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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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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning. Keep your empty land acknowledgements. Give back the land and waters that have been stolen. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 4h

No a word on their part!

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 15h

Did anyone know it was out???

demotivational speaker. 💕 @heysita.bsky.social · 20h

‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ earned $840,000 in its opening weekend.

The film had a $34 million dollar budget.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 15h

First time I was on the job market was 2019-2020 and I had my Twitter account public, got a job offer. When I went back on the market the next year, I made it private. Also got a job offer.

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 15h

I shitposted my way into a job.

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 21h

The number of ppl who told me I needed a "brand" when I was finishing up my PhD and during my postdoc... 💀

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 15h

Puzzles? 😂😂😂

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 22h

Just a reminder that most academics are not making oodles of money from their university press books. For some reason, people think I am making bank with my Illinois book. I am not rich by any means.

Some make money with trade press books, but that isn't all of us. Thank you.
Adieu!

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 15h

My next baking project!

Countess Strawberry Gumdrop 💐🍀🌼🌷👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾🌷🌼🍀💐 @afarray.bsky.social · 20h

Brooklyn Blackout Cake

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Brooklyn Blackout Cake • The Lost Recipe!

Brooklyn Blackout Cake: a mysterious mid-century dessert with a cult following , and a pretty spectacular chocolate cake, no matter how you slice it!

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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 18h

YESSSSSS

FUCK BLUESKY FOREVER.

FREE LINK!

Clinton Bowen @torrho.blacksky.team · 2d

Correct! This week we built a fallback mechanism to query slingshot, constellation, and the PDS directly.

For now it is limited "read only". Soon enough you'll be able to interact with Link on blacksky.community

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 16h

The lines could have been cleaner on my mine but thank you. Nice idea on the pie filling!

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 17h

This weekends baking: devils food cake with salted chocolate frosting

A two layered, square chocolate cake with chocolate frosting with a knife nearby.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 22h

I hope your sister's surgery goes well!

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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

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

So it never goes away 😅

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is in Jamaica Queens now

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

My toddler also headbutted me this week and broke my glasses. They also headbutted my partner in the nose, brought a 6'3" man to his knees!

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

well, here is a way to feel incredibly self-confident in a photo.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 2d

On October 24, 2025 @ 2:00 I'll be on the panel "Activismo y educación en los Cómics puertorriqueños" as part of the 2025 FILNYC (La Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York).

Conversatorios | Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York

CONVERSATORIOS 2025

filnyc.org

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

That's how you know she lived a good life!

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

BLESS run them all off lol no polite(ish) society for you!!!

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2d

lmao that lady who posted the blatant ai news slop and dug in all day refusing to delete it apparently deleted her *whole account*

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

As do I!

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 2d

Trying not to have imposter syndrome in two languages 😅

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 2d

On October 24, 2025 @ 2:00 I'll be on the panel "Activismo y educación en los Cómics puertorriqueños" as part of the 2025 FILNYC (La Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York).

Conversatorios | Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York

CONVERSATORIOS 2025

filnyc.org

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 2d

Everyone is clowning on my egg carton pic 🤣🤣🤣