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We shouldn’t be surprised. At any of this. We should have seen it coming. Surprise is not the right word. But neither is outrage, really. Are we outraged at the images of caged children? Children placed in detention centers that are not really detention centers. Children separated from mothers
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I am thrilled to see that this edited book is coming out now. What began as a series of panels at the LASA Congress in Chicago in 2016 has now transformed into an edited collection that brings together activists, artists, and academics around some of the most pressing issues regarding
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This isn’t so much a novel about bodies, but a novel that embodies. Whitehead places the reader as witness of the carnal embodiment of queer desire as it attaches to tendrils of cigarette smoke, sweat, memory, and fantasy. It is a text that lingers. The feeling that stuck with
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At the end of the spring 2018 semester a student asked me why there were no courses at Stony Brook University specifically focused on Latinas. I thought for a second, but I didn’t have an answer. I knew that the university has declined on several occasions to fund a
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Critical Ethnic Studies is a journal that I really love. They have a great team, publish new and established voices, are run by folks of color, have a slick social media presence (this is the first time I’ve been ‘quoted’ as in the image above), and encourage ethical citation
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Fall 2017 Graduate Seminar Thirst: Sex and Being This course will investigate diverse ways of desiring, sexuality, and being. It is about the appetites that populate our lives—on which we depend for survival—, as well as those that have inspired historical moments of conflict. Thirst in this course is