Brie Gettleson

Who Will Remember You?: “The Secret Agent” and the Humanities as Resistance How Kleber Mendonça Filho's film positions archival, art, and preservation as tools of resistance.

In times of social and political strife, we often proclaim, “History will not look upon this moment kindly.” But how will history remember us if the historians are executed?

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Agreed! Um filme incrível.

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

"Syreeta Gates, an archivist from Jamaica, QNS, founded The Gates Preserve, a digital record of Black youth culture media so complete that the photographers + writers... from that era often hit her up to ask for clips of their own work. Gates has dedicated her life to the [clxn] of this history..."

Two weeks from today!

Open Rank Tenure-Track Professor in Caribbean History in Miami, FL for Florida International University Department of History Exciting opportunity in Miami, FL for Florida International University Department of History as a...

FYI…FIU is looking for a Caribbeanist careers.historians.org/jobs/2208769...

Oh cool well anyway I actually like thinking and having ideas

10 Years After Berta Cáceres’ Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmental Activists? Despite some prosecutions, the criminal masterminds behind the Indigenous leader's murder remain at large, while illegal land grabs, international finance and attacks against defenders continues with ...

By me: Today marks 10 years since the assassination of Indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres, a rare leader whose death marked a before and after for many including me. Despite some justice, the extractive economic model and its criminal modus operandi continues apace.

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I think I had a nightmare once where I was surrounded by dancing Dr. Simis

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Poster for the film screening at Penn Libraries on March 18 at 4pm

Excited to host this film screening of Searching for the Songs of Wanaragua next month at Penn Libraries! Learn about Garifuna language preservaation in Honduras. www.library.upenn.edu/events/searc...

Political posters from El Salvador and Nicaragua laid out on a table in a library room

Got to show off some of my favorite collection to a visiting class from Bryn Mawr today

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

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Please listen at link below (at the top of the program) to my interview last night regarding implications of the newly intensified "drug war" in Mexico, please share widely
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My interview on Al Jazeera about the killing of El Mencho YouTube video by SKT DCA

Check out my interview on Al Jazeera today on the killing of El Mencho in Mexico and why it’s unlikely to reduce the flow of drug to the US, but will (and already has) escalate violence in Mexico.

A lesson about networks that I’m kind of proud of: at the beginning of the year, I gave my 200 students a dumb survey: fav books, foods, etc. I told them they could use pseudonyms and that I’d share their responses with the class. We’ve been using that data in various ways: to make points about +

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

From Black chattel slavery to Orphan Trains to Native boarding schools to Georgia Tann’s Tennessee Children’s Home (where Joan Crawford bought her baby) to Operations Babylift and Peter Pan to the modern family policing system of CPS, the USA is DEDICATED to taking children from their families. 🥚

“Giant donations, he’s come to realize, often increase the university’s bills, generating new operating expenses for projects that may have only tenuous links to the university’s core mission. […] He remembers the quip from a former dean: ‘The endowment is the gift that keeps on taking.’l

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

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Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal A Guardian analysis finds the vast majority of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time from January to August last year had no criminal convictions

The Trump admin claims they have been arresting the worst of the worst. But the Guardian, working with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sued the govt for docs that show that isn't true.

77% of people who entered deportation proceedings in 2025 had no criminal conviction

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Well isn’t this just the nicest thing 😊

My heart! 🥰

Fun lil donation from 1974

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Authoritarianism from Below | Stuart Schrader As National Guard troops and federal officers swarmed Washington, D.C., in August, sent by President Donald Trump to confront what he declared a “crime

Stuart Schrader on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/02/14/authoritarianism-from-below-trump-city-takeovers-police/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-14_Schrader-policing-1

UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.

This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s.

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