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A Groundbreaking Collection
As much as I hate the way we are all tracked online…I love a Google Alert. Yesterday I received this one: It’s hard to explain how seen I feel in this feature of our anthology. It never occurred to me that folks would remember my Feminists for Puerto Rico (FPR) efforts and tie them to →
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Coffee & NWSA News 10.25.25
An invitation to engage our organization’s newsletter, which just landed in your inbox (if you are a member of NWSA). Put your headphones on, grab the laundry that needs to be folded, and listen to the highlights. →
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Feature on “Feminism, Fascism, and the Future”
How They Come for the Professors (part 1) “In this episode we talk about the BIG LIE: that any criticism of Israel is anti-semitism. The GoP and even some Dems have been using this lie to attack professors, often feminist scholars who are themselves Jewish. In this part of the episode, we talk to Nicole →
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“Blue” New York’s Empty Promise: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion without Social Justice
by Milo W. Obourn and Jessica N. Pabón-Colón On February 25th, 2025, NY’s Governor Hochul ordered CUNY leadership to remove a job post for a Palestinian Studies position at Hunter College based on the patently false accusation that the language used was “antisemitic.” Her order also included a directive to “conduct a thorough review of the position to ensure →
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My Comrades, My Students
Resigning from my tenured position was an experience I am very much still processing and not quite ready to write about at length. But I wanted to share two examples of the solidarity and care my students offered during and after that decision. One of them wrote about it in the student newspaper. New Paltz →
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The Last Campus-Wide Email
After I submitted my resignation letter to my chair and received the “got it” from administrators, I sent one last email out to our faculty and staff listserv. To the faculty and staff at SUNY New Paltz,It’s finally here: my official last post on the fac/staff listserv. In 2014 I became the first Puerto Rican →
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Porque Estamos Aquí: Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire
Pre-Order Now Available! In her years of scholarship and activism with fellow Puerto Rican feminists, editor Jessica N. Pabón-Colón reached for a feminism to ground her work and validate the women who paved her way—but in her search for a specific tradition of Puerto Rican feminism, what she found were gaps, disappearances, and unanswered questions. →
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An Open letter to the Latina who arrested me,
I’m really sore today. My husband says it’s because I need to work out the lactic acid that built up while I was holding my body so tight for so long in the face of too many rows of police in riot gear, tormenting us with barking dogs and disorienting our vision with flashlights. You →
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On white people upholding a culture of white supremacy at SUNY New Paltz…
“We are made constantly and painfully aware of how little effort white women have made to understand and combat their racism, which requires among other things that they have a more than superficial comprehension of race, color, and Black history and culture. Eliminating racism in the white women’s movement is by definition work for white →
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On confederate flags, whiteness, and readiness…
“It has nothing to do with slavery.” →
Jessica N. Pabón, PhD 