Julio Capó Jr.
@JulioCapoJr
Queer/Latinx/race prof @FIUHistory & @FIUWPHL. Wrote #WelcomeToFairyland. Curated #QueerMiami. Editor @madebyhistory. Opinions my own. 🐶: Harpo & Hunter. He/él
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Incredible! Thanks to Michael J Bustamante, Ph.D. for sharing the news! We have been waiting for access to this #FordFoundation backed oral history collection since Dore presented it at a grad smr at Yale in 2006. #Historians of #Cuba let’s get to work! blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/2023/10/0…
I preordered Ana Minian’s new book, In the Shadow of Liberty! You should, too! It’s brilliant and necessary—just like its author. Te adoro, mi amor. ❤️
The New Books in Cuban Studies webinar featuring Catherine Mas's book and mine will take place this Thursday! Comment by Julio Capó Jr.! You can still sign up though the link below.
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via @NYTOpinion. My piece in the The New York Times on the links between immigrant detention and incarceration. A peek into my new book In the Shadow of Liberty Viking Books. Thanks to amazing NYT editor Isvett for all her support. nytimes.com/2024/04/14/opi…
Working for Big Business, Ron DeSantis signed a law gutting local “living wage” laws and undoing workers’ safety protections against heat exhaustion.
Publix & AT&T & U.S. Sugar & Florida Chamber are behind this total disdain of Floridians.
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With a $100,000 grant from the Monument Lab, Green School faculty Julio Capó Jr. and Dan Royles with artist and filmmaker Dudley Alexis will raise the visibility of Miami’s HIV/AIDS history by activating and organizing community-engaged planning for a series of local AIDS…
This is a really, really smart and necessary book! Check out Mauricio Castro’s Only A Few Blocks to Cuba, out now!
We're excited to announce Hidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ Collections. This partnership between our ONE Archives and L.A. as Subject, made possible by a grant from CA State Library, will create a centralized hub for LGBTQ+ archival research.
scalar.usc.edu/works/one-hidd…
Such a great time today at University of Houston & its Center for Public History. First a really great program/panel on censorship & history. Loved being in conversation with these awesome folks. Then I recorded a podcast! Thanks again for having me!
Please also feel free to chat with any of our board members at Organization of American Historians if they have the time! Llana Barber El Profe (Adrian Burgos, Jr.) Geraldo Cadava Julio Capó Jr. Miros Chavez-Garcia, Kaysha Corinealdi Maria Cristina Garcia Ramon Gutierrez and Paul Ortiz. And get Cecilia Márquez (she/her) & Mónica A. Jiménez books!
Last night at the phenomenal Postmodern Jukebox show in Fort Lauderdale with this beautiful fam. Perfect night.
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