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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Thanks!
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Truly 💖
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I swear I thought HCL made her up 😂😂😂
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Anyway, huge advancement for my little ol’ book this week. You never know where you are going to find amazing things. So visit every archive you get the opportunity to enter!
Research is THE MOST FUN!
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Y’ALL. IT IS HER DAUGHTER!!!!
And all the denunciations come from the women of the main family I write about in my Mexico section! The matriarchs WERE LIFELONG FRIENDS. And there is woman x, over and over again. And her sister, and their children, and THE ARCHDEACON OF MANILA?!?!! Is related???
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EXCEPT, there’s a file here at the Rosenbach, same last name, different first name. I say, what the heck, let’s put ourselves out there to be hurt one more time.
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She isn’t named in Montesinos’s chronicle, she isn’t in any annual reports, and she’s not in anyone else’s trials from the period. What the hell, she’s an apparition.
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ANYWAY I look everywhere for “woman x,” if we’re friends, I’ve probably vented after getting all excited at finding someone I think was maybe a misnomer but then turned out to be another person. Happens a lot. Woman X doesn’t have a trial record that I’ve found.
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A visita record from the Inquisition in the Americas being in “big trouble” with the Suprema for basically doing whatever they wanted to get $$ and damn the law. This visita went on for decades under one main visita for from Madrid.
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So, way back in 2020 at the beginning of my dissertation I got hooked on this sentence in Lea’s Inquisition in the Spanish dependencies about “woman X,” followed his citation, found where she was mentioned in an even older book, followed those citations to the original document in Spain -
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Hillary Lowe told me about this one doc, it was not related to what I worked on so I never went. I didn’t know they had a WHOLE DOPE ASS LATIN AMERICA COLLECTION and several Inquisition docs. So now y’all know too. You’re welcome.
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I read it more as well-fed than well-aged, though let's be honest, incarceration ages a person
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Maybe? Who knows. It appears the illness was contracted during her incarceration as well, as this was not her initial description. But there is really nothing given for us to infer her experiences in his household, unfortunately. Only the prison proper.
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Hahahaha, oh no how long did he go? God bless regular punctuation.
Can't imagine a Brit (?) holding the Spanish beneath contempt (full sarcasm)
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But how many pages is the sentence (and mine is handwritten muwahahahahaha because SPANIARDS)
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There is no detail given on it, but he had a household and she was there to work (like a housemaid) and be reeducated in Catholicism. So.... I cannot read more into it than I am given. And the Inquisition doesn't always give a lot where we want it.
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Which, honestly, rare that someone left that prison in any state but emaciated, though they did keep her at the warden's house a good chunk of her incarceration.
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I've read hundreds of inquisition trial records, annual reports, letters, etc... and they never cease to amaze me with their asinine-ness. Like this one of a girl (age 13 at arrest 15 at release) who was described upon leaving the prison as "de cuerpo de bien agestada y hoyosa de viruelas"...😒
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Spiritually 7 feet tall! I love that and may steal it.
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Also, I think he sometimes secretly like the attention of being seen in public with a glamazon, even if he "prefers me just casual."
Anyway, maybe it's the bisexual in me but, no one cares about your height if you are a cultivated, well developed, emotionally available, jackpot of a human being.
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Good luck with the move, Adam!
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Also that’s a deep burn. Nice.
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Tickets for the games here are so cheap, I can finally afford to enter the Linc.
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"There are good, specific use cases for AI in history" fuck off. No historical work is so important that we need to pave over ecosystems near Black and brown neighborhoods for data centers that drain the local water supply. Just bc you say you're using it ethically doesn't mean you actually are.
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Our biggest, bestest national celebration.
I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad, like the time my friend Charlie and I set up a lemonade stand when we were seven and nobody stopped all day.
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😂😂😂
That department has WONDERFUL people. I really hope the university grows it some day.
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Where is Reviewer 2 when you need them?
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That dude is just like, so genuinely and naturally nice. For real.
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Aw thank you. That’s very sweet. I wish they had kept me 😭
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It's a hate crime
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WAIT I did not even get into colonial era.... and especially post-colonial, I didn't want to overwhelm. But if you're interested, that's my entire bread-and-butter history passion: colonial law as it pertains to genders, races, and religions. So we can have all kinds of reading fun there.
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Yes, Spain colonized. But it does not benefit anyone, and is cruelly ill-informed, to say that Mexico did.
ANYWAY, if you have any trouble finding these historians through Tulsa's library access, shoot me an email, because I can possibly get you something from a larger library.
Happy reading!
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So this little half-informed discourse on the internet that asks where Mexico got it's lands before the US invasion and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (which we can get into as well sometime) is at the bare minimum infuriating and insulting to millions of people who are not Spanish colonizers.