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Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging,...(2026), lit. rep Tricia Toney Lawrence @aevitas_creative, spkg. rep Anya Backlund @blueflowerarts.

Tonight! 6:30 pm! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we- Tonight! 6:30 pm! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-layli-long-soldier-in-conversation-with-heid-e-erdrich-tickets-1991871398974
Congratulations to @erandi_es.tu.diosa on her fort Congratulations to @erandi_es.tu.diosa on her forthcoming book Mestiza/o Melancholia Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Necropolitics of Remembrance in Michoacán, now available for pre-order from University of Arizona Press. "Through the concept of mestiza/o melancholia, scholar Gabriela Spears-Rico offers a new way to think about the relationship between mestizaje and indigeneity in Mexico. For Spears-Rico, the concept is a longing for the lost part of one’s identity, manifested in touristic visits and material appropriations of folklorized indigeneity, yet unconcerned with political reparations for Indigenous people.

Relying on a rich ethnography in mestiza/o and P’urhépecha pueblos in Michoacán, the book examines mestiza/o mourning and melancholia as it appears in Day of the Dead tourism and in Virgin of Guadalupe worship among Mexican mestizos. This book centers Indigenous resistance, articulating a P’urhépecha critique of regional necropolitics and obstinate appropriations, arguing for the need to decolonize mestizaje. A deep conversation with P’urhépecha dissent, this book elevates the need for solidarity with current Indigenous movements in a region fraught by extractive settler colonialism.

Mestiza/o Melancholia challenges readers to rethink identity, tourism, and belonging in Mexico."
❤️ Thank you to @_mpww_ for another great Beyond ❤️ Thank you to @_mpww_  for another great Beyond Bars event, and thank you for bringing people together for __15 years__. Thank you to everyone who read and performed, including those pictured in the few photos I took as an online attendee 💛💛💛 @debrastone4014 @nimohfarah @baophi_writer Michael Prior and emcee & Board Chair @mkdordiggsy and emcee @zekecaligiuri who is director of archives @lostkiteeditions, and 💛💛💛 MPWW community engagement manager @su_xo, mentor program director @mori0181, exec director @mike__alberti, and 💓💓💓💓💓💓founder and artistic director @notyourjenji ❤️‍🔥!! Thanks to @hamlineu @hamlinecwp for sharing their space 💛💛💛
Big congratulations 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 to @anneliukellor a Big congratulations 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 to @anneliukellor and all the contributors in this beautiful new anthology, MIXED ROOTS: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging, including brilliant friends @hkkim6 and @grace.m.cho !!! 💛💛💛💛💛 @beaconpress
Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow evenin Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow evening for the annual Beyond Bars reading and community gathering. Thank you so much to everyone at and with @_mpww_ for bringing people together through community education, creative writing, books, the spoken word, and much more.
Please join us in person or virtually! Thurs. Oct Please join us in person or virtually! Thurs. Oct 29, 3:30 pm CT. "Who gets to belong? Join the Institute for Advanced Study for the first conversation of the 2026-2027 (In)Justice Series on Data & Power as we examine how the language of displacement shapes public perception and functions as a form of power. Whether due to exile, removal, genocide, or the search for a better life, or called immigrant, refugee, migrant, settler, or expatriate, the language we use becomes a form of data. A panel of scholars and community members whose lives are shaped by migration and displacement will explore who has the authority to name communities, how those labels shape public narratives, and when diaspora becomes a cultural, historical, or political identity. 

Drawing from the experiences of diasporic communities that have found a home in Minnesota, our panelists invite audience members to consider what the language of migration reveals about race, citizenship, colonialism, class, and belonging. Who benefits from the categories we use? And what happens when communities reject, reclaim, or redefine the names imposed upon them?

(In)Justice Series on Data & Power
The 2025–27 (In)Justice Series on Data & Power presented by the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota critically examines data: how it’s collected, who controls it, and what it reveals (or conceals) about power, identity, and justice." Link in bio!
Michael Kleber-Diggs’ and my interactive virtual & Michael Kleber-Diggs’ and my interactive virtual & recorded workshop is tomorrow!!! 🙂 & there’s still time to sign up! Registration is here 💓: https://square.link/u/lmld552p
Great piece featuring trusted sources including sc Great piece featuring trusted sources including scholars Kimberly D. McKee and Oh Myo Kim. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/korean-american-adoptees
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