Mónica A. Jiménez
@monijimenez.bsky.social
Writer, baker, and prof. Caribbean history, race, law & empire. Puerto Rico, poetry & pilates. Reluctant soccer mom and lover of plants. Author of Making Never-Never Land @UNC Press.
Necessary reading from my brilliant college roomie and former prosecutor of dirty cops, Sam Trepel.
Cities and states must hold ICE accountable for violence. The feds won’t | Kristy Parker and Samantha Trepel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cities and states must hold ICE accountable for violence. The feds won’t | Kristy Parker and Samantha Trepel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cities and states must hold ICE accountable for violence. The feds won’t | Kristy Parker and Samantha Trepel
As former federal prosecutors, we know an incident like the Minneapolis shooting must be followed by a credible inquiry
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Necessary reading from my brilliant college roomie and former prosecutor of dirty cops, Sam Trepel.
Cities and states must hold ICE accountable for violence. The feds won’t | Kristy Parker and Samantha Trepel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cities and states must hold ICE accountable for violence. The feds won’t | Kristy Parker and Samantha Trepel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good" - by Danez Smith
"Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent."
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
"Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent."
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good
Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness
www.harpersbazaar.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
"An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good" - by Danez Smith
"Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent."
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
"Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent."
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
Been doing oral exams for the past few years and the students and I both love them. Its a heavy lift up front but the payoff is worth it. 10/10 totally recommend.
Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT.
To AI-proof exams, professors turn to the oldest technique of all
A small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful AI platforms.
wapo.st
December 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Been doing oral exams for the past few years and the students and I both love them. Its a heavy lift up front but the payoff is worth it. 10/10 totally recommend.
New leaf! Big Monse!
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New leaf! Big Monse!
Get this beautiful book and let it move you as it is moving me. And if you're in one of these cities, go check out the brilliant @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social in person.
Queen Mother is available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.
Learn more, order, and tour RSVP: ashleydfarmer.com
Learn more, order, and tour RSVP: ashleydfarmer.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Get this beautiful book and let it move you as it is moving me. And if you're in one of these cities, go check out the brilliant @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social in person.
Reposted by Mónica A. Jiménez
AUSTIN, CHICAGO, NEW ORLEANS, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, DC, ATLANTA, LOS ANGELES and OAKLAND:
The Queen Mother Audley Moore tour is coming!
RSVP to a book event near you today: www.ashleydfarmer.com/events
The Queen Mother Audley Moore tour is coming!
RSVP to a book event near you today: www.ashleydfarmer.com/events
Events — ASHLEY D. FARMER
www.ashleydfarmer.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
AUSTIN, CHICAGO, NEW ORLEANS, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, DC, ATLANTA, LOS ANGELES and OAKLAND:
The Queen Mother Audley Moore tour is coming!
RSVP to a book event near you today: www.ashleydfarmer.com/events
The Queen Mother Audley Moore tour is coming!
RSVP to a book event near you today: www.ashleydfarmer.com/events
In this dismal landscape, moments of joy and ecstasy can be found. Especially if you have the right DJ...
www.austinchronicle.com/music/2025-0...
www.austinchronicle.com/music/2025-0...
Body Rock, Austin’s Sacred Dance Institution, Prevails After 15 Years
Finding moments of flight onstage and on the dance floor
www.austinchronicle.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In this dismal landscape, moments of joy and ecstasy can be found. Especially if you have the right DJ...
www.austinchronicle.com/music/2025-0...
www.austinchronicle.com/music/2025-0...
I am going analog this semester. For my sanity.
August 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I am going analog this semester. For my sanity.
Eddie Palmieri, Latin Music’s Dynamic Innovator, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Mangroves are life-giving. They are abundance. For some time I have been trying to write poems into mangroves, into my respect and love of them. There are several organizations in PR that have been working hard at restoring them, this article covers one, another is COPI in Loiza copipr.com.
July 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Mangroves are life-giving. They are abundance. For some time I have been trying to write poems into mangroves, into my respect and love of them. There are several organizations in PR that have been working hard at restoring them, this article covers one, another is COPI in Loiza copipr.com.
I am so very grateful for this honor from the Caribbean Studies Association. It is so very meaningful to me that the book resonated with my peers in Caribbean Studies.
Congratulations @monijimenez.bsky.social 🎉👏
MAKING NEVER-NEVER LAND wins the 2025 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis book award from the Caribbean Studies Association 🙌
www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/2025-gordon-...
MAKING NEVER-NEVER LAND wins the 2025 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis book award from the Caribbean Studies Association 🙌
www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/2025-gordon-...
July 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I am so very grateful for this honor from the Caribbean Studies Association. It is so very meaningful to me that the book resonated with my peers in Caribbean Studies.
A beautiful and careful review of Roger Reeves' "Dark Days: Fugitive Essays" in Against the Current. This is the book we should all be reading and rereading in these terrible times.
againstthecurrent.org/atc236/power...
againstthecurrent.org/atc236/power...
Power in the Darkness
Dark Days By Roger Reeves Graywolf Press, 2023, 240 pages, $26 hardcover. IT IS QUITE possible that between the writing of this essay and your reading it, the United States will have entered a dark…
againstthecurrent.org
June 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A beautiful and careful review of Roger Reeves' "Dark Days: Fugitive Essays" in Against the Current. This is the book we should all be reading and rereading in these terrible times.
againstthecurrent.org/atc236/power...
againstthecurrent.org/atc236/power...
Today's reminder that resistance is the only way through authoritarianism. Spotted today in Rome: las mariposas, the Mirabal Sisters, whose fight against Trujillo's dictatorship in DR cost them so much, but whose memory we still hold up to the light. ¡Que vivan!
May 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Today's reminder that resistance is the only way through authoritarianism. Spotted today in Rome: las mariposas, the Mirabal Sisters, whose fight against Trujillo's dictatorship in DR cost them so much, but whose memory we still hold up to the light. ¡Que vivan!
Now more than ever, these books are must reads. If you're at the OAH this weekend go check out @latinxhistories.bsky.social at the @uncpress.bsky.social table!
April 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Now more than ever, these books are must reads. If you're at the OAH this weekend go check out @latinxhistories.bsky.social at the @uncpress.bsky.social table!
Reposted by Mónica A. Jiménez
"And the brush of grass against the lowering / Roof of the evening. The eye can eat the vanishing light"
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
April 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"And the brush of grass against the lowering / Roof of the evening. The eye can eat the vanishing light"
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month.
➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4
Went axe throwing last night to celebrate the fact that I've been tenured and also to work out some of the rage I feel at the haters who tried to stop me from getting it. That's a story for another day... but for now: I got tenure, yall!
February 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Went axe throwing last night to celebrate the fact that I've been tenured and also to work out some of the rage I feel at the haters who tried to stop me from getting it. That's a story for another day... but for now: I got tenure, yall!
Reposted by Mónica A. Jiménez
"Jiménez makes a good contribution to the seemingly never-ending discussion of what exactly is Puerto Rico’s political relation to the US . . ."
Enjoy this review of MAKING NEVER-NEVER LAND by @monijimenez.bsky.social on the The Society for US Intellectual History blog 🙌
s-usih.org/2025/02/naid...
Enjoy this review of MAKING NEVER-NEVER LAND by @monijimenez.bsky.social on the The Society for US Intellectual History blog 🙌
s-usih.org/2025/02/naid...
Naida García-Crespo on Mónica A. Jiménez’s *Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico* | Society for US Intellectual History
Mónica A. Jiménez’s Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico, offers a legal history of Puerto Rico’s colonial relation with the United States (US). The book further attemp...
s-usih.org
February 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"Jiménez makes a good contribution to the seemingly never-ending discussion of what exactly is Puerto Rico’s political relation to the US . . ."
Enjoy this review of MAKING NEVER-NEVER LAND by @monijimenez.bsky.social on the The Society for US Intellectual History blog 🙌
s-usih.org/2025/02/naid...
Enjoy this review of MAKING NEVER-NEVER LAND by @monijimenez.bsky.social on the The Society for US Intellectual History blog 🙌
s-usih.org/2025/02/naid...
Poetry is always a little spot of light in dark days. I'm joyful to have today's Poem-a-Day.
poets.org/poem/theft-0
poets.org/poem/theft-0
Theft
A nightly spell of sleep falls / heavy on the sea.
poets.org
February 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Poetry is always a little spot of light in dark days. I'm joyful to have today's Poem-a-Day.
poets.org/poem/theft-0
poets.org/poem/theft-0
Gave a book talk today at UT Law where I was a law student many years ago. My respondent, Sandy Levinson, was one of my MA/JD thesis advisors. Full circle moment for me!
February 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Gave a book talk today at UT Law where I was a law student many years ago. My respondent, Sandy Levinson, was one of my MA/JD thesis advisors. Full circle moment for me!
I'm from the southern coast of PR and grew up hearing about these little guys but was never lucky enough to encounter one. Very happy to see they are getting an assist.
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/01...
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/01...
Fort Worth Zoo helping Bad Bunny’s endangered ‘sapo concho’
The Puerto Rican crested toad was featured in a film accompanying the reggaeton artist’s new album, “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
www.dallasnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I'm from the southern coast of PR and grew up hearing about these little guys but was never lucky enough to encounter one. Very happy to see they are getting an assist.
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/01...
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/01...
Couldn't be prouder of the homie @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social on this collab and on managing to keep it under wraps for as long as he did! History is for the people and what a great way to bring it to them! ❤️❤️
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Bad Bunny's 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' is a love letter to Puerto Rico. This professor helped him tell the island's history
Released Jan. 5, the record pays homage to the island’s rich rhythms like plena and salsa, and delves into it’s seldom taught history.
www.latimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Couldn't be prouder of the homie @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social on this collab and on managing to keep it under wraps for as long as he did! History is for the people and what a great way to bring it to them! ❤️❤️
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
#AHA2025 has been a blast. I'm grateful to wonderful colleagues for their support of my work. And I finally got the obligatory picture of myself holding my book at the @uncpress.bsky.social book table. (And it was already sold!) Thank you to all who have purchased and read it!!
January 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
#AHA2025 has been a blast. I'm grateful to wonderful colleagues for their support of my work. And I finally got the obligatory picture of myself holding my book at the @uncpress.bsky.social book table. (And it was already sold!) Thank you to all who have purchased and read it!!
Reposted by Mónica A. Jiménez
So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.
December 18, 2024 at 7:41 PM
So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.
The latest from my intellectual partner in crime and in life, Roger Reeves.
Poet Roger Reeves centers images of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, DMX, and Mike Tyson in postures of rest and repose, and reflects on the stillness of their interior worlds as a protest against the control of capitalistic time. emergencemagazine.org/essay/when-t...
When the Prince of Heaven Sleeps – Roger Reeves
Centering images of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, DMX, and Mike Tyson in postures of rest and repose, poet Roger Reeves reflects on the stillness of their interior worlds as a protest against the contr...
emergencemagazine.org
December 12, 2024 at 9:31 PM
The latest from my intellectual partner in crime and in life, Roger Reeves.
Just finished Percival Everett's James, and if you haven't read it, you certainly should.
December 1, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Just finished Percival Everett's James, and if you haven't read it, you certainly should.