This is my introductory post to the new website. For a few years I had another one, also housed at Nodo50.org, which was just a list of publications available to download. This new site isn’t finished and has a few minor problems, but I understand that blogs allow informality and imperfection, so I’m going quietly public today. I wanted to say something about the cover of the book I published last year. Some people understand right away what this cover is meant to say and some don’t. For me, it expresses mobility, striding actively forward, crossing lines, borders and yellow Danger signs. I also like the first figure’s little purposeful feet and the position of the second figure close behind, carrying a nice bureaucratic sheet of paper. I also like what the picture doesn’t depict: clichés about women leaning into cars, shots of miserable streets at night. The book’s about all kinds of people doing all kinds of things, moving through life, trying to get ahead, or at least catch up. Sometimes we ignore yellow warnings and do what we think we have to do. Julian Hosie of Zed Books found the original image, which showed more people and is ©Christine Gonsalves.

You’ll find a number of my previous publications converted to post format, as well as media and online reviews. I’ll keep making the academic articles available in pdf form and announcing those as posts, but I’m not finished with that task yet.

I write in both Spanish and English, and you’ll find other languages here, too.

On the sidebar you’ll see Subjects on this Site in the form of a tag cloud. The size of the word reflects how often I tagged an article with a given word or phrase.

I don’t plan to write a post every day. If you want to know when I publish something new, you can subscribe to the feed by clicking the orange box in the upper-right or lower-right hand corner of the page.