Tag: Puerto Rico

  • Resisting Debt and Colonial Disaster in Post-Maria Puerto Rico

    Guest editorial published: Marisol LeBrón & Javier Arbona. The Funambulist 16 (March-April 2018) – Proletarian Fortresses.

  • How to not discuss Puerto Rico…

    The American Studies Association, of which I am a member, had a statement on the situation in Puerto Rico, and for me, to be honest… It was not a good statement. I’ll paste here and edit something I posted previously on social media: With some very good scholars on the Executive Committee, no one apparently…

  • Corre, Ve y Huele – Radio UC Davis

    Estuve de invitado con Diana Aramburu del Departamento de Español en el programa Corre, Ve y Huele por KDVS, hablando de nuestros nuevos puesto e investigaciones, además de la situación política de Puerto Rico y los puertorriqueños. Descarga el MP3 aquí.

  • Queer Boricua Geopolitics and the Pulse Shooting

      Queer anthropology’s focus must turn attention to these understandings of the queer geopolitical if we are to understand how homosexuality gets attached to values whether or not they have anything to do with actual lived experiences of LGBT, homosexual, or non-heterosexual peoples.  Tamar Shirinian, “The Queer Political is Geopolitical” In the colony, the “world”…