Conor (Coco) Tomás Reed

Conor ‘Coco’ Tomás Reed is a Puerto Rican~Irish, gender-fluid, street scholar of social movements in the Americas and the Caribbean, and the author of New York Liberation School: Study and Movement for the People’s University (2023). Coco is developing a new book project Hemisphere in Bloom, as well as a co-edited multilingual anthology Black Feminist Studies in the Americas and the Caribbean (Malpaís Ediciones), They collaborate with CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies and the CUNY Digital History Archive, and are a contributing editor with LÁPIZ Journal and Lost & Found:The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Coco has been immersed in two decades of struggles at the City University of New York and in New York City around transforming education and public space, anti-imperialism, police and prison abolition, solidarity with Palestine and Puerto Rico, reproductive rights, housing justice, and beyond, and is now based in Philadelphia.