emma velez
@protestotoro.bsky.social
Chicanx Okie | decolonial feminist philosopher 🍉 | cry bby | views my own 🫀👁️🫁🧠🦷
book project: Orienting Historias
book project: Orienting Historias
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emma velez
@protestotoro.bsky.social
· Apr 20
Finally got to meet her in person 🌊💧😭💙🩵🧿
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Juana Alicia. 2004. La Llorona’s Sacred Waters
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Juana Alicia. 2004. La Llorona’s Sacred Waters
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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
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Somehow people will still balk when folks talk about how the roots of policing are slavery and anti Blackness.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Somehow people will still balk when folks talk about how the roots of policing are slavery and anti Blackness.
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"Juanito" shares, "I am an irrigator. Right now my job is to water the celery so it will be ready to harvest for Thanksgiving. It is thanks to us farm workers, and the hard work we do in the fields, the holiday produce which so many enjoy will be on our tables." #WeFeedYou
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Juanito" shares, "I am an irrigator. Right now my job is to water the celery so it will be ready to harvest for Thanksgiving. It is thanks to us farm workers, and the hard work we do in the fields, the holiday produce which so many enjoy will be on our tables." #WeFeedYou
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I ran into an advocate who told me that the 9 men detained from Canal Street last month struggled to find legal representation. Historically, Black immigrants experience disproportionately *more* removals than any other group. Anti-Black racism fuels US immigration in *every* way.
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I ran into an advocate who told me that the 9 men detained from Canal Street last month struggled to find legal representation. Historically, Black immigrants experience disproportionately *more* removals than any other group. Anti-Black racism fuels US immigration in *every* way.
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CHARLOTTE: “More than 20,000 students missed school Monday”
Standing up to Trump’s lawless ice goon raids
Standing up to Trump’s lawless ice goon raids
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
CHARLOTTE: “More than 20,000 students missed school Monday”
Standing up to Trump’s lawless ice goon raids
Standing up to Trump’s lawless ice goon raids
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Ana Mendieta should be a mere 77 years old today.
The Cuban American feminist artist was likely murdered by her husband at 36, in 1985.
May her memory and work be for a revolution. ❤️🔥
The Cuban American feminist artist was likely murdered by her husband at 36, in 1985.
May her memory and work be for a revolution. ❤️🔥
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ana Mendieta should be a mere 77 years old today.
The Cuban American feminist artist was likely murdered by her husband at 36, in 1985.
May her memory and work be for a revolution. ❤️🔥
The Cuban American feminist artist was likely murdered by her husband at 36, in 1985.
May her memory and work be for a revolution. ❤️🔥
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.”
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
University of Texas silent on Trump compact as deadline looms
Most other invited universities have rejected the administration’s offer tying priority federal funding to campus policy changes.
www.texastribune.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.”
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
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615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
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Last week at a daycare center in Chicago, employee Diana Santillana was violently abducted and detained by immigration agents in front of young children.
Tara Goodarzi’s three-year-old son witnessed the aftermath of the arrest.
Tara Goodarzi’s three-year-old son witnessed the aftermath of the arrest.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Last week at a daycare center in Chicago, employee Diana Santillana was violently abducted and detained by immigration agents in front of young children.
Tara Goodarzi’s three-year-old son witnessed the aftermath of the arrest.
Tara Goodarzi’s three-year-old son witnessed the aftermath of the arrest.
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A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I am forever proud to be a Clara Luper Scholar 💜✊🏽 excited to check this out next time I’m in OKC to visit fam
OKC just finished a memorial to honor the lunch counter sit-in that Clara Luper and her students did in 1958.
kfor.com/news/local/c...
kfor.com/news/local/c...
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I am forever proud to be a Clara Luper Scholar 💜✊🏽 excited to check this out next time I’m in OKC to visit fam
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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Resharing my essay on philosophy & Gendertrash from Hell in light of the reissue! blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Resharing my essay on philosophy & Gendertrash from Hell in light of the reissue! blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...
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“This is how you’re allowing them to treat the people taking care of our babies”
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“This is how you’re allowing them to treat the people taking care of our babies”
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
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just found out that Emma Goldman attended Freud’s lectures in the US and was removed for disruptive behavior and felt the need to pass it along
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
just found out that Emma Goldman attended Freud’s lectures in the US and was removed for disruptive behavior and felt the need to pass it along
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In an interview with a Palestinian asylum-seeker he told me he turned off his phone & wrapped it to avoid cyber surveillance tech, which was developed by Israel & tested on him & which has just been bought by ICE to use on Americans.
"None of us are free until all are free" is not a slogan.
"None of us are free until all are free" is not a slogan.
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
In an interview with a Palestinian asylum-seeker he told me he turned off his phone & wrapped it to avoid cyber surveillance tech, which was developed by Israel & tested on him & which has just been bought by ICE to use on Americans.
"None of us are free until all are free" is not a slogan.
"None of us are free until all are free" is not a slogan.
all power to the people ✊🏽🍎
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
all power to the people ✊🏽🍎
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Don’t ever let them tell you that hope is a bad thing, that the odds are so stacked against you that you will never win, that it is too late to change the world. What has happened today in New York can happen everywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Don’t ever let them tell you that hope is a bad thing, that the odds are so stacked against you that you will never win, that it is too late to change the world. What has happened today in New York can happen everywhere.