Rita M. Palacios
@rmpalacios.bsky.social
maya lit/guatemalan lit scholar | language prof | ella/she/her 🏳️🌈
October 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Career Advice | Toward a Trauma-Informed Writing Process
What if writer’s block is not something to “push through”—but instead a bodily response worth listening to and attending to with care, Aurora Chang asks. https://bit.ly/42WhYtq
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
What if writer’s block is not something to “push through”—but instead a bodily response worth listening to and attending to with care, Aurora Chang asks. https://bit.ly/42WhYtq
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Career Advice | Toward a Trauma-Informed Writing Process
What if writer’s block is not something to “push through”—but instead a bodily response worth listening to and attending to with care, Aurora Chang asks. https://bit.ly/42WhYtq
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
What if writer’s block is not something to “push through”—but instead a bodily response worth listening to and attending to with care, Aurora Chang asks. https://bit.ly/42WhYtq
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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grist.org/language/nat... because you have no true relation to Mother Earth
The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.
We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them.
grist.org
September 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
grist.org/language/nat... because you have no true relation to Mother Earth
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The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.
Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
www.bostonreview.net
September 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.
Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
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Oxford continued to use a human skull donated in 1946 by a noted fascist as a drinking vessel until *2015* only to then claim that they dealt with the matter "ethically and thoughtfully." British colonialism in a nutshell.
April 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Oxford continued to use a human skull donated in 1946 by a noted fascist as a drinking vessel until *2015* only to then claim that they dealt with the matter "ethically and thoughtfully." British colonialism in a nutshell.
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Prof Oyèrónké Oyewùmí on Yoruba ontologies of gender and the effect of colonisation on them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1V...
Oyèrónké Oyewùmí: “I use gender to illustrate the impact of colonisation”
YouTube video by CCCB
www.youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Prof Oyèrónké Oyewùmí on Yoruba ontologies of gender and the effect of colonisation on them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1V...
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I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:
March 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:
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Hey #ArtAdventCalendar followers, here's one from a few years ago all about #biodiversity loss, called "In The Red"
sperlingmosaics.com/2019/05/thei...
sperlingmosaics.com/2019/05/thei...
December 11, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Hey #ArtAdventCalendar followers, here's one from a few years ago all about #biodiversity loss, called "In The Red"
sperlingmosaics.com/2019/05/thei...
sperlingmosaics.com/2019/05/thei...
This 👇🏽 This year alone I’ve read/listened to 61 books (working on 62 + 63 right now), all from our local library. Not to mention access to digital magazines (Harper’s, Cook’s illustrated, etc).
I finally got a library card like 2 weeks ago. I had no idea how much online stuff they had available! I've been renting books nonstop on my Kindle. Support your local library!
I added “get a library card” to my bio since 50% of my presence on here is just telling y’all to support public libraries 💀
December 11, 2024 at 1:57 PM
This 👇🏽 This year alone I’ve read/listened to 61 books (working on 62 + 63 right now), all from our local library. Not to mention access to digital magazines (Harper’s, Cook’s illustrated, etc).
Today I’m attending a Climate Science Bootcamp at the Waterloo Climate Institute. I’m feeling both excited and filled with dread 🥹
December 5, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Today I’m attending a Climate Science Bootcamp at the Waterloo Climate Institute. I’m feeling both excited and filled with dread 🥹
Oooof
Sheridan College to suspend 40 programs, reduce staff amid international student cap
Sheridan College to suspend 40 programs, reduce staff amid international student cap – CP24
An Ontario college is suspending dozens of its programs and reducing its staff, citing a shift in government policy and expected decline in enrolment as factors in what it described as an “organizational change.”
www.cp24.com
November 27, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Oooof
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Ajuda en español a entender esta plataforma
November 15, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Ajuda en español a entender esta plataforma
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Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
November 15, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
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I’m putting together an Iberian & Latin American Studies (literature, film, and history) Starter Pack for those of us migrating from the other site. I’ll be updating the list as more join!
go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg
go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg
November 10, 2024 at 9:58 PM
I’m putting together an Iberian & Latin American Studies (literature, film, and history) Starter Pack for those of us migrating from the other site. I’ll be updating the list as more join!
go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg
go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg
So are we all here now?
snoopy is giving a speech in front of a microphone while sitting at a desk .
ALT: snoopy is giving a speech in front of a microphone while sitting at a desk .
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM
So are we all here now?
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Decoloniality is destruction/reconstruction. It means refusing complicity (e.g., Boaventura supporters), while recognizing “that what [needs] to be repaired is irreparable. It can’t be repaired. The only thing we can do is tear this shit down completely and build something new.
September 13, 2023 at 1:11 PM
Decoloniality is destruction/reconstruction. It means refusing complicity (e.g., Boaventura supporters), while recognizing “that what [needs] to be repaired is irreparable. It can’t be repaired. The only thing we can do is tear this shit down completely and build something new.