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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda

@arielsepulveda.bsky.social

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lawful chaotic time travel scholar | columbia class of 2021, PhD student @ UW | podcasting @speaktoitprods | he/him or they/them | 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

man pointing at butterfly anime meme. man is labelled new york times, butterfly is labelled sugarcane and the bottom caption reads "is this grass"

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

i love when the google ai makes up books that don't exist

google ai overview for a search about an unwind graphic novel adaptation of unwind by neal shusterman which claims there is an adaptation by js arquin. this is a lie!

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

today's nyt front page

front page nyt article above the fold " Pro-Palestinian Activists Lament the Steep Cost"

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

a1 (just below the fold) and a11: an anti trans article about how conversation therapy bans impact therapist's free speech a12: texas lgbtq+ clubs face uncertain future amid state sponsored crackdown

a1 of the new york times, headline "Is a ban on conversion therapy infringing on protected speech?" by Ann E. Marimow

full a11 spread of "Is conversation therapy ban regulating medical care or infringing on speech?" which takes up 3/4s of the page and features a large photo of a brunette woman in a long sleeved green shirt and blue jeans.

page a12 "Navigating an L.G.B.TQ Clampdown: Texas Public Schools are Prohibited from Sponsoring Gay and Gender Clubs"

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Reading Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera for my exams, and found a reminder that we've been deporting latine US citizens For decades

page 26 from Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera with some pencil notes in the margins.

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

some upcoming exam reads, including everything one might need for a hot @ernesthogan.bsky.social summer

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

when are we gonna admit latinos have become a race in America?

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

my phone really overheard me sobbing about my eternal opp (the american dirt author) during therapy and pushed the most evil article notification to me

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

why does YouTube hate me 😭

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Jules finished this outfit tonight and Jess looks so groovy

American girl doll Jess McConnell in a blue cropped blouse and rainbow bell-bottoms with a psychedelic pattern stands front of a sewing machine

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I've been thinking about Ishmael Reed poem a lot in 2025

black text on white background:
Dualism

I am outside of
history. i wish
i had some peanuts, it
looks hungry there in
its cage
i am inside of
history. its
hungrier than i
thot

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

ryan mccarten I think you just need to resign yourself to the fact that they staged your death in a funny way. take it up with the director not the audience

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

this is most of my current physical collection for anyone who is interested in Latinx genre anthologies. some magical realism there bc this is pulled from what I'm reading for my dissertation lol I also need to check my Kindle

white text on blackground reading:
1. Rodrigo Bastidas Pérez, El tercer mundo después del sol: Antología de Ciencia Ficción de Latinoamericana.
2. Cosmos Latinos: An anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain
3. Borges, Collected Fictions
4. Condé, Sordidez
5. Cordova, Reclaim the Stars (YA, Latinx spec fic)
6. Haywood Ferreira, Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
7. Fuentes, Orange Tree
8. Durandal-Stormcrow, Fricción cuántica: Antología de ciencia ficción desde Puerto Rico y su diáspora
9. Machado, Her Body and Other Parties
10. Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
11. Merla-Watson, Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
12. Ortiz, Our Shadows Have Claws, (YA Latinx monster stories)
13. Vázquez, Fantasmas: Puerto Rican Tales of the Dead
14. Ed. Davila, Places We Build In the Universe

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

with Lana Parilla down things are getting dire,,,give me a reason to care about your con eccc I literally study spec fic and pop culture but as a person of color there's just such little being offered that represents me.

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

our cat is obsessed with the humidifier. get misted punk

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

do we thin the banana paid its fare? what do we do now? kick it off the bus?!?

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

i mean the Kansas City CHIEFS are playing so it was a p hollow symbol regardless but still: clown car timeline

NBC News headline/lede on a desktop monitor reading "NFL will remove "End Racism" from end zones ahead of Super Bowl: The announcement comes the same day a White House Official told NBC News that President Donald Trump would be attending the game."

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Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda @arielsepulveda.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

today in used books:

vintage beige hardcover with blue and white text reading "Childbirth Without Fear: The Principals and Practices of Natural Childbirth" by Grantly Dick Read

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