Reading Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval this morning...

#latinxstudies #theory #fucktrump #fuckkarolineleavitt

UT System Board of Regents was like, "thanks for the 5 month notice, Hartzell, but time to go..."

www.texastribune.org/2025/02/19/u...

I want to be patient w/myself, but I'm struggling to understnd this text & its spinning me out. 50 pgs in & all I (think) I understand is that death is one of few material things the colonial subject owns, so the death drive can be understood as an agentic form of resistance?

#phdlife #phdjourney

🙄🙄🙄

R.I.P. tiktok

First day of second semester of first year.

This semester's slate:
-Afro-Latinx and Caribbean Diasporas
-Theories in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
-Latinx Ethnography

#latinxstudies #chicanastudies
#chicanostudies #chicanxstudies #chicanoscholar #phdjourney #phdstudent

NACCS is my academic home. So grateful for the opportunity to present again this year. And to keep talking about joto shit in academic spaces 🙏🏽
#naccs #chicanostudies #chicanastudies #chicanoscholar #joteriastudies #queerstudies

Every now and then I read something that makes me think, "I can't wait to teach this some day..." Today, it's the essay "The Historian as Curandera" in the book Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals, by Aurora Levins Morales.

Whatever the platform, I will ALWAYS take the opportunity to hype up the work of Gloria Anzaldúa, José Esteban Muñoz, @radiorodriguez.bsky.social, Michael Hames-Garcia, and @rtrodrig.bsky.social.

#joteriastudies #jotoscholar #queerstudies #chicanxstudies #chicanostudies #latinxstudies

And with that last final submitted, I'm officially done with my first semester of my Ph.D program.

This semester was kind of a slay.

#phdjourney #phdstudent #chicanxstudies #chicanosinhighereducation #soberscholar #queerscholar #chicanoscholar

I don't romanticize *ANY* part of academia.

But, NACCS is my academic home, & I've built beautiful community through my involvement the past few years.

I'm so grateful to be a part of two panel proposal submissions this year.

The work of submitting is done; now we wait.

Happy Ph.D. application submission anniversary day to me!

Sending lots of love and light to those submitting this cycle; remember that regardless of outcome, to submit materials is a tremendous effort and an accomplishment unto itself!

#phdjourney #phd #chicanosinhighereducation

Aye!!!!!

The NACCS dates and location confirmed. Who will I be seeing in Albuquerque?!

#naccs2025 #naccs #chicanxstudies #chicanastudies #chicanostudies

11.21.18

I don't know a lot, but I do know this to be true for my experience: we don't ever have to use again, even if we want to, and we don't have to do this alone.

If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out. 🙏🏽

#sobriety #recovery #sober #gratitude #grateful #odaat #sobersky

I either bought this in a daze and completely forgot, or an anonymous gifter sent it to me.

Either way, I'm hella excited to dive into it soon!

An intro for new folx: I'm Alfonso, a first-year Ph.D. studnt in MexAmerican and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin.

Interested in queer Latinx sobriety, desire, and identity; rhetorics of addiction and sobriety; critical autoethnography and storytelling; embodied memory.

I ❤️ family, TV & the gym.

Sitting with some thoughts after reading this, re: the figure of the addict and criminality. I'm particularly wondering what the addict's foil--the figure of the sober person--does, in terms of justifying incarceration & punitive forms of rehabilitation. (From the edited book Addiction Trajectories)