Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD
@drcaromaldo.blacksky.app
🇵🇷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: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
🗨she/ella🗯 RTs & typos are my own
Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
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Happening today! I'm talking about research on Puerto Rican comics!
I'm well within my rights to throw a croissant at the head of the man playing a video on his phones speakers, right?
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I'm well within my rights to throw a croissant at the head of the man playing a video on his phones speakers, right?
I've seen it all: a labubu bong!
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I've seen it all: a labubu bong!
New York Times Alert
Ruin Thanksgiving in four words: ___ ___ ___ ___
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New York Times Alert
On the flip side, how great is it that for my job I get to spend a few hours in a day writing? It's hard work. But also, work that is fulfilling!
I just spent FIVE hours doing a MAJOR reorganization of my book. And I hate to inform you, but having a strong thesis *does* in fact make your entire project more organized.
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
On the flip side, how great is it that for my job I get to spend a few hours in a day writing? It's hard work. But also, work that is fulfilling!
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Happy Flytrap Tuesday! We are really honored to post this one, a comic in the Anishinaabemowin language about the Aadizookaan spirit, a foundational story to Indigenous trans identity.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
Berdache
A comic by Shaawan Francis Keahna and Waabanokiizhick Mandosking.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Happy Flytrap Tuesday! We are really honored to post this one, a comic in the Anishinaabemowin language about the Aadizookaan spirit, a foundational story to Indigenous trans identity.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
I just spent FIVE hours doing a MAJOR reorganization of my book. And I hate to inform you, but having a strong thesis *does* in fact make your entire project more organized.
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I just spent FIVE hours doing a MAJOR reorganization of my book. And I hate to inform you, but having a strong thesis *does* in fact make your entire project more organized.
Reposted by Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD
Carrie Mae Weems, Portrait of Myself as an Intellectual Revolutionary, 1988 Gelatin silver print.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Carrie Mae Weems, Portrait of Myself as an Intellectual Revolutionary, 1988 Gelatin silver print.
Why does my university always have it where my password changes two weeks before the semester ends?
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Why does my university always have it where my password changes two weeks before the semester ends?
Did the Bluesky app get a little face lift?
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Did the Bluesky app get a little face lift?
This is why I opt out of facial recognition at TSA security. Fascist surveillance tech.
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is why I opt out of facial recognition at TSA security. Fascist surveillance tech.
Rage.
With 1 word, describe how you feel right now… No explanation, just a word 🤌🏾
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Rage.
There could be a study that came out tomorrow that was like "every time you use chatgpt OpenAI murdered one person." They would still have a "really good" reason why they need to use it.
There could be a report that says every time you use chatgpt you lose a month of your life. They would still use it!
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
There could be a study that came out tomorrow that was like "every time you use chatgpt OpenAI murdered one person." They would still have a "really good" reason why they need to use it.
After having several conversations with people who admit they use GenAI, I'm convinced there is nothing we could say to make them think what they are doing is bad.
Why is generative AI bad??? I promise there are tons of articles and books that will explain why that have been out for decades.
If you need suggestions let me know. There are several people of here that wrote them.
If you need suggestions let me know. There are several people of here that wrote them.
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
After having several conversations with people who admit they use GenAI, I'm convinced there is nothing we could say to make them think what they are doing is bad.
Gong from 84 degrees to 46 degrees is just mean.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Gong from 84 degrees to 46 degrees is just mean.
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Trying to get tenure in one picture
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Trying to get tenure in one picture
This damn Sinners soundtrack really has me listening to Irish folk songs.
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This damn Sinners soundtrack really has me listening to Irish folk songs.
Watched Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh and noticed that all of the victims were white men. Seems pretty significant.
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Watched Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh and noticed that all of the victims were white men. Seems pretty significant.
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Good trouble 🧊 #homedepot
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Good trouble 🧊 #homedepot
CW fire. Be smart y'all!
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
CW fire. Be smart y'all!
DOES NO ONE KNOW HOW TO FORM A LINE?!
Airports are a special kind of hell.
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
DOES NO ONE KNOW HOW TO FORM A LINE?!
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Influencers are a whole new category of 21st century scam merchant, sometimes with devastating consequences www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Influencers are a whole new category of 21st century scam merchant, sometimes with devastating consequences www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
FYI don't comment on how fast or slow someone eats. I know it seems innocuous. But it's not. You have NO IDEA why they eat way the way they do and no should have to offer that up to you.
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
FYI don't comment on how fast or slow someone eats. I know it seems innocuous. But it's not. You have NO IDEA why they eat way the way they do and no should have to offer that up to you.
Trying to get tenure in one picture
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Trying to get tenure in one picture
Reposted by Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD
Cool NWSA moment: Someone from Memoria (De)Colonial, which does tours & other public history/ed work in PR, was excited to discover this @sunypress.bsky.social book. PDFs of the Spanish original circulate but they didn’t know there was an English ed. Info abt the org: memoriadecolonial.com/en/home
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Cool NWSA moment: Someone from Memoria (De)Colonial, which does tours & other public history/ed work in PR, was excited to discover this @sunypress.bsky.social book. PDFs of the Spanish original circulate but they didn’t know there was an English ed. Info abt the org: memoriadecolonial.com/en/home
Airports are a special kind of hell.
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Airports are a special kind of hell.