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amandajsummers.bsky.social
Not aspiring to be humble. Incoming Postdoc @ Queen’s University PhD from Temple - History Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence - identity performativity through gender/race/religions.
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Do it! I just went to the Phillies game with a bu ch of friends! It was pride night! We got hats! And ice cream in hats! And pretzels! And we won by a lot! #1 in the NL baby!!!

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Oh, what if--and hear me out--it's actually fun to think and solve problems on your own and cheating with AI is boring? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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So I had a SHOCKINGLY good research day at he Rosenbach today that I did not expect to go so well. Please keep in mind I’m A) from Philly B) PhD from Temple C) a McNeil fellow I swear to god I thought the Rosenbach had maybe one Inquisition document that was totally random.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Aint no run-on-sentence like a 17th century run-on sentence 'cause a 17th century run on sentence don't stop (for 7 pages!!!!!)

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I'm trying to read this academic article and Adobe Acrobat keeps getting pop ups to let AI summarize it for me and I am going back to print and writing by hand because this is just stupid as hell. The article is excellent, Rachel Sarah O’Toole, “From the Rivers of Guinea to the Valleys of Peru”

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration resumes processing visas for foreign students but demands access to social media accounts.

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Back to history musings: Thinking of editing the dates and argument of my book for a long-seventeenth century carceral history: 1256-2025.

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I'm 5'10" and freakin love ridiculous giant platform shoes, so I'm frequently 6'2"+. My gorgeous, brilliant, kind, sweet, supportive, gentle, 20 on a scale of 1-10, hype-man-of-my-dreams is like.... not quite 5'10"? Literally neither of us care about the height, my dudes. It's what's inside.

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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

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I was a waitress at the Palm. Lunch ended, we're mid afternoon resetting. Jason Segel came in and sat in a booth, had a salad. I accidentally called him Marshall. He asked about my tattoos. Later in the month, saw him again in the crowd at the Pride parade while skating with my derby team.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publically operated jails These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the incarceration of people who are mostly accused of no more serious offense than crossing the border without permission

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Just a casual reminder that only noobs and narcs have their cameras out at a protest, and AI generated images and videos are widely circulating. Careful with your sharing.

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Great piece from @tinavasquez.bsky.social that all the "oh no they're waving Mexican flags in LA" handwringers should read: ICE raids in Los Angeles are a declaration of war, and Angelenos are primed for battle prismreports.org/2025/06/09/l...

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

I will seriously barter near anything I own for my own copy of all the volumes of "Cincuenta Años de Inquisición en el Tribunal de Cartagena de Indias 1610-1660." And yes I know the original sources are digitized, that tab stays open on my laptop lol. I just want the books. For reasons.

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God dammit, I love doing history too much. I don't know how I'm going to survive 3 more months of funemployment before I start at Queen's...

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