Love when people tell me they really want to read my dissertation. Girl, me too!
Odalis Del Carmen
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writer. tv enthusiast. caribbean latinx digital cultures & phd things at UT Austin. caribeña. she/her. 🍉
Just one of the many things that UT has and continues to keep doing to suppress academic freedom. This one hits hard as Dr. Chaar López is my advisor and mentor of the past 6 years. I have grown as a scholar bc of him, and it’s his guidance that has made realize what type of academic I could be.
Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️
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Feeling v honored and excited to say that I have received an American Doctoral Fellowship from AAUW. This will support the last stretch of writing my diss, an ethnographic project studying the online worlds of diasporic Caribbean women and femmes. For my people and my community, always. #AAUWFellow
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There has been a 2% increase in toxic air particles in the South Bronx, which has some of the highest asthma rates in the U.S., since since the start of New York City’s congestion pricing program, a new study found. nyti.ms/4dtZeak
Been sitting with how many Black Civil rights leaders bled and died to ge the voting rights act only for it to be struck down by this white supremacist supreme court. This is from bloody Sunday which catalyzed passage of the VRA. It's hard not to shed tears at what we've lost.
We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time.
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
A jury determined that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated with using YouTube, Instagram in a landmark social media addiction trial
Jury in Los Angeles finds Meta, YouTube negligent in social media addiction trial
A jury reached a verdict in the L.A. trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment.
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Academic life is a lot of anxiety, heartbreak, and rejection. Sometimes it’s hard to dig yourself out of the sadness.
What could we change about the world if progressive movements actually considered children as a central part of our political projects? @nicolefroio.bsky.social on the intersection of children's rights and feminism.
The Radical Idea That Children Are People
And they deserve rights too.
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Labor leaders and organizers: Following the NYT's investigation on Cesar Chavez, we are looking to speak to women in the farm workers movement about how this movement is also about their contributions -- not just those of Chavez. 📩 Reach out to me here or via email at ccarrazana [at] 19thnews.org
YES!!!! AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW WON THE OSCAR FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY!! THE FIRST WOC TO BE NOMINATED AND WIN!!!
They got Leo in the seat where they used to put Jack Nicholson #Oscars
Just checked on Baby Jane Dough. Looking good. Taking formula well.
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Florida Passes Bill That Lets DeSantis Remove Local Elected Officials From Office For "Promoting" Pride
The bill could heavily impact LGBTQ+ activities throughout the state, and is the latest exercise in the erosion of democracy there.
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the latest from RD: @odalisgg.bsky.social on how (re)thinking ritual helps us better understand the Benito Bowl religiondispatches.org/2026/03/09/b...
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Ritual
Last month, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—better known to most of the world as Bad Bunny—brought over one hundred million viewers together in ritual. For those less familiar with his music, Puerto Ri...
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this was so fun to work on! big @religiondispatches.org thanks to @odalisgg.bsky.social for this smart and joyful piece religiondispatches.org/2026/03/09/b...
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Ritual
Last month, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—better known to most of the world as Bad Bunny—brought over one hundred million viewers together in ritual. For those less familiar with his music, Puerto Ri...
religiondispatches.org
For @religiondispatches.org I wrote abt Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance and the rituals he enacted. Caribbean spirituality is imbued w everyday moments of sacredness that form a link between us and our chosen divinities. religiondispatches.org/2026/03/09/b...
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Ritual
Last month, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—better known to most of the world as Bad Bunny—brought over one hundred million viewers together in ritual. For those less familiar with his music, Puerto Ri...
religiondispatches.org
Hello, Immigration scholars: Do you have references to academic papers/ books that are not about legal status itself but about the *process* of trying to access a more permanent status from a position of legal liminality? I'm writing on this & found very little. Could that actually be the case?
nuevayol: I’m giving this talk at nyu tisch on March 7th, more info soon 🤓 xx
One of those depts is my dept, American Studies. A whole field which was started AT UT in 1941. These institutions do not matter and do not care for us but this complete disregard for the work and unpaid labor that so many have done for years. This is enraging.
Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · 6mo agoNew: In a sweeping restructure, UT-Austin will consolidate four departments, including African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, college leaders told department heads Thursday. More than 800 students are pursuing degrees in the affected departments.
extremely true we wrote a whole book about it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...
Religion Is Not Done with You by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Megan Goodwin: 9780807021491 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us –and why you need to understand the work it's doing Religion lurks...
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Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 6mo agofwiw Americans are very bad at understanding that the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss - politics and religion - infuse literally everything that the country has done, is doing, and will do it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.
Best way to start Benito Bowl Sunday 🥟 (we need an empanada emoji)
This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽@joshuaeakle.com · 6mo agoHoly crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.
Today I'm remembering Philando Castile, shot in 2016 by police in the Minneapolis suburbs after being pulled over for a broken brake light. "Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me," he said. Ten seconds later one of the cops had shot him five times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...
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