William Orchard
@billeo.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center. Latinx studies, comics and graphic narratives, queer studies.
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Representing possibility for Black and Filipina girls and doing brilliant work 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
January 23, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Representing possibility for Black and Filipina girls and doing brilliant work 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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I’m in awe of what schools are doing daily to hold kids & families up when other institutions won’t.
A lesson for ed research so committed to “schools as oppression machines” that it can’t see them as sites of care, protection, and dignity.
A lesson for ed research so committed to “schools as oppression machines” that it can’t see them as sites of care, protection, and dignity.
Fear, arrests and know-your-rights: How one school district is grappling with ICE coming to town
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They took her, they took her, they took her.” Those were some of the words Assistant Principal Cora Muñoz could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students.…
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They took her, they took her, they took her.” Those were some of the words Assistant Principal Cora Muñoz could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students.…
Fear, arrests and know-your-rights: How one school district is grappling with ICE coming to town
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They took her, they took her, they took her.” Those were some of the words Assistant Principal Cora Muñoz could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students. As the caller sobbed and struggled to speak, Muñoz realized that immigration enforcement agents had detained a kid from Wilbur Cross, the high school she helps lead. Again. There was a reason why Muñoz was a go-to contact for the student and her guardian: She — and New Haven public schools more broadly — have worked hard to earn the trust of immigrant families in their diverse district, even as the second Trump administration has made it easier for immigration officers to enter schools and launched a mass deportation campaign.
hechingerreport.org
January 23, 2026 at 12:08 PM
I’m in awe of what schools are doing daily to hold kids & families up when other institutions won’t.
A lesson for ed research so committed to “schools as oppression machines” that it can’t see them as sites of care, protection, and dignity.
A lesson for ed research so committed to “schools as oppression machines” that it can’t see them as sites of care, protection, and dignity.
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I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
January 22, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
Syllabusing nearly done. This term: The Novel & the Archive, and the 21st C. Latinx Novel.
January 21, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Syllabusing nearly done. This term: The Novel & the Archive, and the 21st C. Latinx Novel.
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What Mark Carney said of non-superpower nations also applies to individuals.
“The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength…, and to act together.”
paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
“The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength…, and to act together.”
paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 AM
What Mark Carney said of non-superpower nations also applies to individuals.
“The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength…, and to act together.”
paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
“The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength…, and to act together.”
paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
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Post-Doc position SUNY Plattsburgh, especially interested in scholars of Latinx literature, Caribbean literature, and Indigenous literature. Deadline 2/15 jobs.plattsburgh.edu/postings/15873
PRODiG+ Fellow, English
SUNY Plattsburgh is seeking applicants for a SUNY Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth plus (PRODiG+) Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English.PRODiG+ is des...
jobs.plattsburgh.edu
January 20, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Post-Doc position SUNY Plattsburgh, especially interested in scholars of Latinx literature, Caribbean literature, and Indigenous literature. Deadline 2/15 jobs.plattsburgh.edu/postings/15873
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Today’s arrival. Been waiting for this one!
January 20, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Today’s arrival. Been waiting for this one!
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Today’s arrival. Been waiting for this one!
January 20, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Today’s arrival. Been waiting for this one!
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The Futures Initiative Podcast: What Can Bad Bunny Teach Us About the Archives? Conversation w/ Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies & Vallerie Matos, Fellow and PhD Candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQw...
FI Podcast Ep 1:4 - “Learning from Bad Bunny and El Centro”
YouTube video by Futures Initiative
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The Futures Initiative Podcast: What Can Bad Bunny Teach Us About the Archives? Conversation w/ Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies & Vallerie Matos, Fellow and PhD Candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQw...
The Futures Initiative Podcast: What Can Bad Bunny Teach Us About the Archives? Conversation w/ Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies & Vallerie Matos, Fellow and PhD Candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQw...
FI Podcast Ep 1:4 - “Learning from Bad Bunny and El Centro”
YouTube video by Futures Initiative
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The Futures Initiative Podcast: What Can Bad Bunny Teach Us About the Archives? Conversation w/ Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies & Vallerie Matos, Fellow and PhD Candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQw...
Post-Doc position SUNY Plattsburgh, especially interested in scholars of Latinx literature, Caribbean literature, and Indigenous literature. Deadline 2/15 jobs.plattsburgh.edu/postings/15873
PRODiG+ Fellow, English
SUNY Plattsburgh is seeking applicants for a SUNY Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth plus (PRODiG+) Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English.PRODiG+ is des...
jobs.plattsburgh.edu
January 20, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Post-Doc position SUNY Plattsburgh, especially interested in scholars of Latinx literature, Caribbean literature, and Indigenous literature. Deadline 2/15 jobs.plattsburgh.edu/postings/15873
Looking forward to this show in a few weeks: Felipe Baeza: Anima at Print Center New York.
www.printcenternewyork.org/anima-felipe...
www.printcenternewyork.org/anima-felipe...
January 20, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Looking forward to this show in a few weeks: Felipe Baeza: Anima at Print Center New York.
www.printcenternewyork.org/anima-felipe...
www.printcenternewyork.org/anima-felipe...
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If you have not read this comic, take a few minutes today see how early comics/graphic novels inspired new generations of Civil Rights leaders, including John Lewis, Claudette Colvin and others. www.crmvet.org/docs/ms_for_...
January 19, 2026 at 9:22 PM
If you have not read this comic, take a few minutes today see how early comics/graphic novels inspired new generations of Civil Rights leaders, including John Lewis, Claudette Colvin and others. www.crmvet.org/docs/ms_for_...
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
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The newspaper comic strip, Friday Foster, premiered on January 18, 1970. It ran until February 17, 1974. It was adapted into the Dell comic book below and a film in 1975 starring the very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, beautiful Pam Grier.
January 18, 2026 at 4:33 AM
The newspaper comic strip, Friday Foster, premiered on January 18, 1970. It ran until February 17, 1974. It was adapted into the Dell comic book below and a film in 1975 starring the very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, beautiful Pam Grier.
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RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last Tuesday. Fabian was most widely known as the author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations. RIP.
January 15, 2026 at 10:39 PM
RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last Tuesday. Fabian was most widely known as the author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations. RIP.
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It’s great. Read it: “The world they keep building between them changes this one too”
This essay by @alexanderchee.bsky.social about Heated Rivalry is so great and I have a lot of thoughts about it I should not publish on Al Gore's internet: querent.substack.com/p/i-would-st...
I Would Start A War In Your Arms
A Heated Rivalry Notebook
querent.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:04 PM
It’s great. Read it: “The world they keep building between them changes this one too”
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(h/t Amelia Buttress)
January 18, 2026 at 1:51 AM
(h/t Amelia Buttress)
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This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 AM
This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
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Going through photos and realizing I’ve become that guy who takes pictures of cats wherever he goes, like this sassy fellow in Lisbon.
January 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Going through photos and realizing I’ve become that guy who takes pictures of cats wherever he goes, like this sassy fellow in Lisbon.
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If you’re in the vicinity, we’d love to see you at Limits of Legibility #3!
join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
January 16, 2026 at 1:40 AM
If you’re in the vicinity, we’d love to see you at Limits of Legibility #3!
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary