J. Diaz Rodriguez

🇩🇴 PhDing @ Cornell : Dominican Republic & Haiti; migration/border studies, black studies, black feminism, caribbean studies

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

"You might as well warp time, not seize it but give it seizures, animate it, let it quicken, loose its tongues"

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

@BurnEr92976227 You all acting like immigrants been the barrier to entry for work that's no one's top choice. Operating without a permit increases risk of police (brutality), deportation, theft of investment, for whoever. Keep drooling over the false promises of fascism. See where it leaves us

[should be writing not scrolling @itsjacksonbbz]

As Toni Morrison said,

"Goodness is... more interesting, more complicated, more demanding, less predictable, more adventuresome than its opposite. Evil really is boring. Sensational, perhaps, but not interesting. A low-level activity..."

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

@Oddvintagechap Boo. Get off the stage. 🦨

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

"Better an errant path than the known world. Better loose than stuck."

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

@itsJoseMira Congrats!

[NourbeSe Philip @mnourbese]

It is, beyond strange, astonishing, and confounding that care didn’t extend to consulting with me, but then maybe not; perhaps it was entirely predictable when racism, the everyday, ordinary kind of racism that just doesn’t see Black folX is factored in.@CanadaCouncil

[The Nap Ministry @TheNapMinistry]

Unravel from toxic individualism. You do nothing by yourself. Your whole life is a collaboration.

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

@AlecPollak Congrats!!!

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

@JasonCMarvin @aechiou Congrats!!

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

"Meanwhile, politics soldiers on, claiming to defend what it has not enclosed, enclosing what it cannot defend but only endanger."

[OISEUofT @OISEUofT]

December 8: This year's R.W.B. Jackson Lecture features OISE alum and literary giant, Dionne Brand, in conversation with her dear friend and renowned Black studies scholar, Professor Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho). Don't miss it! Register today. https://t.co/RGreJxjyt3

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

🙌🏽

[Friday BBM @bwesigye]

I personally give thanks for Prof. @drkmttr82 of Cornell University for all the ways he embodies the values and politics of the material he studies. When I become a professor, I want to be like him.

cc: @situatedcashew

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

@Elena_Herminia 🤯 Did you watch SU Future and the movie (which I saw 10 times at least)?! Sorry I am too much of a dork with this show, but I'm glad you found this treasure trove of joy (& ofc good tears) in the middle of the pandemic ❤

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

Can we use this as our point of departure as we begin to imagine and build a more hospitable department for Black and Indigenous folx and other non-white grads? Please and thank you

[Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD | 道 🐲🌋 @taoleighgoffe]

Please read carefully, sign in solidarity and support on the linked Google Form, and share amongst the #Cornell community and beyond so we can have this important reckoning between faculty, administration, staff, alumni, and administration. https://t.co/pzRHJd6B7H

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

@JasonCMarvin @aechiou @StanfordMed Good luck @aechiou! & it wont be easy, but you guys will get through this and come out stronger in the end ❤

[J. Diaz Rodriguez @situatedcashew]

@maximoandbella How helpful. What they will train, however, is "diversity in the class room" or "how to be more inclusive" -- as if you or I, teaching "diverse material," are the source of hostility in (what is often an all white) class.