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Thanksgiving is a tough holiday for many Native people. Like Columbus Day, it finds a way to make the erasure of Native folks central to its mission, by omission or otherwise. I had an op-ed in TruthOut to mark the occasion. It starts like this: Thanksgiving is a colonial holiday
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In a recent round of tweet media, conservative Latino writer Giancarlo Sopo cites a new poll that found that only 2% of those surveyed preferred Latinx as a marker of ethnicity, countering that “it is unclear what led progressive activists to believe “Latinx” is necessary”. https://www.theblaze.com/news/
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I’m so happy. I can’t even describe it. My book is now a physical object. It smells like glue and the pages have texture. The cover is hard and white and gold. In the future, people will put their coffee cups on it and then realize that it
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I live-tweeted the recent Native American Presidential Forum, and after receiving numerous press inquiries–including for this piece in the Times–I decided to put some of my thoughts together in a more cohesive and personal way. Here is an op-ed on Warren’s almost-apology that Protean Mag published. The
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I had a great time over at Hyperallergic being interviewed about queerness, decolonial practices, art, and ongoing struggles for liberation. We discussed the history of Wall Street as a border wall, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Argentine Homosexual Liberation Front, and the GLQ special issue that I am editing with
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I have an op-ed out now in Hyperallergic about an incident of cultural appropriation at this year’s WorldPride in NYC. This was really hard to write. And I’m not sure I managed to be as precise or nuanced as I wanted, but I’m glad it’s out
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I have an essay out in Revista Anfibia (in Spanish) about Claudia Rodríguez, her visit to NYC and Stony Brook University, and the affective fields at play in travesti politics across contexts. You can read it here. Here’s the opening: – ¿De qué tienen que hablar las travestis? Claudia Rodríguez
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I wrote a short review/reflection on Alfonso Cuarón’s recent film, Roma, which was published in Indian Country Today. I don’t know why, but the review has been deleted or removed from ICT, but you can read it here. Roma is a Beautiful Film of Indigenous Erasure Roma
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I had the great fortune to be able to work with two other Cherokee writer/activist/scholars (Adrienne Keene and Rebecca Nagle) on a syllabus that contextualizes Elizabeth Warren’s recent claims to Cherokee ancestry. The document is up on the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal blog. So check it out
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This is not the feeling of failure. Not injustice. Not fear. Not doubt. It is the grinding of justice out of the bodies of women–justice that is based on turning women into bodies, on turning women into matter, into the fleshly abundance of femininity that serves to remind them
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This short piece just came out in Portal, the magazine of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. I am glad to have had the chance to reflect on the past year’s administrative crazy at SBU, and will be writing a postdata to this text to bring it up
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Marshall LaCount Quieter Places On view July 20 to October 18, 2018 Noon to 9PM Exhibit Salon 182 Driggs, Ave. Brooklyn, NY “I’m fine,” he offered, wryly. It was not so much a story about hitchhiking across the country as about the vulnerabilities that emerge in the course of