Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez

Profesora Boricua. Latina/o Studies, Puerto Rican Studies. I love music. #histed #wmnhist Author of Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 UI Press

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

Only posting this because visibility matters to our communities. Yesterday the Board of Regents voted to approve my tenure and promotion. I was a first generation college student. A Puerto Rican woman, who according to others, was not suppose to be here. Here I am, y’all. 🇵🇷❤️🇵🇷

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

According to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Alicia WAS homeless as a child!!!!! #RHORI @BravoWWHL @Andy

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

The Real Housewives of Rhode Island is what we needed in the world today. Please don’t ever let them go away.

[xochitl q. @x8chitl]

i’m gonna throw up why is this the most beautiful video i’ve ever watched

[Illinois Press @IllinoisPress]

Last day to get your *free* e-book of PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 by @Melli75!
https://t.co/E0X5a63ORX
#Chicago #LatinoStudies #Eduication #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth
cc: @EDUatIllinois

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

@x8chitl If she cared, she would have made sure you had tickets. I’m just saying.

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

Please be kind to me. My away message is gone. This is who I am again for the next 9 months. Emails. Meetings. Five conference papers this fall that winter me committed us to…

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

If I say yes to three activities in one day, assume one of you is being canceled on.

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

Congrats, @CombaheeQT , for winning the 2025 ISCHE Early Career Conference Paper Award! #Histed @ISCHE_org @HistEdUSA

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

Interesting panel on the status of history of education across the world , from our various societies. Obvious, and sad, that we are linked by a disinvestment in our field no matter where we are. (@HistEdUSA being represented well!) #histed #ISCHE2025

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

They know what they’re doing…restricting our access to information, limiting our ability to do research. This allows their revisionists histories to be written, allowing them to celebrate and center whiteness, teaching lies.

[OKC THUNDER @okcthunder]

#NewProfilePic 🏆

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

There’s absolutely nothing that will protect you from this facist regime. Nothing. And for folks supporting this violence and dictatorship , we won’t be there to stop them from coming after you.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed after interrupting a news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
https://t.co/cR5CGIBbrf

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

I have very little expectation from a government built off of genocide, dispossession, and history of enslavement.

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

So glad Paddington didn’t end up in the U.S. They would have deported that poor brown bear.

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

Such an amazing book!!! Don’t miss this talk!

[AERADivF @AERADivF]

Please join Division F for a virtual book talk with Derek Taira this Wednesday at 4:00 CST. Scan the QR code or reach out for registration information.

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

Just because they can find judges to justify it, doesn’t make it right or even legal.

[Latina/o Studies @LatinoStudiesIL]

Prof. Velázquez (@Melli75) received a Campus Research Board grant from Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. The grant will fund her project, De Isla a Chicago: Stories of Puerto Rican Teachers, 1970-1990. Congratulations!
https://t.co/o2Ao6s6AJH

[Illinois Press @IllinoisPress]

The Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History prize, in partnership w/the Disability Histories series & @DisabilityHistr, is now open for submissions!

Visit https://t.co/5hhtNs5aRn for submission guidelines.

#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityTwitter #DisabilityHistory #dishist

[Mirelsie (Melli) Velázquez @Melli75]

Every time I read one more news item detailing the f*ckery that is our current political climate, I’m thankful I was able to see Prince perform Purple Rain live once in my life.