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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 · 3h

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 · 3h

Cutie!

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 3h

Thank you!

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 3h

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

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 3d

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 · 10h

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

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

Protect her.

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

Nooooooo! I hate when that happens 😭

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 12h

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

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

Buses are how more than a million New Yorkers get to work, school, job interviews and appointments.

Especially in outerborough neighborhoods with no subway service, they're a lifeline.

And today, 1 in 5 New Yorkers struggle to afford the fare. It doesn't need to be this way.

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

This is one baller of a campaign! Talking to NYers on the slowest bus line 🤣🤣🤣

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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The City University of New York @cuny.edu · 12h

✨ CUNY Spring Forward wants you! Make $20 per hour from March to May working for one of NYC's top companies, non-profits or government offices.

🔗 Apply by Oct. 13: cuny.edu/springforward

CUNY Spring Forward graphic promoting paid internships for CUNY students in marketing, STEM, community services, and healthcare. Benefits include $20/hour, 15 hours weekly from March to May, resume experience, and networking. Apply by Oct. 13. Photo shows two students outside a building.

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

I spent the morning reading about slow scholarship and rethinking my plans for the next 2-3 years. While I didn't get words on the page, I thought long and slowly on how I can craft a better, healthier work practice for myself and others

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

Platanos are not fruit! Haha

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

Exacto!

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 12h

It's... it's something.

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

I love theory. It's my bread and butter. But even I know sending a judge Marx isn't going to help me keep my house!

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

A few years ago, I was representing a leftist family in foreclosure pro bono. I found a couple of procedural errors that I wanted to use to fight the foreclosure, but the clients said no because they believed it would have required us to concede the validity of the capitalist foreclosure process.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

The real news in this is the first sentence. “It is not exactly clear what UNC plans to use the faculty workload report for…”

I would argue that it is very clear. I have, in fact, argued that it is very clear.

John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 17h

“the average percentage of time that all faculty spend on teaching is 28 percent.”

As an adjunct, i spent — let me see, oh yeah — 100 PERCENT of my time on teaching.

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Workload report shows breakdown of time UNC faculty spend teaching, researching

It is not exactly clear what UNC plans to use the faculty workload report for, but some professors are confused about how the data was calculated.

www.dailytarheel.com

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

I went to a puppet show recently were the artist used an overhead projector and it was sooooo dope!

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

It's so wrong though. You do not eat a platano raw. Fruit can be eaten raw.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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

A yt dude I once dated tried to tell me that maduros were cooked fruit. I dumped him shortly after. My only regret was that I didn't dump him right then and there.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1d

I just heard someone say out loud “plantains are just vegan bananas” and I…

I don’t….

I’m not….

Gworl whut.

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

I finally managed to get it together and migrate!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

The reason people are targeting disabled people with prosthetics with the ‘clanker’ epithet on social media is because of ableism—not because of AI hate.
Disabled people get slurs, targeted harassment, epileptics get flashing gifs sent to them; I think it’s interesting how some people suddenly care.

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

You can order this excellent collection Latinx Comics Studies, which I have an essay in, from bookshop.org!

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