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Larry La Fountain
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Professor at the University of Michigan. Author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (2021) + Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Coeditor Keywords for Latina/o Studies. On sabbatical this year. 🇵🇷 🌈
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Miércoles, 5 de noviembre
2:30-4:00pm
Sala Conferencia 2, Centro Universitario, UPR

Presentación del libro I Am My Own Path
(traducción de poemas de Julia de Burgos)

Ed. Vanessa Perez-Rosario, con Zaira Rivera Casellas, María Consuelo Sáez Burgos, María Soledad Sáez Matos y Larry La Fountain.
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture: Disaster Nation by María Acosta Cruz.

En este libro la autora ofrece un análisis ecocrítico sobre la historia y cultura puertorriqueña desde los taínos hasta hoy en día, analizando desastres climáticos.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Programa de Actividades, Feria Internacional del Libro de Río Piedras UPR, FIL RÍO 2025. Del 3 al 8 de noviembre. #FILRIO2025 www.uprrp.edu/FILRio2025
October 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Estaré participando en varios eventos durante la Feria Internacional del Libro - Río Piedras UPR #FILRIO2025 en la UPR, Río Piedras.

Miércoles, 5 de noviembre | 4:00- 5:30 PM | Sala del Consejo de Estudiantes, Centro Universitario | Presentación magistral Cuentos completos de Manuel Ramos Otero.
October 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Estaré participando en varios eventos durante la Feria Internacional del Libro - Río Piedras UPR #FILRIO2025, que será del 3 al 8 de noviembre de 2025 en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras y en el casco urbano de Río Piedras.

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October 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Estaré participando de este evento en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico junto a Marielba Torres Muñoz el jueves 6 de noviembre a las 6:30pm. ¡Vengan! El catálogo (que es en dos tomos) está precioso.

6.NOV.25
6:30 PM
Patio Interior, MAC
Entrada libre de costo
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Penny Stamps Speaker Series Presents:
Narsiso Martinez: Field Work, Art, and Labor in America
stamps.umich.edu/events/narsi...

Thursday, November 13, 2025
5:30 pm

Michigan Theater
603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Open to the public
Free of charge
October 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Este próximo sábado, 1 de noviembre, La Trinchera celebrará una década de trabajo escénico y colaborativo con #Antrolux, una noche multidisciplinaria que incluirá elementos de performance, instalación y música.

HORA: 9:00pm (puertas 8:00pm)
LUGAR: Teatro Paradise, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Presentación de la novela "Con llanto de cocodrilo" de Melanie Pérez Ortiz el 4 de noviembre a las 7:00pm en la Librería Mágica de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, a cargo de Sofía Irene Cardona. Publicada por Elefanta Editorial de México.
October 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center launch of Ken Chitwood's new book Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam (@utexaspress.bsky.social, 2025)

RSVP: myumi.ch/z9y1R
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
UMMA Museum of Art - Multipurpose Room
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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NWSA Presidential Session

"55 Years Later: Honoring the Transgressive and Worldmaking Legacy of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson's STAR"

Friday, November 14th, 2025 at 1:00pm
With @roqueraquel.bsky.social, Dr. Julian Kevon Kamilah Glover, @larrylafountain.bsky.social and @mtheleon.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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¡Muchas felicidades a Juan Otero Garabís por la próxima publicación de su libro SABERES SALSEROS: ENSAYOS EN CLAVE con la Editora Educacion Emergente! #LiberaTuLectura
October 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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¡Release party de Ejnúa de Alegría Rampante el 14 de noviembre en Abracadabra Counter Cafe en Santurce! Es a las 7:00pm.
October 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Review by Felipe Hinojosa @fhinojosa956.bsky.social of Laura C. Chávez-Moreno’s How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025) in Latinx Talk. @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social

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October 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Presentación del libro Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico: Taínos to Beauty Queens por José Blanco F. (Associate Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY) y Raúl J. Vázquez-López (Independent Researcher), Bloomsbury Academic (2025).
October 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico: Taínos to Beauty Queens by José Blanco F. (Associate Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY) and Raúl J. Vázquez-López (Independent Researcher), published by Bloomsbury Academic (2025). www.bloomsbury.com/us/dress-fas...
October 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Emilio Rodriguez, Artistic Director of Black and Brown Theatre in Detroit, will present a free concert reading of his new musical Salomé at Theatre Nova in Ann Arbor.

Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Time: 7:00pm
Address: 410 W Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48103
October 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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TODAY: TELLING AND ARCHIVING OUR STORIES -
INTERROGATING THE FIELD OF PUERTO RICAN STUDIES

Online Puerto Rican Studies Association Symposium
Friday, October 10, 2025, online

TO REGISTER (RSVP):
tinyurl.com/PRSA25
PANELS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
October 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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TODAY AT 4:00 PM
October 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Tropical Precarity: Contemporary Dance and Performance in Puerto Rico
Film Screening & Panel Discussion
WEDNESDAY, OCT 8 4:30-6:30 PM
THURSDAY, OCT 9 4:00-6:00 PM
Funded by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research and the Arts Initiative.
lsa.umich.edu/ac/news-even...
October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Fallece Javier Santiago, fundador de la Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular. El historiador nacido en San Juan dedicó casi tres décadas de su vida a la difusión de la música, las letras y las tradiciones populares de Puerto Rico.

www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimie...
October 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Online Puerto Rican Studies Association Symposium, Friday, October 10, 2025, online.

NARRANDO Y ARCHIVANDO NUESTRAS HISTORIAS: INTERROGANDO EL CAMPO DE LOS ESTUDIOS PUERTORRIQUEÑOS

TO REGISTER (RSVP):
tinyurl.com/PRSA25
PANELS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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MARSHA P. JOHNSON, TRANSLOCA
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame seeks a tenure-track assistant professor who specializes in Afro Latin America. joblist.mla.org/job/2000392/...
September 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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patería/ makoumé/ kambrada/ friend & family
A SMALL AXE @smallaxeproject.bsky.social VIDEO

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Krystal Ghisyawan
@julianisenia.bsky.social
@larrylafountain.bsky.social

Moderated by
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September 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM