Content Warning: PTSD in real life, abortion on TV, sexual assault on TV, same-sex intimate partner violence on TV . . . . When I was 18 or 19 years old (1998ish), I was an undergraduate teaching assistant for an introduction to women’s studies course at UMass Dartmouth. The class was held in the Women’s… Read More
Category: Newsflash
Race and the Women’s Movement
“For me, what I’ve learned in my life and through my studies is that HOW we do feminism really matters and it’s really not enough to just say I’m a feminist–or I’m an intersectional feminist–without understanding the roots. […] To move forward we need to look back.” Read More
An Open Letter to POC at SUNY New Paltz
An Open Letter to POC at SUNY New Paltz Read More
Ideas on Fire Podcast Interview
My interview with Ideas on Fire is live! The episode is available in Apple Podcasts (iOS), Google Podcasts (Android), Spotify, YouTube, Soundcloud, and all the other podcast players. We chatted about my book Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora (02:13) The future of feminist graffiti art (05:10) The intersection of art, academia, and activism in Jessica’s… Read More
Sneak Peak Part 2!
Sometimes googling yourself pays. I came across the trailer for my interview with the Imagine Otherwise Podcast (Ideas on Fire). The full episode is out February 13th! Jessica Nydia Pabón Colón on Social Justice Curating
Latina Outsiders—sneak peek!
I am *so* hyped for this book (and to be part of it)! Sneak peak of the cover. It comes out in June. Table of Contents Introduction, Grisel Y. Acosta I. Ideology and Class 1. “Punks and Hipsters: Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity,” Grisel Y. Acosta 2. “The child is bewitched”: Syncretism and Self-Making in… Read More
#GraffitiGrrlz Book Review!
Throughout the book they challenge graffiti being Hip Hop and fail to call themselves feminists. However this disjunct leads Pabón-Colón to much more nuanced understandings. So, for instance, towards the end of the book she discusses why the South American ‘graffiteras’ reject the feminist label. This could have haughtily been put down to their own… Read More
Boricua Feminists!
f you too want to honor boricuas doing important things now and in the past, pre-order your tote bag today! Read More
Solidarity Does Not Require Sameness #WomensMarch
there has always been and will always be controversy and conflict in coalition. Read More
Go Back to Puerto Rico?!
(Originally a Tweet thread. Posted here because not everyone is on Twitter): The #GoBacktoPuertoRico comment, response, and reporting has my blood boiling and heart hurting. A thread on the comments and why this moment is important for #Latinx solidarity across geographical/racial/ethnic difference. I am raging at @RepJasonSmith specifically, and the #GOP generally (perpetually) b/c of… Read More
