Nahir I. Otaño Gracia
@nahir.bsky.social
Interested in Medieval Literature, especially all things Arthur related, also a Boricua.
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The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)
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Let's build pressure AND community. Let's start with stickers!
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Let's build pressure AND community. Let's start with stickers!
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
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We've been asking the MAA to divest since 2024. Their response was to strip power from the advocacy committee, create extensive policies to control their advocacy and change their rules so that they "only consider requests" from current members and leadership of peer professional societies.
MfP urges @medievalacademy.bsky.social to divest. Read our open letter here tinyurl.com/ynxuk8b4
MAA Divestment Letter, Final.pdf
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November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We've been asking the MAA to divest since 2024. Their response was to strip power from the advocacy committee, create extensive policies to control their advocacy and change their rules so that they "only consider requests" from current members and leadership of peer professional societies.
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For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
October 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
October 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
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“Gaza is home because our memories are etched into every street, & Gazans are the heartbeat of the city.”
Gaza once held our stories. Now we carry its memories, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi vows. “[We will] breathe new life into her again.”
Gaza once held our stories. Now we carry its memories, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi vows. “[We will] breathe new life into her again.”
Gaza once held our stories. Now we carry its memories.
Israel has demolished every corner of Gaza, but we are rebuilding our homes in our minds
prismreports.org
October 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“Gaza is home because our memories are etched into every street, & Gazans are the heartbeat of the city.”
Gaza once held our stories. Now we carry its memories, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi vows. “[We will] breathe new life into her again.”
Gaza once held our stories. Now we carry its memories, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi vows. “[We will] breathe new life into her again.”
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Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
This amazing artist is being forced to pay $32000 to the state of CA for putting her art out on display and making people happy.
She's selling stickers and posters to pay this bogus charge. Get yourself some happy stickers and support this amazing artist!
ko-fi.com/ctshrm
She's selling stickers and posters to pay this bogus charge. Get yourself some happy stickers and support this amazing artist!
ko-fi.com/ctshrm
Support happy catshrooms
Support happy catshrooms
ko-fi.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This amazing artist is being forced to pay $32000 to the state of CA for putting her art out on display and making people happy.
She's selling stickers and posters to pay this bogus charge. Get yourself some happy stickers and support this amazing artist!
ko-fi.com/ctshrm
She's selling stickers and posters to pay this bogus charge. Get yourself some happy stickers and support this amazing artist!
ko-fi.com/ctshrm
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Indonesia is denying Israeli athletes entrance visas, which will prevent them from keeping in the world gymnastics championships.
This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like.
apnews.com/article/indo...
This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like.
apnews.com/article/indo...
October 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Indonesia is denying Israeli athletes entrance visas, which will prevent them from keeping in the world gymnastics championships.
This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like.
apnews.com/article/indo...
This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like.
apnews.com/article/indo...
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Two new FTP resources that were shared this evening:
1. Friends of the Library 101 - www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo... - created by FTP volunteers and designed by FTP steering committee member @kruttika.bsky.social - learn about from Friends of the Library groups are and do.
1. Friends of the Library 101 - www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo... - created by FTP volunteers and designed by FTP steering committee member @kruttika.bsky.social - learn about from Friends of the Library groups are and do.
Resources — For The People
www.librariesforthepeople.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Two new FTP resources that were shared this evening:
1. Friends of the Library 101 - www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo... - created by FTP volunteers and designed by FTP steering committee member @kruttika.bsky.social - learn about from Friends of the Library groups are and do.
1. Friends of the Library 101 - www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo... - created by FTP volunteers and designed by FTP steering committee member @kruttika.bsky.social - learn about from Friends of the Library groups are and do.
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Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck
Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs
A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck
Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs
A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck
Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs
A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck
Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs
A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity
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I have a google sheets document with 590 songs that was compiled by a teacher for learning Spanish
Music is the easiest way for me to learn a language especially Spanish.
Music is the easiest way for me to learn a language especially Spanish.
October 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I have a google sheets document with 590 songs that was compiled by a teacher for learning Spanish
Music is the easiest way for me to learn a language especially Spanish.
Music is the easiest way for me to learn a language especially Spanish.
Check it out!
Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
September 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Check it out!
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Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
September 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
September 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
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Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The Speculative Detective Agency
A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases
www.kickstarter.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
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This looks great!! Pay authors and artists! Read stories! Solve/Do Crimes!
Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The Speculative Detective Agency
A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases
www.kickstarter.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This looks great!! Pay authors and artists! Read stories! Solve/Do Crimes!
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This looks fantastic!
Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The Speculative Detective Agency
A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases
www.kickstarter.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This looks fantastic!
Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The Speculative Detective Agency
A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases
www.kickstarter.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative.
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
Please share widely
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Trump wants the Department of Defense to go back to its old name the “Department of War.” Did you know that beginning in 1789, the Secretary of War managed all tribal relations and in 1822 established the Bureau of Indian Affairs within the War Department.
September 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Trump wants the Department of Defense to go back to its old name the “Department of War.” Did you know that beginning in 1789, the Secretary of War managed all tribal relations and in 1822 established the Bureau of Indian Affairs within the War Department.
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Just give Alexandra Petrie a Pulitzer already. "Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow."
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.
www.theatlantic.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just give Alexandra Petrie a Pulitzer already. "Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow."
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I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please.
The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
August 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please.
The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
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Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable scope and scale with ICE planning to double its detention capacity by the end of this year to detain nearly 110,000 people. Texas alone will have the capacity to detain at least 37,000 people.
A Closer Look at Trump’s Shocking Immigration Detention Expansion Plans
Washington, DC — Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable scope and scale. Last week, a Washington Post report revealed what advocates have been callin...
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org
August 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable scope and scale with ICE planning to double its detention capacity by the end of this year to detain nearly 110,000 people. Texas alone will have the capacity to detain at least 37,000 people.
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I was on Global News in Toronto today talking about why athletic boycott of Israel is necessary.
Spoiler: it is because they are committing genocide.
globalnews.ca/video/113458...
Spoiler: it is because they are committing genocide.
globalnews.ca/video/113458...
Calls to bar Israel from tennis tournament in Halifax | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Calls to bar Israel from tennis tournament in Halifax Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
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August 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I was on Global News in Toronto today talking about why athletic boycott of Israel is necessary.
Spoiler: it is because they are committing genocide.
globalnews.ca/video/113458...
Spoiler: it is because they are committing genocide.
globalnews.ca/video/113458...
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"Medieval studies need instead to move politically to a place of radicality, one that would, unlike liberalism, align itself coherently with the work of dismantling the violent and unjust structures in which we think, work, and live."
Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!
Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!
IRRECOVERY — Arthuriana
Archival and critical projects referred to as ‘recovery’ allow scholars to make heard the voices of those historically inaudible and marginalized. When discourses of representation, centers and margin...
www.arthuriana.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"Medieval studies need instead to move politically to a place of radicality, one that would, unlike liberalism, align itself coherently with the work of dismantling the violent and unjust structures in which we think, work, and live."
Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!
Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!