The NACCS Tejas Foco meeting is now history. Feeling grateful for all the love and the Award for Non-Fiction for SOMOS TEJANAS that Jody Marin and I received. Thank you to all contributors, without you, we wouldn’t have a book!
On #Fronteras:
Poems like "To be a pocha or not to be" take the Bard's influence and transform them to address colonialism, slavery, and the erasure of language and culture.
@kathrynvsantos.bsky.social writes about this in "Shakespeare in Tongues."
@texaspublicradio.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Cjbmw
LOVED it!!!
I'm setting up a Substack account...any advice?
Had a great class visit w Kim Garza.
Just did my very first presentation on FIESTAS EN LAREDO at the u of Texas Arlington… a resounding success! Gracias Natalia Trigo and Xavier Medina for the invitation. Gracias Kris n Celia for coming out to be with me.
She’s now in rehab. Been there almost a month
An excellent resource for federal civil servants.
www.civilservicestrong.org
(b) The Federal contracting process shall be streamlined to enhance speed and efficiency, reduce costs, and require Federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with our civil-rights laws. Accordingly: (1) Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025. (ii) The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the Department of Labor shall immediately cease: (A) Promoting "diversity"; (B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking "affirmative action"; and (C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.
(iii) In accordance with Executive Order 13279 of December 12, 2002 (Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community Organizations), the employment, procurement, and contracting practices of Federal contractors and subcontractors shall not consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin in ways that violate the Nation's civil rights laws. (iv) The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant award: (A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the government's payment decisions for purposes of section 3729(b) (4) of title 31, United States Code; and (B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
I spent the first week of 2025 in room 451 at Methodist with Elvia as she deals with fractured vertebrae and ribs while recovering from cancer surgery.
I’ll be there but I arrive on the 9th. Although I may have to cancel. Elvia fell on Dec 10. Fractured 2 vertebra. Then yesterday she had cancer surgery.
I hope to be at MLA. but Elvia is hospitalized. She fell and has fractured vertebra. But the surgery was for stomach cancer.
New book!
Like Chicanes who hate abuelita poems.
MODERATING!
FRAUSTO
The University of North Texas has removed words like “race” and “equity” from 78 course titles.
Tomas Ybarra Fraudto on RASQUACHISMO
Meditating a panel with Luis Jaramillo And Adamely Salgado Reyes
Texas Book Festival
For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
Norma wearing black jacket embroidered w flowers. Rosebud wearing a dress w text print.
At La Peña.
In NYC one Thurs
Hola!
Just joined. I’m at
THE TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL this weekend
