Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD
@drcaromaldo.blacksky.app
🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof of #LatinxLit & Alum in the CUNYverse| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies baking, poetry, crochet 🧶, shitposting, ADHDer
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Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
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Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
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Project MUSE - Latinx Identity Uprooted: Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?
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"Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?" is available in Inks!
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"went viral" is seriously downplaying the role of bad-faith actors
The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"went viral" is seriously downplaying the role of bad-faith actors
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It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.
December 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This is going to keep happening.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is going to keep happening.
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For some ppl, there is a genetic component to such conditions that require medication. Exercise, diet, and meditation can take you a LONG way, but if you still need the meds—take them!
I ain’t wanna be 40 years old on blood pressure medication. I know a couple folk who are and that was never meant to be my ministry.
December 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
For some ppl, there is a genetic component to such conditions that require medication. Exercise, diet, and meditation can take you a LONG way, but if you still need the meds—take them!
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My 1st apt in Oslo wasn't a dump, but it wasn't NICE until I added things. The super was an ogre who tried to charge me cause I got unstuck from the prewar elevator before maintenance arrived on a Sat. morning. When I moved out I took my new fridge, chandelier, etc.
I aspire to this level of petty.
I aspire to this level of petty.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
My 1st apt in Oslo wasn't a dump, but it wasn't NICE until I added things. The super was an ogre who tried to charge me cause I got unstuck from the prewar elevator before maintenance arrived on a Sat. morning. When I moved out I took my new fridge, chandelier, etc.
I aspire to this level of petty.
I aspire to this level of petty.
Make a Bond movie academic
The Researcher Who Loved Me
The Researcher Who Loved Me
Make a Bond movie academic
Dr. Reviewer #2
Dr. Reviewer #2
Make a Bond movie academic
Live and Let Cite
Live and Let Cite
December 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Make a Bond movie academic
The Researcher Who Loved Me
The Researcher Who Loved Me
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No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
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What a lovely story. I really needed this today. Thank you David
December 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
What a lovely story. I really needed this today. Thank you David
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THISSSSSSSS
GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent.
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
December 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
THISSSSSSSS
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i showed this picture to my husband, to show him how we anishinaabeg survived the winter
he thought it was a bbq pit. he was planning where to put the brisket.
he thought it was a bbq pit. he was planning where to put the brisket.
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
i showed this picture to my husband, to show him how we anishinaabeg survived the winter
he thought it was a bbq pit. he was planning where to put the brisket.
he thought it was a bbq pit. he was planning where to put the brisket.
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Michelle said she's not running for shit so you will get this Chicago swag
Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.
December 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Michelle said she's not running for shit so you will get this Chicago swag
What! I can volunteer my hobby skill in a very specific way?!!!
December 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
What! I can volunteer my hobby skill in a very specific way?!!!
Holiday break is switching from daytime pjs to bedtime pjs
December 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Holiday break is switching from daytime pjs to bedtime pjs
I still can't get over how anti-capitalist It's a Wonderful Life is. Imagine arguing that people have a right to live in a clean, nice multi-bedroom house and now some slum tenement!
December 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I still can't get over how anti-capitalist It's a Wonderful Life is. Imagine arguing that people have a right to live in a clean, nice multi-bedroom house and now some slum tenement!
Only two tantrums before noon! Merry Christmas!🎄
December 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Only two tantrums before noon! Merry Christmas!🎄
"A therapist whose work I admire often says: ‘life is a choice between what hurts and what hurts worse.’"
Estrangement (going no contact) is the choice that hurts the least.
Estrangement (going no contact) is the choice that hurts the least.
The holidays are hard when you're estranged from your family, but it gets easier, and you are not alone.
From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @sandyernestallen.bsky.social some counter programming for trans people who may be struggling today.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Surviving the Holidays as an Estranged Person — Assigned
You may struggle over the holidays if you’re estranged from your family, but you are not alone.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"A therapist whose work I admire often says: ‘life is a choice between what hurts and what hurts worse.’"
Estrangement (going no contact) is the choice that hurts the least.
Estrangement (going no contact) is the choice that hurts the least.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
I'm feeling very thankful that I have friends and family in my life that make sure my kids have gifts under the tree.
December 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I'm feeling very thankful that I have friends and family in my life that make sure my kids have gifts under the tree.
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Flan is made and pernil is in the oven. But of course what ever illness my kids have got me, too!
December 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Flan is made and pernil is in the oven. But of course what ever illness my kids have got me, too!
When I got into a PhD program, a woman I babysat for told me how impressed she was by me.
What's a compliment you'll never forget?
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When I got into a PhD program, a woman I babysat for told me how impressed she was by me.
Pay taxes.
I don’t give a shit about your accomplishments this year. What’s the dumbest shit you did the past 12 months? The truly stupidest decision you made in 2025?
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Pay taxes.
One of my students forgot their copy of the books the day of the exam. So I lent them my copy to do the exam. We are not heartless. We are doing what we maintain a relationship of learning.
I went back to blue books for one class. It was open book notes (printed out) because it was taking too much of my own energy as a person to deal with students using genAI to write their responses.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One of my students forgot their copy of the books the day of the exam. So I lent them my copy to do the exam. We are not heartless. We are doing what we maintain a relationship of learning.