Conor Tomás Reed, Ph.D. – Conor Tomás Reed is a Puerto Rican/Irish multi-gendered street scholar and freedom maker who teaches Africana Studies and American Studies at Brooklyn College and lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Conor is a contributing editor with LÁPIZ Journal and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and is a participant in Decolonize This Place and the Free CUNY campaign. Conor is developing a few books about the rise of Black, Puerto Rican, and Women’s Studies and movements at the City College of New York and in New York City from 1960 to the present.

Conor ‘Coco’ Tomás Reed (all) is a Puerto Rican/Irish gender-fluid scholar-organizer of radical cultural movements at the City University of New York, and the 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Justice in Higher Education in the PublicsLab at the CUNY Graduate Center. Conor’s forthcoming book New York Liberation School chronicles the rise of Black, Puerto Rican, and Women’s Studies and movements at the City College of New York and in New York City, as well as CUNY’s post-9/11 oppositional relationship to US imperialism. Conor is also developing the quadrilingual anthology Black Feminist Studies in the Americas and the Caribbean with co-editors Diarenis Calderón Tartabull, Makeba Lavan, Tito Mitjans Alayón, Violeta Orozco Barrera, and Layla Zami. Conor is the current co-managing editor of LÁPIZ Journal and a contributing editor of Lost & Found:The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, as well as a co-founding participant in Free CUNY and Rank and File Action (RAFA). Conor’s work can be found in print and online via AK Press, ASAP/Journal, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Distributaries, El Centro Press, The New Inquiry, Verso Books, Viewpoint Magazine, Wendy’s Subway, and elsewhere.

Conor ‘Coco’ Tomás Reed (tode) es un puertorriqueñe / irlandés de múltiples géneros erudite y organizadore de movimientos culturales radicales en la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York, y el Postdoctorado 2022-2023 en Justicia Social en la Educación Superior en el PublicsLab en el CUNY Graduate Center. El libro nuevo de Conor, Escuelita de Liberación de Nueva York, relata el surgimiento de los estudios y movimientos negros, puertorriqueños, y de mujeres en el City College de Nueva York y en la ciudad de Nueva York, así como la relación de oposición de CUNY posterior al 11 de septiembre con el imperialismo estadounidense. Conor también está desarrollando la antología cuatrilingüe Black Feminist Studies in the Americas and the Caribbean con les coeditores Diarenis Calderón Tartabull, Makeba Lavan, Tito Mitjans Alayón, Violeta Orozco Barrera y Layla Zami. Conor es el editore codirector actual de LÁPIZ Journal y editore colaborador de Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, además de ser cofundadore de Free CUNY y Rank and File Action (RAFA). El trabajo de Conor se puede encontrar impreso y en línea a través de AK Press, ASAP/Journal, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Distributaries, El Centro Press, The New Inquiry, Verso Books, Viewpoint Magazine, Wendy’s Subway y otros lugares.

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