Luis Rivera-Figueroa

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow @ ASU. Global Media, Popular Music and Latinx Media Studies 🇵🇷

Header pic by @crys_tyann

[SCMS Latinx/a/o Caucus @scmsLatinx]

Join us for a Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Jillian Báez and Dr. Manuel Avilés-Santiago on their new book "Spanish Language Television." Hope to see you on February 27th at 11:30am PT/2:30pm ET via Zoom. Register: https://t.co/sTKruilsvQ

[Luis Rivera-Figueroa @luisrivera6280]

@dr_kunda_kentay I hear aloe vera helps with burns.

[SCMS Latinx/a/o Caucus @scmsLatinx]

🚨TOMORROW🚨
✨Join us for a Book Talk by Kristie Soares on their book Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media (2023), in conversation with Jillian Báez.✨

📅Friday, March 14
⏰10am(PT)/1pm(ET)
💻via Zoom

Registration Link: https://t.co/tx52aknFKb

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Always got that answer in my back pocket

[Luis Rivera-Figueroa @luisrivera6280]

💥Hello everyone!💥

The SCMS Latinx Caucus will host a Book Talk by Dr. Kristie Soares on their book Playful Protests in conversation with Dr. Jillian Báez. 📖

It feels timely to think about joy when we are surrounded by uncertainty and fear.😬🧑‍🎤

Details in the post below! 👇

[SCMS Latinx/a/o Caucus @scmsLatinx]

🚨NEXT FRIDAY🚨

✨Join us for a Book Talk by Kristie Soares on their book Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media (2023), in conversation with Jillian Báez.✨

📅Friday, March 14
⏰10am(PT)/1pm(ET)
💻via Zoom

Registration Link: https://t.co/tx52aknFKb

[SCMS Latinx/a/o Caucus @scmsLatinx]

🚨NEXT WEEK🚨
✨Join us for a Book Talk by Kristie Soares on their book Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media (2023), in conversation with Jillian Báez.✨

📅Friday, March 14
⏰10am(PT)/1pm(ET)
💻via Zoom

Registration link:
https://t.co/tx52akodzJ

[🗽Tu Independenfeka Favorito🇵🇷 @HuertasDean]

And yet the American Grammy’s didn’t want to give him album of the year because he spoke Spanish….

[chart data @chartdata]

Rauw Alejandro's 'Cosa Nuestra' earned 34.14 million streams in its first full day of release on Spotify.

It marks the biggest debut of his career.

[Luis Rivera-Figueroa @luisrivera6280]

@dr_kunda_kentay I always love to see you win!! ❤️
Congrats 🎉

[Lily GOAT 🐐 @dr_kunda_kentay]

In the midst of all this troubling political news, I did want to share that my FIRST EVER peer-reviewed journal article has now been published. So I can finally call myself a ✨published✨scholar. 🙌🏾🙏🏾👏🏾💗.

[Jack Herrera @jherrerx]

Spoken to plenty of Latino Trump voters, and many basically said: "The economy sucked for me under Biden. Covid shutdowns, inflation, housing costs going up. Entonces—he's fired. Time for something new." Sometimes it's not more deep than that.

Carville has a line about this...

[Jack Herrera @jherrerx]

Final notes from my reporting in Latino communities during the election:

80% of Latinos are working class. Their experience of the economy the past four years—Covid shutdowns, inflation, gas prices, housing costs—was rough. That puts the incumbent Dems at a disadvantage. 🧵1/9

[Luis Rivera-Figueroa @luisrivera6280]

@anthonyocampo Michelle Obama would have served as a great symbolic figure. I don't know if she could have won, but...

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Too many people think "Latinos" are a monolith. They disregard religion (more protestants vote Republican than Catholics), language (more Spanish-dominant speakers prefer the Democratic Party than English-dominant ones), country (Cubans), racial markers, & Indigenous identity.

[Luis Rivera-Figueroa @luisrivera6280]

@MinistroCiencia nah. La realidad es que hay que ser democrático y abogar por la estadidad... porque aparentemente es lo que la mayoría en PR quiere.

A mi no me gusta la idea de la estadidad, pero si queremos una democracia, hay que respetar los deseos de los votantes.

[Cristela Alonzo @cristela9]

My brother couldn’t get a passport under Trump. He was born here. In Texas.

They told him he had to submit school and medical records from when he was a kid to get one. We lived in poverty and couldn’t afford doctors so there are no medical records.

Anyways…yay! 🤷🏽‍♀️

[Luis Rivera-Figueroa @luisrivera6280]

Time to revisit Gramsci.

[Luis Rivera-Figueroa @luisrivera6280]

There is a lot of work to do. We, as citizens, and the Democratic leadership need to rethink and reorganize.

"How could we have prevented this from happening?"

We have to listen more and develop new strategies for communicating and organizing.