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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#AcademicWordOfTheDay 1 : a resolving of specific cases of conscience, duty, or conduct through interpretation of ethical principles or religious doctrine; 2 : specious argument : rationalization www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

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Definition of CASUISTRY

a resolving of specific cases of conscience, duty, or conduct through interpretation of ethical principles or religious doctrine; specious argument : rationalization… See the full definition

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#AcademicWordOfTheDay fardel (noun) 1: bundle; 2: burden Middle English, from Anglo-French, ultimately from Arabic farda part, bundle www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...

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Definition of FARDEL

bundle; burden… See the full definition

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#AcademicWordOfTheDay éminence grise (noun) 1 : a confidential agent; especially : one exercising unsuspected or unofficial power 2 : a respected authority; specifically : elder statesman www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%...

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Definition of ÉMINENCE GRISE

a confidential agent; especially : one exercising unsuspected or unofficial power; a respected authority; specifically : elder statesman… See the full definition

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

#AcademicWordOfTheDay latifundia pl of latifundium (noun) : a great landed estate with primitive agriculture and labor often in a state of partial servitude www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/l...

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Definition of LATIFUNDIA

a great landed estate with primitive agriculture and labor often in a state of partial servitude… See the full definition

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

#AcademicWordOfTheDay macaronic: 1: characterized by a mixture of vernacular words with Latin words or with non-Latin words having Latin endings 2: characterized by a mixture of two languages www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...

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Definition of MACARONIC

characterized by a mixture of vernacular words with Latin words or with non-Latin words having Latin endings; characterized by a mixture of two languages… See the full definition

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

True. We’re racist because we’re raised in a racist society. Antiracism is a practice, not a boundary that you get to choose a side & be finished with the work. Try to improve, do your homework, be gentle, stay curious, & listen. Make new friends!

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AK Press @akpress.org · 09/11/2025

Distro Highlight✨ 🐑 Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms From Torrey House Press, Editied by @littlebadger.bsky.social, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and @kinsaledrake.bsky.social Order you copy today @ AKPress.org!

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

*we’re self-inflicting. Ugh autocorrect makes me crazy.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

When the numbers of people caught in that frosty grip of authoritarianism crop up I am reminded again of how many souls are lost-traumatized-removed in terms of how many 9/11s or Pearl Harbors were self-inflicting. To respond with resistance is logical. Where, I wonder, is our collective grief?

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Of course, the wonderful magical thing about Odo, Chief of Security, was that once he knew himself more completely he could shapeshift into absolutely anything he dreamed up. “Be a chair, Odo” started as oppression until the freedom of his true being could transform into his superpower. Lucky Kira!

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

"The link– was paradise. But it appears I'm not ready for paradise." DS9’s Odo had to learn to love the alien in himself before he could live among the humanoids. youtu.be/VwSh1JVgJis?...

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Odo & Dr. Mora - They'll Put You in a Zoo (DS9)

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

“‘Alien’ came about because of the feeling that so much history is wrong – as is being rediscovered all the time – and that we base so much on the wrong knowledge that we’ve gleaned.” Bowie quoted in Rolling Stone, 1984 youtu.be/ns2hmyP0mGY?...

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David Bowie - Loving The Alien (Official Video)

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Cognitive dissonance is so exhausting. The urgency of institutional critique only becomes more necessary. Strive for alignment with the good you know innately to be true. Laugh at the ridiculous. Get in good trouble. Polite society is violent, do not be complicit. Be lighthearted. Choose life.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 26/07/2025

Remember: Apocalypse is a moment, an instant, an event, a time; Armageddon is a place.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

What an image this conjures! From Blix and Glimmer 2025, 5.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Spent a good portion of the day listening to David Greenberg’s biography of John Lewis, so also thinking hard about loving the oppressor. Being willing to suffer for justice but not for prejudice.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Now we have another project! Clearly I am not the first to go down this wormhole. What citations can y’all recommend?

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Finally, another few searches in, I find the following: Etymology "Miskito" derives from the term Miskut uplikanan ("people of Miskut"). Miskut was a legendary Miskito patriarch or great leader. [citation needed]

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Wikipedia confirms, the term mosquito derives from the Mosquito Coast, named for the [language named for the] Miskitu, which is rendered as Mosquito in Spanish. Indeed, several pages later, the term Miskito (in English) or Miskitu (in Miskitu) is the name of the language. Ok.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Curious, I search for the etymology of the word- to English from Spanish, I assume- but I don’t know if the term is a hispanization of Miskitu (the people) or if the term for the people is an exonym.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

They provide such a neat and complete package, a mini ritual specialist flying around in misty places. 🦟

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Lately, I have started to accept that mosquitoes serve today as the conveyance by which the tlaloqueh get fed their blood-sacrifice rather than expecting gringas like me to know how to open my tongue in order to soak paper streamers with blood to be burnt for the smoke to carry it up into the air.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Rather than falling asleep, instead I began to reminisce about all the wonderful places I’ve had the good fortune to spend time that sounded like this. Perhaps inevitably I began musing, of course, on the unseen ankle biters that send me scurrying away home again.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Tonight, struggling to fall asleep In anticipation of a long Monday reviewing assignments, I resorted to an ambient audio recording of rainfall at night in a tropical place singing with insects.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Such a snapshot of the field, all those voices no longer with us and so many baby faced pillars of my education. Still, the savior complex is so strong in the narrative that I chafe at our collective hubris. For clarification.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Inspired rewatching Breaking the Maya Code this afternoon. Frustrating as the whiteness is, the emphasis on collaboration and valuing unexpected types of expertise is so valuable. nightfirefilms.org/breaking-the...

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| Breaking the Maya Code | Nightfire Films

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5

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John Hoopes @jwhoopes2.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Looking forward to getting into this new collection of essays by Alice Beck Kehoe.

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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is how late-stage capitalism turns into fascism. A startup charter airline whose planned clientele is wealthy groups—rock bands and sports teams—switches to ICE deportations of immigrants as it’s more lucrative. No retraining. No raises. Just forcing staff to suddenly do the work of fascism.

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John Hoopes @jwhoopes2.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We’ve lost too many in the queer n trans community in the last few months. Each deserved a life without fighting for their right to exist. To honour them, we must keep doing the work to make the lives of trans n queer people liveable: housing, sustenance, support, dignity, a reason to stay.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Thankful for the kindness of strangers who stopped to help dig me out of an icy rut in the road so I could get to work this morning. "Welcome to Rochester!"

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Valerie Leavy @valeavy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Have you called your member of congress yet today? They work for you.

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Dr. Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur @asrd53.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The fear trans folks are experiencing all day everyday is real. We all need to stay tuned to what is happening and speak the f*ck up. This is a horrific story, a nightmare scenario, but it is not as uncommon as I wish it were. Let’s channel that fear and outrage into action.

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