Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD
@drcaromaldo.blacksky.app
🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof of #LatinxLit at CUNY| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies baking, crochet 🧶, shitposting, ADHDer
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Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
Image credit: Lex Non Scripta
🗨she/ella🗯 RTs & typos are my own
Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
Image credit: Lex Non Scripta
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Project MUSE - Latinx Identity Uprooted: Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?
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I'm so happy to share my article
"Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?" is available in Inks!
#AcademicSky
#LatinxStudies
#ComicsStudies
"Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?" is available in Inks!
#AcademicSky
#LatinxStudies
#ComicsStudies
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Curious to learn more about Puerto Rico after Bad Bunny's explosive Super Bowl performance? Access "Puerto Rico: A National History," an engaging and surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, on MUSE.
https://bit.ly/4bLOp3i
https://bit.ly/4bLOp3i
February 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Curious to learn more about Puerto Rico after Bad Bunny's explosive Super Bowl performance? Access "Puerto Rico: A National History," an engaging and surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, on MUSE.
https://bit.ly/4bLOp3i
https://bit.ly/4bLOp3i
Just like Kendrick brought back mom jeans, Benito brought back shoulder padded blazers.
February 10, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Just like Kendrick brought back mom jeans, Benito brought back shoulder padded blazers.
It was a CHOICE to have a Ricky Martin, a gay Boricua, do a guest appearance and not someone like Marc Anthony. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🇵🇷🏳️🌈
#BenitoBowl
#BenitoBowl
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
It was a CHOICE to have a Ricky Martin, a gay Boricua, do a guest appearance and not someone like Marc Anthony. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🇵🇷🏳️🌈
#BenitoBowl
#BenitoBowl
Anytime someone brings up the haters
February 10, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Anytime someone brings up the haters
Half unique views and half a bunch of us re-watching every episode.
Variety reports that #HeatedRivalry has reached an average of 10.6 million viewers per episode, but I don’t know if that’s unique viewers or it’s just ten of us who’ve watched every episode a million times.
February 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Half unique views and half a bunch of us re-watching every episode.
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Friends with a new, renewed, or amplified interest in the Spanish language and Latin America, consider checking out the work your colleagues/neighbors in departments of Spanish/Romance Languages/Modern Languages/etc--they're likely in the corner of an old campus building 1/
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Friends with a new, renewed, or amplified interest in the Spanish language and Latin America, consider checking out the work your colleagues/neighbors in departments of Spanish/Romance Languages/Modern Languages/etc--they're likely in the corner of an old campus building 1/
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Bad Bunny opening halftime performance by moving through sugarcane highlights colonial history that binds US, Puerto Rico & the larger Caribbean. Sugar everywhere in the performance - drinks, wedding 🎂, etc. Labor, desire & pleasure tied to the land.
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Bad Bunny opening halftime performance by moving through sugarcane highlights colonial history that binds US, Puerto Rico & the larger Caribbean. Sugar everywhere in the performance - drinks, wedding 🎂, etc. Labor, desire & pleasure tied to the land.
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I love how people finding out the Hay-tee is just the Americanized pronunciation and the actual pronunciation for Haiti is Ayiti(eye-e-tea)
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 AM
I love how people finding out the Hay-tee is just the Americanized pronunciation and the actual pronunciation for Haiti is Ayiti(eye-e-tea)
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My favorite days on the internet are when people across diasporas come together to prove, yet again, that whiteness really isn’t all that.
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 AM
My favorite days on the internet are when people across diasporas come together to prove, yet again, that whiteness really isn’t all that.
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowl
And now the Sugar Bowl (2026).
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
And now the Sugar Bowl (2026).
It reeks of: "oh you say you're Puerto Rican? Do you speak Spanish?"
Not someone trying to out Boricua me in my own mentions. Go away! Damn, can't be joyful for a minute.
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 AM
It reeks of: "oh you say you're Puerto Rican? Do you speak Spanish?"
Not someone trying to out Boricua me in my own mentions. Go away! Damn, can't be joyful for a minute.
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Not someone trying to out Boricua me in my own mentions. Go away! Damn, can't be joyful for a minute.
On the past few days I got a book contract and Bad Bunny played the hell out of the superbowl. Everything is coming up Millhouse!
February 9, 2026 at 2:44 AM
On the past few days I got a book contract and Bad Bunny played the hell out of the superbowl. Everything is coming up Millhouse!
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
Like you don't have to be Puerto Rican to feel that kind of longing to heal from childhood trauma.
It's adult you stepping into the past to protect child you. Very powerful.
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Like you don't have to be Puerto Rican to feel that kind of longing to heal from childhood trauma.
My read on that scene was Bad Bunny both referencing the current events of ICE kidnapping a Latino child and his own child self Benito (both conejitos). Benito was Liam.
Y'all! Conejo means rabbit! 🥴🐰
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
My read on that scene was Bad Bunny both referencing the current events of ICE kidnapping a Latino child and his own child self Benito (both conejitos). Benito was Liam.
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Not “who can I make mad”
But what part of myself I love so much that I traced it all the way back to pay it forward
But what part of myself I love so much that I traced it all the way back to pay it forward
February 9, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Not “who can I make mad”
But what part of myself I love so much that I traced it all the way back to pay it forward
But what part of myself I love so much that I traced it all the way back to pay it forward
Y'all! Conejo means rabbit! 🥴🐰
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Y'all! Conejo means rabbit! 🥴🐰
I gotta quote estar wars: "That’s how we’re gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love."
February 9, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I gotta quote estar wars: "That’s how we’re gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love."
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Bad Bunny’s beautiful and joyful portrayal of Puerto Rico stands on the shoulders of Kendrick Lamar’s love letter to Compton last year.
Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Bad Bunny’s beautiful and joyful portrayal of Puerto Rico stands on the shoulders of Kendrick Lamar’s love letter to Compton last year.
Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
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roll call! did you see your flag during benito bowl? st vincent and the grenadines checking in 🇻🇨
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
roll call! did you see your flag during benito bowl? st vincent and the grenadines checking in 🇻🇨
Me going to work tomorrow like
a frog in a blue shirt is standing in front of a puerto rican flag
Alt: a frog in a blue shirt is standing in front of a puerto rican flag.
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Me going to work tomorrow like
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
The last few minutes were a crash course in American [as in the Americas] Studies.
February 9, 2026 at 1:53 AM
The last few minutes were a crash course in American [as in the Americas] Studies.
Me seeing Jessica Alba: Is that Honey?
February 9, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Me seeing Jessica Alba: Is that Honey?