Dr. Lorgia García Peña
@laprofelgp.bsky.social
Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton.
Author of Community as Rebellion.
Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom.
www.lorgiagarciapena.com
Author of Community as Rebellion.
Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom.
www.lorgiagarciapena.com
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Rapid Response Emergency Fund
🌟 Join us in solidarity and resistance! 🌟We are calling on all our allies to take part and make a contribution to our Rapid Response Emergency Fund today. Your support will directly assist detained fa...
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Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.
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Please join us for my book launch! It’ll be great to see you. I’ll be giving away a couple of books to two lucky winners. @laprofelgp.bsky.social // Register por fava: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...
December 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Please join us for my book launch! It’ll be great to see you. I’ll be giving away a couple of books to two lucky winners. @laprofelgp.bsky.social // Register por fava: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x69...
Grades in. Away message on. Coquito in hand. Happy holidays people.
December 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Grades in. Away message on. Coquito in hand. Happy holidays people.
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"Starting off with that initial $10,000 loan just over five years ago, BCI recently passed the $3million mark in non-extractive capital deployed: there’s a lot of cooperatives getting on their feet in the DC region with BCI’s help."
seedcommons.org/projects/org...
seedcommons.org/projects/org...
Beloved Community Incubator: Organizing cooperatives, organizing the community | Seed Commons
Building power for excluded workers in Washington, DC
seedcommons.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
"Starting off with that initial $10,000 loan just over five years ago, BCI recently passed the $3million mark in non-extractive capital deployed: there’s a lot of cooperatives getting on their feet in the DC region with BCI’s help."
seedcommons.org/projects/org...
seedcommons.org/projects/org...
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6 years ago, as I prepared to host students for Thanksgiving, I received a call informing me Harvard denied me tenure. Before I had a chance to process, it was all public. This year the memory stings more as I watch dear colleagues and friends like @durba.bsky.social experience the same violence.
Why Lorgia García Peña Was Denied Tenure at Harvard
A decision not to retain a beloved Latinx-studies professor raised questions about the university’s commitment to students of color.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
6 years ago, as I prepared to host students for Thanksgiving, I received a call informing me Harvard denied me tenure. Before I had a chance to process, it was all public. This year the memory stings more as I watch dear colleagues and friends like @durba.bsky.social experience the same violence.
I’m a firm believer that all things come to us for a reason. Grateful for all my mistakes. My best learning happened there.
December 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I’m a firm believer that all things come to us for a reason. Grateful for all my mistakes. My best learning happened there.
Thinking of my friends and students at Brown. Hasta cuando???
December 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Thinking of my friends and students at Brown. Hasta cuando???
Otherwise known as my Christmas list.
Release the Epstein files.
Release the Jan. 6 documents.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.
Release the Jan. 6 documents.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.
December 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Otherwise known as my Christmas list.
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Our last episode of the year is a conversation about what resisting ICE has looked like in Chicago, what we've learned, what it's cost, and where we go from here. I'm so grateful to Gabe Gonzalez, Rey Wences, and Jocelyn Walsh for this convo. This one is special to me. Audio + transcript:
How We’ve Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago
“I cannot imagine doing anything else in this moment,” says community defense organizer Gabe Gonzalez.
truthout.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Our last episode of the year is a conversation about what resisting ICE has looked like in Chicago, what we've learned, what it's cost, and where we go from here. I'm so grateful to Gabe Gonzalez, Rey Wences, and Jocelyn Walsh for this convo. This one is special to me. Audio + transcript:
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"Juana" is harvesting citrus in Fresno CA. "It's a hard job. I climb a 20 foot ladder carrying an 80lb sack of oranges. It takes 2-3 hrs to fill the bin in the picture. I earn $35-50/bin depending on the type. I work hard to provide food and shelter for me and my son." #WeFeedYou
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Juana" is harvesting citrus in Fresno CA. "It's a hard job. I climb a 20 foot ladder carrying an 80lb sack of oranges. It takes 2-3 hrs to fill the bin in the picture. I earn $35-50/bin depending on the type. I work hard to provide food and shelter for me and my son." #WeFeedYou
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The family of a Colombian man believed to be killed by a strike on a boat in September has filed a human rights complaint against the United States, saying that the attack was “murder” and that he was denied the right to due process.
Family of Colombian Man Killed in Boat Strike Files Complaint Against US
This is the first known filing of its kind, and comes amid increasing scrutiny over the military’s boat strike campaign.
truthout.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The family of a Colombian man believed to be killed by a strike on a boat in September has filed a human rights complaint against the United States, saying that the attack was “murder” and that he was denied the right to due process.
The cruelty of these abductions…College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The cruelty of these abductions…College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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I have written and submitted 12 rec letters since Wednesday morning and I have another 28 to go. All due December 1st. There has to be a better way. #academicsky
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I have written and submitted 12 rec letters since Wednesday morning and I have another 28 to go. All due December 1st. There has to be a better way. #academicsky
6 years ago, as I prepared to host students for Thanksgiving, I received a call informing me Harvard denied me tenure. Before I had a chance to process, it was all public. This year the memory stings more as I watch dear colleagues and friends like @durba.bsky.social experience the same violence.
Why Lorgia García Peña Was Denied Tenure at Harvard
A decision not to retain a beloved Latinx-studies professor raised questions about the university’s commitment to students of color.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
6 years ago, as I prepared to host students for Thanksgiving, I received a call informing me Harvard denied me tenure. Before I had a chance to process, it was all public. This year the memory stings more as I watch dear colleagues and friends like @durba.bsky.social experience the same violence.
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CRIMINALMENTE
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CRIMINALMENTE
So true. I buy everything I can. For the reasons below.
To support other writers.
To support indie publishers.
To support indie bookstores.
To support crowdfunders.
To support an ecosystem where there's not a high economic barrier to being a writer, publisher, bookseller, or alive.
To support indie publishers.
To support indie bookstores.
To support crowdfunders.
To support an ecosystem where there's not a high economic barrier to being a writer, publisher, bookseller, or alive.
do you have any idea how many books writers buy, just to be supportive. I don't always get around to reading them, it's fine, I will buy them all the same
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
So true. I buy everything I can. For the reasons below.
“Standard questioning”
They call it in this new United Stares of Fascism.
They call it in this new United Stares of Fascism.
An Iranian professor for the University of Oklahoma was released by ICE after spending three days in detention for what the agency has deemed “standard questioning.” Vahid Abedini was on his way to the Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. when he was arrested.
ICE Detains Iranian Professor for 3 Days for “Standard Questioning”
“It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had,” the scholar said.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
“Standard questioning”
They call it in this new United Stares of Fascism.
They call it in this new United Stares of Fascism.
Good riddance
After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.
Marjorie Taylor Greene no longer trusts the plan
After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.
www.motherjones.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Good riddance
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
Asian American scholars standing up for basic decency share.google/Dw02Kz8lPinV...
The Dan David Prize Amid a Genocide? – Social Text
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November 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Asian American scholars standing up for basic decency share.google/Dw02Kz8lPinV...
Wow the Karens be karening today
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Wow the Karens be karening today
How is this the fact that he got some nasty emails the news? Like how many of us have been under attack for years now for defending justice? I would have preferred to see a profile of the folks who were abducted and their families. Fuck this guy. Boston University Student Faces Backlash…
Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
How is this the fact that he got some nasty emails the news? Like how many of us have been under attack for years now for defending justice? I would have preferred to see a profile of the folks who were abducted and their families. Fuck this guy. Boston University Student Faces Backlash…
Academia can be soul crushing. Protect your hearts. #academicsky
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Academia can be soul crushing. Protect your hearts. #academicsky