@juliocapojr
Queer/Latinx/race/migration history prof at FIU. Also public history & humanities. Wrote #WelcomeToFairyland. Curated #QueerMiami, #Zorita & other exhibitions. An editor of Made By History section in TIME. Opinions my own. He/él.
Another weekday lunch with my buddy Fred Fejes, whose work on LGBTQ Florida has inspired me for many, many years. We’ve known each other for over 20 years now!
And now, we are collaborating on a couple of things…including a new exhibition set to open this June. So excited to share more soon! ❤️ 🌈
Getting a LOT of responses on my episode with @juliocapojr.bsky.social. But if you don’t like/don’t have time for pods, read his piece on the film Clue here. You’ll never look at the movie the same way again.
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Check out our conversation below! 👇🏽
This was such a blast! Thanks to @herberthistory.bsky.social for having me on his podcast, Reckoning with Jason Herbert.
The episode just dropped today and it’s all about my favorite movie, Clue! Oh, also lots of fun history and nerd banter! Check it out! 🕵🏻♂️
Omg @wingedisis.bsky.social! So good to find you on here! And many thanks! Big, big hugs! 🤗
A smattering of the guests, books, and films coming to the podcast soon. We’re bringing everybody. No one is doing history like us.
It’s me! :)
Spring season opening day! And the team voted me MVP! I hit 7 for 8! Oh, and I got my World Series champion ring! The road to another championship starts now!
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"How American immigration became law enforcement": a 15-minute @vox.com video explainer. "The rights that were won for Americans in the past are vulnerable. We have to fight to retain them." @iehs.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJHg...
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Eewwww
The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.
Seems kinda bad?
WTF?!
Preordered my copy! So excited to read it!
Eeeeek! Foto flashback! Me at 21. My work badge for my first journalism job: an overnight news writer for WSVN (Miami) Channel 7. 😆
Americans hate ICE!
Alright, let’s make it official. This Thursday @hcrichardson.bsky.social makes her first appearance on Reckoning with Jason Herbert.
We’re talking Lincoln.
We’re talking mythology.
We’re talking power.
We’re talking…vampires.
Subscribe below not to miss a thing.
One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show
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Benito deserves this stage and far more. And I am just so happy we get to see him thrive, exude joy and confidence, and refuse to be silenced or to conform.
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In May 2020, I wrote a counter-editorial for Abusable Past about Bad Bunny. My love for him has only grown. It felt like an early love/admiration letter to someone who was doing such important cultural and political work. Tonight is going to be momentous! abusablepast.org/counter-edit...
Statement correcting administrative misinformation....
#LetUsTeach
#BTHOcensorship
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
The Richards Civil War Era Center invites applications for the Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. Deadline is March 1! Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
This essay by @juliocapojr.bsky.social, about how the 1985 film Clue represented Cold War realities, is so good! 🗃️
time.com/7341218/40-y...
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼🤗
screenshot from the book This Is My Jail: Dick Gregory’s 1965 arrest on disorderly conduct for protesting school segrega- tion outside the home of Mayor Daley occurred under similar circumstances as it had in 1963, but it took on new significance as prisoners, Gregory, and the public revealed an increased militancy. As twenty protestors picketed outside the criminal court building, Gregory declined to pay the $400 fine and chose incarceration in the House of Correction. Gregory announced that he would go on hunger strike to protest the hostility of “the power structure in Chicago” to its African American residents, comparing the magistrate who sentenced him to segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace.95 Within hours of Gregory’s booking in the “black stone”—the decrepit North Cell House where Pedro Ramos had died—hundreds of prisoners launched a hunger strike. Although prisoners had waged hunger strikes with regularity over the years, the 1965 hun- ger strike was different. As reporters visited the cell house during the hunger strike, two hundred incarcerated people crowded around them. They were eager to reveal their daily realities to the public: the difficulty of sharing a five- foot- by- seven- foot cell with another man, the pain of sleeping on a straw mattress, the indignity of living without hot water in a space overrun by roaches. According to the Chicago Daily Defender, prisoners took advantage of “Gregory’s personal spotlight that was lighting up the mildewed city prison,” particularly as they made twelve demands of the administration.96 Like their movement counterparts, prisoners abandoned the notion of “fighting for one reform at a time” and pursued what activist Bayard Rus- tin called “the package deal.”97 In emulating the movement in this way, pris-
the story of Dick Gregory, who was jailed with MLK in Birmingham, helped me to how important jailed people to the Civil Rights Movement. when people like Gregory were taken to jail, jailed people were right there ready to go with support and plans for direct action. www.pennpress.org/978151282349...
I’m just glad the US military is finally focused on the real threats - Minnesota and Denmark.
Thank you! 🙏🏼
