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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD

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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 · 7h

Oh the racism is part of misogynoir

www.crunkfeministcollective.com/2010/03/14/t...

They aren’t talking about me…

As a queer woman in love, sometimes it’s hard to relate to what my straight sisters are going through. What used to make me want to hold rap stars accountable is now likely to pass my ears without …

www.crunkfeministcollective.com

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 8h

Hahaha President Benito!

a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 8h

Writing is some of the hardest work I've never done. But it's my work and I take pride in the work that I do. It's not that hard to say no to shatgpt.

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 8h

I feel tike same way about my writing to be quite frank

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 8h

Ina Wanca lasted less then a year at CUNY before moving on to the University of Hawaii with her A.I. grift!!!

www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/08...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

Picking on Black women who had to claw their way through NYC machine politics to get to their positions is just not going to work out for old white senile fascists. That's all I will say on that.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 9h

With alt text:

HANDS OFF TISH JAMES

NEW YORK CITY -- In response to the Trump administration's baseless, political
indictment of Attorney General Tish James, Jasmine Gripper & Ana María Archila,
Co-Directors of the New York Working Families Party, released the following
statement:

"Attorney General James has long been a fighter for our communities. She has always
had New York's back, and New Yorkers will always have hers.

Tish is a leader with an impeccable moral compass and the unwavering courage to
stand up to bullies and hold the powerful accountable. And that's exactly why she's
under attack by Trump.

This indictment is nothing more than a politically motivated attack by Trump's Justice
Department aimed at intimidating a Black woman who dares to hold Trump accountable.

New York will fight back. Hands off Tish James."

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New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social · 12h

HANDS OFF TISH JAMES.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 9h

""It looks to me like [James] is very guilty of something, but I really don't know," from Fascist in Cheif.

It is pretty clear the agenda here is SEEPED is misogynoir

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10h

Another day, another hit to our democracy as Trump’s corruption of the DOJ continues. AG Bondi is his tool for prosecuting his political targets.

Normalizing this is how democracies die. I refuse to accept it — and the American people shouldn’t either.

New York AG Letitia James indicted for alleged fraud following pressure from Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted on at least one count of alleged fraud following pressure from President Donald Trump.

abcnews.link

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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

It really is!!!

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 21h

It's so much fun! My kid loves to scoop and put things in bowls. I have always found baking with small kids to be such a great activity.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 21h

I'm joking! "Sharp objects" makes crabs a threat.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 21h

I love when I have to go to an work event in the evening that I get home just in time to put the kids to bed. I cherish these small little moments as a working mom.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 21h

That sounds like a threat. Reported! 😝😝😝

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 21h

I think because crabs walk sideways, so it's hard to be scared of something so goofy 😂😂

🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 21h

Arachnophobia is interesting to me because it's so specific. Like, people generally aren't afraid of crabs, even though they're hairy and skitter around. And they're not afraid of bugs, even though they have about the same number of eyes. Most people will never even see a dangerous spider irl.

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

I usually don't fuck with yeast but I really love babka and it was fun to make with the 4yo!

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

Cutie!

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

Thank you!

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

I bake babka and I'm writing a book! How neat is that?

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 4d

How it turned out

A delicious looking freshly baked chocolate babka.

A second delicious looking freshly baked chocolate babka.

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

It's one of my biggest pet peeves: being inefficient.

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

Protect her.

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

Nooooooo! I hate when that happens 😭

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

For people getting ready to fill out their NYC ballots, we have a bunch of ballot initiatives again. Hard to know how to vote on these. I received this from the City Council: www.whatsonmyballot.nyc - I'll be looking to local groups to figure out how to vote on these.

Your Neighborhood Is On The Ballot

www.whatsonmyballot.nyc

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Sharon Lee De La Cruz @sharonleedelacruz.com · 1d

Tomorrow I’m at the New York Public Library! Let’s be gay and do crime! :)

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