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Larry La Fountain
@larrylafountain.bsky.social
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Professor at the University of Michigan. Author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (2021) + Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Coeditor Keywords for Latina/o Studies. On sabbatical this year. 🇵🇷 🌈
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 6d
Tropical Precarity: Contemporary Dance and Performance in Puerto Rico
Film Screening & Panel Discussion
WEDNESDAY, OCT 8 4:30-6:30 PM
THURSDAY, OCT 9 4:00-6:00 PM
Funded by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research and the Arts Initiative.
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Em, Rat Queen 🐀🏳️‍⚧️ @ratqueenem.bsky.social · 6d
Yesterday; the Puerto Rican government officially banned plan Vital (the equivalent of Medicaid, for PR) from covering gender affirming care for patients of ANY age.

Instead of focusing on our unreliable power grids or cost of living, they go after the trans community.

This will hurt people.
Govt letter from the PR government, banning the state insurance from covering gender affirming for ANY age.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 12d
Rest in power. Descansa en los brazos de tus ancestras Assata.
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 6d
Fallece Javier Santiago, fundador de la Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular. El historiador nacido en San Juan dedicó casi tres décadas de su vida a la difusión de la música, las letras y las tradiciones populares de Puerto Rico.

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 9d
Lenchitudes: Sapphic Representation in Contemporary Mexican Narrative (SUNY Press, Genders in the Global South, January 2026) by Alejandra Márquez. sunypress.edu/Books/L/Lenc...
Lenchitudes
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Jose Atiles @joseatiles.bsky.social · 16d
A little late to share, but my new article in Third World Quarterly explores Puerto Rico’s offshore finance center and the privatization of beaches. It’s part of my ongoing research on offshore finance and the legal imaginations of paradise.
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Who owns Puerto Rico’s beaches? Law, extractivism, and the political economy of paradise
Puerto Rican beaches are central to sociolegal debates on economic development, tax policies, luxury real estate and climate change. Despite being constitutionally public, access to many of the 122...
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Jose Atiles @joseatiles.bsky.social · 15d
Check out my latest op-ed in Latino News Network on how economic warfare is reshaping US interventionism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Written as part of my work as part of The OpEd Project 2025–26 Public Voices Fellow. latinonewsnetwork.com/community/th...
The New Face of US Interventionism: Economic Warfare in Brazil - Latino News Network
How the U.S. has historically used economic warfare in Latin America and the Caribbean, the current use of tariffs as a tool of political punishment marks a new phase.
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 11d
Esperanza y disidencia de ida y vuelta en un arranque de Cosmopoética con acento caribeño: Mayra Santos-Febres y Junot Díaz cordopolis.eldiario.es/1_c0d2d5?utm...
Esperanza y disidencia de ida y vuelta en un arranque de Cosmopoética con acento caribeño
El Premio Pulitzer dominicano Junot Díaz y la escritora puertorriqueña Mayra Santos-Febres ofrecieron optimismo ante un panorama internacional complejo en el inicio del festival
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 12d
Online Puerto Rican Studies Association Symposium, Friday, October 10, 2025, online.

NARRANDO Y ARCHIVANDO NUESTRAS HISTORIAS: INTERROGANDO EL CAMPO DE LOS ESTUDIOS PUERTORRIQUEÑOS

TO REGISTER (RSVP):
tinyurl.com/PRSA25
PANELS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 12d
How Coco Fusco’s Poetic Performances Reshaped Contemporary Art. The first U.S. survey of the Cuban American artist’s films, photographs and installations explore her critical take on political culture. By Holland Cotter in the New York Times. (GIFT ARTICLE)

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How Coco Fusco’s Poetic Performances Reshaped Contemporary Art
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 13d
MARSHA P. JOHNSON, TRANSLOCA
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 14d
Regresa a escena “Prometea cansada”, una obra de la puertorriqueña Teresa Hernández sobre el cansancio contemporáneo. Pronto en el Teatro Victoria Espinosa. Por Víctor Ramos Rosado - via @elnuevodia.bsky.social www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimie...
Regresa a escena “Prometea cansada”, una obra sobre el cansancio contemporáneo
La acogida de las presentaciones originales de la pieza motivó a la artista a volver a llevarla a escena
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 14d
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame seeks a tenure-track assistant professor who specializes in Afro Latin America. joblist.mla.org/job/2000392/...
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University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social · 15d
"This book is rigorous in its scholarship, but it also pulses with life, with drag, with joy, and with grief." Check out this wonderful review of @larrylafountain.bsky.social 2021 book "Translocas" from the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social! Read: buff.ly/WjJLQnm
The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes has written something that is part history, part theory, and part love letter. At its heart, Translocas is a meditation on the
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 15d
THANKS!
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 15d
patería/ makoumé/ kambrada/ friend & family
A SMALL AXE @smallaxeproject.bsky.social VIDEO

Contributors
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@larrylafountain.bsky.social

Moderated by
@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social @vanessayperez.bsky.social

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 15d
Ecologies of Migration
October 1, 2025
2:00-3:30PM
LSA Building Room 1040, Multipurpose Room
500 S. State St.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 15d
The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

Mick Muerte reviews Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes’ “Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance” in the Pittsburgh Review of Books (September 19, 2025).

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 15d
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Coco Fusco, artista conceptual y ‘performer’: “A mí no me interesa la problemática de la belleza, me interesan las relaciones de poder”
La artista cubanoamericana presenta en el Museo del Barrio de Nueva York la exposición ‘Tomorrow, I will become an island’, donde recopila por primera vez en Estados Unidos 30 años de trabajo
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 15d
Prometea Cansada de Teresa Hernández

Prometea Cansada nos recuerda que ese destino es aún más agotador para las mujeres, quienes cargan el peso mayor de la catástrofe.

Teatro Victoria Espinosa
San Juan, Puerto Rico

September 26-28, 2025

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 15d
Residual: irse sin dejar rastro – reúne tejidos de performance acuerpados por seres vitales en el ecosistema de la performance, desde un lente afrocentrado.

9/26/25 Recepción
9/27/25 Artist/Curatorial Talk

El Schomburg, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo
2538 W Division St
Chicago
www.elschomburg.com
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 16d
Michigan Arts Festival Calendar
September 25–October 26, 2025
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 16d
¡Tan delicioso! ¡El mejor lugar! “Este negocio está bendecido”: El Hamburguer mantiene su fórmula de más de 60 años - via @elnuevodia.bsky.social www.elnuevodia.com/negocios/emp...
“Este negocio está bendecido”: El Hamburguer mantiene su fórmula de más de 60 años
El restaurante que quedó en manos de los hermanos del fundador José Caraballo Tirado, se mantiene operando con empleados que llevan más de 30 años
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 17d
Tremenda crónica por Víctor Ramos Rosado de la última noche en la casita: Bad Bunny abre el camino para un nuevo Puerto Rico - via @elnuevodia.bsky.social

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Crónica de la última noche en la casita: Bad Bunny abre el camino para un nuevo Puerto Rico
La residencia del artista, que terminó en el aniversario del paso del huracán María, marca un antes y un después en la historia del país
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 17d
Presentación del libro FABULACIONES de Rafael Trelles, editado por Editora Educación Emergente.

jueves, 2 de octubre de 2025
Cine Teatro, Museo de San Juan, PR
7:00pm

Con Antonio Martorell, Enrique Cárdenas, Teresa Hernández, Kairiana Núñez Santaliz y Rafael Trelles.

GRATIS Y ABIERTO AL PÚBLICO