Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻 @yarimarbonilla Twitter profile

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

5 years

We really need to stop trying to carry out every single meeting, task, and activity online. Some things just need to be let go. “Flattening the curve” also involves “lowering the bar” and prioritizing wellbeing above productivity.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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5 years

I’m not sure folks understand what’s happening in Puerto Rico. It’s not 1, 2, or even 3 quakes. It’s THOUSANDS. It’s constant fear. Its collapsing bridges. It’s not just about lack of electricity—it’s about fear, anxiety, and uncertainty haunting already debilitated communities

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

Many are asking themselves how #JessicaKrug managed to fool anyone into believing she was Afro Latina. Well, let me tell you: we were both fellows at the Schomburg and I suppose she fooled me. (a thread 🧵)

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5 years

“The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.” Edouard Glissant

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

She consistently trashed WOC and questioned their scholarship. She even described my colleague Marisa Fuentes as a "slave catcher" in the introduction to her book. Kind of amazing how white supremacy means she even thought she was better at being a person of color than we were.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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2 years

Many are appalled by CBS's failure to properly caption Bad Bunny last night, but honestly this is a mood. @sanbenito opened the "Gringo Grammys" (as he calls it) by speaking non-english, wearing a non-outfit, dancing with non-celebrities and honoring what for some is non-music.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

Third, she needs to stop with the Dolezal-splaining about how wrong her actions and philosophizing about her punishment. I'm not investing a single drop of energy punishing her— esp not in the middle of a pandemic. Instead, I will recommit to radical self/community care. #bye

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

5 years

This is the only way ethnic studies departments get founded.

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5 years

Students at @Harvard protest at University Hall in favor of creating an Ethnic Studies Department and “to reverse the decision not to give tenure to Prof. García Peña”. (Professor of Latinx Studies)

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

6 years

Empty US seat at UN hearings on Puerto Rico...

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

6 years

I haven’t tweeted enough about this: there is a real state of emergency in Puerto Rico in regards to gender violence, and women who are simply disappearing... slowly consciousness is rising, but the government refuses to address the problem, and had even repressed demonstrators.

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6 years

Esto es de EMERGENCIA... 16 son las querellas de mujeres desaparecidas que la Policía mantiene abiertas a día de hoy, según reportó Telenoticias.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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5 years

US coronavirus crisis has so many echoes of hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: the lies, the denials, the opacity, the delays, the focus on image over governance, the way individual institutions and communities are left to figure things out on their own...1/🧵

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

Second, she needs to start a fellowship fund for afro latina scholars, and fund it with at least as much money as she obtained through her lies.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

It is mighty convenient to depict Puerto Ricans as immigrants in search of an "American dream" rather than as colonial subjects denied self-determination. Yes, Puerto Ricans are US citizens, but let us not forget we are citizens of empire.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

She says she doesn't know what accountability looks like—well, clearly, she needs to quit her job (a job that if I am not mistaken was a diversity hire) since no scholar can be respected when they engage in this kind of fraud.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

She always dressed/acted inappropriately—she'd show up to a 10am scholars' seminar dressed for a salsa club etc—but was so over the top strident and "woker-than-though" that I felt like I was trafficking in respectability politics when I cringed at her MINSTREL SHOW.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

2 years

Mi momento favorito… hablarán de las malas palabras y los bleeps, pero espero hablen también de la dulzura… y de como hubo lugar para todes en ese escenario.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

While claiming to be a child of addicts from the hood, she boasted about speaking numerous languages, reading ancient texts, and mastering disciplinary methods—while questioning the work of real WOC doing transformative interdisciplinary work that she PANNED.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

That pathology remains evident in her mea culpa article. Somehow she manages to remain ultra woke and strident, still on her political moral high horse, caling for white scholars to be cancelled --in this instance her own white self.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

5 years

Think Puerto Ricans are tired of protesting? Think again. They’re back at the governor’s mansion. Police are gone. This is our house now. #GritoBoricua

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

In that sense, she did gaslight us. Not only into thinking she was a WOC but also into thinking we were somehow both politically and intellectually inferior.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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5 years

AHORA: manifestantes tumban foto de Ricky en los CESCOS #RickyRenuncia #RickyTeBot é

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

I see Puerto Ricans are keeping president Trump in their thoughts and prayers... 👀

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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6 years

Feminists organizations have shut down the banks at Puerto Rico’s largest shopping mall on #InternationalWomansDay in protest against debt, colonialism and austerity! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

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@sylviavcamacho

6 years

Ahora: colectiva feminista protesta en Plaza las Américas. @TelenoticiasPR

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4 years

I mean, I don't feel hurt or betrayed in this moment because the truth is I always knew something was off with her, but I thought the pathologies she displayed were the product of systemic violence, and not of her twisted racial fantasies...

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

See, not only did she try to "pass" (we need a better term here - masquerade?) as Latina from "El Barrio" but she also told us her parents were addicts and even said that there were overdoses and suicide attempts happening during the fellowship period.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

Something so surreal about these Puerto Rican guardsmen deployed to ensure a democratic process from which they are excluded.

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4 years

The head of the Puerto Rico national guard shared these photos of his guardsmen and women in Washington DC to help ensure security ahead of tomorrow’s inauguration.

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6 years

Puerto Rico has the highest per capita rate of women murdered by their partners in the world Every 14 days a woman is killed 41 killed this year at least 24 by their partners 3 of those partners were police officers meanwhile 2,500+ rape kits go unprocessed by the police

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

I'm officially done with the statements of support and solidarity. It's time for statements of action, transformation, and accountability.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

2 years

The NYT vs Historians thing has been sitting heavy with me. I mean there are conversations to be had about citational practices, sure, and I have opinions, yes, but it feels gross to turn this into a battle of elite guilds. 1/n

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

In Michigan protestors showed up at the state capital with guns. In Puerto Rico they brought food for the hungry.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

#BadMonsy nos ofrece sus reflexiones sobre las terapias de conversión y los reclamos de que se censure a @TorresGotay

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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3 years

La influencer opina sobre la controversia de la piscina en Rincón… con la franqueza que la caracteriza 🤣

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

A una semana de las elecciones, La influencer tiene unas bombas para @juandalmauPR ! 💣🥁 #porraej #badmonsy

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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5 years

Ricky Martin living all his truths and feeling all the love and showing political fierceness like never before is.... everything. #PuertoRicoSeLevant ó

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

6 years

Demonstrators in Puerto Rico are leaving shoes with the names and pictures of lost loved ones at the Capital building...

Pulso Estudiantil

@PulsoEST

6 years

Ciudadanos continúan llegando al Capitolio para colocar zapatos en representación a los fallecidos por el huracán María 📸: @allinicole_15

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7 years

20 days after hurricane Maria, this is the scene in Santurce, PR.

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5 years

This is amazing. This is not San Juan. I can’t remember ever seeing decentralized protests like this in Puerto Rico. This has become a mass movement.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

Ya mi abuelita de 93años sabe por quien va a votar. Los q crean q los viejos seguirán fieles a los partidos tradicionales tomen nota.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

Sorprendieron a la influencer! Gracias @juandalmauPR por la visita y por todo lo q has inspirado en mi abuelita. A los 93 años está más emocionada q nunca por votar!

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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5 years

Dear allies: when feeling the need to assert that Puerto Ricans are “fellow US citizens”, take a moment and ask yourself if what really needs to be asserted is that the US is an empire.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

5 years

Vuelve a cambiar de nombre la Fortaleza.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

Along with botched primary elections, Puerto Rico also has protests unfolding at the airport, where demonstrators are calling for a stop to non-essential flights during the pandemic.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

NOW in Puerto Rico: Vigil in memory of George Floyd and in solidarity with #BLM protests and the victims of police brutality and racial violence across and beyond the US.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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5 years

NOW: protests against corruption and lack of accountability in COVID testing in Puerto Rico. Caravan in front of WIPR Public tv station. #WandaLasPruebas

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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6 years

As Toni Morrison said, "The function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being." Trump's tweets have folks scrambling this morning to prove our tragedy, our loss, our pain, our humanity... 1/n

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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2 years

I'd rather get into a significant discussion of what was actually written, why it was framed as an "unknown history," why it took so much effort to "discover" what many already "knew" -- in other words why Haiti's Odious debt has been actively SILENCED for centuries. 2/n

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@yarimarbonilla

4 years

Puerto Rico’s governor grants exclusive interview... to a puppet.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

6 years

In the wake of a newly released study, Puerto Ricans are taking to social media (and the streets) to call attention to the 4,645 reported deaths as a result of hurricane Maria. Follow #4645boricuas to read their stories. Join protests on June 1 to demand that the dead be counted.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

4 years

Aquí el nuevo jingle q le escribió #BadMonsy a @juandalmauPR !

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

7 years

Happy Territory Day! Today we commemorate lack of independence, unequal inclusion, political disenfranchisement, and economic disparity. We're also 5 months into a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Happy "statutory citizenship"day everybody! 🎇

House Committee on Natural Resources

@NatResources

7 years

On this day in 1917, #PuertoRico becomes a U.S territory and Puerto Rican's are granted statutory American citizenship 🇺🇸🇵🇷

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4 years

Puerto Rico activist Giovanni Roberto has been released and all charges dropped. Judge find his arrest, during anti-hunger protest, to be unlawful.

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5 years

Friends from the states writing to ask me if I’m safe in Puerto Rico. Honestly, I don’t know how to answer that. I’m unharmed. I’m ok. But how to know if you’re safe in a situation that feels so fragile an unpredictable?

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

It's telling that the only Puerto Rican endorsement that Trump has received is from a governor that was never elected, was voted out in the primaries, will not have to work with him next term, has no political prospects and can't cast a ballot in his election.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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2 years

Interesante trayectoria: Estamos Bien -> PFKNR -> Apagón. De eso nada mas se puede escribir una tesis.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

2 years

The NYT folks produced a big bibliography but the silences in that bibliography are just as telling, among them (shockingly) Trouillot's book Silencing The Past: Power and the Production of History. This is key to the controversy. 3/n

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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4 years

Great piece, but important to contextualize it historically. Technology is a tool and will always be used for a variety of political purposes. Long before cellphones and "selfies", folks took pics of themselves at lynchings.

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

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I wrote about how thousands of Trump supporters invaded the Capitol and then...took selfies? They don't care about highest centers of power. They were doing it for the 'gram. It was a performance for a digital audience.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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3 years

Newly released census data shows a DRAMATIC PLUMET 📉in Puerto Ricans who identify solely as "white": from 75.8% to 17.1%. This might seem surprising, but it affirms what Godreau and I argue in the latest issue of @AmAnthroJournal (a thread 🧵)

Dramático salto en la percepción multirracial en Puerto Rico en el Censo de 2020

Mientras aumentó la cantidad de personas que perciben su identidad en dos razas o más, o raza negra en combinación con otra, la percepción de los puertorriqueños en raza blanca descendió

www.elnuevodia.com

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

2 years

How it started (1973) & How it’s going (2022). 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷✊🏽✊🏽🔥🔥🔥 @CentroPR ❤️❤️

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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6 years

To be clear: These hearings are held every year. The US delegate never attends. The US media never covers it. A resolution is issued and PR is kept "under review" but it's never brought to the general Assembly. US imperialism did not begin with Trump.

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5 years

Folks outside of Puerto Rico looking for ways to stand in solidarity: join the mass tweet (Tuitazo!) tomorrow 1-3pm EST.

¿Dónde está el porvenir? 🇵🇷🇨🇺🇵🇸

@GuarioCandanga

5 years

🚨 Tuitazo masivo 🚨 #RickyVeteYa

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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5 years

Dangerous+irresponsable editorial from @washingtonpost — NONE of the protestors in PR are asking for a stronger fiscal board—many are asking *both* the governor and the board to leave. It would be a tragedy if these protests result in colonial entrenchment

Opinion | Puerto Ricans are demanding better. It’s about time Congress and San Juan deliver.

Protests against Gov. Ricardo Rosselló should lead to long-needed changes in how the U.S. territory is governed.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

2 years

Engagement with STP would have made evident the problems with framing Haiti's debt as a "mystery." As Trouillot writes, historical silencing is an active process—akin to silencing a gun. There is in fact little mystery in how this happens. 4/n

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5 years

“Sick of colonialism. We are not in debt. They owe us. Reparations NOW!” Columbus statues in Old San Juan have also become sites of protest today.

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

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3 years

Impossible to not feel chills and get teary eyed -- not just for the athletic feat, but for everything that it means to have a young Black woman, born in the diaspora, living her dream and making all of Puerto Rico proud.🇵🇷🌺🏅❤️ 😭 #VivaJasmin #VivaLaDiaspora #SiMeRepresenta

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2 years

This NYT piece could undoubtedly become a watershed moment, but only if it leads us to better understand how the "open secrets" of world history are systemically kept and entire regimes of extraction so "mysteriously" denied. 10/n

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2 years

The NYT piece does not reveal the mystery of Haiti to Haitians it reveals the mystery of the West. That is the audience that needed the precise number, that needed a price tag. That is the audience that needed to hear the sound of the silenced gun. 7/n

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2 years

As a Puerto Rican scholar, I'm definitely inspired to keep pushing against the "mysteries" of Puerto Rico's own debt, the denials around its place in global regimes of extraction, and the ways in which the US's own colonial histories and debts are similarly silenced and denied.

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4 years

Pro-statehood leaders in Puerto Rico are quick to compare their movement to the African American civil rights struggle for full citizenship. But where is the support for contemporary black struggles?

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5 years

NOW: Human chain in Puerto Rico to continue to protests.

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5 years

Please tell me I didn't just see a tv news segment where they made a corona virus mask out of a used bra with scissors and a stapler...🙈🙈🙈💀

NotiCentro

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5 years

Ante la preocupación por el contagio del coronavirus, el producto ha escaseado, pero te damos opciones:

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It's time we stop talking about "Aftershocks" as if there was just one earthquake. Apparently this is a rare "earthquake swarm"

Rare Earthquake Swarm Strikes Puerto Rico - Eos

Puerto Rico hasn’t seen this many strong quakes in a single sequence since seismic monitoring began 46 years ago. The last earthquake to damage the island this badly occurred in 1918.

eos.org

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2 years

Puerto Ricans are tired of being resilient. It is untenable that after a disaster we must live weeks on end without basic services, only to receive temporary fixes that will be washed away in the next storm. Emergency response must adapt to the era of climate change.

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“After Maria, we rallied together in a spirit of collective recovery, but we can no longer carry the weight,” writes @yarimarbonilla . “We need our government infrastructure to be as resilient as we are forced to be.”

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Nuestra supuesta representante en Washington no ha tuiteado ni una solo palabra sobre las protestas de #BlackLivesMatter . Juzgando por su timeline parecería estar en otro planeta, y no en la capital de un país en medio de una revuelta nacional.

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. @sanbenito is stealing my heart with his Alexa tshirt in memory of the trans woman recently killed in PR, his goth looking skirt, and the most Puerto Rican of all accessories: crocs.

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5 years

San Juan is PACKED and pulsating. If the governor thought this long wait would tire people out he was WRONG. #GeneracionNoMeDejo #LxsHijxsDeLaCrisis #LxsHijxsDeMaria

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3 years

Amazing journalistic work about an issue that many have been concerned about but too few are taking seriously: how tax breaks in Puerto Rico are leading to gentrification and displacement.

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There’s an influx of people moving from the states to Puerto Rico invited by tax breaks. Some locals say they’re getting pushed out by investors looking to make money. Investors say they’re creating opportunities. Watch the rest of the video here:

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So clear to me that we are not in a “global pandemic” but rather a world of varying and unequally distributed risks, exposures, and catastrophes....

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⚡️ “Latino COVID-19 deaths are up 1,000% since November in L.A. County”

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...the lack of supplies, the calls for resilience and creativity, the lack of concern for those who can’t afford privatized resilience, and even how regional government (mayors and governors) have to step in to fill the gaps of a botched federal response. 2/🧵

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People asking me how to help Puerto Rico—we don't need your canned goods. Tell your news outlets you want coverage. It's 2020 and they are distracted with the election. During Maria they ignored us till Trump through paper towels. Now they're ignoring us again.

Mephistofeces

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5 years

@yarimarbonilla @DiegoAlcalaPR Wait. Wut? This is for real? I haven't heard anything about this. What the fuck is going on there?

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@yarimarbonilla

2 years

Me parece tan perfecta la colaboración de @sanbenito con @bgraulau - ambos han desarrollado su propia voz, rompiendo con las normas en sus campos y declarando YHLQMDLG. Son ejemplo de cómo esta nueva generación esta changing the game. 💪🏽🇵🇷🤩

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@yarimarbonilla

2 years

The actual NYT articles are important and powerful, but the framing of them is also important. Banks are launching investigations, which is amazing. But we should not let the trope of mystery provide them with the cover of ignorance. 9/n

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@yarimarbonilla

2 years

Aquí mi reflexión sobre el concierto de Bad Bunny y su visión de país.

Opinión | El país de Benito

Al fin de cuentas este es el más grande regalo que nos da Benito: nos demuestra que es posible triunfar bajo nuestros propios términos y que podemos conquistar el mundo sin abandonar nuestro sueño de...

www.elnuevodia.com

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@yarimarbonilla

2 years

Engaging with Trouillot also forces us to question all the exceptional language surrounding the piece. The Haitian revolution sparked freedom dreams across the Atlantic, but similarly, the Haitian Debt launched an extractive regime for the postcolonial world. 8/n

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@yarimarbonilla

2 years

I wrote a little something about @sanbenito and la vida non Non-English... (Disponible en inglés y español)

Opinion | Bad Bunny Is [Winning in Non-English] (Published 2023)

The music industry may not be ready for his sazón, but the rest of us are.

www.nytimes.com

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@yarimarbonilla

2 years

Haitians (and those of us who are students of Haiti) might not have had a precise number for the debt, but we had a different kind of knowledge about it—a different calculus —it already framed how we understood our place in the world. 6/n

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@yarimarbonilla

5 years

H/t @DiegoAlcalaPR

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@yarimarbonilla

5 years

We’re actually busy undoing the Obama-era PROMESA law right now....✌🏽

David Plouffe

@davidplouffe

5 years

Hope some of the amazing organizers in Puerto Rico, if they are interested, bring their talents to Florida in 2020.

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@yarimarbonilla

5 years

I’ve been asked why Americans should care about events in Puerto Rico. Here are some reasons (among many). #thread #Telegramgate #RickyRenunciaYa #RickyLeaks 1/

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Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

@yarimarbonilla

5 years

Funny how minorities are visually under-represented almost everywhere *except* university brochures and newsletters.

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@yarimarbonilla

2 years

To frame this as a lost history the process by which Haiti's role in the creation of the West has been denied. LITERALLY DENIED – silenced like a deadly gun. 5/n

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@yarimarbonilla

5 years

For those asking how PRicans achieved this movement, a quick thought: 98% is just showing up. On horseback, motorbike, jet ski, bicycle, etc. However you can, from wherever you can. No small feat though: it requires being bold enough to surrender apathy+plunge in w/ no guarantee.

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@yarimarbonilla

7 years

For those still confused about the Caribbean's political topography, I made this handy animated map :)

Visualizing Sovereignty

Animated video designed by Yarimar Bonilla (Rutgers University) and Max Hantel (Dartmouth College) for the journal SXArchipelagos. For more see: http://smallaxe.net/sxarchipelagos/issue01/bonilla-v...

vimeo.com

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@yarimarbonilla

2 years

Excited to join the @PrincetonEFF faculty with Aisha Beliso de Jesus and @lorgia_pena ! What happens when three powerhouse Latinas come together to build American Studies ? I can't wait to find out.

Effron Center for the Study of America

@PrincetonEFF

2 years

. @yarimarbonilla , scholar in American studies, Latino/a/x studies, and Caribbean studies, appointed professor in the Effron Center @Princeton : Photo: Christopher Gregory-Rivera

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@yarimarbonilla

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In Puerto Rico July arrives w/ water rationing🚱😖My working class neighborhood full of elders will have shutoffs every other day. 2020 has brought quakes, power outages, meteorites, COVID-19, +quakes, dustclouds and now drought. Mami says the worst is still to come: elections!

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@yarimarbonilla

5 years

Puerto Rican’s don’t just want recognition, we want decolonization.

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@yarimarbonilla

4 years

Aquí votó mi familia. En una escuela cerrada por Keleher, vendida a una iglesia por $1, con un poste a punto de caerle encima... me dijo una señora q todos sus hijos se graduaron de aquí. Y Ahora todos viven en EU.

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@yarimarbonilla

5 years

If the Puerto Rico uprising was a Netflix series, the governor’s resignation would be the end of season 1 and this past week of shenanigans the wonky season 2. I’m really looking forward to getting back to the original storyline in Season 3, which I assume starts today at 5:01pm.

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@yarimarbonilla

5 years

Individual Puerto Ricans are filling the roads to deliver aid. Too bad there is no sort of coordinated government agency to attend to these issues.... 👀 In the face of state failure we have and will continue to help ourselves.

David Begnaud

@DavidBegnaud

5 years

Mountain roads in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico are clogged right now. Traffic is backed up. So many people are headed to the southern part of the island to deliver water, food, and other supplies.

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It's not every day you see a headline about US colonialism at the top of the Sunday Review. Amid so many challenges and disappointments, I will take this tiny win. (Pero, si, prometo ser mas dura todavía en la próxima!)

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