Draft: I love being Cherokee because of the political and cultural resilience of our people. I love knowing that I am what I am because of our grounded history and shared future.

Need to figure out how to respond because it’s for the students. Halp?

Fun fact: the art the NY Post used for the illustration of Mamdani is from a 1962 Soviet poster: Glory! to the Soviet People, the Pioneers of Space! by Vadim Volikov.

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She was a fierce advocate and ally, accomplice and conspirator. A brilliant kind scholar of the most humble kind. I’m sending a ranchera your way Deb.

My first book was published in the series she edited at SUNY Press and I wouldn’t have gotten tenure without her.

I remember she ended a talk at LASA in Klingon. Full throated and joyous.

We did theater workshops together, and I remember when we wrestled fervently, barefoot on the grass, to exhaustion, as if the world depended on it, as part of a theater game.

We worked together when I collaborated with La Poderosa Media Project, a community based arts program in Ecuador.

I met Deb at UT Austin, for the grad student conference we organized, around 2010. At the dinner she refused to sit with the faculty, but wanted to be with the students all night.