by Alexandra Hidalgo
“Bad Bunny didn’t only call out the Spanish-speaking countries like they do in “Plástico.” He called out every country in the Americas, climbing up the map all the way from Chile to Canada. He reminded us that we’re a joined mass of land inhabited by an interconnected group of people.”
by: Alexander Slotkin
“If storytelling is about creating relationships, then it’s also about surviving and ensuring that our culture lives on. If we continue to tell and share our story even after losing access to our ancestral land, then we can continue to live l’dor v’dor, from generation to generation. And if storytelling produces and reproduces culture, then the decision by Iraqi and other Mizrahi Jews to tell our stories is also an act of survival.”
By Amy Wan
“When I received this damning review, I wasn’t sure how I was going to be able to move forward. I was two years into a tenure track job where I was the only writing person and one of the only faculty of color in the department. I did not want to show any weakness at this moment in my career but I was struggling.”
by Mariam Mohammed
“I realized that navigating new academic and cultural landscapes as an international student often means confronting vulnerabilities that challenge both personal and academic boundaries. For me, pushing boundaries goes beyond leaving my comfort zone: it connects to how much I am willing to learn, unlearn, and relearn about myself.”
by Laura Gonzales, Anwesha Chattopadhyay, Judy Colindres, Chandler Mordecai, Dinalo Chakma, Payal Nagpal, Felipe González-Silva, and Kaylee Lamb
“At a time when immigration rhetoric is consistently influenced by racist and xenophobic policies in Florida and beyond, activists in our community have been hosting events focused on immigrant inclusion. Building on other efforts to increase inclusion in our city, as members of the large public University of Florida, we organized the event described here to support our community.”
by Jo Hsu, Alexandria Lockett, Sophia Angela Maier, and Bernice Olivas
Moderated by Alex Jennings and Ada Hubrig
“While academia often downplays material conditions and the very real, lived, embodied experiences, we envision a cultural rhetorics that embraces embodiment as a methodology, drawing on embodied knowledge to recover the very stories that powerful institutions—including academic institutions—sweep under the rug.”
by Jenny Bay, Huiling Ding, Tarez Graban, Emily Legg, and Laurie A. Pinkert
Moderated by Alexandra Hidalgo
“I hope Pat knows that she inspired me to always strive to be a more generous thinker. I remember Pat telling my cohort of graduate students very early on that she didn’t want us to be scholars who only knew how to critique: when she assigned an article for us to read, she wanted us to engage with it in full, to recognize its contributions, its insights, its limitations, its context, its connections.”
by Alexandra Hidalgo, Ben Lauren, and Luhui Whitebear
Moderated by Catheryn Jennings and Megan Simmermeyer
“I look at creative works as a form of translation to the people as well. Not everyone has to use or learn academic language to think critically, and I feel like creative works are a way to help people engage with this.”
by Kyle Boggs
“Medina’s own background and experiences working with Indigenous migrants, which he details in his forward and throughout, provide a rich, humanized perspective on issues that are often discussed in abstract or policy-driven terms.”
by Prakash Paudel
“Broussard’s cardinal concern in the monograph is about ‘more equitable technology’ and the fairness of its use. She interrogates absolutist and ableist perceptions that are prevalent in the tech universe.”
by Sidra Naveed Arshad
“Khúc urges her students and readers alike to acknowledge that their worth is inherent and thus they deserve a standard of living which responds to any concerns resulting from problematic systems that seek to exploit them.”
by Tommie Leigh McPhetridge
“Wandering Games would be particularly useful for those trying to understand how video games can act as vessels of critical discourses and often engage in theoretical understandings of the world, both fictional and real.”
by Tomas Maldonado
“Relying on what she identifies as ‘shelter rhetorics’—idiosyncratic, everyday rhetorical practices that protect people’s vulnerabilities while also giving them agency in unstable situations—as presented in audio-recorded interviews, resident drawings, and photos, Reyes conducts a thorough case study of what asylees endure through the asylum process.”