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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
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Profe caribeña.
Things took a turn very quickly. Both are within days of each other.
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I dream of spending a weekend in a cabin, snow falling outside, reading a book for PLEASURE, without worrying about the state of things (and my book). Not happening in 2025.
October 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Now's the time to save up on all those fabulous @dukepress.bsky.social books with their Fall Sale. Just key in the code Fall25 upon check out and bob's your uncle.

My book might be on sale too. Just, erm, leaving that there...

www.dukeupress.edu/fall-2025-on...
October 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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BREAKING: Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl 60 halftime show, Apple Music announced during halftime of “Sunday Night Football.”
Bad Bunny will headline Super Bowl 60 halftime show
His most recent album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (I Should Have Taken More Photos), debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 when it released in January.
nbcnews.to
September 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
When people run in circles…
September 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Where is the plan?
September 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Man, I did not want to live through this.
The UK, France, and Germany have warned Russia that NATO would shoot down jets if its airspace is violated again. Russia replied it already sees itself in a military conflict with Europe.
September 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I see a lot of diagnosing, but no prognosis.
September 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Homesick," by Nicholas Shapiro, which examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change. #EnvStudies #FEMA buff.ly/YDhRXx0
September 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
September 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15-October 15. Check out our latest titles in Latinx studies including work by @emmaamador.bsky.social, @maiagiladi.bsky.social, @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social, & @arlenedavila.bsky.social.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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@aaup.org has prepared materials for faculty who face these threats and harassment. 6/ www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
Targeted Harassment of Faculty
The AAUP has developed a toolkit to address the threat of targeted harassment of faculty.
www.aaup.org
September 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Out 4/21/26!!!

Can’t wait for this to be out in the world.
The placeholder for "Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies," which I'm co-editing with @santiaaurora.bsky.social is live in the @dukepress.bsky.social website!!!

So excited to be in dialogue with so many incredible Puerto Rican scholars.

www.dukeupress.edu/interrogatin...
Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies
www.dukeupress.edu
September 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Puerto Rico is being used for military exercises and of course both mainstream and independent media isn’t reporting. The colony remains invisible.
September 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
For later (maybe).
Umberto Eco’s enduringly popular manual “How to Write a Thesis” is more than a guide for undergraduates; the book is a celebration of the magical process of self-realization.
A Guide to Thesis Writing and a Guide to Life
Writing and research manuals like Umberto Eco’s “How to Write a Thesis” offer a vision of our best selves, Hua Hsu wrote, in 2015.
www.newyorker.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Insurgent Visions" by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, presenting insurgent feminism—a theory and praxis with which to replace violence grounded in gender relations and radically transform everyday life. #FeministTheory #Activism buff.ly/6yWvrna
September 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The words of bell hooks are as relevant now as they were in the 80s.
September 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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¡HOY, EL MUERTO PARAO con Luis Javier Cintrón Gutiérrez y Jossianna Arroyo! Allí estaré. 7:00pm Casa Norberto • Libros & Cafébar, Plaza Las Américas, San Juan, PR.
August 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Opening day!
📢OPENING DAY: cuestiones caribeñas/caribbean matters: assemblage and sculpture by pablo delano

Exhibition co-curators and UW–Madison faculty Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and Aurora Santiago Ortiz give a brief overview!

¡Vuelve mañana para la versión español!

More information: https://loom.ly/Vsx87A8
August 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Missing the ocean. Having water near is necessary.
August 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM