Isabel Millán
@imillan.bsky.social
Author of Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature (2023, NYU Press) & Chabelita's Heart (2022, Reflection Press). Associate Professor, WGSS, U of Oregon 🌈 🍉 www.isabelmillan.com
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Isabel Millán
@imillan.bsky.social
· Feb 22
NOW AVAILABLE: Updated edition of When a Bully is President by Maya Gonzalez (Reflection Press). 🍉 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
And if you are thinking of teaching this book, see Maya's Reader's Guide or read my analysis of the original in Feminist Formations 36, no. 2 (2024).
And if you are thinking of teaching this book, see Maya's Reader's Guide or read my analysis of the original in Feminist Formations 36, no. 2 (2024).
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The federal government shutdown will stop food aid Nov. 1 for some 42 million Americans, the latest blow for low-income families already struggling with rising costs and shrinking federal benefits.
Food banks brace for 42 million without SNAP
The gap will be impossible to fill, those working to feed the nation's neediest said.
www.axios.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The federal government shutdown will stop food aid Nov. 1 for some 42 million Americans, the latest blow for low-income families already struggling with rising costs and shrinking federal benefits.
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When Trump invited 9 elite universities to exchange blind loyalty for favoritism and federal funding, the AFT, the @aaup.org and academics across the nation called it out for what it was: a blatant attempt to control higher education. @afthighered.bsky.social
Universities roundly reject Trump’s loyalty oath
When the Trump administration invited nine elite universities to exchange blind loyalty for favoritism and federal funding, the AFT, the American Association of University Professors and academics acr...
www.aft.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
When Trump invited 9 elite universities to exchange blind loyalty for favoritism and federal funding, the AFT, the @aaup.org and academics across the nation called it out for what it was: a blatant attempt to control higher education. @afthighered.bsky.social
Look up events in your cities: www.nokings.org#map
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Look up events in your cities: www.nokings.org#map
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SANA SANA! My latest for CALÓ News! Please support my work at calonews.com/donate #portland
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
SANA SANA! My latest for CALÓ News! Please support my work at calonews.com/donate #portland
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"The book is called, Read This When Things Fall Apart. I read it when things fell apart. It cradled me when I fell apart ... This book will have wisdom for you. May it hold you the way it held me."
I Read This When Things Fell Apart and You Should, Too
You don’t have to be an organizer or activist to read this book. It will have wisdom for you.
whogivesafocal.ghost.io
October 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"The book is called, Read This When Things Fall Apart. I read it when things fell apart. It cradled me when I fell apart ... This book will have wisdom for you. May it hold you the way it held me."
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Now is the Time to Speak up for Justice
YouTube video by Justice Connection
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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That’s a wrap. Thank you for fighting censorship with us! Let's keep this momentum going until we gather again October 4-10, 2026, because every week is #BannedBooksWeek and we are stronger TOGETHER!
#CensorshipIsSo1984
#CensorshipIsSo1984
October 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
That’s a wrap. Thank you for fighting censorship with us! Let's keep this momentum going until we gather again October 4-10, 2026, because every week is #BannedBooksWeek and we are stronger TOGETHER!
#CensorshipIsSo1984
#CensorshipIsSo1984
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.
'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"
'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.
'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"
'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"
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We're just a month away from this year's Banned Books Week, October 5-11! Join us to remind the world that Censorship Is So 1984! www.ala.org/news/2025/09...
September 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We're just a month away from this year's Banned Books Week, October 5-11! Join us to remind the world that Censorship Is So 1984! www.ala.org/news/2025/09...
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August 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
🤩 Just a few days left to receive 60% off of Coloring into Existence or other books from NYU Press. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎 Use code NYU60 at checkout (expires 8/31/25). Link: nyupress.org/978147981698...
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Palestinian children who have lost parents were overcome with emotion as they graduated in a ceremony at Gaza's al-Wafaa Orphan Village.
The UN says Israel has damaged 97% of educational facilities in the besieged enclave.
The UN says Israel has damaged 97% of educational facilities in the besieged enclave.
August 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Palestinian children who have lost parents were overcome with emotion as they graduated in a ceremony at Gaza's al-Wafaa Orphan Village.
The UN says Israel has damaged 97% of educational facilities in the besieged enclave.
The UN says Israel has damaged 97% of educational facilities in the besieged enclave.
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The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
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This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
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Today, President Trump signed a bill into law that will eliminate $1.1B of federal funding for public media. This devastating act tipped the threat against journalism in America into a crisis.
Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.
Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq
Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.
Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq
July 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Today, President Trump signed a bill into law that will eliminate $1.1B of federal funding for public media. This devastating act tipped the threat against journalism in America into a crisis.
Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.
Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq
Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you.
Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq
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this is so fucking awful. we must mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living. not one more!
July 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
this is so fucking awful. we must mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living. not one more!
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Five years after the passing of civil rights icon U.S. Rep. John Lewis, we're coming together on July 17 to participate in “Good Trouble Lives On” events.
Find an event near you to join us in honoring Lewis’ legacy & demanding a future where all our families can thrive: go.aft.org/good-trouble
Find an event near you to join us in honoring Lewis’ legacy & demanding a future where all our families can thrive: go.aft.org/good-trouble
July 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Five years after the passing of civil rights icon U.S. Rep. John Lewis, we're coming together on July 17 to participate in “Good Trouble Lives On” events.
Find an event near you to join us in honoring Lewis’ legacy & demanding a future where all our families can thrive: go.aft.org/good-trouble
Find an event near you to join us in honoring Lewis’ legacy & demanding a future where all our families can thrive: go.aft.org/good-trouble
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.
Federal agents handcuff and detain New York City mayoral candidate
Brad Lander was taken into custody at an immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
www.motherjones.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.
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Around 2,000 protests were planned on Saturday in opposition to President Donald Trump. Large crowds turned out in cities like Portland, Denver, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles – and in smaller communities in traditionally conservative areas.
Small towns and large cities, red states and blue states: ‘No Kings’ protesters march in communities around the country
Around 2,000 protests were planned on Saturday in opposition to President Donald Trump. Large crowds turned out in cities like Portland, Denver, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles – and in smaller communities in traditionally conservative areas.
www.oregonlive.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Around 2,000 protests were planned on Saturday in opposition to President Donald Trump. Large crowds turned out in cities like Portland, Denver, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles – and in smaller communities in traditionally conservative areas.
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2025 is often considered an off-year for elections—but there are over 70,000 nonpartisan open seats on the ballot for things like school boards and city councils; major mayoral and gubernatorial races; special congressional elections; and more.
The Best Birthday Gift for Trump? Voting in Every 2025 Election - Ms. Magazine
A compilation about women's representation in politics, sports and entertainment, judicial offices and the private sector—with a little gardening mixed in!
msmagazine.com
June 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
2025 is often considered an off-year for elections—but there are over 70,000 nonpartisan open seats on the ballot for things like school boards and city councils; major mayoral and gubernatorial races; special congressional elections; and more.