Joy Castro
@joy-castro.bsky.social
Writer. https://www.joycastro.com/ https://ohiostatepress.org/books/series/machete.html
Proud of the Latinx memoir portfolio I got to edit in this beautiful new issue of a hundred-year old journal: 33 original new pieces by amazing writers, including Sandra Cisneros, Luis J. Rodríguez, Ana Menéndez, & Kirstin Valdez Quade. prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...
@nagletx.bsky.social Heyyyy! So great to be in touch! 🌱🤍🕊️
Launching October 1—pre-orders available now. 31 gorgeous new original essays by immigrants & refugees, w/a terrific introduction & a foreword by the mayor. Already being adopted for college courses & ordered by bookstores in Western Europe. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/...
The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees - Nebraska Press
Human beings have always migrated. To be on the move, searching for a more hospitable climate, greater resources, and a welcoming community, is part of our h...
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"My students taught me that they are terrified of the deskilling they are experiencing in real time & the relief they feel in an analogical space as the rest of the world forces them into technology." Read this careful reflection by @isanchezprado.bsky.social on his notebook assignment leisurely...
A Year of Teaching Analogically
What a paper notebook assignment taught me about teaching in the era of AI cheating
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Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron, a brilliantly shot, subtle, emotive film devoid of melodrama and hyperbole on mental illness and the gaps between trauma and memory, a truly excellent first feature, with echoes of Akerman and Martel but ultimately boasting a very personal cinematic style. In Criterion
Re-watched Out Of The Past this week and realized the title of this book of poems by #chelseyminnis , “Baby, I don’t care,” is straight out of Robert Mitchum’s mouth in those movie! @wahrhaftig.bsky.social #tcmparty #filmnoirclub
“‘…And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...
Trump’s Signature Is Set to Be Added to America’s Currency
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PULSE is beating louder as we near publication day. 🤎 I'm thrilled w/the blurbs from @joy-castro.bsky.social & @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social. Thank you @ellistolsma.bsky.social & @omnidawn.bsky.social for the design. See you at #AWP. 🔥 Preorder PULSE: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....
‘Hangar rojo’ (‘The Red Hangar’) is a masterpiece: visually stunning, breathtakingly taut, gorgeously acted, & urgently relevant. At its premiere yesterday, the packed theater began clapping the moment the credits rolled. See it. www.berlinale.de/en/2026/prog...
Hangar rojo | The Red Hangar | Berlinale
Berlin International Film Festival - official website
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“It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
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“The best thing you can do is to build cities that work, and love those streets and those citizens above any ideology.” —Jacob Frey www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
Opinion | I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You.
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“In one ICE recruiting ad, an agent mans a mounted gun atop some sort of militarized vehicle, with the words, ‘Destroy the flood.’ It was a reference to the video game Halo, where players must kill hostile space aliens.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
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CONTESTING THE CLIMATE UNTHINKABLE, edited by Azucena Castro, Gianfranco Selgas, and Ken Benson, examines Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophes. #UFPress
Contesting the Climate Unthinkable
Examining Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophesThis volume explores Latin American cultural works from the...
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“I suspect the question the administration cares about is not ‘is this legal,’ ‘is this a war crime,’ ‘is this murder’ or even ‘is this good for America,’ but rather, ‘isn’t this violence delightful?’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
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“The postsecondary office grants to be moved include TRIO, which supports programs that are designed to support low-income and first-generation college students and students with disabilities.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
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Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
"Smaller discretionary grants, awarded without scholarly review, have so far gone to scholars with ties to conservative or religious institutions... including $30,000 for a project called 'Meritocracy vs. Equity: The Declaration of Independence in Tension With Critical Race Theory and D.E.I.'"
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree@pingree.house.gov · 12mo agoAs the top Democrat overseeing the National Endowment for the Humanities, I’ve spent the past few months digging into the Administration’s unprecedented dismantling of the agency. What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly." Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace? people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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Ugh: “seeking romantic advice” from a known sex trafficker. Why would he get to continue teaching? “I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein. Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes… #highered #gender #sex www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments
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“…its endowment had swelled to nearly $57 billion during the fiscal year that ended in June, an increase of about $3.7 billion. The university also said it had pulled in a record amount of donations it can use immediately.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Harvard’s Wealth Is Growing, Despite Trump’s Attacks on Its Funds
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12mo agoLarry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.” He will continue teaching. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Ugh: “seeking romantic advice” from a known sex trafficker. Why would he get to continue teaching? “I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein. Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes… #highered #gender #sex www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments
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“…I tap into my memories of injustice. I remind myself of why I am doing what I am doing and this sustains me. Anger transforms into a battery charger that gives me a boost when it’s sorely needed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives
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