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El Sol Latino contacted State Representative Carlos González regarding this apparent omission. Days later, he notified us that, in fact, there are no Latinos/as in the search committee but that a Latino member will eventually be added.
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At first glance, the composition of the search committee appeared to lack Latino/a representation.
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Given the fact that Latinos in Massachusetts comprise 12.6 percent of the state’s population, adding just one Latino member to the committee is still an underrepresentation in this decisionmaking group. Latinos should have a say in the decision of who will lead the state’s most important academic public institution.
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This past August 4-7 marked the first annual Fiestas Patronales de Holyoke. The fiestas patronales are traditional festivals held annually in cities and towns across Puerto Rico. The event this first year celebrated the city’s identity and Holyoke’s first Puerto Rican mayor, Joshua García. A special recognition was made to Don Rafael Fernández and his family, owners of Fernández Family Restaurant in Holyoke that closed after 34 years of serving the community.
Fiestas Patronales de Holyoke 2022 Through the lens of Manuel Frau Ramos
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“Esto plantea un posible aumento en las necesidades de servicios de salud que requerirá la población dominicana, debido a condiciones relacionadas al envejecimiento. En un futuro cercano, tanto la población dominicana como la puertorriqueña estarán pasando, en términos proporcionales considerables, a edades septuagenarias, las cuales típicamente conllevan un surgimiento o agudizaciones de ciertas condiciones de salud’, señaló Velázquez. Por otra parte, “la disparidad por sexo en la población dominicana en términos de ingreso, pobreza y personas fuera de la fuerza laboral es prominente. Las diferencias apuntan a un cuadro más complicado o arduo para las dominicanas frente a los dominicanos residentes de Puerto Rico”, agregó Velázquez.
• En contraste con la población puertorriqueña, fue mucho menor el porcentaje de personas fuera de la fuerza laboral entre la población dominicana que en la puertorriqueña.
• Durante las últimas tres décadas, el promedio anual de pasajeros aéreos desde República Dominicana hacia Puerto Rico decreció de 335 mil (1990-1999) a 324 mil (2000-2009), y posteriormente a 214 mil en la década más reciente (2010-2019).
• La mediana de edad de la población dominicana (49 años) supera por 8 años a la puertorriqueña (41 años).
• La educación alcanzada y por sexo de los dominicanos mostró: o Porcentajes más altos en el rasgo de personas con menos de escuela superior, siendo mayor en los hombres (44%) que en las mujeres (38%).
• La población dominicana que reside en Puerto Rico y nació en la República Dominicana comprendió el 90%, los que nacieron en Puerto Rico fueron un 7%.
El estudio comienza destacando que la población de minoría con mayor presencia entre los habitantes de Puerto Rico es la dominicana con 59%, seguido de la cubana (13%), mexicana (9%), colombiana (4%) y española (3%), siendo las cinco poblaciones de origen hispano no puertorriqueño que predominan en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico.
• Esta disparidad de ingreso por sexo frente a la población puertorriqueña presenta un patrón similar; las mujeres puertorriqueñas reflejaron una mediana de ingreso menor a los hombres puertorriqueños, en este caso por cerca de tres (3) mil dólares ($3,099).
Otros datos que se incluyen en este estudio reflejan que:
• La distribución geográfica indica una concentración marcada en la zona norte de San Juan en la cual habita alrededor del 35% de la población dominicana.
• Respecto a la población dominicana y puertorriqueña que alcanzaron alguna educación postsecundaria, los datos indican cómo la mujer en ambas poblaciones se caracteriza por tener mayor porcentaje de nivel educativo alcanzado.
Portada / Front Page 5El Sol Latino September 2022 Estudio Presenta el Perfil Sociodemográfico de la Población Dominicana en Puerto Rico
• El porcentaje de dominicanos que se encontraban fuera de la fuerza laboral fue mucho menor en los hombres (26%) que en las mujeres (44%).
• Entre las ocupaciones más comunes de la población dominicana estuvieron limpiadores domésticos (9.2%), labores de construcción (6.0%), conserjes o limpiadores de edificios (4.4%), cocineros (as) (4.0%) y asistentes de cuidado personal (3.6%).
Por su parte, el director ejecutivo del Instituto de Estadísticas, el Dr. Orville Disdier, indicó que “por años la población dominicana ha contribuido notablemente a la diversidad demográfica de Puerto Rico, por lo que conocer datos sobre sus rasgos sociodemográficos y sus contrastes con la población puertorriqueña es importantes para el desarrollo de iniciativas que mejoren la calidad de vida de ambas poblaciones”.
El gerente senior de Proyectos Estadísticos del Instituto y autor de este estudio, Alberto L. Velázquez Estrada, indicó que los datos presentados detallan, entre otros, que la población dominicana en general, es de mayor edad que la población puertorriqueña, la cual desde hace ya unas décadas es una población vieja.
• Poco más de la mitad de la población dominicana en Puerto Rico (51%) se encontraba en situación de pobreza. En las residentes dominicanas el porcentaje en pobreza fue mayor que en los dominicanos con 54% y 48%, respectivamente.
• La mayoría de la población dominicana en Puerto Rico fue mujer, siendo alrededor del 58% frente al 42% de hombres.
• La población total dominicana se caracterizó por tener el mayor porcentaje en estado civil de casado con 40%, seguido por un 32% nunca casado, rasgos que se invierten en su orden en contraste con la población puertorriqueña.
• La población dominicana reflejó una mediana de ingreso con diferencia marcada por sexo por cerca de cuatro (4) mil dólares ($4,011), siendo menor para las dominicanas con una mediana de $10,842 frente a los dominicanos con $14,853.
• Relacionado al aspecto de la salud, las personas con alguna dificultad para oír, ver, cognitiva, ambulatoria y/o de cuidado por cuenta propia, reflejó que de cada (10) personas dominicanas, dos (2) de ellas tienen alguna discapacidad, hallazgo bastante similar al que mostró la población Parapuertorriqueña.conocermás sobre el Instituto de Estadísticas, pueden acceder a la página web: www.estadisticas.pr. En las redes sociales a través de las cuentas de Facebook (@estadisticas.pr), Twitter (@EstadisticasPR), Instagram (@institutodeestadisticas) y LinkedIn (Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico).
o A su vez, diferencia notable por sexo en las personas con nivel de bachillerato, siendo las mujeres un 14% frente a los hombres con un 8%.
SAN JUAN, PR | INSTITUTO DE ESTADÍSTICAS DE PUERTO RICO | 28 de abril de 2022 - El Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico (Instituto) presentó el estudio: Población Dominicana en Puerto Rico: Características sociodemográficas y contrastes con la población puertorriqueña, 20152019, que se centra en detallar los rasgos sociodemográficos que caracterizan a la población dominicana residente en Puerto Rico, así como las diferencias entre estos por características de sexo. Como parte de esta investigación se examinaron diversas características de la población dominicana frente a la población puertorriqueña, proveyendo contrastes de los escenarios sociodemográficos de ambas poblaciones.
The Food | July 27, 2022 - The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), today demanded that the United States Congress approve the project that is currently in Congress in Washington, DC.
LULAC Demands The US Congress To Approve Statehood For Puerto Rico
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Similarly, Benavides said that under the current territory status, more than 3.2 million US citizens in Puerto Rico are treated unequally under various federal laws and programs, resulting in lower economic performance, lower federal investments on the island and inferior quality of life for its residents.
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LULAC’s CEO, Sindy Benavides
Similarly, they will touch on the conditions that affect Latino military veterans and active-duty military personnel.
“Piecemeal legislative efforts help, but they are not enough, and they are not a permanent solution. Statehood would provide the necessary stability for long-term planning, recovery, and sustainable development,” said the organization’s CEO, Sindy Benavides, who gave details at a press conference on the issues being discussing at the LULAC annual convention taking place from July 25 to 30, 2022, at the Puerto Rico Convention Center.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), which celebrates its 93rd annual convention, is the largest and oldest organization that defends the civil rights of the Hispanic community. It is based on volunteer service and seeks to build strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, it is made up of councils located in 37 states and Puerto Rico. Through its programs and services, LULAC provides solutions to the most important problems for Hispanics today and lays the foundation for a better future. For more information, visit www.LULAC.org Educación
Another issue that is being analyzed in the convention is the prevention of violence by weapons. “There are no words that explain how devastating the Uvalde school massacre was. It’s unfathomable how these 4th grade Hispanic students and their teachers passed away. The outrage we feel is even greater knowing that the response of the officers present was inadequate and caused even more deaths.”
Regarding public education, Benavides announced that the convention will feature US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona as their keynote speaker, and they will also have the participation of the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten.
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“Many of you are familiar with LULAC’s successful legislative work with the passage of the ‘I am Vanessa Guillén’ law and the ‘Brandon Law’ to protect our military,” Benavides said.
Finally, Benavides indicated that they expect more than 15,000 LULAC members, community allies, federal, state and local government officials, and corporate partners to participate at the convention.
Regarding LGBTQ+ intersectionality and impact, Benavides highlights that LULAC continues to fight against anti-trans laws in Texas, and the “Don’t Say Gay” laws in Texas and Florida. She also said that the organization has continued to work to support LGBTQ+ Latino seniors and youth, many of whom are members of LULAC.
Among the topics that will be discussed at the convention are immigration and voting rights, and how LULAC is directly involved in several legal cases in Texas and Iowa over voter suppression and voting rights. Likewise, LULAC will highlight issues of health, be it reproductive health or its COVID-19 campaign. Benavides pointed out that the organization has invested a significant amount of time and resources to generate confidence in the COVID vaccine through education and knocking on doors to vaccinate Latinos in their own communities.
To this end, Benavides recalled that the members of LULAC in 2018 approved a resolution to advocate for the statehood of Puerto Rico, which was put to a vote and was favored by the National Assembly at that year’s Regardingconvention.the referendums that have been held on the island on status, she highlighted the fact that Puerto Ricans have also given their support to statehood. She explained that in the last three referendums that have been held, statehood has been the option that has been favored.
The CEO of LULAC emphasized that “despite the beautiful cultural heritage of the island, it would be an injustice not to recognize the current struggles that exist. For Latinos and for LULAC, staying on the sidelines of an injustice against Latinos – whether they are from the mainland or from the island – is not an option. And especially in the case of Puerto Ricans on the island who continue to fight for equality and basic civil rights as the Americans they are.”
August 10, 2022 – Elise Hansel, who wants to go to Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) when she finishes high school in two years, got a taste of what it’s like to be an STCC student during a summer program for Hansel,youth.
“It was a great experience,” she said. “I have always been interested in fashion. I don’t know if I would go into the industry, but I like making my own clothes and mending them.”
STCC’s College for Kids offers Fashion Education that Inspires
One participant, Samaris Harrigan, 16, of Springfield, said she loved getting advice and help from an industry insider like Haynes.
16, participated in a week-long educational program about fashion, which was one of several College for Kids at STCC offerings in July and “IAugust.would like to study marketing at STCC after I graduate from Putnam,” she said, referring to the Putnam Vocational Technical Academy where she starts her junior year in September. “I don’t know if I want to go into the fashion industry, but I was interested in trying something new.”
Haynes invited members from the community to the final day when the students presented their fashion projects. At the beginning of the week, students were asked to take an item of clothing out of their closet and repurpose it into a new fashion statement. Over the week, they put their newly learned sewing and hemming skills to work to make imaginative shirts, blouses, skirts and more.
Teenagers between 13 and 16 got hands-on experience with sewing. They also learned the difference between fashion and style.
Instructor Justin Haynes, left, with Lidya Rivera-Early, second from left, and participants and judges in a College for Kids program about fashion.
Haynes invited members of the community to judge the students’ work and offer constructive feedback. Sassy Smith of Springfield, who runs Sassy Smith Beauty which specializes in skin and makeup education, said students were talented and creative.
“We see College for Kids as an opportunity for youth to have fun and learn during their summer break,” Rivera-Early said. “They can see the beautiful STCC campus and get a feel for what it’s like to be a college student. I’m thrilled that we had inspiring and passionate instructors like Justin Haynes. He pours his passion into the session. He knows how to help the students think outside the box and channel their creativity.”
“I’m definitely impressed with the quality that they produced, given that this was their first time touching a sewing machine and learning how to sew. They did an amazing job with what they had, and Justin did a great job teaching them the basics,” Smith said. “I would love to see how far they could go with this. There is a lot of talent in Springfield.”
He said participants in the class obtain skills they can use in their personal lives or take into a career in the fashion industry.
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“They got basic knowledge of sewing techniques,” said Haynes, a Springfield designer who created JUS10H University and taught the program at STCC. “They learned how to thread a needle, how to hand-sew, how to use a sewing machine, how to put buttons on and how to do hems.”
Lidya Rivera-Early, director of Community Engagement at STCC, organized the College for Kids this summer, which featured a range of programs focusing on different disciplines. Some offerings exposed young people to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) while others focused on arts and sports.
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“These kids were great,” Haynes said. “They took all the knowledge in. They learned how to sew in a matter of three days. These kids were very attentive and wanted to be here.”
The College for Kids program, JUS10H University, taught Hansel and other students around her age some elements of marketing in the fashion industry during a week in July. The instructor, Justin Haynes of Springfield, discussed marketing in the fashion industry as well as other concepts.
Quiñones earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and master’s degree in cell biology, both from the University of Puerto Rico, and a Ph.D. in neurobiology and physiology from Rutgers University.
July, 13, 2022 - The California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees has appointed Vanya Quiñones, Ph.D., to serve as the fourth president of California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). Quiñones currently serves as provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at Pace University in New York.
La Directora Interina de la Biblioteca Lazaro de la Universidad of Puerto Rico, Dra. Nancy Abreu Báez y Profesor Lauria Santiago firmaron el acuerdo de colaboración entre el Center for Latin American Studies y la Biblioteca. El Bibliotecario Javier Almeyda estará a cargo de la administración del ElproyectoCentro de Estudios Latinoamericanos se dedica a realizar investigaciones sobre el tema puertorriqueño, caribeño y latinoamericano y mediante este acuerdo ofrecerá experiencias de investigación a estudiantes del campus riopedrense de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, con el objetivo primordial de que los estudiantes aprendan a manejar y preservar fuentes primarias y Lasecundarias.Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Puertorriqueña posee un acervo documental extenso, medular para la investigación en el tema puertorriqueño y caribeño, razón por la cual el doctor Aldo Lauria Santiago —director del Centro—, desea aportar a la preservación, divulgación y visibilización de estas importantes fuentes documentales.
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Como parte del acuerdo el Sistema de Bibliotecas tendrá la responsabilidad de brindar acceso a los documentos históricos desde la Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña.
A neurobiologist, biopsychologist and noted researcher, Quiñones has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles. Over the course of a 20-plus-year career at the City University of New York (CUNY) - Hunter College, Quiñones served as an assistant, associate, and full professor in the Department of Psychology before being appointed to serve as the chair of the department. She was later promoted to the role of associate provost. In 2018, she was appointed to her current position of provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at Pace University where she also holds the rank of full professor in the Department of Psychology. Her portfolio of responsibilities includes oversight of all academic and student-related academic offices and personnel as well as Information Technology.
Additionally, Dr. Katherine Kantardjieff, CSUMB provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, will serve as the university’s Executive in Charge during the interim period immediately after President Eduardo Ochoa’s Thedeparture.
Vanya Quiñones, Ph.D.
“Earning a degree from CSUMB is a transformative experience that leads to life-changing opportunities for students and their families,” said Quiñones. “I am honored by this opportunity and eager to collaborate with the talented faculty, staff, administrators, students and all members of the CSUMB community as we collectively work to provide even greater access to a high-quality education and improve the achievement of our talented and diverse students.”
21 de julio de 2022 - Recientemente dio inicio un acuerdo de colaboración de cuatro años entre el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Rutgers y la Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Puertorriqueña del Sistema de Bibliotecas del Recinto de Río Piedras.
La experiencia de manejo y preservación de fuentes primarias y secundarias estará a cargo del bibliotecario y jefe de la Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Puertorriqueña, profesor Javier Almeyda Loucil.
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Quiñones will assume the campus presidency on August 15, 2022.
California State University is the largest system of four-year higher education in the country, with 23 campuses, 59,000 faculty and staff and 477,000 students. Half of the CSU’s students transfer from California community colleges. Created in 1960, the mission of the CSU is to provide high-quality, affordable education to meet the ever-changing needs of California. With its commitment to quality, opportunity, and student success, the CSU is renowned for superb teaching, innovative research and for producing job-ready graduates. Each year, the CSU awards nearly 133,000 degrees. One in every 20 Americans holding a college degree is a graduate of the CSU and our alumni are 4 million strong.
“Dr. Quiñones has served in a variety of roles during her decades of service as an educator, and in each of those roles she has continually demonstrated dedication to expanding diversity and improving student success,” said CSU Trustee Julia I. Lopez, chair of the CSUMB search committee. “Key measures of student success including graduation and retention rates continue to reach all-time highs at CSUMB, and Dr. Quiñones has the knowledge, skills, abilities and vision to lead the university to even greater heights.”
Acuerdo entre la Universidad de Rutgers y el Recinto de Río Piedras de la UPR
“Este acuerdo abona al cumplimiento de la misión del Recinto mediante el enriquecimiento y el fortalecimiento de la investigación sobre el tema puertorriqueño y la divulgación de este conocimiento a nivel nacional e internacional”, asevera la Dra. Nancy Abreu Báez, directora interina del Sistema de Bibliotecas de la UPR-RP.
Vanya Quiñones Appointed President of California State University, Monterey Bay
President Christina Royal
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“Change, in its many forms, can feel difficult,” she said. “Yet, in times of change – from our founding and in recent years – HCC has been a beacon of light, hope, and opportunity for this community. This is what matters, and it is what I am certain will continue for years to come.
Before coming to HCC, Royal served as provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights, Minn. Prior to that she was associate vice president for e-learning and innovation at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland and director of technology-assisted learning for the School of Graduate and Continuing Education for Marist College. She holds a PhD in education from Capella University and a master of arts in educational psychology and a bachelor of arts in math from Marist.
“It has been one of the greatest honors and privileges of my life to serve as the fourth president of this great institution,” she said in a message to the HCC community, “and now is the time to prepare for the next chapter of my life.” Royal, 50, said she is not leaving HCC for another job and has no specific plans.
“President Royal has laid a strong foundation with her Cabinet that will, I have no doubt, successfully carry out the daily activities of the college over this year and beyond,” he said. “The work to advance HCC’s mission, vision, and strategic priorities will indeed continue. Without question, higher education as a sector is in for a lot of change as we look to the future, but Dr. Royal has prepared our institution well and has set HCC up for success far beyond her tenure.”
Today Holyoke Community College (HCC) President Christina Royal announced that she will retire after the 2022-2023 academic year. Her last day will be July 14, 2023.
“I have spent a considerable amount of time reflecting about this life change, and my ‘why’ is simple and straightforward: I am seeking expansion and personal growth in the form of new learnings and experiences and an opportunity to pause and enjoy the present moments.”
HOLYOKE, MA | HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | August 23, 2022
Royal started at HCC in January 2017. She is the fourth president in the 75-year history of HCC and not only the first woman to hold the position but the first openly gay and first bi-racial person to serve HCC as president.
In her announcement, Royal cited some of the milestones of her tenure: working collaboratively to develop HCC’s first strategic plan, advancing equity across the institution; and investing in programs to support students’ basic needs, such as creating the President’s Student Emergency Fund (to provide grants to student facing immediate financial needs), opening Homestead Market (the first campus store in Massachusetts to accept SNAP benefits), partnering with Holyoke Housing Authority (to help students find affordable housing), and launching the Itsy Bitsy Child Watch Program (to provide HCC student-parents access to free, short-term care for their Otherchildren.)highlights include opening the HCC MGM Culinary Arts Institute on Race Street; reopening the HCC Campus Center after a two-year, $43.5 million renovation; establishing El Centro, a bilingual center dedicated to the needs of Latinx students; weathering a global pandemic; and celebrating HCC’s 75th anniversary as the oldest two-year college in Massachusetts.
“One of the greatest responsibilities of any leader is to know when and why to lead an institution and also when and why it is time to leave it,” she said.
Presidential search plans will begin immediately.
Holyoke Community College president Christina Royal to retire in 2023
“President Royal’s understanding of higher education and the management of higher education has been invaluable to the board and to me personally,” said Robert Gilbert, chair of the HCC Board of Trustees. “She has always known what needed to be done to take HCC to the next level and she involved everyone in the process of moving the college forward.”
In looking at how students named their gender and pronouns on the Common App, two contrasting trends stood out to me.
When students today fill out their college applications, they are not just identifying as “she” or “he.” More than 3% of incoming college students use a different set of pronouns. That’s according to my analysis of the more than 1.2 million applications submitted for the 2022-23 school year through the Common App, an online application platform used by more than 900 colleges.
by GENNY BEEMYN | Director, Stonewall Center, UMass Amherst
Just 19 students reported using only neopronouns, or new pronouns – that is, third-person singular pronouns other than the common ones of she, he, they and it – for themselves.
College Students are Increasingly Identifying Beyond ‘she’ and ‘he’
The use of “they/them” in the singular is not new. The practice goes back at least to the 1300s. The singular “they/them” fell out of favor in the 1800s, when “he/him” began to be widely used generically to refer to someone in the third person, despite opposition from many women.
Questions of acceptance
Challenges remain Despite the growing visibility of neopronouns today, people who use these pronouns still struggle to get others to learn and respect them. Neopronouns are hardly more accepted in the larger society now than they were when I used them in the late 1990s, or when they were proposed as early as the To1700s.learn all the genders and pronouns used by nonbinary people today would be a difficult task and never-ending, as more and more genders and pronouns will undoubtedly continue to be devised.
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The widespread usage of “they/them” may be a recognition by many nonbinary students of the difficulty of getting others to use pronouns that may not be well known even in trans communities. This was my own Whenexperience.Icame out as nonbinary decades ago, I asked others to use “ze/hir” – pronounced “zee” and “here” – for me. But few people did. Unlike “they/ them,” it was not language they knew or were comfortable using. After a few years, I decided to go by “they/them” and found people generally more willing and readily able to respect my identity. It certainly helped that I worked in higher education directing an LGBTQ+ center.
The leaders of the Common App provided me with data from the college applications for the 2022-23 school year so that I could analyze how students today identify their gender and what pronouns they use. Students’ names and other identifying information were withheld.
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Of the students who went by pronouns other than just “she/her” or “he/ him,” nearly 97% indicated using “they/them” as one of their pronoun sets.
This article was originally published in The Conversation | August 19, 2022.
In contrast to the proliferation of gender labels, the other major trend among the college applicants was the common use of “they/them” pronouns.
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While 3% may not seem like a lot, it represents nearly 37,000 students. It is also indicative of a growing number of young people who identify outside of a gender binary – that is, they do not identify as female or male. For example, the percentage of college students who indicated that they are nonbinary on one national survey has nearly tripled from 1.4% in 2016 to 4.1% in 2021.
Beyond the binary In analyzing the data from the Common App, I found that 2.2% of students – more than 26,000 individuals – who applied to college for this fall identified as transgender or nonbinary. This figure is likely an undercount because some students may be reluctant to indicate their gender identity on an admissions form. For instance, students often complete their college applications with their families and are unlikely to state that they are trans or nonbinary if they are not out to them.
Unlike earlier attempts to create a singular third-person pronoun, the singular “they/them” has caught on in the larger society. It is considered appropriate language by online dictionaries, writing style guidelines and the news media. “They” in the singular was even declared “word of the year” by Merriam-Webster in 2019. The American Dialect Society designated “they” as “word of the decade” for the 2010s.
One is the number of ways that nonbinary students have developed to describe their gender. Whereas trans people used relatively few gender identity labels for themselves when I came out as nonbinary in the late 1990s, these students provided approximately 130 different genders and about 78 different pronoun sets – from “ae/aem,” which was first used in a 1920 science fiction novel with third-gender characters who were born from air, to “ze/zir,” which is likely based on the German plural third-person pronoun “sie.” Unique expressions Through their use of different gender labels and pronouns, young nonbinary people are making detailed distinctions between different gender identities and showing how gender is unique to the individual. For example, the most common gender identity written in by the students was “genderfluid,” which was given by more than 40% of the write-ins. At the same time, many students named the specific way that their gender is fluid, such as genderfae individuals, whose gender can be fluid between feminine genders, nonbinary genders and genderlessness but which does not encompass masculine genders.
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Sara V. Hinojos, a professor of Media Studies and advisory board member of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Queens College, is a co-principal investigator of the project “Latinx Sound Cultures: Belonging, Resonance, Amplifications.”
June 14, 2022 - Four City University of New York faculty members, including three from the Graduate Center, are among the winners of the Crossing Latinidades Collaborative, Cross-institutional, and Comparative Research Working Groups in Latino Humanities Studies Grant Competition. The professors will collaborate with faculty at other universities to lead interdisciplinary research projects that explore aspects of Latino arts and Clockwiseculture.from
top left: Ramona Hernández, Anna Indych-Lopez, Sara V. Hinojos, and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario Ramona Hernández, a professor of Sociology and International Migration Studies at the Graduate Center and professor of Sociology and director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York. Hernández is a co-principal investigator of the project “Forging Panethnic Alliances: Hispanic Caribbean Communities in Three Gateway Cities— Miami, New York, Orlando.” Ph.D. student Jayson Castillo (Urban Education), one of three CUNY students named a Crossing Latinidades student fellow and chosen for the program’s 2022 summer institute, will support the project as a junior peer and researcher.
Anna Indych-Lopez, a professor of Art History at the Graduate Center and at The City College of New York. Indych-Lopez is a co-principal investigator of the project “Situating the Networks of Latinx Art.” She is joined by Graduate Center alumna Abigail Lapin Dardashti (Ph.D. ’20, Art History), an assistant professor of art history and visual studies at the University of California, Irvine. Ph.D. student Lidia Hernández-Tapia (Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures) is a junior peer and researcher on the project.
Each research working group will receive a grant of $310,000, which includes summer stipends for the principal investigators and $30,000 stipends for doctoral fellows who have completed the Summer Institute in Latino Humanities Studies Methodologies and Theories, who will support each project.
The Center for Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies (CLACLS) at the Graduate Center coordinated student applications to the program.
“We are extremely pleased and proud that all three students were selected for this wonderful opportunity,” said Victoria Stone, CLACLS associate director, who will also be an instructor at the two-week LatinidadesCrossinginstitute that the students will attend in late June.
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, a professor and deputy executive officer of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at the Graduate Center and a professor of English at Queens College, is a co-principal investigator of the project “The Latinx Past: Archive, Memory, Speculation.” Joining the project as a junior peer and researcher is Graduate Center Ph.D. student Ricardo Martín Coloma (Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures).
But knowing all possible gender options should not be the point. What I think matters is knowing how the people in our lives see their gender and what pronouns they use for themselves and then using these pronouns. This may involve learning different words to refer to someone, but people are always learning new terms. How many people knew the word “coronavirus” five years ago? Using new pronouns for others affirms who they are and enables them to feel respected and seen. For many young nonbinary people who report that they are often misgendered, receiving support for their gender identities can improve their mental health and reduce their sense of social stigma. It really does not take much to learn to use pronouns like “ze/hir” or “xe/xem” (pronounced “zee” and “zem”), but it can go a long way toward building a positive relationship with someone and creating an inclusive culture for nonbinary people.
GENNY BEEMYN, Ph.D., is the director of the UMass Amherst Stonewall Center and the coordinator of Campus Pride’s Trans Policy Clearinghouse. They have published and spoken extensively on the experiences and needs of trans college students, including writing some of the first articles on the topic in the 2000s. Among the books Genny has written are The Lives of Transgender People (2011); A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C. (2014); and the anthology Trans People in Higher Education (2019). With Abbie Goldberg, they edited The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies (2021). They are currently writing Campus Queer: Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ+ College Students with Mickey Eliason for Johns Hopkins University Press. Genny is also an editorial board member of the Journal of LGBT Youth, the Journal of Bisexuality, the Journal of Lesbian Studies, and the Journal of Homosexuality. They have a Ph.D. in African American Studies and master’s degrees in African American Studies, American Studies, and Higher Education Administration. More about Genny can be found on their website: www.gennyb.com.
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Subverting democracy to keep the cash flowing In the 1880s, the Boston Fruit Company, which later became the United Fruit Company and then Chiquita, began importing bananas from Jamaica and launched a successful campaign to popularize them in the U.S.
The tight relationship between banana exporters and repressive and corrupt leaders ultimately undermined development in the region, exacerbated inequality and left Central American countries weak and misgoverned.
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What’s a banana republic? A political scientist explains by MATTHEW WILSON Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina • This article was originally published in THE CONVERSATION | August 12, 2022 When someone mentions a “banana republic,” they’re referring to a small, poor, politically unstable country that is weak because of an excessive reliance on one crop and foreign funding.
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The growers often depended on authoritarian rule to protect land concessions and quell labor unrest that might shrink their profits. Sometimes, they would actively subvert democracy to reassert their influence. The Cuyamel Fruit Company, for example, supported a coup in Honduras in 1911 that replaced its president with someone more aligned with U.S. interests.
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The term originated as a way to describe the experiences of many countries in Central America, whose economies and politics were dominated by U.S.-based banana exporters at the turn of the 20th Aftercentury.the FBI’s August 2022 search of the residence of former President Donald Trump, some Republicans compared the U.S. to a banana republic. And in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a surge of tweets did the same. Political instability within the U.S. has little to do with fruit. So why is the term being used?
Responding to the events that unfolded leading up to and during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, current and former government officials commented that they resembled the instability of banana republics that were known for ignoring election results and overturning those results with coups – that’s exactly what happened in Costa Rica in 1917.
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However, holding elected officials accountable for their actions and not allowing anyone to be above the law is actually characteristic of a healthy democracy.
He is interested in the interactions of autocratic leaders and institutions, particularly with regard to regime change and conflict outcomes. I have published in peer reviewed journals that include the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, International Interactions, Political Science Research and Methods, and Comparative Political Studies. Some of the courses that I have taught include Dictatorship and Democratization, Latin American Politics, Advanced Quantitative Methods, and Comparative Politics. As a comparativist scholar, I have a special interest in the politics of Latin America and historical development.
As demand for bananas grew, large companies made deals with governments across Central America to fund infrastructure projects in exchange for land and policies that would allow them to expand production.
When American politicians and political commentators use the term, they’re often trying to conjure up images of corruption, repression and failures to stop executive overreach. They’re equating government officials with the tinpot dictators supported by foreign interests who acted with impunity to govern by force and persecute their opponents.
Another well-known example is the 1954 CIA-orchestrated plot on behalf of the United Fruit Company against Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz. That coup ended the first real period of democracy that Guatemala had known.
A number of Republican politicians invoked the term in response to the FBI’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. But the comparison isn’t apt. It’s true that outgoing leaders are more likely to be investigated and punished by their political opponents in countries with strong executives and weak judiciaries.
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Readers are invited to join Pola in her journey to healing. From the sadistic barbarity of her first experiences, she moves on to receive compassion and support from a revitalizing new community. Along the way, she learns to recognize and embrace the many faces of love—a mother’s love, a daughter’s love, a sister’s love, a love of community, and the self-love that she must recover before she can offer herself to another. It is ultimately, a novel of the triumph of the human spirit even under the most brutal of conditions.
LLANOS-FIGUEROA was born in Puerto Rico. As a child she was sent to live with her grandparents in the South Bronx, where she was introduced to the culture of rural Puerto Rico, including the storytelling skills that came naturally to the women, especially the older women, in her family. Much of her work is based on her experiences during this time. LlanosFigueroa taught creative writing, language and literature in the New York City school system before becoming a young-adult librarian and writer. Her first novel, Daughters of the Stone, was a Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and her short stories have been published in anthologies and literary magazines such as Breaking Ground: Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980-2012, Growing Up Girl, Afro-Hispanic Review, Pleaides, Latino Book Review, Label Me Latina/o and Kweli Journal She lives in New York City.
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“Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone sings as few novels can. It also tells us of a culture and nation that is underrepresented in our literature: Puerto Rico. And it does so with brilliant flourishes in a narrative both gripping and intimate. Conveying a wide sweep of history, as witnessed by several generations of women, the book has the warmth of autobiography while sustaining a firm and stately control of technique and language.”
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— 2010 PEN Literary Awards Program on Daughters of the Stone
“A Woman of Endurance is a marvelous gift and a complete triumph. The women in this novel create themselves and build paths toward a self-defined freedom. Llanos-Figueroa has given us a love letter that was lost among the many receipts and historical narratives told only by the victorious.”
“A Woman of Endurance is a wonder, at once wrenching and tender, gripping and gorgeous, sweeping and profound. LlanosFigueroa has written a groundbreaking contribution to the literature of enslavement, of the Americas, and of the possibilities for healing and becoming free.”
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Reviews: “[A] compelling debut…Beautifully told by Llanos-Figueroa, this is an unforgettable saga of the magical beliefs binding one family for generations.”
— Willie Perdomo, award-winning poet and author of Where Nickels Cost a Dime and The Crazy Bunch
Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma LlanosFigueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history —the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves.
— —Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban “Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s novels are as necessary to Puerto Rican literature as rice and beans are to the Puerto Rican diet. A Woman of Endurance should be taught as both history and literature of las Americas; it cements Llanos-Figueroa as an urgent and critical voice for our times. Her rigorous and compassionate attention to the human experience of the horrific legacy of enslaved Black people in Puerto Rico is a triumph for literature, Puerto Rican and otherwise, and a testament to the enduring spirit of human beings.”
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s A Woman of Endurance is a powerful novel, at times harrowing, but also full of love. A delicate balancing act of history and pain and grace and beauty. This is the Black Puerto Rican novel I have been waiting for my whole life. — Jaquira Díaz, author of Ordinary Girls
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A Woman of Endurance, set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican plantation society, follows Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. The resulting babies are taken from her as soon as they are born. Pola loses the faith that has guided her and becomes embittered and defensive. The dehumanizing violence of her life almost destroys her. But this is not a novel of defeat but rather one of survival, regeneration, and reclamation of common humanity.
“A Woman of Endurance is a new classic of Caribbean literature. With exquisite, patient, poetic prose, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa illuminates the world of 19th-century Puerto Rican haciendas and the slavery on which they depended. By telling this story through the eyes of Pola, one of those slaves, Llanos-Figueroa has written the grand epic that Pola—and all the other forgotten women of endurance—richly deserve.”
— Marisel Vera, author of The Taste of Sugar
— Carolina de Robertis, author of The President and the Frog “The horrific enslavement of more than 15 million Africans from West and Central Africa to build the Americas carried many untold stories. Pola’s is one of those stories that insisted on being told.” — Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, President/Founder of Creative Justice Initiative Inc.
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Marta Aponte Alsina, writer and literary critic Affect, Archive, Archipelago arranges decolonial and libertarian texts from the Puerto Rican archive and contemporary activism and performance art into a unique, compelling constellation. Rigorous yet unconstrained by academic conventions, the writing is bodily, dialogic, blending lucidity and revery, raiding and retooling theory. It renders urgent submerged desires for another, transcendent collectivity, reading Betances and Albizu Campos like never before while redeeming Capetillo’s rebel anarchofeminism for the present. It amplifies empathetically the new artistic voices that are performing a dense and intense reimagining of the space and limits of the archipelago. It points to new horizons of the practical, where other sovereignties can be discerned, beyond the nation-state toward the Caribbean, beyond discourse toward the body, beyond logos toward affect, beyond the archive to the street. Affect, Archive, Archipelago is a necessary book for an archipelago surviving disaster and resisting dispossession and displacement.
Finally, stemming from the book’s argument and the immediate historicalpolitical-affective context of Puerto Rico’s summer 2019 rebellion (Verano Boricua), the book offers some reflections and proposals for furthering decolonial, sovereign, archipelagic, and reparatory horizons for Puerto Rico.
Description: Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the archipelagic, the sea, and Caribbean regionalism.
Christopher Powers, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
About the Author: BEATRIZ LLENIN-FIGEROA is an adjunct professor in the Humanities Department at University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez Campus. She is an independent writer, editor, and translator. She is also an Associate Editor at Editora Educación Emergente (EEE).
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The book’s transdisciplinary archive includes historical figures and their legacies; political and activist thought, textuality, and action as performative interventions; and performance and live arts pieces, objects, materialities, and texts as political/activist actions. Affect, Archive, Archipelago begins by delving into the historical-political figures of Ramón Emeterio Betances, Luisa Capetillo, and Pedro Albizu Campos. It then encounters the work of the live arts collective Agua, Sol y Sereno; the political/activist work of Amigxs del MAR, Comuna Caribe, Mujeres que Abrazan la Mar, and Coalición 8M; and Teresa Hernández’s transdisciplinary artistic trajectory.
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Review: Puerto Rico is typically described as an unincorporated and non-sovereign territory of the United States. But, as Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa argues convincingly, the world’s largest subnational island jurisdiction by population needs to be re-cast as part of an abundant Caribbean archipelago. Here is a richly undisciplined book of Puerto Rico as ‘coastal poetics;’ one which takes its readers on a liquid journey of lavishly entwined forms and lines, of word and body, on land and sea. Affect, Archive, Archipelago fleshes Puerto Rico/Borikén as a ‘work in progress’ in multiple ways; through the lens of this book, Puerto Rico becomes a place where its characters—unlike the US ‘territory’—are central, communitarian, and sovereign. Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Malta; president of International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA). From islands as laboratories for power to islands as laboratories for emancipation, or as pauses in a vast oceanic stream of portable relations, affects, and memories; such forces coalesce with rigorous scholarship in Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa’s moveable theory. Rather than distant academic methodologies, the streams that run into this oceanic discourse carry intimate readings of historical and contemporary narratives and forms of creative thought, resistance, and struggle for freedom in communitarian-artistic-bodily sovereignties that include Caribbean performance art and thought as practices of emancipation. Casting a new, rigorous look at Puerto Rican heroic figures and revolutionary metanarratives, Llenín-Figueroa brings these figures closer to the causes they loved. Llenín-Figueroa’s work in this impressive, beautifully written book builds a model of rigorous scholarship as a labor of solidarity, and therefore, as a tool for the understanding of issues that pertain not only to small places but also to the planet as a living, archipelagic entity of subtly connected bodies and loves.
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BHN has been providing behavioral health services to children and families in Western Massachusetts since 1938. The agency provides communitybased services that include innovative, integrated whole-health models as well as traditional clinical and outpatient and therapeutic services, day treatment, addiction services, crisis intervention, and residential supports.
BHN Awarded Commonwealth’s Community Behavioral Health Center Designation
2. Fundamentalismo y autoritarismo: el control de la sexualidad y los cuerpos por Yanira Reyes Gil 3 Algunas lecciones de On Tyranny de Timothy Snyder por Carmen Luisa EnGonzálezlasección
El primer número se lanzó en noviembre de 2020. Categoría Cinco tiene presencia en las redes sociales. Pueden encontrarla en su página de Facebook (categoria5.org) al igual que en el web con su página https://categoria5.org.
This model includes significant new funding for CBHCs and additional funding for non-CBHC behavioral health urgent care.
BHN has been providing behavioral health services to children and families in Western Massachusetts since 1938. The agency provides communitybased services that include innovative, integrated whole-health models as well as traditional clinical and outpatient and therapeutic services, day treatment, addiction services, crisis intervention, and residential supports.
The goal of the CBHC model is to expand access, including same-day access to assessments and referrals and crisis treatment. Other goals include evidence-based, goal-oriented, trauma-informed care; focus on equity through culturally competent, accessible treatment; coverage throughout the Commonwealth for all ages; and community-based crisis intervention integrated with a full outpatient continuum of services.
titulada Delirios aparece el artículo Cuerpo, sacrificio y guerra en la década del 1950 de Juan Diego Mariátegui
Edición de Primavera/Verano 2022 de la Revista Categoría Cinco
El contenido de este número esté divido en cuatro temas: Perspectivas sobre la amenaza autoritaria / Cuerpo, sacrificio y guerra / Viejo San Juan Pandémico / Apostillas a la Huelga del 1981 Bajo el primer tema encontramos los siguientes artículos:
2. Rosa Luisa Márquez, Memorias del conflicto sobre el alza en las matrículas, 1981, Universidad de Puerto Rico
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2. Aura Jirau Arroyo, La crítica como pedagogía de la huelga Categoría Cinco está abierta a colaboraciones ensayísticas y visuales que, preferiblemente, no hayan aparecido en otros medios. En esta edición de Primavera/Verano los editores de la revista hacen una convocatoria para el número especial de Otoño 2022/Invierno 2023 bajo el tema de La Cuestión Racial en Puerto Rico.
Los interesados pueden enviar sus colaboraciones sobre el tema cuyos ejes giren alrededor de las secciones que organizan la revista (Catástrofe, Delirios, Diaspóricas, Reensamblajes) o que puedan aprovechar al máximo su formato digital (a través, por ejemplo, de la incorporación de arte e imágenes).
El foto ensayo Viejo San Juan Pandémico del fotográfo Rolando Emmanuelli Jiménez ocupa la tercera sección de la revista.
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1. Iván Maldonado, La lucha estudiantil como proceso de transformación social e individual (una memoria)
According to Steve Winn, President and CEO of BHN, “BHN welcomes the opportunity to serve as a Community Behavioral Health Center to meet current and growing needs in the Springfield area. As the behavioral health infrastructure continues to evolve, BHN is pleased to partner with the Commonwealth in this new approach to providing access to services and to strengthen providers such as BHN.”
1. Neopentecostales y neoliberales: entrelazamientos entre la derecha secular y la derecha religiosa por Manuel Rodríguez Banchs
Por último, bajo el tema de Apostillas y respuestas: A 40 Años de la Huelga del 1981 en la UPR se publican 5 ensayos divididos en dos grupos, Apostillas y Respuestas Apostillas
3. José Curet, Memoria desde los márgenes: 1981 Respuestas
1. Félix Córdova, La huelga imprescindible y sus múltiples caminos
El pasado mes de julio se lanzó la edición de Primavera/Verano 2022 de la revista digital Categoría Cinco. Esta revista bilingüe, con una clara orientación hacia la política y la cultura puertorriqueña, se publica cuatrimestralmente.
La extensión de las contribuciones debe ser de un máximo de 2,500 palabras y no debe llevar notas al calce sino incluir una bibliografía al final (de ser necesaria). La fecha de entrega es el 15 de octubre del 2022 Cualquier duda o pregunta debe ser enviada a: categoria5.editors@gmail.com
July 22, 2022— Behavioral Health Network, Inc. (BHN) has announced that the organization has been awarded the contract to serve as the Community Behavioral Health Center for the Springfield catchment area. This designation was awarded by the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP), the single statewide behavioral health vendor for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ MassHealth program.
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BHN’s Community Behavioral Health Center catchment area includes Agawam, Blandford, Chester, East Longmeadow, Granville, Hampden, Huntington, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Montgomery, Russell, Southwick, Springfield, Tolland, Westfield, West Springfield, and Wilbraham.
BHN’s Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) will be based in Springfield at its Liberty Street campus, and will launch on January 1, 2023. The CBHC model is part of the Baker-Polito administration’s Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform to expand access to high-quality outpatient treatment, to ensure the right care when and where people need it. CBHCs will serve as an entry point for timely, high-quality mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, including outpatient and adult and youth crisis intervention.
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