Kathryn Vomero Santos
@kathrynvsantos.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues (2025).
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Hi, Bluesky! Allow me to (re)introduce myself by sharing the cover of my forthcoming book, Shakespeare in Tongues, which will be published by Routledge in the Spotlight on Shakespeare series next year. Many thanks to artist Fausto Fernandez for permission to use his gorgeous collage!
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A dangerous new policy requires a campus President's approval for profs to teach race & gender topics in Texas.
"It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.”
— Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom
"It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.”
— Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom
Texas A&M University professors now need approval for some race and gender topics
Texas A&M University System regents on Thursday adopted a new policy requiring professors to first get approval to discuss some race and gender topics.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A dangerous new policy requires a campus President's approval for profs to teach race & gender topics in Texas.
"It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.”
— Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom
"It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.”
— Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom
Agreed. It’s a deeply moving film. I also loved hearing her talk about it on WTF with Marc Maron.
mariska hargitay’s documentary on her mother, jayne mansfield, is phenomenal
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Agreed. It’s a deeply moving film. I also loved hearing her talk about it on WTF with Marc Maron.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
Last night, I had the chance to meet the amazing Iris De Anda, whose poem “To be a Pocha or not to be” is the subject of the third chapter of my book. Tomorrow, we’re going to be on a panel about poetry and protest for the El Mundo Zurdo conference. What a gift!
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Last night, I had the chance to meet the amazing Iris De Anda, whose poem “To be a Pocha or not to be” is the subject of the third chapter of my book. Tomorrow, we’re going to be on a panel about poetry and protest for the El Mundo Zurdo conference. What a gift!
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Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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Actually remembered to schedule a haircut this AM for tonight’s launch, but of course it’s pouring & I have multiple stops while I’m out. Will it look nice or like a crow’s nest? Hop on YouTube @6:30 TONIGHT to find out! #SweetBook #RaceB4Race
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Kim F. Hall: The Sweet Taste of Empire
YouTube video by Barnard Center for Research on Women
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October 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Actually remembered to schedule a haircut this AM for tonight’s launch, but of course it’s pouring & I have multiple stops while I’m out. Will it look nice or like a crow’s nest? Hop on YouTube @6:30 TONIGHT to find out! #SweetBook #RaceB4Race
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
I don't pretend to know every line in Shakespeare, but I definitely know an AI-hallucinated quotation from The Tempest when I see one. 😩
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I don't pretend to know every line in Shakespeare, but I definitely know an AI-hallucinated quotation from The Tempest when I see one. 😩
So very proud of our Trinity community for coming together and standing in solidarity against the Trump compact. Check out the coverage in today’s Trinitonian. 🔥✊🏻
trinitonian.com/2025/10/24/s...
trinitonian.com/2025/10/24/s...
Students and faculty urge Trinity not to sign the Trump administration’s compact - Trinitonian
A crowd of over 200 students and faculty surrounded the Magic Stones on Oct. 20, collecting printed copies of the Trump administration’s “compact” handed out by members of the American Association of ...
trinitonian.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
So very proud of our Trinity community for coming together and standing in solidarity against the Trump compact. Check out the coverage in today’s Trinitonian. 🔥✊🏻
trinitonian.com/2025/10/24/s...
trinitonian.com/2025/10/24/s...
Happening today!
@borderlandsshax.bsky.social is thrilled to partner with Red Bull Theater to co-produce a new staged reading of José Cruz González’s Invierno, directed by Madeline Sayet, this Monday 10/20 at 7:30. You can also stream it live or on demand until Sunday 10/26. Join us!
www.redbulltheater.com/invierno
www.redbulltheater.com/invierno
INVIERNO by José Cruz González
www.redbulltheater.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Happening today!
@borderlandsshax.bsky.social is thrilled to partner with Red Bull Theater to co-produce a new staged reading of José Cruz González’s Invierno, directed by Madeline Sayet, this Monday 10/20 at 7:30. You can also stream it live or on demand until Sunday 10/26. Join us!
www.redbulltheater.com/invierno
www.redbulltheater.com/invierno
INVIERNO by José Cruz González
www.redbulltheater.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
@borderlandsshax.bsky.social is thrilled to partner with Red Bull Theater to co-produce a new staged reading of José Cruz González’s Invierno, directed by Madeline Sayet, this Monday 10/20 at 7:30. You can also stream it live or on demand until Sunday 10/26. Join us!
www.redbulltheater.com/invierno
www.redbulltheater.com/invierno
Nothing compares to the random conversations one has with strangers in New York City. It’s always so great to be back.
October 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Nothing compares to the random conversations one has with strangers in New York City. It’s always so great to be back.
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I’ll be speaking at The Henry Ford Theater on November 8 to present "We're Still Here: Fighting Indigenous Erasure in the Media.” Register and get tickets:
Guest Speaker: Rebecca Nagle
As part of Celebrate Indigenous History, The Henry Ford will welcome guest speaker Rebecca Nagle to present "We're Still Here: Fighting Indigenous Erasure in the Media" on November 8. This event is…
www.thehenryford.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I’ll be speaking at The Henry Ford Theater on November 8 to present "We're Still Here: Fighting Indigenous Erasure in the Media.” Register and get tickets:
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Higher Education’s Compact with America: Shared Principles for the Common Good https://bit.ly/3WbZv8K
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Higher Education’s Compact with America: Shared Principles for the Common Good https://bit.ly/3WbZv8K
What a lovely photo to receive from my former neighbor, whom I miss dearly. I’m so touched! ❤️
October 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
What a lovely photo to receive from my former neighbor, whom I miss dearly. I’m so touched! ❤️
I’m honored to be part of this important series and in conversation with Choctaw playwright Randy Reinholz next Tuesday, October 14th at 10am CDT / 4pm BST. Many thanks to Xin Lim for the invitation. Please join us!
Coming Soon! Indigenizing Shakespeare Speaker Series hosted by Xin Ying Lim, our Visiting Fellow and @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded doctoral researcher at the @universityofhull.bsky.social
🔹Tuesdays, Oct–Dec 2025, 4–5pm UK Time
🔹Online
👉 For speaker lineup and registration: forms.gle/iVctbVJ2MCoE...
🔹Tuesdays, Oct–Dec 2025, 4–5pm UK Time
🔹Online
👉 For speaker lineup and registration: forms.gle/iVctbVJ2MCoE...
October 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I’m honored to be part of this important series and in conversation with Choctaw playwright Randy Reinholz next Tuesday, October 14th at 10am CDT / 4pm BST. Many thanks to Xin Lim for the invitation. Please join us!
October 5-11 is Banned Books Week. To be sure, we have seen an alarming rise in book banning in recent years, but this is not new, and neither are the powerful forms of resistance against such epistemological violence. (1/2)
Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
October 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Hello #BookSky Are you still figuring out what you're doing for #BannedBooksWeek We'll help! Here's a framework for you:
1 Event or
1 Organization or
1 Person
Here's what we mean...
1 Event or
1 Organization or
1 Person
Here's what we mean...
October 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hello #BookSky Are you still figuring out what you're doing for #BannedBooksWeek We'll help! Here's a framework for you:
1 Event or
1 Organization or
1 Person
Here's what we mean...
1 Event or
1 Organization or
1 Person
Here's what we mean...
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Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire
bcrw.barnard.edu
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
October 5-11 is Banned Books Week. To be sure, we have seen an alarming rise in book banning in recent years, but this is not new, and neither are the powerful forms of resistance against such epistemological violence. (1/2)
Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
October 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
October 5-11 is Banned Books Week. To be sure, we have seen an alarming rise in book banning in recent years, but this is not new, and neither are the powerful forms of resistance against such epistemological violence. (1/2)
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A jazz vocalist from Mexico is giving a new romantic and modern spin to the Mexican folklore of La Llorona, a crying female spirit who is said to take children, amid mass deportations in the U.S. www.axios.com/2025/10/05/m...
Mexican-born jazz singer gives new life to "La Llorona"
The song by Lucía is the latest one to tackle themes facing Latinos in the U.S.
www.axios.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A jazz vocalist from Mexico is giving a new romantic and modern spin to the Mexican folklore of La Llorona, a crying female spirit who is said to take children, amid mass deportations in the U.S. www.axios.com/2025/10/05/m...
Everywhere I turn, I’m reminded of our sweet Lexington, who went to his final rest on Thursday. He was with me from dissertation to book(s) and everything in between. Thank you for a beautiful sixteen years together, my handsome lovebug. 🖤🤍
October 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Everywhere I turn, I’m reminded of our sweet Lexington, who went to his final rest on Thursday. He was with me from dissertation to book(s) and everything in between. Thank you for a beautiful sixteen years together, my handsome lovebug. 🖤🤍