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Renee Hudson
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Author of Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas | Assistant Professor of English and Director of Latinx and Latin American Studies at Chapman University
@marisollebron.bsky.social this is so exciting!
currently reading:

Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm, edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBron

The House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferre
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Berkeley folks: I’ll be at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social tomorrow at noon discussing my self-translations & my translations of Wingston González & Nicole Cecilia Delgado!
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Led by David J. Vázquez and others, our newest Provocations explores Renee Hudson's book: “Latinx Studies practitioners have long grappled with our field imaginary, and Hudson’s book offers one of the richest elaborations of what the field might become.”

asapjournal.com/review/provo...
Provocations / Latinx Revolutionary Horizons and Expanding the Latinx Studies Field Imaginary - ASAP/Review
This Provocation reflects on Renee Hudson’s Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas. Latinx Studies practitioners have long grappled with our field imaginary, and Hudson’s boo...
asapjournal.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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My first academic article is out in the journal Latino Studies! Read if you're interested in performance, memory, and Latinx identity formation. Thanks to my colleagues, friends, and partner for supporting me in this publication process!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Canadian paperback. Coming soon-ish.
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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really wild to think that there are 3 books out there in the world, by me.
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Have a piece in this volume, due out later this month.
September 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Most excellent thread on making ICE melt.
Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Third book in our (with @samanthapinto.bsky.social) Black Feminism in the Edge Series ( @dukepress.bsky.social) comes out in March! Congrats to Justin Mann (and check out the gorgeous cover). www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the...
Breaking the World
www.dukeupress.edu
August 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Love how, for the New York Times, using LLMs is just this value-neutral thing that everyone will eventually do, but being transgender makes you too biased to write about anything ever
July 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Co-editing with Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) a special issue of Pasados Journal titled “Against the Past/Contra Pasados.” CFP Link below, submissions due January 15, 2026!

drive.google.com/file/d/1S_7u...
Pasados Special Issue Against the Past.pdf
drive.google.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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When you've got people listening to My Heart is a Chainsaw and you're handing out Jade Daniels Stickers...cause we are all addicted.

@sgj.bsky.social always.

Grab em:
thatnerdchick.com/final-girl-b...
August 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
August 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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One of the best things I ever digitized was Walker's very violent abolitionist children's book

by the author of THE BRANDED HAND

curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/slavery-abol...
August 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Famously, punk rock, hip hop, and the counterculture didn't involve any humans and never took place irl.
August 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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“What is a feminist theory of exhaustion?…We are exhausted from feminism but decidedly not taking a ‘break’ from its demands. We are doing it tired.” Incredible essay by Jennifer C. Nash & Samantha Pinto in @differences.bsky.social. Free to read: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
July 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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One of my favorite artists, David Antonio Cruz, asked me to write an essay for his recent exhibition catalogue.

His stunning work prompted some thoughts on queer intimacy, slackness, ease, & softly being with those we love.
July 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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oh, WOW:
I'll be clearing my schedule for this movie. Stars Zahn McClarnon. All about getting a Lakota ghost artifact back from a bunch of thieving white folks.

youtu.be/ulZoLec80fs?...
Americana (2025) Official Trailer - Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey
YouTube video by Lionsgate Movies
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July 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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This is actually extremely noteworthy.
July 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Plant nerds, soil lovers, and book people, the advance reader copies of POPPY STATE: A LABYRINTH OF PLANTS AND A STORY OF BEGINNINGS have arrived. This book is written for those who dream of getting lost in a forest of words. 🌿🍃🌿🍃🌿🍃🌱
July 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.

We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
July 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM