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01/15/2026

THIS PERSON was awarded a PhD at the U of Texas:
Clapped Back Together: Healing Though Q***r Eco-Erotic Conocimiento, Puteria Praxis, and Wetty Pedagogy
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strada, Olga Alvina; Saldaña, Lilliana; Mendoza, Sylvia; Sánchez, Patricia; Lara, Gilberto; Pitts, Andrea
This autohxstoria-teoría offers a Jotería critique of the anti-erotic neoliberal academy, written from my positionality as a Q***r Crip Chicanx doctoral student and educator. Drawing on the elemental cycles of earth, air, fire, and water, I ground q***r conocimiento and theorize how rupture, fragmentation, and susto transform into q***r resilience and eco-erotic healing. My eco-erotic framework and Wetty pedagogy build on Audre Lorde’s writing on the erotic, bell hooks’ engaged pedagogy, Gloria Anzaldúa’s autohistoria-teoría, and the communal practices of the Wetty Collective. Together, these frameworks illuminate q***r survival as both relational and embodied, while this project distinguishes the eco-erotic as an elemental, spiritual, and emotional grounding for conocimiento. Wetty emerges as a q***r, crip, Chicanx Rasquache praxis that makes survival, creativity, and reciprocal meaning-making possible.

I introduce the Tlazoltéotl Cycle as a q***r eco-erotic process of filth, digestion, and transformation that reimagines shame, rupture, and sacred mess as generative sites of rebirth and q***r conocimiento. I argue that Putería is a Rasquache mode of resistance that challenges disposability, academic extraction, and the sanitizing tendencies of the neoliberal academy. Reframing wetness as q***r conocimiento, I conceptualize it as an embodied, life-affirming force that sustains political intimacy and community care within terrains marked by colonial dryness, conservatism, and institutional neglect.

Through elemental storytelling, Putería praxis, and Wetty pedagogy, I analyze my teaching and community work as embodied archives of wetness, dryness, and sacred filth. These written and visual testimonios operate as altars and afterlife work that reveal wounds of tokenism, fetishization, and exploitation while illuminating the creative and relational possibilities that repair relational bonds and sustain q***r survival.

01/15/2026

PART OF ORIENTATION at Amherst: The prestigious college has become a hotbed of administratively sanctioned s*x performances and "s*xual skills" programs, with a focus on "q***r" and transgender students and on free-s*x practices such as polyamory. Thttps://freebeacon.com/campus/this-has-gone-way-too-far-videos-show-bizarre-s*xual-ceremony-that-elite-amherst-college-pushes-all-first-year-students-to-attend/?ref=amherststudent.com

Amherst College was founded over two centuries ago to prepare young Christian men for the ministry. Today, however, the prestigious college has become a hotbed of administratively sanctioned s*x performances and "s*xual skills" programs, with a focus on "q***r" and transgender students and on free-s...

01/15/2026

"When emergency responders retrieved Jang’s body 65 feet from shore—his lungs swollen, blood seeping from his nose—more than half the people who had gathered by the river had left. By the time the medical examiner documented that the slight, 5-foot-6, 135-pound Jang had a blood alcohol content of .167—exceeding levels typically associated with blackouts—a dozen fraternity brothers and Alpha Phi sisters had quietly lined up attorneys."

"Any efforts to improve Greek life at Dartmouth, though, are cold comfort to Jang’s parents, Hongpil Jang and JuYoung Oh. “The school values its reputation more than the lives of students,” they say. “They hide behind the Ivy League name…. It is merely an institution that operates under the power of money and influence. When the next tragedy comes, Dartmouth will respond the same way.” In other words, it wasn’t the first time someone suffered at the hands of a Dartmouth fraternity. And on this secluded campus, where tradition can at times appear to outpace progress, and where the school’s alma mater includes the line “lest the old traditions fail,” chances are it won’t be the last." https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/04/06/dartmouth-college-fraternity-culture-student-death/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPVOS5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHTzhEUTR4YmJDZG03MXZjc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHo8nDjTS_NrBvuVaSMpE_Ej6uSs7L1NU7Ik87g4B5uPAMFUJW11Dz7WAYPiA_aem_GKrnPvC294dZ83Sr5A4rMQ

In the place that gave us Animal House, will the party ever really end?

12/17/2025

FAU Early Action stats

11/16/2025

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-replacing-entry-level-jobs-gen-z-careers.html

AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?

11/12/2025

UNDERSTAND that financial aid at most schools is used to attract the students they most want, not to help parents afford tuition. In practice, families with higher incomes often receive more merit or “incentive” aid because those students boost the university’s profile or yield (the number of students who accept the offer of admission).

11/12/2025

This is worth your time about AI: "nobody should give or receive any career advice right now. Everyone has broadly underestimated the scope and scale of change and the high variance of your future."

This talk was recorded as part of the Stanford AI Club's Speaker Series. Jason Wei is a prominent AI researcher currently working at Meta Superintelligence l...

11/11/2025

Tech layoffs tracked at this site:

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024 and 2025.

11/11/2025

Vanderbilt University Expands With New York Campus The New York Times (11/4, Otterman) reported that the 13 Collegiate Gothic buildings and leafy quad of “the oldest seminary of the Episcopal Church” in New York City are to become “a satellite campus of Vanderbilt University, the elite academic institution based in Nashville.” In September, Vanderbilt “finalized a $44 million, 99-year-lease” with the General Theological Seminary, announcing that it will use the campus “for two academic programs: a residential program for about 100 undergraduates for a semester of their junior or senior years, and a graduate program offering a Master of Science in business and technology.” On Tuesday, the New York State Board of Regents approved the plan, allowing operations to begin by next fall. The seminary will maintain a presence through a hybrid Master of Divinity program. The program’s 55 students take “mostly online courses, but under the Vanderbilt lease agreement, they will still be allowed to live on campus for six weeks a year.”
General Theological Seminary had 222 students in 1990.

Vanderbilt University has announced that the New York State attorney general has granted the approval necessary to close on the lease of its new campus in New York City. The approval is an important milestone in the agreement between Vanderbilt and the General Theological Seminary that enables Vande...

11/11/2025

Michigan State University Revises Co-Ed Bathroom Policy At Honors Dorm Fox News (11/5, Mion) reports that Michigan State University (MSU) has “partially reversed course on its decision to make all community bathrooms in its honors dorm co-ed, following complaints from students and parents.” Last week, the university installed new signs at Campbell Hall “to label some bathrooms by gender, a shift that came after a formal complaint and survey results showing unease among residents about a $37.1 million renovation that turned all 20 community bathrooms into unis*x facilities.” Parents were not informed prior to the change, leading at least one student to seek alternative facilities. MSU said it “moved to unis*x community bathrooms at Campbell Hall to adapt to a future shift in student populations.” MSU spokesperson Kat Cooper stated, “Following review of the survey data, the decision was made to provide options for students.” Some MSU Board of Trustees members supported the decision, with Trustee Dennis Denno saying, “It’s important for our students to feel comfortable and to have options.”

Michigan State University reversed its co-ed bathroom policy at Campbell Hall after students said they were not comfortable with the unis*x facilities.

11/11/2025

(NOT UT!) University Of Austin Receives $100M Donation For Permanent Free Tuition The Texas Tribune (11/5, Priest) reports that billionaire Jeff Yass has donated $100 million to the University of Austin “to offer free tuition permanently to students who enroll.” The private university, “founded by critics of traditional higher education,” announced the donation last month but identified Yass as the donor in a Wednesday release. Yass, co-founder of the Pennsylvania-based trading firm Susquehanna International Group, stated, “Only condition is the school never takes government money.” The University of Austin, which launched in 2021, offers a liberal studies degree and plans to grow its enrollment. The donation “launches a $300 million campaign to ensure its students can prepare for careers without taking on debt.” The university, which “offers automatic admission to applicants who meet high standardized test score thresholds,” said it has “already received $50 million from Yass, with the rest expected to arrive over the next four years.” Bloomberg (11/5, Maglione, Massa, Subscription Publication) reports that although the university “doesn’t charge tuition, it estimates students will have to pay around $24,000 a year to cover costs including fees, housing and meals.”

Yass, a school voucher supporter and an influential figure in Texas politics, said the only condition for the gift was for the school not to receive government funding.

11/11/2025

"UCSD is perhaps the first major public university in the country to require all undergraduate students to take a class on climate change to earn their degree. The requirement, which rolled out with first-year students last fall, came about because UCSD leaders believe students won’t be prepared for the workforce if they don’t understand climate change. Around the globe, global warming is already causing severe droughts, water scarcity, fires, rising sea levels, flooding, storms and declining biodiversity; leaders at UCSD argue every job will be affected."

University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.