "Poetry as #FeministCritique" (focused on the 1970s/80s) in which I read #SharonOlds, #AudreLorde & #SusanHowe but also discuss other poets has arrived! It is very thick & pretty

#Feminism #GenderStudies #AmericanStudies #Poetry

A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

New open access book from @ucpress.bsky.social :

Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires by Sidney Xu Lu

www.ucpress.edu/books/collab...

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar. Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Obrigado

Tis physical

Don’t miss this exhibition I curated, now on view at the Syracuse University Art Museum!

Folks in Washington DC: there are signed copies of Humans: A Monstrous History at @politicsprose.bsky.social Conn Ave. and it’s members’ discount weekend this weekend! #books #history #politics #dmv

Gov. Hochul orders CUNY remove Hunter College ‘Palestinian Studies’ job posting, calls for probe into ‘antisemitic theories’ The job listing has since been removed from CUNY’s website.

Say it with me now: HANDS OFF HIGHER ED.

Government intervention is government intervention is government intervention.

As the Palestine exception becomes the universal rule of state interference in this country: HANDS OFF HIGHER ED.

nypost.com/2025/02/25/u...

My book, Bridging Sonic Borders, is coming soon! It explores the deep ties between Dominican literature, migration & music, shedding light on overlooked voices in Dominican & US Latinx traditions. Click on the link to pre-order a copy today: sharinamaillopozo.com/books/

1619 in Global Perspective: and why we need to study the history of slavery and the African diaspora globally #slaveryarchive t.co/JCD87bVNxe

Thank you Cecelia

Celebrating authors I've worked with & books I've worked on from my 35 years in publishing every day of #BlackHistoryMonth

Day #22

@mia1va.bsky.social recovers the history of festival performances by Black people in Mexico City that captured and sustained "defiant joy."

@cambridgeup.bsky.social

I mean if we made Target bankrupt, other companies might start to get the idea. Just sayin’

Solidarity Is Not a Transaction - The Forge Clarissa Brooks, Editor In Chief at The Forge unpacks the phenomenon of solidarity being misunderstood and corrects the record on the origins of the purpose of global solidarity efforts for marginaliz...

"My deepest wish, as I see jokes about deportation come from the mouths of the descendants of African slaves, is that we remember white supremacy has never stopped at borders, bodies or race." - Clarissa Brooks calling Black women in. God, I love this. forgeorganizing.org/article/soli...

The British library had a grad student placement to help survey the history of Afro-Brazil in their print collection www.bl.uk/more/researc...

Bill to arrest librarians filed for 2025 session A bill that could have led to the arrest of librarians narrowly missed becoming law last session, but sponsors have already filed a follow-up.

Librarians. Now Alabama will be jailing librarians for shelving books. www.alreporter.com/2024/07/10/b...

This little book remains as important as when it came out five years ago

Congrats 🎉

My article on Sor Juana is now out and open access! Click here to uncover the truth: was she a sphinx or not?

Teto de igreja histórica desaba em Salvador; uma pessoa morreu | CNN Brasil Outras cinco pessoas ficaram feridas após desabamento do teto da Igreja São Francisco de Assis, no Pelourinho; construção tem centenas de anos

sad news from brazil :( www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/nor...

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