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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD

@drcaromaldo.blacksky.app

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🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof of #LatinxLit & Alum in the CUNYverse| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies baking, poetry, crochet 🧶, shitposting, ADHDer 🗨she/ella🗯 RTs & typos are my own Website: Jennifercaroccio.com

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · May 19

No more unsolicited recommendations or advice. Thanks in advance.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 10h

So it never goes away 😅

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

ICE is in Jamaica Queens now

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 11h

My toddler also headbutted me this week and broke my glasses. They also headbutted my partner in the nose, brought a 6'3" man to his knees!

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12h

well, here is a way to feel incredibly self-confident in a photo.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 19h

On October 24, 2025 @ 2:00 I'll be on the panel "Activismo y educación en los Cómics puertorriqueños" as part of the 2025 FILNYC (La Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York).

Conversatorios | Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York

CONVERSATORIOS 2025

filnyc.org

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 14h

That's how you know she lived a good life!

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19h

BLESS run them all off lol no polite(ish) society for you!!!

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 19h

lmao that lady who posted the blatant ai news slop and dug in all day refusing to delete it apparently deleted her *whole account*

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 18h

As do I!

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 19h

Trying not to have imposter syndrome in two languages 😅

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 19h

On October 24, 2025 @ 2:00 I'll be on the panel "Activismo y educación en los Cómics puertorriqueños" as part of the 2025 FILNYC (La Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York).

Conversatorios | Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York

CONVERSATORIOS 2025

filnyc.org

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 20h

Everyone is clowning on my egg carton pic 🤣🤣🤣

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 20h

😂😂😂😂

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 20h

Mluck?

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 20h

Hahaha!

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

I really hope that Mamdani wins the NYC mayoral race and that universal childcare becomes a reality. Even tho we are on our way out of needing fulltime daycare, other families desperately need the support. It's a cause worth fighting for, even if I probably won't benefit from it.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 20h

Wait. What?

A carton of eggs that say farmer's cow. With a big old picture of a cow in it.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

All the next day Toad sang songs to his seeds.

Toad, literally singing in the rain, serenades his seeds.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

Link.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 1d

Link.

《 B4D SOUP 》 @machturtl.wearybones.rest · 1d

Link.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

That's so great! I have THOUGHTS about my book cover. It's getting though finishing this manuscript.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

I just said in a dept meeting, "I love paperwork" [sarcastically]

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

I am constantly bumping into things and dropping things

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

This guy would have said Mr. Rogers was virtue signaling too 🤭

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

I'm in this skeet (and video) and I don't like it 🤣

Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 1d

I've been looking for this video forever bc I never noticed how often I drop things and bump into things til this brought it to my attention. Sometimes I swear stuff just jumps out of my hands 😭

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 1d

Let's see... 21 months so far?