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Ph.D. candidate in Latinx Studies @ UT Austin I write about art, the built environment, adobe building practices, and tourism in NM 🌸 she/her/ella 🌸
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A perfect little case study of the cowardice and complicity that, aggregated across universities and associations, is covering the academic industry in shame. www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Y’all have def been to a dinner where you realize someone’s father is doing this shit at the table and nobody bats an eye. Maybe it’s even your father.

The thing that repulses me to end is that there are tons of guys exactly like Vance: they’re your coworkers, your friend’s boyfriend or husband, other professionals you have interacted with across fields, and it’s that part that makes him so disgusting.

Anyone else get the feeling AI is to this administration what bubble gum and duct tape are to the worst landlord you ever had?

Posted at the Piedra Lisa South Trailhead in Albuquerque.

OTHER NETWORKS has been available for pre-order for a few days now (only 1000 copies are being printed get yours now etc?). here are some beautiful images of the cover and interior along with the table of contents---> loriemerson.net/books/other-... #othernetworks

Today in diss thoughts: writing as endurance sport

This new @thebulletin.org feature on atomic art is absolutely incredible, and worth spending some time with: thebulletin.org/2025/02/the-...

The Nazgul of Tolkien are empty men promoted beyond their abilities by a dark lord who preys on their lust for power. The process devours them and leaves only a soulless husk behind. No reason, just thinking a lot about Tolkien lately.

I don’t find the clip of the billionaire loser’s toddler shield cute. I feel sad seeing a child mimic what they probably hear regularly, directed at them, and perform the same kind of entitled behavior as the adults in the room.

A Spotlight written by Sháńdíín Brown (Diné) for our Winter '25 issue explores "jaatłoh4Ye'iitsoh [17–18] + [][][][]," a sculptural installation by Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) that is activated through performance. firstamericanartmagazine.com/current-issue/ #NativeSky #NativeArt #IndigenousArt

This is what happens when people who work for a living can't afford to live in Santa Fe... Santa Fe doesn't have enough drivers to keep public transportation busses operating, so is reducing its hours of operations www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...

Empire of Light by RenĂŠ Magritte, 1953 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137683

Logging on to see people struggling with two things being true at the same time, yet again

Doing my revisions before submitting manuscript and I didn’t set out to do this but there are almost no men in my dissertation. You read monographs where there’s like the one chapter about women or feminism. My diss is the opposite, just on its own. We have one dude chapter y ya

“In the world of Trump Trad, men are men and women are women, and they cosplay as extreme versions of their genders.” For WaPo, I have a look at the aesthetics of the Trump presidency: backward looking and full of cartoonish virility. I call it Trump Trad. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Nothing quite like the creeping sensation that your diss may be the last time you get to work said project to get you really motivated

this is why I’m in the humanities

When you move a paragraph and it’s either a big payoff or a massive mistake

m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLT4... Ahora que hagan un CDMX, I 💖 U

"In attempting to understand fire at this scale, it might be time to set aside Mike Davis & turn to the work of Stephen J. Pyne, a fire #historian whom Davis not only cited in 'The Case for Letting Malibu Burn' but also counted as a friend," @cmonstah.bsky.social. www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

AcĂĄ el episodio sobre el libro que ando escribiendo y el utopismo urbano en la arquitectura y literatura socialista del MĂŠxico revolucionario open.spotify.com/episode/0aX8...

2000s nostalgia has gone too far

Dolly Parton, 1960s

Bf described Lost Highway as “Mulholland Drive for dudes” 😎

herding cats vs scheduling your diss defense, which is easier ?

Fascinating article in that it tells you a lot about how architecture as an industry works without ever interrogating it. Really just glides past the “The offices don’t close at night, or on Christmas” and “He could just come downstairs on a Sunday morning to make sure somebody’s working.”

“Mhm. And how will you uplift marginalized communities?” I ask an engagement bot, killing off the last members of an endangered species of mynah bird in the Amazon. The bot’s answer lacks intersectionality—I tell it so. A root system that had been alive since the Cretaceous period shrivels and dies

This Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument erasure.

Only published one thing this year - a jaunty look at Art Deco and its contemporary resurgence / relevance for @dirt.bsky.social + @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social This piece was adapted from a section of my dissertation prospectus that was left on the cutting room floor! dirt.fyi/article/2024...

To everyone being ghosted by an already abysmal academic job market: you’re in really good company. 1 less thing to concern yourself with, 1 less 🔥 hoop to jump through, & it has very little to do with that one sentence you’re stressing about. La vida existe y sigue, amigues

Werner Herzog: “The pastry implores us to follow our dreams. But should we indulge the fantasies of a madman?”

A holiday special from Digital Childhoods—Kirsten Widdes writes an object lesson on Barbie's Dreamhouse: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/barbies-...

unless you know him personally please refer to him Nosferausted

After all this time, lady covid hath come for me and wooffff send soup 🥹

A brief Christmas thread about Santa, the Craftsman Ideal, industrialization, and a holiday episode of @yourewrongabout.bsky.social for your delectation 🎄🧰🎅

Time to watch X-Files

Lynda Barry (2016) ❤️

#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal: publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-sn... #otd

Three cheers for @cetracey.bsky.social !!! Looking forward to a very needed voice on a very needed history for times when many of us feel a lot of doom