@larrylafountain
Professor at the University of Michigan. Author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (2021) + Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Coeditor Keywords for Latina/o Studies. On sabbatical this year. 🇵🇷 🌈
CONFERENCIA: Bregando con un flow cabrón:
Villano Antillano, Estrella Transmediática
CUÁNDO: lunes, 23 de marzo de 2026
DÓNDE: Humanidades Puerto Rico, tercer piso, Cuartel de Ballajá, Viejo San Juan
HORA: 5:00pm
COSTO: GRATUITO
¡Qué rico! ¡Buen provecho y buen viaje!
La Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua reconoce la aportación de Bad Bunny a la difusión global del español www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimie...
Muere Ivonne Acosta Lespier, autora de libro fundamental sobre persecución a independentistas en Puerto Rico.
Por Benjamín Torres Gotay. @torresgotay.bsky.social
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Very exciting! Great cover! Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies, a forthcoming anthology edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz @santiaaurora.bsky.social & Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social.
@dukepress.bsky.social
DISCOUNT CODE: E26PRSTD
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¡Me encanta la portada! ¡Felicidades!
Image of a book with the words Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies with gradient colors of black, blue, yellow, red.
Cover reveal day! @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social and I’s co-edited volume. We are thrilled to be in the company of such wonderful cutting edge scholars. Preorder at www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin....
¡FELICIDADES!
¡Muchísimas felicidades a Gladys M. Jiménez Muñoz por la publicación de su libro "Womanhood and Race in Interwar Puerto Rico: Labile Bodies, Colonial Disparities"! ¡Tremenda noticia!
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Heidelberg Project's Tyree Guyton named 2026 Kresge Eminent Artist.
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Elián González Goes Pop! The Cultural Afterlives of a Cuban Child Icon. By Paul Allatson. Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.
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Focuses on popular-cultural representations and appropriations across national borders of the celebrity that came to Elián González.
“Mr. Trump’s meddling reveals what his movement is for — not borders, nations or workers but a cross-continental free-for-all where people are uprooted so profits can move freely.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Preocupante e injusto. Da rabia.
Qué horrible.
Texas A&M administrators turn out to be big snowflakes. They can’t handle discussions of gender or race.
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Thursday, February 5th @ 4:30PM - Donia Human Rights Center presents "Immigration Policy and Lived Experience: Perspectives on the First Year of Trump 2.0" with Melissa Borja, Jack Kanarek, Paulina D. Arnold, and William Lopez. Weiser Hall 1010, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
RECITAL REALENGO PARA SALTAMONTES de Eduardo Alegría
Parte del programa de Residencias Artísticas 2026-2027 del Programa de Artes Escénicas del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña.
15-17 mayo 2026
Teatro Victoria Espinosa
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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¡ACirc presenta Circo Fest! Decimoprimer Festival Internacional de Circo y Artes de Calle de Puerto Rico, 14-15 de marzo de 2026, Viejo San Juan, PR. Festival a la gorra.
Programa General del Ciclo 38 de Conferencias Caribeñas que tomará lugar este segundo semestre del año académico 2025-2026 del Instituto de Estudios del Caribe UPRRP (UPR, Río Piedras). Incluye conferencias por Yolanda Rivera, Aurea María Sotomayor Miletti, Martín Espada y César A. Salgado.
Collective Memories of the U.S.-Mexico War and Mexican American Activism
Professor Omar Valerio-Jiménez (University of Texas, San Antonio)
Wednesday, February 25, 4pm
Tappan Room, Michigan Union, Ann Arbor, MI
Presented by University of Michigan Latina/o Studies
events.umich.edu/event/142114
El Laberinto del Coco: Puerto Rican Bomba Fusion Ensemble concert and dance party
Friday, February 6 | 7:00 pm
League Ballroom, Michigan League
911 N University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Groove to the irresistible, rhythmic beats of PR!
Free and open to the public
smtd.umich.edu/event/06-feb...
Latina/o/x/e Comedy Night
Wednesday, February 4 | 7:00 pm
Keene Theater, East Quadrangle
701 E. University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Free and open to the public
Featuring a dynamic lineup of comedians who bring their diverse Latin American backgrounds to the stage. smtd.umich.edu/event/04-feb...
University of Michigan Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Exhibition. Back in Bahia: The Repatriation Journey of Afro-Brazilian Art from Detroit to Salvador. February 2-26, 2026 | International Institute Gallery, 547 Weiser Hall, Ann Arbor, MI. events.umich.edu/event/143613
Broad Underground X MSU Latinx Film Festival: Performance and Video Art with LA 18.
Friday, February 20 in East Lansing, Michigan. FREE. Featuring a documentary on performer Helen Ceballos: RITO DE PASO, with Freddie Mercado and Teresa Karolina. 6:00pm.
broadmuseum.msu.edu/events/broad...
La obra, desde la voz de su artista. Recorrido guiado: Axis Mundi con Rafael Trelles en el Museo De Las Américas en el Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Miércoles, 28 de enero, 6:00pm, Cuartel de Ballajá.
Auspiciado por Humanidades Puerto Rico
Kalaallit Nunaat, tierra de los kalaallit. Kalaallit Nunaat, land of the Kalaallit. Greenland for Greenlanders. Groenlandia para los groenlandeses.
Groenlandia no se vende. Kalaallit Nunaat is not for sale.
Kalaallit Nunaat, tierra de los kalaallit. Kalaallit Nunaat, land of the Kalaallit. Greenland for Greenlanders. Groenlandia para los groenlandeses.
Latina/o/x/e Comedy Night
WED, FEB 4
7pm, Keene Theater East Quadrangle
Featuring a dynamic lineup of comedians who bring their diverse Latin American backgrounds & quick wit: Hilary Jimenez, Esteban Touma, Camila Ballario, Johanna Medranda & Julianna Loera-Wiggins
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Thanks Marcos! I wrote an article about Mucho, Mucho Amor, focusing on its achievements and its limitations: "TRANSLOCA(L) POETICS: Que(e)ring Mucho, Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado." In Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...