Shakti Castro
@shakticastro.bsky.social
PhD candidate in history. Wise Latina. Mama.
I write and think about Puerto Ricans, drugs, harm reduction, public health, and public history.
I write and think about Puerto Ricans, drugs, harm reduction, public health, and public history.
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Shakti Castro
@shakticastro.bsky.social
· Nov 16
One of those about me posts for new followers: I'm a Bronx Boricua, (public) historian, and harm reductionist. Dissertating' at Columbia U on the history of Puerto Rican harm reduction and AIDS activism in NYC. Single mama. Sci-fi nerd.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
Will someone in history or another social science share their teaching statement with me? I'm struggling a bit to wrap my mind around it as I write one for job apps.
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Will someone in history or another social science share their teaching statement with me? I'm struggling a bit to wrap my mind around it as I write one for job apps.
Real Duterte-level BS here.
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
October 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Real Duterte-level BS here.
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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.
Please Use it and SHARE!
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October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Honestly, the way these criminal wackadoos are behaving, they must know doomsday is coming. They're definitely treating this planet like they got another one to go to.
October 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Honestly, the way these criminal wackadoos are behaving, they must know doomsday is coming. They're definitely treating this planet like they got another one to go to.
Brian Purnell and Ansley Erickson gave great presentations on their panel New Histories of New York #uha2025LA
October 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Brian Purnell and Ansley Erickson gave great presentations on their panel New Histories of New York #uha2025LA
#uha2025LA was a wonderful conference. Was so glad to see Latinx history centered in a non-ethnic studies conference setting. Many kudos to @aksandovalstrausz.bsky.social Daniela Sheinin and the programming and local arrangements committees for their amazing work!
October 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#uha2025LA was a wonderful conference. Was so glad to see Latinx history centered in a non-ethnic studies conference setting. Many kudos to @aksandovalstrausz.bsky.social Daniela Sheinin and the programming and local arrangements committees for their amazing work!
Bumping this
With the solemn acknowledgment that the world is indeed on fire, would anyone have a good spreadsheet template for tracking job and post-doc applications?
July 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Bumping this
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A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
July 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
With the solemn acknowledgment that the world is indeed on fire, would anyone have a good spreadsheet template for tracking job and post-doc applications?
July 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
With the solemn acknowledgment that the world is indeed on fire, would anyone have a good spreadsheet template for tracking job and post-doc applications?
I'm so embarrassed to still be a registered Democrat.
Opinion: The debate over transgender rights is a liability for Democrats. Here’s how to neutralize it, writes @thirdway.bsky.social think tank co-founder Jonathan Cowan.
Opinion | The Debate Over Transgender Rights Is a Liability for Democrats. Here’s How to Neutralize It.
It’s time for real discussion, dissent and debate, without fear of being canceled.
www.politico.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I'm so embarrassed to still be a registered Democrat.
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I joked a few weeks ago that Columbia’s initial concessions meant that Trump had acquired a university. I do not want to have been right. But…
Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...
Columbia University may have signed its own death notice.
YouTube video by Katherine Franke
youtube.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I joked a few weeks ago that Columbia’s initial concessions meant that Trump had acquired a university. I do not want to have been right. But…
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Although this letter is not an official statement by the Columbia History Department, it was signed by 41 members of the department.
March 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Although this letter is not an official statement by the Columbia History Department, it was signed by 41 members of the department.
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
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Dems stood by and did nothing while a Black man was forcibly ejected from the chamber. What a fucking shock. Pathetic cowards.
March 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Dems stood by and did nothing while a Black man was forcibly ejected from the chamber. What a fucking shock. Pathetic cowards.
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#OTD on January 28, 1918, Texas Rangers massacred fifteen men and boys at the village of Porvenir, Texas, in what is perhaps the single most notorious and consequential event in the history of the Ranger Force. /1
January 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#OTD on January 28, 1918, Texas Rangers massacred fifteen men and boys at the village of Porvenir, Texas, in what is perhaps the single most notorious and consequential event in the history of the Ranger Force. /1
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Follow Bronx Móvil on Bluesky: Harm reduction must be 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and culturally and linguistically centered.
Siga a Bronx Móvil en Bluesky: La reducción de daños debe realizarse las 24 horas del día y los 7 días de la semana, y centrarse cultural y lingüísticamente.
Siga a Bronx Móvil en Bluesky: La reducción de daños debe realizarse las 24 horas del día y los 7 días de la semana, y centrarse cultural y lingüísticamente.
January 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Follow Bronx Móvil on Bluesky: Harm reduction must be 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and culturally and linguistically centered.
Siga a Bronx Móvil en Bluesky: La reducción de daños debe realizarse las 24 horas del día y los 7 días de la semana, y centrarse cultural y lingüísticamente.
Siga a Bronx Móvil en Bluesky: La reducción de daños debe realizarse las 24 horas del día y los 7 días de la semana, y centrarse cultural y lingüísticamente.
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“What does it mean to be the one who remembers?” asks Ted Kerr in Feminist Formations
What do we mean when we say ‘archives,’ and how do those archives relate to the future of BIPOC world-making, HIV/AIDS movements, and others?
Read free thru 16 Feb
https://ow.ly/WwZ450Qv12T
What do we mean when we say ‘archives,’ and how do those archives relate to the future of BIPOC world-making, HIV/AIDS movements, and others?
Read free thru 16 Feb
https://ow.ly/WwZ450Qv12T
January 29, 2024 at 6:16 PM
“What does it mean to be the one who remembers?” asks Ted Kerr in Feminist Formations
What do we mean when we say ‘archives,’ and how do those archives relate to the future of BIPOC world-making, HIV/AIDS movements, and others?
Read free thru 16 Feb
https://ow.ly/WwZ450Qv12T
What do we mean when we say ‘archives,’ and how do those archives relate to the future of BIPOC world-making, HIV/AIDS movements, and others?
Read free thru 16 Feb
https://ow.ly/WwZ450Qv12T
Is that the mayonesa McDonald's dude working in the kitchen in the Debí Tirar Mas Fotos short film!?
January 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Is that the mayonesa McDonald's dude working in the kitchen in the Debí Tirar Mas Fotos short film!?
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A tourist set fire to four local establishments in Cabo Rojo, PR, and was allowed to fly back home to Missouri as if nothing happened? eldiariony.com/2025/01/04/c...
Concejal de Missouri envía carta a empleadores de turista sospechosa de quemar cuatro negocios en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico - El Diario NY
Los hechos se reportaron el 2 de enero luego de que los propietarios de uno de los establecimientos negaran servirle más bebidas a la mujer que estaba borracha
eldiariony.com
January 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
A tourist set fire to four local establishments in Cabo Rojo, PR, and was allowed to fly back home to Missouri as if nothing happened? eldiariony.com/2025/01/04/c...
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The #AHA25 Exhibit Hall is now open! If your book is on sale here, take a selfie with it, mention the booth where your fellow historians can find it, and we will repost it!
January 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The #AHA25 Exhibit Hall is now open! If your book is on sale here, take a selfie with it, mention the booth where your fellow historians can find it, and we will repost it!
Me on this express bus to #AHA25 because the MTA Might Take Awhile.
a woman wearing a cat ear headband and a purple jacket is saying fancy
ALT: a woman wearing a cat ear headband and a purple jacket is saying fancy
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January 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Me on this express bus to #AHA25 because the MTA Might Take Awhile.
I need to brainstorm with fellow historians because this dissertation is kicking my butt.
December 19, 2024 at 4:39 AM
I need to brainstorm with fellow historians because this dissertation is kicking my butt.