El Norte Recuerda
@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
Twitter is literally unusable
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Twitter is literally unusable
Not that this will do anything, but I set up a resistbot petition that allows people to sign onto the letter that I wrote to my representatives, and I think it goes to your representatives too. I’m not sure how the petitions work on resistbot. resist.bot/petitions/PL...
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Not that this will do anything, but I set up a resistbot petition that allows people to sign onto the letter that I wrote to my representatives, and I think it goes to your representatives too. I’m not sure how the petitions work on resistbot. resist.bot/petitions/PL...
Well. This is the only way to watch Cronos.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Well. This is the only way to watch Cronos.
I just tearfully and excitedly posted this in a discord and a friend who worked in tech said, “$50 million? That’s it?” I had to explain to her that in the lit nonprofit world, this might as well be a billion dollars. Good news is good news, but man, maybe she’s right—this should be more.
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I just tearfully and excitedly posted this in a discord and a friend who worked in tech said, “$50 million? That’s it?” I had to explain to her that in the lit nonprofit world, this might as well be a billion dollars. Good news is good news, but man, maybe she’s right—this should be more.
I also recently learned about the Chicane educational pipeline, and how out of 100 students, only 9 will go to a four-year college, only 2 will go to grad school, and only .2 will get a doctoral degree. We are not present in knowledge production, and if we are, there is no interest in our work.
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I also recently learned about the Chicane educational pipeline, and how out of 100 students, only 9 will go to a four-year college, only 2 will go to grad school, and only .2 will get a doctoral degree. We are not present in knowledge production, and if we are, there is no interest in our work.
During Latine Heritage month, there was another TikTok where the creator talked about how much they hated Chicane literature. There was too much of a self-insert problem, it’s always about not belonging, struggle, migration trauma, never acknowledging privilege. It got over 500K likes, maybe more.
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
During Latine Heritage month, there was another TikTok where the creator talked about how much they hated Chicane literature. There was too much of a self-insert problem, it’s always about not belonging, struggle, migration trauma, never acknowledging privilege. It got over 500K likes, maybe more.
This TikTok from a Mexican academic is about the total lack of interest in Chicane lit, theory, and knowledge production in Mexico in a time of brutal state violence, surveillance, and dehumanization of Latine migrants and citizens alike. I can’t help but note—this is true in the US as well.
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This TikTok from a Mexican academic is about the total lack of interest in Chicane lit, theory, and knowledge production in Mexico in a time of brutal state violence, surveillance, and dehumanization of Latine migrants and citizens alike. I can’t help but note—this is true in the US as well.
You guys! The Sam to my Frodo, my wonderful agent, Amanda Orozco, is holding a workshop through MARGINS on Saturday, October 25th, 2025!
Use code MARGINS10 to receive a 10% discount and a free audiobook credit from Libro.fm when you register here! www.wordunbound.org/workshops/p/...
Use code MARGINS10 to receive a 10% discount and a free audiobook credit from Libro.fm when you register here! www.wordunbound.org/workshops/p/...
October 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
You guys! The Sam to my Frodo, my wonderful agent, Amanda Orozco, is holding a workshop through MARGINS on Saturday, October 25th, 2025!
Use code MARGINS10 to receive a 10% discount and a free audiobook credit from Libro.fm when you register here! www.wordunbound.org/workshops/p/...
Use code MARGINS10 to receive a 10% discount and a free audiobook credit from Libro.fm when you register here! www.wordunbound.org/workshops/p/...
I’m designing a winter workshop for Poets and Writers, so I decided to pick up some Ursula K. Le Guin craft books from my library. I was so pleased to find this little volume with none other than @davidnaimon.bsky.social talking with the GOAT!
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’m designing a winter workshop for Poets and Writers, so I decided to pick up some Ursula K. Le Guin craft books from my library. I was so pleased to find this little volume with none other than @davidnaimon.bsky.social talking with the GOAT!
Pro-Antifa is doing a few things linguistically. It is obfuscating "anti-fascism," and shortening "antifa" into a foreign-sounding word, effectively erasing "anti" and "fascist" from the concept, and made to sound scary. Put pro- in front of it, and you've got yourself a target to eradicate.
October 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pro-Antifa is doing a few things linguistically. It is obfuscating "anti-fascism," and shortening "antifa" into a foreign-sounding word, effectively erasing "anti" and "fascist" from the concept, and made to sound scary. Put pro- in front of it, and you've got yourself a target to eradicate.
It's frustrating to see people only now catching on to something I've been writing about—Palantir and Anduril, and fantasy as a site of white worldbuilding—since 2019. Here are excerpts from MAGICAL/REALISM, in the essays "The Final Boss" (1-2) and "When We All Loved a Show About a Wall" (3):
September 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's frustrating to see people only now catching on to something I've been writing about—Palantir and Anduril, and fantasy as a site of white worldbuilding—since 2019. Here are excerpts from MAGICAL/REALISM, in the essays "The Final Boss" (1-2) and "When We All Loved a Show About a Wall" (3):
Nah. The orcs and Uruk-hai were constructed from Tolkien's deep-seated anxieties toward immigrants from the West Indies infiltrating his perfect little Oxford town. Monsters and migrant anxiety are built from the same fantasy imaginary, as I wrote about in MAGICAL/REALISM (May 2024).
September 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Nah. The orcs and Uruk-hai were constructed from Tolkien's deep-seated anxieties toward immigrants from the West Indies infiltrating his perfect little Oxford town. Monsters and migrant anxiety are built from the same fantasy imaginary, as I wrote about in MAGICAL/REALISM (May 2024).
ICE gassed a school. I know the corrections are coming: “no, they gassed a neighborhood so much, it forced them to flee.” The school is in the neighborhood. They gassed the school. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
ICE gassed a school. I know the corrections are coming: “no, they gassed a neighborhood so much, it forced them to flee.” The school is in the neighborhood. They gassed the school. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history.” Y’all’s imaginations are wild
August 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history.” Y’all’s imaginations are wild
This is on WorldCon. They should screen people’s questions in advance so this doesn’t happen. If organizers do this for panels I’ve been on—me, a nobody—for someone like GRRM, this should be standard practice. Serious negligence on WorldCon’s part.
August 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is on WorldCon. They should screen people’s questions in advance so this doesn’t happen. If organizers do this for panels I’ve been on—me, a nobody—for someone like GRRM, this should be standard practice. Serious negligence on WorldCon’s part.
I will never shut up about the Freegal app omfg
July 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I will never shut up about the Freegal app omfg
I loved this book. And when I learned about its marketing campaign back in the early 2000s, I was FLOORED. They had horse and carriage deliveries of the book in WAX PAPER with a WAX SEAL
July 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I loved this book. And when I learned about its marketing campaign back in the early 2000s, I was FLOORED. They had horse and carriage deliveries of the book in WAX PAPER with a WAX SEAL
More screenshots of the Freegal and Hoopla library music streaming apps:
July 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
More screenshots of the Freegal and Hoopla library music streaming apps:
See this is why I fuck with Beyoncé heavy. All albums, singles, and remixes, free through the library. My queen. And she’s not the only one.
July 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
See this is why I fuck with Beyoncé heavy. All albums, singles, and remixes, free through the library. My queen. And she’s not the only one.
Another free music streaming app through the library is Hoopla. They have more current artists’ discographies, like Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Taylor Swift, but a smaller selection.
July 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Another free music streaming app through the library is Hoopla. They have more current artists’ discographies, like Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Taylor Swift, but a smaller selection.
They have the entire Beyoncé, Prince, Solange, Fiona Apple, and MJ discographies, and although it’s not comprehensive, they have a pretty impressive selection.
July 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
They have the entire Beyoncé, Prince, Solange, Fiona Apple, and MJ discographies, and although it’s not comprehensive, they have a pretty impressive selection.
Further proof she is stating that the entire Latino population, 65 million, is illegal.
July 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Further proof she is stating that the entire Latino population, 65 million, is illegal.
I didn’t want to use an AI Overview, but this is most certainly where she got the number from.
July 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I didn’t want to use an AI Overview, but this is most certainly where she got the number from.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.