Dear Comrades in Feminist Study and Struggle… www.nwsa.org/news-events/... #FeministStudies
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Jessica N Pabón, PhD 🏳️🌈 🇵🇷
@justjessp.bsky.social
Editor: "Porque Estamos Aquí: Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire" (The Feminist Press, 2025) Author: "Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora" (NYU Press, 2018)
I do not think it is a coincidence that the moment when women of color are in positions of “power” in academia is the same moment where the basic privileges of being in academia are being destroyed.
“Many of my colleagues studying race, sexuality, and gender don’t get to resign on their own terms—they are being fired, replaced, reassigned, and downsized…” www.jessicapabon.com/blog/2026/03/20/friends-i-am-better-than-ok
Friends, I am better than OK. — Jessica Nydia Pabón, PhD
Resignation, for me, has been a journey marked by various emotional states (fear, freedom, alignment, regulation, joy) and this blog post is my attempt to think critically about them.
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In a time when books + scholars are under attack, it feels vital to uplift radical literature. I am honored that my words have been included in several anthologies over the years. Now my work is featured in Porque Estamos Aquí by @justjessp.bsky.social . Join us in Boston on 12/15!
A Groundbreaking Collection As much as I hate the way we are all tracked online...I love a Google Alert. Yesterday I received this one: It's hard to explain how seen I feel in this feature of our anthology. It never occurred to me that folks would remember my Feminists for Puerto Rico (FPR)…
A Groundbreaking Collection
As much as I hate the way we are all tracked online...I love a Google Alert. Yesterday I received this one: It's hard to explain how seen I feel in this feature of our anthology. It never occurred to me that folks would remember my Feminists for Puerto Rico (FPR) efforts and tie them to the anthology and that all of this work would come to fruition in this political moment when Borikén is being remilitarized and occupied by US empire and feminists more broadly are paying attention to and resisting that imperialism largely in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
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Are you going to the NWSA conference in San Juan, PR this year? We recorded a little podcast for the NEWBIES! #NWSA2025 @theenwsa.bsky.social youtu.be/F3nbX15uNac
#FeministFrequencies E6: A Webinar for First-Time Conference Attendees
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I am so honored to announce that I've been elected President of the National Women's Studies Association. My term begins at the end of our November conference in Puerto Rico. I think I'll be the first Puerto Rican President, and I'll assume that role in Puerto Rico. This fact makes my heart sing.
I just keep thinking (a la Douglass): What, to the professor of race, gender, sexuality, disability, is academic freedom? www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses
The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.
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you should probably go ahead and pre-order our anthology before it is banned for anti-a m e r i kkk a n sentiment. also, you can't beat $23.20 for a 375 page anthology. bookshop.org/p/books/porq...
Porque Estamos Aquí: Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire
Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire
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Dear National Guard, You too can resist. #losangeles
Have ya'll read this yet? #PuertoRico www.publicbooks.org/its-about-ti...
It’s About Time We Fail: A Puerto Rican Poetics of Exhaustion - Public Books
The term “resilience” originated in ecology. But its shift from the natural to the social has normalized human-made structures of inequality.
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Find me a diasporican who visited homeland and *didn’t* record the coqui’s song on their phone to listen to as needed. I’ll wait.
Thrilled to share that the anthology we all need is now available for pre-order. It's been a dream of mine to publish with The Feminist Press, and HERE WE ARE. #wepa! #feminism #PuertoRican #liberation #decolonial
if you truly cared about mothers, you wouldn’t blow them up and starve their babies.
I miss Bitch Magazine. still. always. forever.
Did you know that @theenwsa.bsky.social will be in #PuertoRico this year? And did you know that there is a Puerto Rican feminisms pre-conference? And did you know that it is being organized by the Puerto Rican Feminisms Interest Group? Now you know! www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...
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they definitely killed Giuffre. cause that's what happens to too many survivors who claim their voice. i hate it here.
I demand that Alvarez Diaz and Villalon drop out of the Esencia project immediately! This private city will only further destroy Puerto Rican land and displace more of our people. We deserve a Puerto Rico for Puerto Ricans! #NoAEsencia @advfirm
not to make light of things but I'd love to opt out of this Handmaid's Tale/Hunger Games/Parable of the Sower mashup
Robin D.G. Kelley on “The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide”
Robin D.G. Kelley | "The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide: The Long Durée."
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
When you leave #academia, the institution and those who protect it will not grieve. But the students will continue to stand beside you. 😭🥰 www.instagram.com/p/DIwNUgDsDW...
wakes up. sees a decapitated Palestinian toddler. reads about 3rd graders disappeared by the frozen people. cries in rage. wishes more folks who are turning away would watch. would hold. would witness. would FIGHT. WE'VE ALWAYS KNOWN YOUR "PRO-LIFE" STANCE WAS GENOCIDAL BULLSHIT.
A colleague and I wrote a little something about #DEI in a "blue state" as fellows of SUNY's DEISJ program. Check it out. #SocialJustice #FreePalestine medium.com/@justjessp/b...
“Blue” New York’s Empty Promise
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion without Social Justice
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Serious question: so you’ve packed your go bag, WHERE are you going? If the go bag is suddenly needed, will airports be working? Will trains be running? Will highways be open?