El Norte Recuerda
@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
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We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Criticism! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...
Oh my god 😭
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Teaching the basic concept of the Global South just got even more danceable
I wrote a short article for @myhnn.bsky.social analyzing the hemispheric histories behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime shown. I show that hemispheric discourses have long been used to combat the politics of empire. Link below!
www.hnn.us/article/the-...
www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Bad Bunny Doctrine
The Superbowl LX halftime show tapped into a 200-year old tradition of elevating hemisphere over nation in the struggle against imperial rule.
www.hnn.us
February 18, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Teaching the basic concept of the Global South just got even more danceable
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"Losing sight of the importance of hemispheric discourses in the break from empire, however, risks overstating the status of the nation-state system as a necessary outcome of the American revolutionary period."
I wrote a short article for @myhnn.bsky.social analyzing the hemispheric histories behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime shown. I show that hemispheric discourses have long been used to combat the politics of empire. Link below!
www.hnn.us/article/the-...
www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Bad Bunny Doctrine
The Superbowl LX halftime show tapped into a 200-year old tradition of elevating hemisphere over nation in the struggle against imperial rule.
www.hnn.us
February 18, 2026 at 7:55 PM
"Losing sight of the importance of hemispheric discourses in the break from empire, however, risks overstating the status of the nation-state system as a necessary outcome of the American revolutionary period."
My Poets & Writers class sold out! BUT, there is a waiting list, so maybe if enough people request a spot they'll open it up! I'll be talking about "mnemonic reading," and how pop culture can help us fill gaps in personal and public memory. Excited to teach it! www.pw.org/content/work...
February 11, 2026 at 10:38 PM
My Poets & Writers class sold out! BUT, there is a waiting list, so maybe if enough people request a spot they'll open it up! I'll be talking about "mnemonic reading," and how pop culture can help us fill gaps in personal and public memory. Excited to teach it! www.pw.org/content/work...
Farm workers. The fields on the field. The legacies of slavery and colonialism—the sugar cane plantation, labor power, power crisis—despite it all, the future reaches through the tv to the past to make our postcolonial present.
The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.
The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Farm workers. The fields on the field. The legacies of slavery and colonialism—the sugar cane plantation, labor power, power crisis—despite it all, the future reaches through the tv to the past to make our postcolonial present.
The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.
The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.
Not sure what you mean by theories, but there is very little knowledge production on Latine racial identity. Latines are taught to assimilate as part of an ongoing colonial project to empty the land of indigenous people, artificially inflate white majorities, and fight communism in Latin America
February 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Not sure what you mean by theories, but there is very little knowledge production on Latine racial identity. Latines are taught to assimilate as part of an ongoing colonial project to empty the land of indigenous people, artificially inflate white majorities, and fight communism in Latin America
Should I submit my 20th faculty application of this academic year or make another Jon Snow edit for Tiktok 😭 it's been an absolutely brutal couple of years man, holy shit
February 1, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Should I submit my 20th faculty application of this academic year or make another Jon Snow edit for Tiktok 😭 it's been an absolutely brutal couple of years man, holy shit
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I keep thinking about these poor kids seeing their mom arrested for doing her job.
January 30, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I keep thinking about these poor kids seeing their mom arrested for doing her job.
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I just finished teaching a j-term course on neofascism at middlebury, and I framed the class around the idea that the main distinction between pre- and post-war fascism is the dominance of the cult of death. fascism pre-war seeks the state; post-war seeks immolation of self, state, volk, and nation.
January 30, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I just finished teaching a j-term course on neofascism at middlebury, and I framed the class around the idea that the main distinction between pre- and post-war fascism is the dominance of the cult of death. fascism pre-war seeks the state; post-war seeks immolation of self, state, volk, and nation.
I want to start a press that sells $5 mass market paperbacks, with introductions by contemporary figures. Not a boutique press because reading is not a luxury. We’ll need to be subsidized to keep the price point, but we can’t let mass market pbs die to $50 hardbacks and Anna’s Archive 💔
January 29, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I want to start a press that sells $5 mass market paperbacks, with introductions by contemporary figures. Not a boutique press because reading is not a luxury. We’ll need to be subsidized to keep the price point, but we can’t let mass market pbs die to $50 hardbacks and Anna’s Archive 💔
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NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
www.huffpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:59 PM
NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
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The mass market paperback is what most people think of when they hear the word "paperback." It's the printed edition meant for the regular person. It's smaller and cheaper than the hardback & trade paperback, and it's going away.
All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...
Mass Market Paperbacks are discontinued
Publishers Weekly last month reported that ReaderLink, the largest full-service distributor of
goodereader.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:40 PM
The mass market paperback is what most people think of when they hear the word "paperback." It's the printed edition meant for the regular person. It's smaller and cheaper than the hardback & trade paperback, and it's going away.
All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...
Mass Market Paperbacks are discontinued
Publishers Weekly last month reported that ReaderLink, the largest full-service distributor of
goodereader.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...
There are few poets I trust more who can capture the constant present of the shattered colonial real, the specter of the past, the looping nature of un-time, unreality, that is forced into a procession line of exit and erasure, than Chaun Webster. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: This Occupation is Strange But Familiar
This is the second dispatch in our ongoing series of Letters From Minnesota in which we invite writers to share their experiences, as both witness and warning, of American authoritarianism. _______…
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January 28, 2026 at 12:18 AM
There are few poets I trust more who can capture the constant present of the shattered colonial real, the specter of the past, the looping nature of un-time, unreality, that is forced into a procession line of exit and erasure, than Chaun Webster. lithub.com/letter-from-...
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While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Most people do not grasp how warped our reality is that ICE even exists. Immigration and Naturalization Service, formerly INS, was a CIVIC agency—part of the Department of Labor. Racism and xenophobia alone militarized it under George W Bush following 9/11. This cannot be reformed. ABOLISH ICE NOW
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Most people do not grasp how warped our reality is that ICE even exists. Immigration and Naturalization Service, formerly INS, was a CIVIC agency—part of the Department of Labor. Racism and xenophobia alone militarized it under George W Bush following 9/11. This cannot be reformed. ABOLISH ICE NOW
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher: "A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction," Wednesday evenings Feb 4-April 29, 5:30-7PM ET. Online via YouTube. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... #books #liberation
January 27, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher: "A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction," Wednesday evenings Feb 4-April 29, 5:30-7PM ET. Online via YouTube. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... #books #liberation
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I interviewed Ethan Hawke today at Sundance. How’s y’all’s day going?? @vulture.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I interviewed Ethan Hawke today at Sundance. How’s y’all’s day going?? @vulture.com
What we’re seeing in Minneapolis began in Ferguson in 2014. Militarization of police, IDF tactics, gassing protestors w/ the same gas used on Palestinians. Between 2009-2016, Obama deported 3 million people without criminal records. And Palantir began operating in 2019. You weren’t paying attention.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
What we’re seeing in Minneapolis began in Ferguson in 2014. Militarization of police, IDF tactics, gassing protestors w/ the same gas used on Palestinians. Between 2009-2016, Obama deported 3 million people without criminal records. And Palantir began operating in 2019. You weren’t paying attention.
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Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
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Liam Conejo Ramos’ little Spider-Man backpack is destroying me. A five year old used as bait, and detained. No one protected him, not even the heroes of our imagination. May all our fantasies be revealed as the imperialist propaganda and failure of imagination they are.
January 24, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Liam Conejo Ramos’ little Spider-Man backpack is destroying me. A five year old used as bait, and detained. No one protected him, not even the heroes of our imagination. May all our fantasies be revealed as the imperialist propaganda and failure of imagination they are.
It's my birthday today. No celebration. Instead, I'm getting on a plane at 7pm tonight to be with my mom for her breast cancer surgery tomorrow.
My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...
My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
bookshop.org
January 20, 2026 at 7:27 PM
It's my birthday today. No celebration. Instead, I'm getting on a plane at 7pm tonight to be with my mom for her breast cancer surgery tomorrow.
My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...
My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...