Azucena Verdin

nepantlera researcher, Ph.D., scholarmama, proud Xicana and borderlander, East Dallasite

[Azucena Verdin @nepantlaprof]

Hey, North Texas! Please support Southern Sector Rising on North TX Giving Day! Support our mission to fight environmental, economic, and racial disparities in Souther Dallas.
https://t.co/p6zOXRPWZ9

[Liliana soto @LilianaSotoAZ]

Newsrooms, if you don’t have Latine reporters covering this tragedy, please provide resources or reach out to @NAHJ on how to pronounce the names of these beautiful innocent children, of all victims…It won’t change what happened, but it matters 💔🙏🏽

[Azucena Verdin @nepantlaprof]

They’re already glossing it over because Americans don’t know how to discuss race outside Black vs. White. Toxic masculinity is a consequence of colonialism & white supremacy. So the fact that the killer was Latino shouldn’t erase the Mexicanness of the victims. It still matters.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Uvalde is an overwhelmingly Mexican-American small town. A Latino American community has been devastated by gun violence. I hope American media won’t gloss over that fundamental part of the story in the coming days and weeks. #UvaldeMassacre

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Ban assault rifles, not books.

Regulate firearms, not women’s bodies.

Protect kids, not lobbyists.

[Maria Hinojosa 🥑 @Maria_Hinojosa]

You do not have to be white to believe in white supremacy.

[Azucena Verdin @nepantlaprof]

Gun violence disproportionately affects communities of color. Robb Elementary School is 90% Latino!! Let's push back against the whitewashing of the media coverage. Uvalde is a Brown community. Let's say it.

[Azucena Verdin @nepantlaprof]

We need more of this.

[Neighbors United/Vecinos Unidos @NeighborsUnidos]

Thank you @CityOfDallas for voting unanimously in favor of allocating $2 million for the remediation of Shingle Mountain to residential standards! We look forward to next steps to improve the quality of life for residents in #FloralFarms and the City as a whole.

[Neighbors United/Vecinos Unidos @NeighborsUnidos]

Thank you to #FloralFarms residents, #ParkForFloralFarms allies @HKSArchitects, @PaulQuinn1872, @SWAgroup, @SingletonUnited and @RisingSector for speaking in favor of the remediation of the @ShingleMountain site. #ParksNotPollution

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

None of us should accept a future in which our daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than we did.

[Azucena Verdin @nepantlaprof]

Exercising democracy by urging Dallas Mayor Johnson to allocate $2M to remediate the former Shingle Mountain site. Lead, arsenic, & particulate matter in soil, water, & air have LONG TERM physical & psychological consequences for the largely Black & Brown residents most affected.

[Azucena Verdin @nepantlaprof]

Yes, this.

Me: I finally got tenure track job!
My family: ¿Y qué exacto es lo que haces, mija?

[Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez @dravfonseca]

For everyone working on those book projects, please consider BorderVisions with @AZpress for your work - reach out to me or Dr. Yvette Saavedra to chat at any point in your process! - @ihr_asu @Border_Walls @HBorderlands @cisa https://t.co/NUKJPaJ8Hk

[Dr. Lisa Huffman @UC_CECHDean]

A full house listening
to @LozadaTeaches talk
about leadership & graduate
School as we celebrate the graduation of our 3rd cohort of @TWUCOPE Emerging Leaders! Thank you
@figueroaflores for guiding
our leaders & welcome
@nepantlaprof our next director. I am #PioneerProud of all!!

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Guadalupe works in the tomatoes, celery and other vegetables in Oxnard CA. She’s has great pride in the work she does to provide for her 3 children. Happy #MothersDay to all of the hard working moms in the fields! #WeFeedYou

[Maria Hinojosa 🥑 @Maria_Hinojosa]

We won a PULITZER!!! #suavepodcast

[Nancy Contreras @nancecontreras]

@tlakatekatl @KurlyTlapoyawa @AztlanLPress @YrachetaJM @EagleEmii @IndigeCultures @IndianAffairs @AztlantisTales This should be in every 4th or 5th grade social studies book when state and U.S. history Is studied.

[Azucena Verdin @nepantlaprof]

About damn time
https://t.co/Kzh8NqvOPz

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

For those keeping score, when asylum seekers are European, politicians quickly recognize them as refugees. When they’re from elsewhere, the same folks call them “undocumented.”

Remember: seeking asylum is a legal right for ALL people, despite their prejudice. The more you know💫

[Azucena Verdin @nepantlaprof]

Why was there no outrage over this? Maybe because lynching of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in South Texas was a Texas Ranger and Anglo settler-colonist tradition: https://t.co/mBL4tU6eKC