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Assistant Prof of Media Studies. PhD in Chican@ Studies. Media, humor, culture, language politics, & sound. Xicana in Queens, NY. Balancing señora & chola life.

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13.05.2025 11:41 👍 17258 🔁 3299 💬 314 📌 131

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14.05.2025 01:05 👍 1226 🔁 217 💬 9 📌 5

“Pick sitcoms you cowards!”- me yelling at the contestants on Jeopardy

13.05.2025 23:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“I Don’t Do Horror, Ryan Coogler” — Black Magic’s Dr. Yvonne Chireau on Sinners and Bringing Hoodoo to Life It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. If you don’t know her ...

senior editor talked to the legendary Dr. Yvonne Chireau about being the Hoodoo consultant on Ryan Coogler's latest blockbuster, *Sinners*

religiondispatches.org/i-dont-do-ho...

24.04.2025 23:54 👍 413 🔁 177 💬 16 📌 42

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

24.04.2025 14:26 👍 66634 🔁 16114 💬 1535 📌 648
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Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

24.04.2025 19:45 👍 22506 🔁 8385 💬 884 📌 590

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

16.04.2025 12:13 👍 11107 🔁 2338 💬 130 📌 127
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First 250+ migrant gang members from US arrive in El Salvador — where they’ll be held in a notorious mega-prison The US has flown more than 250 accused migrant gang members to El Salvador, where they were sent to a notorious mega-prison — in direct defiance of a federal judge’s ruling against the Trump admini…

250 Venezuelans have been disappeared into one of the worst prisons in Central America based on Trump’s invocation of a law only used 3 times in our history - the last time resulted in the Japanese-American internment. These men have had no due process. It’s monstrous.

nypost.com/2025/03/16/u...

17.03.2025 03:17 👍 1793 🔁 637 💬 62 📌 31

Don’t go. Go outside and have your own State of the Union. Give a list of actions we need to do in order to stop this regime. And wear t-shirts that say “Pro USA Anti Trump”

28.02.2025 21:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A #CrazyRichAsians TV series in the works? This just made my week.

28.02.2025 21:39 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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He can barely speak English

28.02.2025 21:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Serena Williams!

10.02.2025 01:49 👍 24371 🔁 3277 💬 217 📌 383
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We Won’t Take Risks Alone. Our Relationships Make a Better World Possible. Tenant unions can teach us to strategize “with every lever that we have,” says tenant organizer Tracy Rosenthal.

Movement Memos is back! What can rent strikes and tenant unions teach us about the work of collective survival in this moment? I talked with LA Tenants Union co-founders Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis about their work and how the lessons of their book, Abolish Rent, connect with this moment.

06.02.2025 15:11 👍 430 🔁 148 💬 5 📌 6
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Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is AMAZING news!
Fuck Amazon

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

05.02.2025 16:41 👍 17728 🔁 3850 💬 243 📌 210

Tu sigue

06.02.2025 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well done, Maryland.

06.02.2025 00:36 👍 203 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 0

rudos

06.02.2025 01:29 👍 205 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
A one-up of planets visible in the night sky at the moment, with an airplane crossing the shot.

A one-up of planets visible in the night sky at the moment, with an airplane crossing the shot.

So this was the sky last night. Early evening is the best time to catch the planetary parade, but it’ll be happening for few weeks, and Mercury might even be visible too at the end of the month.

04.02.2025 13:36 👍 3352 🔁 259 💬 95 📌 6
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ACT UP: A History Of AIDS/HIV Activism : It's Been a Minute Forty years ago this month, the CDC reported on patients with HIV/AIDS in the United States for the very first time. The disease was understudied, under-reported and deeply stigmatized. ACT UP united ...

"ACT UP: A History Of AIDS/HIV Activism"
(From June 18, 2021) www.npr.org/transcripts/...

03.02.2025 18:05 👍 53 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
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Why did so many WNBA All-Stars move for one-year contracts during this free agency period?

Well, an economic windfall is expected to hit the WNBA in 2026, including a new CBA and media rights deal.

@benpickman.bsky.social explains: www.nytimes.com/athletic/610...

03.02.2025 18:35 👍 130 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 5
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N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care (Gift Article) A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in ...

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.

03.02.2025 16:54 👍 20178 🔁 4609 💬 221 📌 319

Kendrick had no plan to win any of this shit. He was just hatin and look where it got him.

There’s a lesson there!

03.02.2025 04:34 👍 13052 🔁 1858 💬 121 📌 159
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Beyoncé becomes the first black woman to win Album of the Year at the #GRAMMYs  since Lauryn Hill in 1999.

03.02.2025 04:52 👍 8493 🔁 1490 💬 91 📌 278
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“I want to dedicate this award to all my immigrant brothers and sisters in this country. You are loved, you are worth it, and I will always fight with you.”

— Shakira during her #GRAMMYs  acceptance speech.

03.02.2025 03:18 👍 18260 🔁 2487 💬 114 📌 112
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Today in LA.
I ❤️ my town.

03.02.2025 04:55 👍 23136 🔁 4124 💬 704 📌 289
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Did you know?

The Nazis modeled their race laws after Jim Crow laws. They decided they weren’t harsh enough so the Nuremberg Laws were created which set the stage for the mass murder of over two thirds of Europe’s Jewish population.

Jim Crow wasn’t just evil—it was an inspiration for atrocity.

02.02.2025 15:25 👍 3485 🔁 1268 💬 160 📌 63
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My mood…

03.02.2025 02:50 👍 30570 🔁 5498 💬 461 📌 246
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