Paloma Checa-Gismero
@palomacg.bsky.social
Modern and contemporary art historian at Swarthmore College. Author of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (Duke, 2024).
www.palomachecagismero.com
www.palomachecagismero.com
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You can now buy my book BIENNIAL BOOM: MAKING CONTEMPORARY ART GLOBAL with a 40% discount using the code FALL24 at @dukepress.bsky.social fall sale
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Swarthmore faculty: Join us on Nov. 19 at 4:15pm.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Swarthmore faculty: Join us on Nov. 19 at 4:15pm.
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
oh god the micromanaging mid level admin emo
September 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
oh god the micromanaging mid level admin emo
what pill can I swallow to have all the institutional knowledge needed to create a position for a student without having to go through the million meetings with hr?
September 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
what pill can I swallow to have all the institutional knowledge needed to create a position for a student without having to go through the million meetings with hr?
first day of classes, back into an almost empty building. it's just the philosophers and the art historians left to our own devices inside the only campus building that hasn't been touched in decades. the medium is the message! #AcademicSky
September 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
first day of classes, back into an almost empty building. it's just the philosophers and the art historians left to our own devices inside the only campus building that hasn't been touched in decades. the medium is the message! #AcademicSky
The Vow, the documentary series on NXIVM, is the best account of Trump world
September 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Vow, the documentary series on NXIVM, is the best account of Trump world
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So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
dogetrack.info
May 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
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The time between fucking around and finding out for messing with the climate and environment is long, and attribution is sometimes difficult. So conservative politicians have gotten away with appointing imbeciles to positions of power in these areas. However, no such luck for them in public health.
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The time between fucking around and finding out for messing with the climate and environment is long, and attribution is sometimes difficult. So conservative politicians have gotten away with appointing imbeciles to positions of power in these areas. However, no such luck for them in public health.
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This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
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This week’s actions are the latest in a pattern showing RFK Jr. disregard for science, public health, and the federal workers who keep this country safe from multiple health threats.
Nurses demand he resign or be fired immediately as head of HHS.
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
Nurses demand he resign or be fired immediately as head of HHS.
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
Nation’s largest RN union: Time for DHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go
the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of He...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
August 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This week’s actions are the latest in a pattern showing RFK Jr. disregard for science, public health, and the federal workers who keep this country safe from multiple health threats.
Nurses demand he resign or be fired immediately as head of HHS.
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
Nurses demand he resign or be fired immediately as head of HHS.
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
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Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
August 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
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“What is our responsibility at this moment, as artists, activists, as revolutionaries? Is it to create things that are pretty and can sell? Or is it to delve deep into our value system and create work that challenges people to believe that a different world is possible?” —Miami artist Agua Dulce
With Cafecito Cups and Direct Action, Miami Artists Rise Against “Alligator Alcatraz”
As the notorious detention center faces legal setbacks, an exhibition in Little Havana underscores the need to keep resisting.
hyperallergic.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“What is our responsibility at this moment, as artists, activists, as revolutionaries? Is it to create things that are pretty and can sell? Or is it to delve deep into our value system and create work that challenges people to believe that a different world is possible?” —Miami artist Agua Dulce
disgusting
The daily expense of deploying troops to D.C. is more than five times the cost of operating public housing for Nevada's unhoused population.
Commentary:
Commentary:
Trump's invasion of D.C. costs over $1 million a day. What could that fund instead? • Nevada Current
President Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of restoring security in the nation’s capital — despite D.C.’s crime rate being at a 30-year low. What began as a deployment of 800 D....
nevadacurrent.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
disgusting
As this baby turns one year old, I'm excited to be back in @bsky.app after my much enjoyed human baby-induced hiatus.
Excited to meet/reconnect with cool folks in arts/academia/criticism/et al as the world continues to burn
@dukepress.bsky.social
www.dukeupress.edu/biennial-boom
Excited to meet/reconnect with cool folks in arts/academia/criticism/et al as the world continues to burn
@dukepress.bsky.social
www.dukeupress.edu/biennial-boom
August 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
As this baby turns one year old, I'm excited to be back in @bsky.app after my much enjoyed human baby-induced hiatus.
Excited to meet/reconnect with cool folks in arts/academia/criticism/et al as the world continues to burn
@dukepress.bsky.social
www.dukeupress.edu/biennial-boom
Excited to meet/reconnect with cool folks in arts/academia/criticism/et al as the world continues to burn
@dukepress.bsky.social
www.dukeupress.edu/biennial-boom
This is not just disastrous on the short term, but one sad shortsighted effect of Harrisburg's ineptitude that will have long term impact on Philly's life. Public transit makes healthy social life, cleaner air, and happy pockets.
Commuters and students in Philadelphia braced for longer travel times and more crowded trains and buses on Monday, after the region's mass transit agency said it had cut its bus and train services by 20% as a result of a budget shortfall.
Philadelphia Transit Cuts Take Hold, and Commuters Begin to Feel the Pain
A budget shortfall has led the city’s transit authority to cut its bus and rail services by 20 percent.
nyti.ms
August 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is not just disastrous on the short term, but one sad shortsighted effect of Harrisburg's ineptitude that will have long term impact on Philly's life. Public transit makes healthy social life, cleaner air, and happy pockets.
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I'm honored to be publishing my essay "Aesthetic Conversions at the Borderlands" today, in this special issue of LASA Forum: Borderlands 2.0. Las nuevas fronteras.
forum.lasaweb.org/articles/56-...
forum.lasaweb.org/articles/56-...
Aesthetic Conversions at the Borderlands - 56:2 - LASA Forum
forum.lasaweb.org
July 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm honored to be publishing my essay "Aesthetic Conversions at the Borderlands" today, in this special issue of LASA Forum: Borderlands 2.0. Las nuevas fronteras.
forum.lasaweb.org/articles/56-...
forum.lasaweb.org/articles/56-...
for the first time seriously thinking about leaving academia. thoughts? recommendations? others who´ve done it successfully and are happy with the move?
July 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
for the first time seriously thinking about leaving academia. thoughts? recommendations? others who´ve done it successfully and are happy with the move?
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Absolutely HORRIFIC decision by UPenn. Will scrap all of Lia Thomas' wins, will adopt "biological definitions" for Title IX under Trump's order, and more.
Some of this could lead to bathroom bans at UPenn too given the admin views bathroom usage as in violation.
Some of this could lead to bathroom bans at UPenn too given the admin views bathroom usage as in violation.
BREAKING
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
July 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Absolutely HORRIFIC decision by UPenn. Will scrap all of Lia Thomas' wins, will adopt "biological definitions" for Title IX under Trump's order, and more.
Some of this could lead to bathroom bans at UPenn too given the admin views bathroom usage as in violation.
Some of this could lead to bathroom bans at UPenn too given the admin views bathroom usage as in violation.
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It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.
July 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.
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The President finds time to attend the “grand opening” of a new concentration camp on a Florida swamp, but not to attend the funeral of an assassinated Minnesota lawmaker
Never forget.
Never forget.
July 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The President finds time to attend the “grand opening” of a new concentration camp on a Florida swamp, but not to attend the funeral of an assassinated Minnesota lawmaker
Never forget.
Never forget.
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Between 1983 and 1992, the Blood Sisters hosted 12 blood drives, demonstrating sustained commitment for nearly a decade.
Read the full story here ⤵️
Read the full story here ⤵️
How a Group of Lesbians Provided Lifesaving Care During the AIDS Crisis
Amid abandonment and fear surrounding the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, a group of lesbians became a lifeline for AIDS patients.
www.teenvogue.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Between 1983 and 1992, the Blood Sisters hosted 12 blood drives, demonstrating sustained commitment for nearly a decade.
Read the full story here ⤵️
Read the full story here ⤵️
Worth a read. On the impact of endowment tax hikes in SLACs' economies --esp on financial aid and day to day operations.
www.chronicle.com/article/smal...
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Small Colleges Are Banding Together Against a Higher Endowment Tax. This Is Why.
These liberal-arts institutions rely on their endowments to fund much of their operations and financial aid.
www.chronicle.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Worth a read. On the impact of endowment tax hikes in SLACs' economies --esp on financial aid and day to day operations.
www.chronicle.com/article/smal...
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www.chronicle.com/article/smal...
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