Alfonso Ayala III

Reading Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval this morning...

#latinxstudies #theory #fucktrump #fuckkarolineleavitt

UT System Board of Regents was like, "thanks for the 5 month notice, Hartzell, but time to go..."

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To be clear: I'm not saying Ruiz's writing is unintelligible or that her analysis falls short. I'm just saying that *I'm* finding it challenging to read

I want to be patient w/myself, but I'm struggling to understnd this text & its spinning me out. 50 pgs in & all I (think) I understand is that death is one of few material things the colonial subject owns, so the death drive can be understood as an agentic form of resistance?

#phdlife #phdjourney

Today I gave a mini-talk in class, sharing an assemblage of thoughts I've been working through re: time, sobriety, memory. I got such gracious and caring engagement, questions, feedback and it really made me grateful to be sharing space with such generous peers #phdjourney #soberscholar

Hold on....the way I've been gaslit into being told I over-think things, when really, I'm just being a self-reflexive ethnographic researcher of life....

#phdlife #phdjourney

The myth of "American excellence" has always been a sham...Trump'executive orders continue the embarrassment

The NACCS conference schedule is out and I'm getting hyped as fuck to go and be in community with my people!!!

#chicanoscholar #chicanxstudies

Today, and for the next four years:

Fuck Trump.

🙄🙄🙄

Anyway, the tiktok "shutdown" was the biggest peice of political theater I've seen in awhile

R.I.P. tiktok

Important point I failed to make in the video: Wynter argues that in our current day, it is race (and to some extent economic status) that has become the organizing structure of what it means to be Man--what it means to be selected/dysselected as belonging to the category of human

Today, I'm sharing some brief thoughts on Sylvia Wynter's "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, It's Overrepresentation--An Argument".

human

Alfonso Ayala III on LinkedIn: #theory #latinxtheory #latinxstudies #chicanxstudies #phdjourney… Semester is back in session, and that means Friday Wrap-Ups are back! Today, I'm sharing some brief thoughts on Sylvia Wynter's "Unsettling the Coloniality of…

Semester is back in session, and that means Friday Wrap-Ups are back!

#theory #latinxtheory #latinxstudies #chicanxstudies #phdjourney #FridayWrapup

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First day of second semester of first year.

This semester's slate:
-Afro-Latinx and Caribbean Diasporas
-Theories in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
-Latinx Ethnography

#latinxstudies #chicanastudies
#chicanostudies #chicanxstudies #chicanoscholar #phdjourney #phdstudent

NACCS is my academic home. So grateful for the opportunity to present again this year. And to keep talking about joto shit in academic spaces 🙏🏽
#naccs #chicanostudies #chicanastudies #chicanoscholar #joteriastudies #queerstudies

Shout out to Podcasters and Qual researchers who do interviews...because how the hell has it taken me over 3 hours to edit/correct this 1 hour interview transcript?! (This doesn't even include actually editing the audio file down...!)

Every now and then I read something that makes me think, "I can't wait to teach this some day..." Today, it's the essay "The Historian as Curandera" in the book Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals, by Aurora Levins Morales.

Whatever the platform, I will ALWAYS take the opportunity to hype up the work of Gloria Anzaldúa, José Esteban Muñoz, @radiorodriguez.bsky.social, Michael Hames-Garcia, and @rtrodrig.bsky.social.

#joteriastudies #jotoscholar #queerstudies #chicanxstudies #chicanostudies #latinxstudies

I've been made aware that my writing at times lacks strong authorial claim. More of "here are some things I want you to think abt w/ me" than a "here's the thing I'm claiming concretely."

And, that's kind of my whole vibe. But maybe not the vibe of this Ph.D thing?

#phdjourney

And with that last final submitted, I'm officially done with my first semester of my Ph.D program.

This semester was kind of a slay.

#phdjourney #phdstudent #chicanxstudies #chicanosinhighereducation #soberscholar #queerscholar #chicanoscholar

Alfonso Ayala III on LinkedIn: #fridaywrapup #endofweekwrapup #phdstudent #phdlife #phdjourney… Some reflections as the semester comes to a close. #fridaywrapup #endofweekwrapup #phdstudent #phdlife #phdjourney #chicanosinhighered #soberscholar

Some reflections as the semester comes to a close.

#fridaywrapup #endofweekwrapup #phdstudent #phdlife #phdjourney #chicanosinhighered #soberscholar

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Having a potluck on the last day of class is something I didn't realize I'd miss from my Master's experience. CCS faculty at San José State University really do practice a pedagogy of care and community 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Yes! I'm taking a Storytelling as Rhetorical Criticism course and Dr. Jo Hsu incorporated peer workshops in two class sessions. It's been so wonderful to learn about my peers' work and think alongside them!

I don't romanticize *ANY* part of academia.

But, NACCS is my academic home, & I've built beautiful community through my involvement the past few years.

I'm so grateful to be a part of two panel proposal submissions this year.

The work of submitting is done; now we wait.

Exactly! Like, it's soooo generative (and a tremendous form of community-building) to think our writing out *with* others

Dear grad school faculty: please incorporate writing workshops into your syllabi.

Being able to hear the brilliance of peers is soooo fucking amazing. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

#gradschool #phdlife #phdjourney

I need to write a paper for my methods class, considering which methods I might want to use in my research. And, tbh, I've kinda been word vomiting every thought on this document all afternoon and it's fucking exciting.

Like, oh yeah, I remember why I applied for grad school.

#phdlife