Lisa Voigt
@lisaluso.bsky.social
Professor of Spanish & Portuguese @Yale; previously @Ohio State (2008-2023)
Special Issues Editor, Colonial Latin American Review
Special Issues Editor, Colonial Latin American Review
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House Republicans could force a vote on this deadly, gun lobby-backed bill as soon as the government reopens—we can’t let that happen.
Text GUT to 644-33 to tell your lawmakers in Congress: Don’t gut our gun safety laws. Oppose a federal concealed carry mandate.
Text GUT to 644-33 to tell your lawmakers in Congress: Don’t gut our gun safety laws. Oppose a federal concealed carry mandate.
Why a federal concealed carry gun bill must be stopped - The Boston Globe
The law would force all states to recognize concealed carry permissions from anywhere else in the country, and would be highly dangerous for civilians and law enforcement.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
House Republicans could force a vote on this deadly, gun lobby-backed bill as soon as the government reopens—we can’t let that happen.
Text GUT to 644-33 to tell your lawmakers in Congress: Don’t gut our gun safety laws. Oppose a federal concealed carry mandate.
Text GUT to 644-33 to tell your lawmakers in Congress: Don’t gut our gun safety laws. Oppose a federal concealed carry mandate.
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Higher education is a public good, not a political football. It's time to make our voices heard and demand our elected officials protect this vital institution. Add your voice to ours! Tell Congress to invest in our future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKJ... @AFTHigherEd.bsky.social @AAUP.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Higher education is a public good, not a political football. It's time to make our voices heard and demand our elected officials protect this vital institution. Add your voice to ours! Tell Congress to invest in our future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKJ... @AFTHigherEd.bsky.social @AAUP.org
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Seems like a good day for big ideas.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
theamericanvandal.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Seems like a good day for big ideas.
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
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"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."
Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links
The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.
truthout.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."
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Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works
A wealth of background and analytical material makes Sor Juana's proto-feminist writings, newly translated, all the more compelling., Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works, A Norton Critical Edit...
wwnorton.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
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🚨BREAKING: On the 44th anniversary of Ohio’s death penalty law taking effect, elected officials who initiated it are fighting for its repeal. 20+ former lawmakers sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging them to pass SB 133 and abolish capital punishment in Ohio. ⚖️
October 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🚨BREAKING: On the 44th anniversary of Ohio’s death penalty law taking effect, elected officials who initiated it are fighting for its repeal. 20+ former lawmakers sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging them to pass SB 133 and abolish capital punishment in Ohio. ⚖️
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"Spanish remains my language for alarm and stress, and this is a moment for both." Excellent and moving piece by Carlos Lozado about language, belonging, and what the Constitution should be doing for us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
Opinion | You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
"Spanish remains my language for alarm and stress, and this is a moment for both." Excellent and moving piece by Carlos Lozado about language, belonging, and what the Constitution should be doing for us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
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No Kings in Lansing, MI!
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
No Kings in Lansing, MI!
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UVA has rejected the compact! And on the heels of a 1000 person rally today. When we organize we win!!!
First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
October 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
UVA has rejected the compact! And on the heels of a 1000 person rally today. When we organize we win!!!
First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
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Jairo Fúnez is a professor of curriculum studies at Texas Tech University. He was suspended after a campaign by rightwing media & a weaponized Title VI complaint over private social media posts. He received overwhelming outside support, offering key lessons on collective organizing & solidarity.
October 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Jairo Fúnez is a professor of curriculum studies at Texas Tech University. He was suspended after a campaign by rightwing media & a weaponized Title VI complaint over private social media posts. He received overwhelming outside support, offering key lessons on collective organizing & solidarity.
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That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
October 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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In town near me, a 13 yo was abducted by ICE and sent to a facility in Virginia. He is sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum sheet for a blanket, and is being held with adults. He calls his mother crying. I can’t imagine how traumatized this child is. 1/
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
In town near me, a 13 yo was abducted by ICE and sent to a facility in Virginia. He is sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum sheet for a blanket, and is being held with adults. He calls his mother crying. I can’t imagine how traumatized this child is. 1/
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” would let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our colleges and universities. We must demand that our schools reject the regime’s blackmail attempts by committing to uphold freedom of speech and provide an affordable, safe education for all. 👇
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
actionnetwork.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” would let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our colleges and universities. We must demand that our schools reject the regime’s blackmail attempts by committing to uphold freedom of speech and provide an affordable, safe education for all. 👇
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Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd
October 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd
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Glad to see we’re united against the “compact.” For one, I love USC’s cosmopolitanism. I’m proud to have directed dissertations by students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S., and every term I love having awesome students from China, India, and many other places. Fight on!
Faculty called for USC to ‘promptly reject’ Trump compact - Daily Trojan
The Academic Senate called a special meeting Monday for faculty to provide input on the demands.
dailytrojan.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Glad to see we’re united against the “compact.” For one, I love USC’s cosmopolitanism. I’m proud to have directed dissertations by students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S., and every term I love having awesome students from China, India, and many other places. Fight on!
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"The federal government should not, under any circumstances, dictate who goes to college, what can be researched, or learned, and what can or can’t be the subject of critical academic inquiry." - AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social
AAUP’s Wolfson and AFT’s Weingarten on Trump’s Loyalty Pledge for Colleges and Universities
WASHINGTON—AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement slamming the Trump administration’s ideological litmus test for higher education. The two affil...
www.aft.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"The federal government should not, under any circumstances, dictate who goes to college, what can be researched, or learned, and what can or can’t be the subject of critical academic inquiry." - AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social
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This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”
“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.
— Judge William G. Young
#AAUPvRubio
“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.
— Judge William G. Young
#AAUPvRubio
Opinion
knightcolumbia.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”
“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.
— Judge William G. Young
#AAUPvRubio
“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.
— Judge William G. Young
#AAUPvRubio
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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“What’s so striking here...is that this is allegedly all about antisemitism, & almost nothing in the demand letter is actually about addressing antisemitism nor does it even reference or discuss all the things that universities have done to address alleged antisemitism.”
Groups sue administration over funding freeze at University of California
A coalition of groups representing faculty members, students and staff members at UC campuses are challenging frozen federal research funding at UCLA and other federal actions.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“What’s so striking here...is that this is allegedly all about antisemitism, & almost nothing in the demand letter is actually about addressing antisemitism nor does it even reference or discuss all the things that universities have done to address alleged antisemitism.”
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The #Ohio Democrats' proposed maps are very impressive
They follow all aspects of our state Constitution (novel concept) but would also create districts that are ACTUALLY FLIPPABLE by BOTH PARTIES!
We could hold our legislators accountable! 🥹
Read more: ohiohouse.gov/news/democra...
They follow all aspects of our state Constitution (novel concept) but would also create districts that are ACTUALLY FLIPPABLE by BOTH PARTIES!
We could hold our legislators accountable! 🥹
Read more: ohiohouse.gov/news/democra...
Want to testify for fair, legal district maps for #Ohio?
Testimony template: bit.ly/4nHympW
Testimony must be uploaded to this website by SUNDAY 9/21 at 11:00 am: redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov/meetings
Get updates from the committee: redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov/meetings/mai...
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Testimony template: bit.ly/4nHympW
Testimony must be uploaded to this website by SUNDAY 9/21 at 11:00 am: redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov/meetings
Get updates from the committee: redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov/meetings/mai...
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September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The #Ohio Democrats' proposed maps are very impressive
They follow all aspects of our state Constitution (novel concept) but would also create districts that are ACTUALLY FLIPPABLE by BOTH PARTIES!
We could hold our legislators accountable! 🥹
Read more: ohiohouse.gov/news/democra...
They follow all aspects of our state Constitution (novel concept) but would also create districts that are ACTUALLY FLIPPABLE by BOTH PARTIES!
We could hold our legislators accountable! 🥹
Read more: ohiohouse.gov/news/democra...
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VICTORY: The City of Chicago, represented by Everytown Law and co-counsel, will proceed to discovery in its case against Glock. Glock has been selling pistols that are especially easy to convert into illegal machine guns for decades. This is a major step forward in holding Glock accountable.
In Major Victory for Public Safety, Chicago Lawsuit Seeking to Hold Glock Accountable For Sale and Marketing of Pistols That Are Easily Converted Into Machine Guns Proceeds to Discovery
From 2021 Through May 2024, over 1,300 Glocks Modified into Machine Guns Were Recovered by the Chicago Police Department CHICAGO – The City of Chicago, represented by the Chicago Department …
everytownlaw.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
VICTORY: The City of Chicago, represented by Everytown Law and co-counsel, will proceed to discovery in its case against Glock. Glock has been selling pistols that are especially easy to convert into illegal machine guns for decades. This is a major step forward in holding Glock accountable.