Raquel Delerme
raqueldelerme.bsky.social
Raquel Delerme
@raqueldelerme.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Southern California. Studying prisons, race, gender, & labor.
Check out my new blog post about my article in #Gender&Society on mothers with incarcerated adult children and their engagement with what i term the carceral care economy. gendersociety.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/t...
The Hidden Costs of Mothering an Incarcerated Adult Child
NEW BLOG | THE HIDDEN COSTS OF MOTHERING AN INCARCERATED ADULT CHILD Raquel Delerme draws on in-depth interviews with mothers with incarcerated adult children, finding the cumulative impact of fina…
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June 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We reached our goal! Thank you so much for your generosity!
This spring my colleague Rachel and I will teach for the 3rd time out gender studies class at a women’s prison. We would appreciate any donations to provide folders, notebooks, and pens for our incarcerated students. To support them, venmo Rachel at Rachel-Leah. Many thanks!
February 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This spring my colleague Rachel and I will teach for the 3rd time out gender studies class at a women’s prison. We would appreciate any donations to provide folders, notebooks, and pens for our incarcerated students. To support them, venmo Rachel at Rachel-Leah. Many thanks!
February 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Mass #surveillance in the US has historically targeted racial and ethnic minorities. Experts warn this pattern could intensify under a second Trump term, with a focus on people of color and immigrants.
@curlyprofessor.bsky.social @raqueldelerme.bsky.social @usc.edu #deportation
We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants
Create a moral panic. Blame it on certain people. Commence monitoring. Deploy droves of security agents. Detain or remove the targets. Sound familiar?
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February 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Which stage of the grieving process is when you become obsessed with all of the things your loved one once loved? I am chasing the ghost of my father over here with his favorite things which I resisted when he was alive - jazz vinyls, watches, various conspiracy theories even!
December 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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NEW! Read @raqueldelerme.bsky.social's review of 'Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers' by Lynne Haney. Part of #TheoreticalCrim's 2024 Special Issue, guest-edited by Gabriela Kirk-Werner, @curlyprofessor.bsky.social & April D. Fernandes: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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December 19, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Today I successfully defended my dissertation prospectus! Much gratitude to my incredibly insightful committee. Excited to get to work!
December 12, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death
Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.
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December 10, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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November 14, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Black Feminist & Black Women Studies Scholars
November 13, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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November 14, 2024 at 5:31 PM