emma velez
@protestotoro.bsky.social
Chicanx Okie | decolonial feminist philosopher 🍉 | cry bby | views my own 🫀👁️🫁🧠🦷
book project: Orienting Historias
book project: Orienting Historias
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emma velez
@protestotoro.bsky.social
· Apr 20
Finally got to meet her in person 🌊💧😭💙🩵🧿
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Juana Alicia. 2004. La Llorona’s Sacred Waters
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Juana Alicia. 2004. La Llorona’s Sacred Waters
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Last week at a daycare center in Chicago, employee Diana Santillana was violently abducted and detained by immigration agents in front of young children.
Tara Goodarzi’s three-year-old son witnessed the aftermath of the arrest.
Tara Goodarzi’s three-year-old son witnessed the aftermath of the arrest.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Last week at a daycare center in Chicago, employee Diana Santillana was violently abducted and detained by immigration agents in front of young children.
Tara Goodarzi’s three-year-old son witnessed the aftermath of the arrest.
Tara Goodarzi’s three-year-old son witnessed the aftermath of the arrest.
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A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I am forever proud to be a Clara Luper Scholar 💜✊🏽 excited to check this out next time I’m in OKC to visit fam
OKC just finished a memorial to honor the lunch counter sit-in that Clara Luper and her students did in 1958.
kfor.com/news/local/c...
kfor.com/news/local/c...
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I am forever proud to be a Clara Luper Scholar 💜✊🏽 excited to check this out next time I’m in OKC to visit fam
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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Resharing my essay on philosophy & Gendertrash from Hell in light of the reissue! blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Resharing my essay on philosophy & Gendertrash from Hell in light of the reissue! blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...
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“This is how you’re allowing them to treat the people taking care of our babies”
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“This is how you’re allowing them to treat the people taking care of our babies”
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
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just found out that Emma Goldman attended Freud’s lectures in the US and was removed for disruptive behavior and felt the need to pass it along
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
just found out that Emma Goldman attended Freud’s lectures in the US and was removed for disruptive behavior and felt the need to pass it along
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In an interview with a Palestinian asylum-seeker he told me he turned off his phone & wrapped it to avoid cyber surveillance tech, which was developed by Israel & tested on him & which has just been bought by ICE to use on Americans.
"None of us are free until all are free" is not a slogan.
"None of us are free until all are free" is not a slogan.
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
In an interview with a Palestinian asylum-seeker he told me he turned off his phone & wrapped it to avoid cyber surveillance tech, which was developed by Israel & tested on him & which has just been bought by ICE to use on Americans.
"None of us are free until all are free" is not a slogan.
"None of us are free until all are free" is not a slogan.
all power to the people ✊🏽🍎
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
all power to the people ✊🏽🍎
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Don’t ever let them tell you that hope is a bad thing, that the odds are so stacked against you that you will never win, that it is too late to change the world. What has happened today in New York can happen everywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Don’t ever let them tell you that hope is a bad thing, that the odds are so stacked against you that you will never win, that it is too late to change the world. What has happened today in New York can happen everywhere.
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Practically every day we encounter someone who still has no idea ICE shot and killed someone in Chicago already. This happened before many people tuned in (and many have already tuned out again).
Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda, or altar, that a couple of dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas González, the man shot and killed by an ICE agent in northwest suburban Franklin Park nearly two months ago.
Chicago-area man killed by ICE honored at Franklin Park Day of the Dead celebration: ‘Someone who was wanted’
Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda a couple dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas González.
trib.al
November 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Practically every day we encounter someone who still has no idea ICE shot and killed someone in Chicago already. This happened before many people tuned in (and many have already tuned out again).
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Pumpkins will be decorating porches tomorrow as we enjoy Halloween. They come to us thanks to workers like these NY state farm workers who were harvesting these heavy pumpkins last Friday in the rain. #WeFeedYou
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pumpkins will be decorating porches tomorrow as we enjoy Halloween. They come to us thanks to workers like these NY state farm workers who were harvesting these heavy pumpkins last Friday in the rain. #WeFeedYou
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"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.
August 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos.
By @eltragon.bsky.social
By @eltragon.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos.
By @eltragon.bsky.social
By @eltragon.bsky.social
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4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
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In 2024, the largest dam removal in U.S. history restored the Klamath River.
Join Grist's Anita Hofschneider and Amy Bowers Cordalis for The Water Remembers, a conversation on Indigenous environmental justice.
Register here: luma.com/6sqqd2mt
#Dams #Indigenous #Nature #Environment
Join Grist's Anita Hofschneider and Amy Bowers Cordalis for The Water Remembers, a conversation on Indigenous environmental justice.
Register here: luma.com/6sqqd2mt
#Dams #Indigenous #Nature #Environment
October 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In 2024, the largest dam removal in U.S. history restored the Klamath River.
Join Grist's Anita Hofschneider and Amy Bowers Cordalis for The Water Remembers, a conversation on Indigenous environmental justice.
Register here: luma.com/6sqqd2mt
#Dams #Indigenous #Nature #Environment
Join Grist's Anita Hofschneider and Amy Bowers Cordalis for The Water Remembers, a conversation on Indigenous environmental justice.
Register here: luma.com/6sqqd2mt
#Dams #Indigenous #Nature #Environment
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A little ray of joy for you this Sunday morning.
‘“A hundred and fifteen years that they haven’t been here, and they still have that GPS unit inside of them,” said the visibly giddy Klamath Tribal Chair William Ray, Jr. “It’s truly an awesome feat if you think about the gauntlet they had to go through.”’
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A little ray of joy for you this Sunday morning.
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Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O
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To understand that horrific Chicago apartment raid, go back in time...to Texas.
At the height of Gov. Greg Abbott’s political stunt, 12 to 15 busloads of immigrants were arriving in the city every day—about 28,000 people by late 2023, and 50,000 by late 2024.
At the height of Gov. Greg Abbott’s political stunt, 12 to 15 busloads of immigrants were arriving in the city every day—about 28,000 people by late 2023, and 50,000 by late 2024.
To understand that horrific Chicago apartment raid, go back in time—to Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott's political stunts kicked off a crisis that left immigrant families in a lurch.
www.motherjones.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
To understand that horrific Chicago apartment raid, go back in time...to Texas.
At the height of Gov. Greg Abbott’s political stunt, 12 to 15 busloads of immigrants were arriving in the city every day—about 28,000 people by late 2023, and 50,000 by late 2024.
At the height of Gov. Greg Abbott’s political stunt, 12 to 15 busloads of immigrants were arriving in the city every day—about 28,000 people by late 2023, and 50,000 by late 2024.
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BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.
"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social
"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.
"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social
"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social
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I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.
October 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.