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Alhelí

@casadefauxdobe.bsky.social
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Professional nerd in Latinx Studies Currently a postdoc @ CLALS, U Penn I write about art, the built environment, adobe building practices, and tourism in NM 🌸 she/her/ella 🌸

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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 10h
🎉💐🎉💐🎉 y el pastel??
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Jason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What a grotesque misunderstanding not only of the story he was adapting but, like, HORROR ITSELF
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
there are people who do and believe bad things and there are plenty of ppl who have had terrifying experiences and don’t do bad things. seems unwise to mush those together bc you don’t want to deal with a character being bad. Flattening!
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
was Thinking: remakes that have to give villains backstories that effectively defang them, meant to paint them as traumatized or whatever strike me as a sort of conservative capture of empathy to evade accountability. Carrie’s mom and her bullies were BAD, end of story.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Collective Futures is a six-week, citywide project activating Philadelphia’s network of artist-run spaces, DIY venues, and community-based initiatives... The project highlights how artists come together to build shared platforms, experiment with new forms, and sustain creative communities."
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Collective Futures - Philadelphia
Philadelphia
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On Oct 19 (my 🎉, btw) I'm stoked to be joining @dorothyjberry.bsky.social, @touloumi.bsky.social, Karilyn Crockett and M.C. Overholt at @vanalen.bsky.social, amidst their 🌟 Open Access exhibition, to talk about the architectural counter-archive!
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The Architectural Anarchive: Reimagining the Design Archive - Van Alen Institute
Shannon Mattern (Metropolitan New York Library Council) leads a discussion around how archives determine what’s worthy of collection and preservation, and the role of the architectural archive in an a...
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Museum of International Folk Art @folkartmuseum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Celebrate American Archives Month at the free New Mexico Archives Bazaar, with MOIFA's Bartlett Library and Archives among over a dozen collections. Talk by Dr. Rick Hendricks at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, October 6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. State Records Center & Archives, Santa Fe #ArchivesMonth #MuseumMonday
Yellow New Mexico flag with pink Zia symbol above a "Archives Bazaar 2026" logo announcing an archives event in Santa Fe.
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Your daily John Waters screenshot @johnwatersbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just think of all the little horror stories...that go on in other people's lives.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From the early 1400s, a lavishly illustrated vellum scroll (almost 18 ft long!) of the works of English physician John of Arderne, one of the founding figures of modern surgery: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a…
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I made this for my intro to latinx studies class in 2022 and I have gotten to use it at least once a year since then.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The crushing shame of house sitting and noticing you… failed to keep a plant thriving
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 26/09/2026
more than this
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
when people ask me about the job market
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Robin Wood, a Cassandra if there ever was one
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“To be political is today the only way to avoid the trivial.” - Robin Wood, 1986
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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This reminds me of the time a student in my 70s film course said she didn’t like watching many of the films because “everyone and everything looks so dirty!”
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21/09/2026
Industrial capital invested in the expansion of culture and literacy to create an educated working class (tho they couldn’t control how workers thought). Tech capital is investing in mass deliteracy while building no public cultural institutions. They haven’t abandoned culture, just privatized it.
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the southern nm need for andale’s
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fish on a pewter plate, with peppercorns & sliced lemon, arranged on a stone ledge. Oranges hanging above. Unexpected arrangement by Alejandro de Loarte, whose day was today.
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m not holding back tears at the surprise of Sandy Denny playing in a coffeeshop, you are
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🌹 I am so angry with UT. thank you for fighting, I’m so sorry it was even a battle. seguimos
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We fought hard to keep our majors, even in the face of our departments closing, b/c we know what it took to create them in the first place. Decades of work by elders to ensure this knowledge would have a place at the "best" public university in TX. www.kut.org/education/20...
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UT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, African, women's and gender studies majors
The decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol...
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
UT‘s slogan is “what starts here changes the world” and if that’s true then the world should at minimum brace itself for a lot of spineless skullduggery and narrow mindedness so severe that you couldn’t find your way out of a paper bag.
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
UT has manufactured the conditions to claim students don't enroll in gender and ethnic studies by revamping curriculum to have courses not count and now finally axing majors they had promised to keep after forcing consolidation thedailytexan.com/2026/09/16/o...
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genna @genna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cat Frazier's fingerprints are all over the web and will persist for all eternity, or until the servers go dark. I am so damn sick of writing RIP posts for cultural luminaries who weren't even 40 yet.
Cat Frazier gif that says things keep getting worse and they're not even funny anymore
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hammer, Sickle and Sombrero — Tina Modotti, 1927
Black and black and white photograph of a crossed hammer and sickle on the large round Brim of a sombrero
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Sleepaway Champ @sleepawaychamp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
the new mexican colonial mind cannot stomach even pretend insults to the aristocracy
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
thank you Camp Miasma for the perfect text to point to as the kind of alternative imagined and suggested by Mulvey when she is more and more relevant and increasingly misread.
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Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Frame #8714 from 60sE17 pigeon in a plum tree
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
obsessed with this poem by CAConrad. the empire will tax your soul! I prefer the forests making blankets from themselves!!
fuck brand loyalty 
pull scissors from 
the ribbon cutting 
ceremony out 
of my back 
why did you
introduce me
to the man who
invented my 
ringtone
now I see him
no matter who calls
this
empire 
will
tax
your 
soul
I prefer
the forests making 
blankets from 
themselves
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just want to remind you all that my Bluesky Starter Pack features only the weirdest, most visually driven accounts. Need random quotes from Moby Dick and photos of hyenas every hours? I got you. go.bsky.app/CUczzsz
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The Strange and the Curious
Join the conversation
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
yes racism and also— really strong impression that there’s a type of person that doesnt have it in them to care for anyone outside of their own tiny self and thus cannot fathom anyone else caring about *gestures broadly* others.
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 09/09/2026
“The story of how ‘Gothic Shade’ became ‘Jim Crow’ reflects the sticky and stubborn nature of racism in American society.” From Sarah K. Kramer’s essay on the 19th-century typeface “Jim Crow”: www.thebeliever.net/logger/writt...
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J for Jim Crow - Believer Magazine
Three years ago, while on summer vacation, I was browsing the children’s book offerings in a used bookstore in Portland, ME. I had my toddler in tow, who at twenty months had approximately twenty…
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i would be willing to bet he knows next NOTHING about NM but learned about the AG supporting environmental groups working to halt project Jupiter and immediately felt personally threatened given his & his failfamily’s investments
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i would be willing to bet he knows next NOTHING about NM but learned about the AG supporting environmental groups working to halt project Jupiter and immediately felt personally threatened given his & his failfamily’s investments
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
theres a long and storied history of NM being treated as a region full of “undesirables.” este payaso is just going through his racist motions he already has well established in his rancid repertoire
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
for ppl who are unaware- this little renaming game du jour the president is entertaining himself with is happening when we have Deb running for governor, NM successfully sued Meta, public push back against a data center now has state AG support, and state investigating his creep buddy’s property
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Don't want to come off as some delicate flower but I'm just not sure I was designed to learn about so many different variations of human depravity all at once
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And both books are REALLY good!!
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
relatedly— i don’t think we give enough credit to the fact both Stepford Wives and Rosemary’s Baby, two texts that are really about the horrors that threaten women’s autonomy via marriage, family reproduction, and men, were written by Ira Levin. Clearly someone was noticing things!
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you are the kind of person that thinks the current gen of llm ai has in any sense, sentience, personhood, or consiousness, i hope you find the help and love you need to get out of your crisis
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A few episodes of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, must must must
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
¡Hoy!
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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We really need to invest in the next generation of camp
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
one of my favorite things about Dolly and Tim Curry was the singularity of their voices. speaking or singing they remind of really specific times, places, and comforts. up there with the iconic voice of Vincent Price for me
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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
if you are a gay icon STAY INSIDE!!! it’s DANGEROUS OUT HERE!!!!!
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hi! That would be so cool but Florencia (to my knowledge) wont be there! I am however so excited to talk to Sandra Rozental about The Absent Stone!
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Gonna just have to mourn by cultivating and celebrating more femme creativity in this dingy world that is a little less sparkling now
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