🪬Lina-Maria Murillo
@drlmmurillo.bsky.social
Historian. Feminist. RJ and Care.
Fearless Free Speech Encouraged. Associate Prof UT Austin. Opinions and posts are solely my own.
Fearless Free Speech Encouraged. Associate Prof UT Austin. Opinions and posts are solely my own.
Another amazing conversation with @SaadiaKhan for Immigrantly podcast about my book Fighting for Control! Check out out the episode in the link below! @uncpress.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Another amazing conversation with @SaadiaKhan for Immigrantly podcast about my book Fighting for Control! Check out out the episode in the link below! @uncpress.bsky.social
Thanks to the wonderful folks @scholars.org and the #NoJargon podcast for this amazing interview about my book Fighting for Control!
@uncpress.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.social
🎧 In this No Jargon podcast episode, @drlmmurillo.bsky.social discusses the history of reproductive rights in the U.S., particularly on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. She shares what history can teach us about defending reproductive freedom now.
🔗 Listen to the ep: scholars.org/podcast/past...
🔗 Listen to the ep: scholars.org/podcast/past...
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Thanks to the wonderful folks @scholars.org and the #NoJargon podcast for this amazing interview about my book Fighting for Control!
@uncpress.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.social
It was an absolute delight speaking to Lisa Hernandez for this No Jargon episode! Thank you for supporting my research and for talking about my book: Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands @uncpress.bsky.social
In our latest podcast episode, @drlmmurillo.bsky.social (@utaustin.bsky.social) explains how earlier attempts to control women's bodies still shape current laws, and shares what history can teach us about defending reproductive freedom now.
🎧 Listen to the episode now: scholars.org/podcast/past...
🎧 Listen to the episode now: scholars.org/podcast/past...
October 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It was an absolute delight speaking to Lisa Hernandez for this No Jargon episode! Thank you for supporting my research and for talking about my book: Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands @uncpress.bsky.social
The discourse is . But let's say we are "under-babied," an absolutely ridiculous phrase. But let's just say everyone starts making more babies. Does that mean they'll provide...
Dr Oz: "Turns out that about 1/3 families don't have the number of babies they desire. They're under-babied. So this president committed to address that during the campaign and he's delivering on that today."
October 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The discourse is . But let's say we are "under-babied," an absolutely ridiculous phrase. But let's just say everyone starts making more babies. Does that mean they'll provide...
Had a fantastic conversation with @juliekohler.bsky.social host of White Picket Fence about the history of pronatalism, white demographic decline, nativism, and eugenics. Check it out here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
October 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Had a fantastic conversation with @juliekohler.bsky.social host of White Picket Fence about the history of pronatalism, white demographic decline, nativism, and eugenics. Check it out here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Manufacturing a crisis so they can label "protests as terrorism" is as Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social explains it "directly out of an authoritarian playbook." In solidarity with my historian colleague and comrade, Mark Bray.
Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Manufacturing a crisis so they can label "protests as terrorism" is as Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social explains it "directly out of an authoritarian playbook." In solidarity with my historian colleague and comrade, Mark Bray.
Xenophobia is not new. We've fought it before, and we'll fight it again. I'll be in conversation with Adam Goodman, historian and author of The Deportation Machine. We'll be in Iowa City on Friday, October 3. Check out the flyer for more details.
September 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Xenophobia is not new. We've fought it before, and we'll fight it again. I'll be in conversation with Adam Goodman, historian and author of The Deportation Machine. We'll be in Iowa City on Friday, October 3. Check out the flyer for more details.
September 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Xenophobia is not new. We've fought it before, and we'll fight it again. I'll be in conversation with Adam Goodman, historian and author of The Deportation Machine. We'll be in Iowa City on Friday, October 3. Check out the flyer for more details.
Tell me again how Turning Points USA was simply engaging in honest debates and NOT fomenting violence.
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FSU Shooter Phoenix Ikner Linked To Pro-Trump Turning Point
An FSU shooting survivor told NBC that Phoenix Ikner was a member of the pro-Trump Turning Point USA and held "White Supremacist" views.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Tell me again how Turning Points USA was simply engaging in honest debates and NOT fomenting violence.
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www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
Reposted by 🪬Lina-Maria Murillo
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Thank you @marisakabas.bsky.social for sending the email I could not muster because of rage. Klein wrote the most tone deaf and potentially dangerous white washing OpEd exalting CK's career as more than being a just a right-wing troll.
i hope that, knowing what he know now, he feels like a fucking fool.
i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Thank you @marisakabas.bsky.social for sending the email I could not muster because of rage. Klein wrote the most tone deaf and potentially dangerous white washing OpEd exalting CK's career as more than being a just a right-wing troll.
If you're in or near Durham next week, join me and the marvelous western women's historian Sarah Deutsch for a conversation about my book! Details are in the link below!
@uncpress.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.social
Book Conversation with Lina‑María Murillo: "Reproductive Justice, Health, and Activism in the Borderlands"
Join us for a conversation between historians Lina-María Murillo and Sarah Deutsch. Drawing from her new book "Fighting for Control" (UNC Press, 2025), Murillo will explore the long arc of reproductiv...
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September 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If you're in or near Durham next week, join me and the marvelous western women's historian Sarah Deutsch for a conversation about my book! Details are in the link below!
@uncpress.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.social
What a thrill to be a part of this new cohort of @prri.org Public Fellows! 🥳
We’re excited to introduce the 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellows cohort! 🎉 Meet 12 public scholars conducting innovative research that explores religion’s intersection with immigration, racial justice, reproductive health and rights, and LGBTQ rights.
Learn more here: prri.org/press-releas...
Learn more here: prri.org/press-releas...
August 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What a thrill to be a part of this new cohort of @prri.org Public Fellows! 🥳
If you're still wondering how to help #Palestinians in #Gaza, there are trusted mutual aid folks doing great work. A dear friend is helping with this family...
www.gofundme.com/f/feed-marwa...
www.gofundme.com/f/feed-marwa...
Donate to Feed Marwa’s Children in Gaza (see update), organized by Kelly McKay
My name is Kelly McKay, I'm a social worker and humanitarian living in New York… Kelly McKay needs your support for Feed Marwa’s Children in Gaza (see update)
www.gofundme.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you're still wondering how to help #Palestinians in #Gaza, there are trusted mutual aid folks doing great work. A dear friend is helping with this family...
www.gofundme.com/f/feed-marwa...
www.gofundme.com/f/feed-marwa...
Reposted by 🪬Lina-Maria Murillo
Frmr UI prof @drlmmurillo.bsky.social writes Iowa anti-DEI crusade isn’t preventing division, but rather preventing thinking that might expose uncomfortable truths.
“They don’t have any real solutions, which is why they don’t want you asking questions in the first place.”
“They don’t have any real solutions, which is why they don’t want you asking questions in the first place.”
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August 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Frmr UI prof @drlmmurillo.bsky.social writes Iowa anti-DEI crusade isn’t preventing division, but rather preventing thinking that might expose uncomfortable truths.
“They don’t have any real solutions, which is why they don’t want you asking questions in the first place.”
“They don’t have any real solutions, which is why they don’t want you asking questions in the first place.”
Hi friends! I wrote a long-ish piece about DEI, history, and higher education in Iowa. Read & share. Thank you!
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www.linammurillo.com/_files/ugd/0...
www.linammurillo.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Hi friends! I wrote a long-ish piece about DEI, history, and higher education in Iowa. Read & share. Thank you!
www.linammurillo.com/_files/ugd/0...
www.linammurillo.com/_files/ugd/0...
Reposted by 🪬Lina-Maria Murillo
Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
August 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
At the intersections of immigration and religion, this fantastic essay by Carlos Ruiz Martinez, doctoral candidate in religious studies at UI.
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Mass Deportation | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
On July 8, 2025, Alberto Rojas, the Bishop of San Bernardino, offered a dispensation to faithful in his diocese from the holy Catholic obligation of attending Mass. This dispensation extends to those ...
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August 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
At the intersections of immigration and religion, this fantastic essay by Carlos Ruiz Martinez, doctoral candidate in religious studies at UI.
arcmag.org/mass-deporta...
arcmag.org/mass-deporta...
IOWA!!! CALL HER OFFICE!202-225-6576
She needs to know that this bill will HARM thousands of Iowans and millions of Americans across the country. Pro-life? Not if you're taking away people's healthcare & food assistance!
She needs to know that this bill will HARM thousands of Iowans and millions of Americans across the country. Pro-life? Not if you're taking away people's healthcare & food assistance!
Mariannette Miller-Meeks: "If you choose not work, then that is your choice. You need to take some responsibility for yourself instead of asking your 55-year-old neighbor to keep working so you can get free stuff."
July 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
IOWA!!! CALL HER OFFICE!202-225-6576
She needs to know that this bill will HARM thousands of Iowans and millions of Americans across the country. Pro-life? Not if you're taking away people's healthcare & food assistance!
She needs to know that this bill will HARM thousands of Iowans and millions of Americans across the country. Pro-life? Not if you're taking away people's healthcare & food assistance!
I'm elated to have accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin beginning this fall!!!
July 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I'm elated to have accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin beginning this fall!!!
Friends! If you know of books who may qualify for this prize, SIGN THEM UP!!! deadline is July 1!
#womenalsoknowhistory
#womenalsoknowhistory
June 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Friends! If you know of books who may qualify for this prize, SIGN THEM UP!!! deadline is July 1!
#womenalsoknowhistory
#womenalsoknowhistory
Friends! If you're in Hanover or nearby, I'll be at Dartmouth giving a book talk this afternoon! @uncpress.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Friends! If you're in Hanover or nearby, I'll be at Dartmouth giving a book talk this afternoon! @uncpress.bsky.social
Trying to fight for my job.
What have you been told is “unprofessional”?
May 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Trying to fight for my job.
#JPPseries @uncpress.bsky.social publish some of the most outstanding, cutting-edge history in the field right now. Honored and proud to be among so many distinguished scholars. Thank you, @dawnd.bsky.social, for the love this morning! 🥰
In FIGHTING FOR CONTROL, @drlmmurillo.bsky.social reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their communities. #JPPseries
Fighting for Control | Lina-Maria Murillo | University of North Carolina Press
The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez ...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
#JPPseries @uncpress.bsky.social publish some of the most outstanding, cutting-edge history in the field right now. Honored and proud to be among so many distinguished scholars. Thank you, @dawnd.bsky.social, for the love this morning! 🥰