Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷

2025 ‘Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read the other one, for the rest of us. Here are Ms. magazine's top feminist books of 2025.

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In a time when books + scholars are under attack, it feels vital to uplift radical literature. I am honored that my words have been included in several anthologies over the years. Now my work is featured in Porque Estamos Aquí by @justjessp.bsky.social . Join us in Boston on 12/15!

A  Groundbreaking Collection

As much as I hate the way we are all tracked online...I love a Google Alert. Yesterday I received this one: It's hard to explain how seen I feel in this feature of our anthology. It never occurred to me that folks would remember my Feminists for Puerto Rico (FPR)…

#FeministFrequencies E6: A Webinar for First-Time Conference Attendees YouTube video by National Women's Studies Association

Are you going to the NWSA conference in San Juan, PR this year? We recorded a little podcast for the NEWBIES! #NWSA2025 @theenwsa.bsky.social

youtu.be/F3nbX15uNac

I am so honored to announce that I've been elected President of the National Women's Studies Association. My term begins at the end of our November conference in Puerto Rico.

I think I'll be the first Puerto Rican President, and I'll assume that role in Puerto Rico. This fact makes my heart sing.

Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.

I just keep thinking (a la Douglass): What, to the professor of race, gender, sexuality, disability, is academic freedom?

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Porque Estamos Aquí: Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire

you should probably go ahead and pre-order our anthology before it is banned for anti-a m e r i kkk a n sentiment.

also, you can't beat $23.20 for a 375 page anthology.

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oh NBD, just sharing a page in the @feministpress.bsky.social catalogue with Michelle Tea.🤩

FREE DAVID HUERTA STOP ICE RAIDS NOW David Huerta is being held as a political prisoner for exercising his First Amendment Rights. His arraignment is Monday. Rally to Demand Justice for David Huerta Monday, 6/9 @ 11am Gloria Molina Grand Park, Los Angeles

David Huerta, the local president of SEIU United Service Workers West, was injured and arrested by federal agents in the midst of a fascist and chaotic ICE Gestapo raid on Friday in Los Angeles.

Dear National Guard,

You too can resist. #losangeles

Holy moly

It’s About Time We Fail: A Puerto Rican Poetics of Exhaustion - Public Books The term “resilience” originated in ecology. But its shift from the natural to the social has normalized human-made structures of inequality.

Have ya'll read this yet?

#PuertoRico

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Find me a diasporican who visited homeland and *didn’t* record the coqui’s song on their phone to listen to as needed.

I’ll wait.

Yes. Lots of OOOOOOOoooOoo if I wasn’t the editor I’d be crying with anticipation and joy. Oh wait! I am!! 🤣

Oh! we share a pub date 🤩

Thank you! 💕

Thrilled to share that the anthology we all need is now available for pre-order.

It's been a dream of mine to publish with The Feminist Press, and HERE WE ARE. #wepa! #feminism #PuertoRican #liberation #decolonial

if you truly cared about mothers, you wouldn’t blow them up and starve their babies.

I miss Bitch Magazine. still. always. forever.

Also, IF YOU LIVE IN PUERTO RICO AND WANT TO ATTEND, THIS POST IS FOR YOU.

NWSA will waive our required membership and registration fees for a limited number of presenters who live in Puerto Rico...

Visit www.nwsa.org for more info! @theenwsa.bsky.social

Did you know that @theenwsa.bsky.social will be in #PuertoRico this year?

And did you know that there is a Puerto Rican feminisms pre-conference?

And did you know that it is being organized by the Puerto Rican Feminisms Interest Group?

Now you know!

www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...

they definitely killed Giuffre. cause that's what happens to too many survivors who claim their voice.

i hate it here.

I demand that Alvarez Diaz and Villalon drop out of the Esencia project immediately! This private city will only further destroy Puerto Rican land and displace more of our people. We deserve a Puerto Rico for Puerto Ricans! #NoAEsencia @advfirm

not to make light of things but I'd love to opt out of this Handmaid's Tale/Hunger Games/Parable of the Sower mashup

Robin D.G. Kelley | "The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide: The Long Durée." YouTube video by Media Education Foundation

Robin D.G. Kelley on “The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide”

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

When you leave #academia, the institution and those who protect it will not grieve. But the students will continue to stand beside you. 😭🥰

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Total dominance.

wakes up.

sees a decapitated Palestinian toddler.

reads about 3rd graders disappeared by the frozen people.

cries in rage.

wishes more folks who are turning away would watch. would hold. would witness. would FIGHT.

WE'VE ALWAYS KNOWN YOUR "PRO-LIFE" STANCE WAS GENOCIDAL BULLSHIT.