advocate for the rgv, teacher leaders, students, and my love for writing | | 1st year latin american and latino studies master’s student @lalsatuic
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happy menstrual hygiene day everyone!!
i wanted to let you know of a new anthology that’s coming out later this year in which my poem “La mancha en mi alma” will be featured. this anth has been long expected and i’m so excited to share this piece with y’all!
link in bio🩸🩸
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Very weird, painful day to be online for more than 5 minutes. Some corrections for more mindful engagement:
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It feels like US academia, esp. in the social sciences and humanities, but really in all fields of higher ed, seem to have no sense of what a catastrophe could be starting in about a week
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I sent a paper of mine to an Oxford philosophy prof earlier this year, and he *loved it*. Told me I should submit it without edits, and that he'd be citing it in future papers of his. So, I submitted to an ethics journal -- desk rejection. I submitted it to another journal, and
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If Taylor becomes a New York Times bestseller with her self-published book, that’s going to have BIG ramifications for the publishing industry. That title has formerly been something celebrities could only get through a profit share deal with a traditional publishing house. 1/9
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I (finally) got Adderall and now I'm in "oh I could have felt so much better if anyone had noticed this for 30 years" late-stage diagnosis mourning. Here's to all the first born daughters, all the "perfect student"-esque people who never got the support they needed
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Border communities are joyful, embracing and full of hope. When we only pair the word #border with “crisis,” “chaos,” “problem,” or “security,” we fail to acknowledge the reality of the borderlands, stigmatize entire communities, and obscure the needs of people on the move.
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Good news, everyone! The 2025 BIPOC Game Studies conference is now accepting submissions for a showcase of papers, games, and related media to be featured at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
Deadline: January 15th.
conference.blackgamestudies.…
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Aysenur Ezgi is a hero - she left the comforts of her life to volunteer her body and her persumed privilege, via her passport, to protect Palestinian farmers from Israeli settler & state violence. May she rest in peace & may her courage & solidarity be remembered.
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If this pans out, and entirely stops transmission, this could actually end this pandemic. Other COVID conscious folks and I will still be forever changed by the vast majority of the public’s eugenics based denial, delusion, and gross negligence, ruining our faith in humanity.
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"I need AI to help me write because it's hard and not everyone is able" writing is supposed to be miserable, if you need a crutch that's what substance abuse is for, sylvia plath would choke you to death with her bare hands and edgar allan poe would use your skull as a bong
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you legally can't bully me for the next 30 days
ALT September is Be Kind to Writers and Editors Month
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Our beloved Refaat Alareer (@itranslate123) wrote these words in October, but they had not been published until now. @intifada is grateful to have the honor to share them with the world. When I read them, I can hear his voice. electronicintifada.net/conte…
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i was told yesterday that abt 10 years of my writing got permanently deleted bc my undergrad uni is revoking alumni access to school google docs so i sent IT an email that was essentially “fix this or i will kms” & boston police sent colorado police to my house to check on me 💀