2024 was a bear of a year. So grateful to be awarded the Mellon—especially along with some of my fave historians and theorists. What a cohort! Thank you all for your continuing support and encouragement. Whoa hoa! 🥳 citizensandscholars.org/2025-mellon-...

It’s all happening

So excited to be part of this special issue of The Moving Image—¡that loteria cover!

Available on those academic databases, or feel free to DM me for a copy. I loved writing about my collaborators and the cultural workers I admire so much.

This semester in my Social Movements class, I’ll be teaching using the volume dedicated to Tam Tran and Cinthya Felix, who we lost 15 years ago. Miss Tam terribly and also so very grateful for her enduring work. #StillDREAMing

This brilliance shared in the opening pages of Nikky Finney‘s Head Off & Split. These poems have nourished me and helped to ensure my survival. I take my instructions from poets. nikkyfinney.net/headoff.html

outward hound

Five years in, channeling all of my deep sadness, disappointment, and anger into a little poem I’m calling “All the Maskless Radicals.” Or maybe “Barefaced Revolutionaries.” Or perhaps “Eugenic Organizing.”

another morning of—
I can do my job, or I can do email.

one of each?

sunset kid

autumnal mode activated

november summer

queen of the november tomatoes

Absolutely serious and joyfully sweet day @latinxpoplabut.bsky.social. So grateful to @professorlatinx.bsky.social f/the welcome into this nurturing collaborative space. Learning f/students & colleagues is the best thing about this life path… oh, and all you can eat breakfast tacos… 🌮#latinxpoplabut

inaugurating with the kid on our favorite Haw River bridge