Cruz Medina
@academiadecruz.bsky.social
Rhetoric & Writing Studies, SCU, Bread Loaf School of English, bjj 🟪⬜️⬜️, 📖Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay (Ohio State UP 2024)
Do better @spotify Not all money is good money.
October 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Do better @spotify Not all money is good money.
Feeling grateful 😇 and thankful to Katie Silvester for her review of my book Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay for the current issue of @compstudiesjrnl.bsky.social compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/u...
compstudiesjournal.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Feeling grateful 😇 and thankful to Katie Silvester for her review of my book Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay for the current issue of @compstudiesjrnl.bsky.social compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/u...
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My friend & colleague @jamescsanchez.bsky.social produces (excellent) documentary films and his newest is about the history of sexual assault at elite boarding schools. They need funding to put the finishing touches on this important, impactful film - please chip in if you're able!
In Loco Parentis - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark
Trigger Warning: This six-year-long investigation focuses on the survivors of sexual abuse in two elite boarding schools and the cover-up that hid these stories for decades. By supporting this project, you will ensure that these stories will be finally be heard for the first time.
seedandspark.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
My friend & colleague @jamescsanchez.bsky.social produces (excellent) documentary films and his newest is about the history of sexual assault at elite boarding schools. They need funding to put the finishing touches on this important, impactful film - please chip in if you're able!
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I feel like the real problem the US has is 20 year old white male snipers who targets firemen; or middle aged white male religious zealots who assassinate Minnesota politicians and family.
Yet our president and WH is talking about denaturalizing immigrant citizens “just because.”
Yet our president and WH is talking about denaturalizing immigrant citizens “just because.”
June 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I feel like the real problem the US has is 20 year old white male snipers who targets firemen; or middle aged white male religious zealots who assassinate Minnesota politicians and family.
Yet our president and WH is talking about denaturalizing immigrant citizens “just because.”
Yet our president and WH is talking about denaturalizing immigrant citizens “just because.”
For-profit prisons lobbied for local police to act as immigration enforcement in Arizona back in 2010. Racism/xenophobia are leveraged for corporate greed
The number of people in ICE detention has grown, and detention facilities are over capacity. As a result, the government is intensifying its hunt for more space — and local police are playing a bigger role.
Private prisons and local jails are ramping up as ICE detention exceeds capacity
The number of people in ICE detention has grown, and detention facilities are over capacity. So the government is intensifying its hunt for more space, and local police are playing a bigger role.
n.pr
June 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
For-profit prisons lobbied for local police to act as immigration enforcement in Arizona back in 2010. Racism/xenophobia are leveraged for corporate greed
When AI answers emails written by other AI or AI used to grade papers written by AI.
AI: write like a concerned teacher who believes this paper might have been written by AI…
AI: write like a concerned teacher who believes this paper might have been written by AI…
When AI systems generate content that is consumed by other AI systems, humans become second-class entities and will have to deal with the negative implications.
I wrote about it today (link below)
I wrote about it today (link below)
May 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
When AI answers emails written by other AI or AI used to grade papers written by AI.
AI: write like a concerned teacher who believes this paper might have been written by AI…
AI: write like a concerned teacher who believes this paper might have been written by AI…
What happened to the party of “F—- your feelings”? I guess it was always about *my* feelings.
(AP) — President Donald Trump suffered “mental anguish” from CBS News' editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Democratic opponent Kamala Harris last fall, his lawyers are arguing in court papers.
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May 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What happened to the party of “F—- your feelings”? I guess it was always about *my* feelings.
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📣We're excited to share a new book review by Kyle Boggs, a dive into Sanctuary by @academiadecruz.bsky.social!
🔗https://constell8cr.com/book-reviews/seeking-refuge-through-decolonial-counterstories-a-review-of-cruz-medinas-sanctuary-exclusion-violence-and-indigenous-migrants-in-the-east-bay/
🔗https://constell8cr.com/book-reviews/seeking-refuge-through-decolonial-counterstories-a-review-of-cruz-medinas-sanctuary-exclusion-violence-and-indigenous-migrants-in-the-east-bay/
May 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
📣We're excited to share a new book review by Kyle Boggs, a dive into Sanctuary by @academiadecruz.bsky.social!
🔗https://constell8cr.com/book-reviews/seeking-refuge-through-decolonial-counterstories-a-review-of-cruz-medinas-sanctuary-exclusion-violence-and-indigenous-migrants-in-the-east-bay/
🔗https://constell8cr.com/book-reviews/seeking-refuge-through-decolonial-counterstories-a-review-of-cruz-medinas-sanctuary-exclusion-violence-and-indigenous-migrants-in-the-east-bay/
Thank you to Kyle Boggs and the folks at @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social for their recent review of my book Sanctuary 🙏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽 constell8cr.com/book-reviews...
Seeking Refuge through Decolonial Counterstories: A Review of Cruz Medina’s Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay - constellations
by Kyle Boggs "Medina’s own background and experiences working with Indigenous migrants, which he details in his forward and throughout, provide a rich, humanized perspective on issues that are often ...
constell8cr.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Thank you to Kyle Boggs and the folks at @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social for their recent review of my book Sanctuary 🙏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽 constell8cr.com/book-reviews...
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Ready, take a deep breath and say it with me: synthetic texts and their infrastructures perpetuate bias, claim undue authority, make stuff up, sustain white language supremacy, pollute information ecosystems, contribute to environmental degradation, emit carbon,
May 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Ready, take a deep breath and say it with me: synthetic texts and their infrastructures perpetuate bias, claim undue authority, make stuff up, sustain white language supremacy, pollute information ecosystems, contribute to environmental degradation, emit carbon,
First Gen A.I. student hired post-graduation:
The 37-year-old wellness influencer is in RFK Jr.'s inner circle.
Trump nominee 'learned virtually nothing' about public health at Stanford
President Donald Trump has nominated author Casey Means for surgeon general, after the previous nominee withdrew.
www.sfgate.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
First Gen A.I. student hired post-graduation:
Every writing teacher seeing no revisions between drafts
Need to post Beyoncé's famous quote "until I see my notes applied, it doesn't make sense for me to make more" in my analog planner.
For many reasons.
For many reasons.
May 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Every writing teacher seeing no revisions between drafts
Spoiler: the answer is not Flaming Hot Cheetos…or is it?
Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin produced by a common gut microbe.
Damage from gut bacteria may play a role in the rise in colon cancer in young adults
Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin produced by a common gut microbe.
www.npr.org
April 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Spoiler: the answer is not Flaming Hot Cheetos…or is it?
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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
NSF has posted an “update on priorities.”
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...
theonion.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
April 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Victor del Hierro breaks down a graduate writing pedagogy with a “20 dots on a page” or writing 500-1000 words on each of the traditional sections of an academic paper, showing students “there’s not much space here”
#4c25 H.27
#4c25 H.27
April 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Victor del Hierro breaks down a graduate writing pedagogy with a “20 dots on a page” or writing 500-1000 words on each of the traditional sections of an academic paper, showing students “there’s not much space here”
#4c25 H.27
#4c25 H.27
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H4 - from a large multi-institution survey: 14% of respondents reported being incorrectly accused of using genAI (mostly by Turnitin). That’s a lot of damage being done to students. #4C25
April 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
H4 - from a large multi-institution survey: 14% of respondents reported being incorrectly accused of using genAI (mostly by Turnitin). That’s a lot of damage being done to students. #4C25
Casie Cobos at #4c25 uses collaborative writing assignment with multimodal text composition with an emphasis on documenting process, individual justification & reflection👥💿Students reflect that process of documentation had them practicing writing structure for justification and reflection 📝 H.27
April 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Casie Cobos at #4c25 uses collaborative writing assignment with multimodal text composition with an emphasis on documenting process, individual justification & reflection👥💿Students reflect that process of documentation had them practicing writing structure for justification and reflection 📝 H.27
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If we teach technical writing as "prompt engineering," particularly to engage with tech as it stands right now--one specific platform and its imitators--we're not preparing students for how tech will evolve in the near future. (Sano-Franchini #4C25)
April 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If we teach technical writing as "prompt engineering," particularly to engage with tech as it stands right now--one specific platform and its imitators--we're not preparing students for how tech will evolve in the near future. (Sano-Franchini #4C25)
It’s the first time I’ve ever known anyone running for Senate, and Robert O Smith is the kind of ethical person who I’d want taking on a leadership position rosmith4senate.com
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March 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It’s the first time I’ve ever known anyone running for Senate, and Robert O Smith is the kind of ethical person who I’d want taking on a leadership position rosmith4senate.com
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Call it by its name: Trumpcession.
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Call it by its name: Trumpcession.
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The U.S. has been the strongest supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia. Yet with a series of blunt comments, President Trump now sounds more aligned with Russia than Ukraine.
Reversing U.S. policy, Trump attacks Zelenskyy, blames Ukraine for war with Russia
The U.S. has been the strongest supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia. Yet with a series of blunt comments, President Trump now sounds more aligned with Russia than Ukraine.
www.npr.org
February 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The U.S. has been the strongest supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia. Yet with a series of blunt comments, President Trump now sounds more aligned with Russia than Ukraine.
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If you ski in #oregon, you should know that Hoodoo Ski Area owner Chuck Shepard is a Jan 6 denier and fascist sympathizer. Read about it on his blog on Hoodoo’s site. No fascists in Oregon. Boycott Hoodoo.
skihoodoo.com/explore/chuck/
skihoodoo.com/explore/chuck/
Chuck's Page - Hoodoo Ski Area
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February 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
If you ski in #oregon, you should know that Hoodoo Ski Area owner Chuck Shepard is a Jan 6 denier and fascist sympathizer. Read about it on his blog on Hoodoo’s site. No fascists in Oregon. Boycott Hoodoo.
skihoodoo.com/explore/chuck/
skihoodoo.com/explore/chuck/
Heard a conservative opinion that political disagreements are only 10%, with most agreeing on 90% of things.
This seems like a rationalization to assuage guilt about the dehumanization of millions of people, the attack on education, democracy, and so much more that MAGA voters want to ignore 🤦🏽♂️
This seems like a rationalization to assuage guilt about the dehumanization of millions of people, the attack on education, democracy, and so much more that MAGA voters want to ignore 🤦🏽♂️
February 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Heard a conservative opinion that political disagreements are only 10%, with most agreeing on 90% of things.
This seems like a rationalization to assuage guilt about the dehumanization of millions of people, the attack on education, democracy, and so much more that MAGA voters want to ignore 🤦🏽♂️
This seems like a rationalization to assuage guilt about the dehumanization of millions of people, the attack on education, democracy, and so much more that MAGA voters want to ignore 🤦🏽♂️