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Sara Potter

@toomanypotters.bsky.social
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Mexicanist/Latin Americanist at UTEP & author of Technified Muses 💙🩵💛 upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683404323 University Press of Florida: Technified Muses Cover pic: Bernardo Fernández 💙💙💙

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Atara Blake @strangeisthenight.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Fabulous essay from @megapolisomancy.bsky.social in @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org on weird fiction as a metaphor and tool for confronting received ideologies and envisioning a better world.
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Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism
Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @mexicanists.org · 10/11/2025
convocatoria abierta, doctorado en literatura hispánica del colmex cell.colmex.mx/doctorado/li...
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Doctorado en Literatura Hispánica - Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios
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EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We're so excited to share our first book review, part of a new series here at EHN. Kate Prengel discusses #clifi and the new Climate Fiction Prize shortlist envhistnow.com/2025/07/22/h...
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Hope and Dystopia: Learning from Climate Fiction
A new literary prize asks how storytelling can drive greater optimism – and action – in the face of climate change.
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:
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Read Like a Criminal
Big Gay Read 2025 Keynote Speech
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Ana Almeyda-Cohen @almeydacohen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Thrilled to share my new article in Hispanófila! I explore madams & witches as celestinas in mid-20th C. Mexican comics & crime magazines. The popular meets the political in these cultural products that employ gendered archetypes for social commentary. Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/210/arti...
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Project MUSE - Celestinas in Mexico: Challenging Morality and Narrating Sex Work and Love Magic in Mid-Twentieth-Century Popular Press and Comics
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
10-week graduate STUDENT FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History! See more info at : www.facebook.com/SIInvertebra... OR download info here
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Jose Luis Zarate @joseluiszarate.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Por cierto, habrá zoom :D Tema: Rumbo a lo inimaginable Hora: 13 mar 2025 05:00 p. m. Ciudad de México Únase a la reunión de Zoom us06web.zoom.us/j/8259179122... ID de reunión: 825 9179 1220 Código de acceso: 719088
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Very thankful to Remy Attig & Roshawnda Derrick for inviting me to be in their edited volume, Translating Spanglish in US Latinx Audiovisual Stories (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics) forthcoming June 2025. Includes my essay "The Queer Politics of Spanglish.” www.routledge.com/Translating-...
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @mexicanists.org · 27/01/2025
let's talk economic imaginaries of post-independence Mexico, join us for a conversation with @sergiocarlos.bsky.social on his recent Mexico, Interrupted, February 17, 3pm CT, registration open!
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Mexico, Interrupted
Join us on February 17, 2025 at 3-4pm CT for a book presentation and conversation with Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Oberlin College) on the publication of Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the …
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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Teaching Diversity in Divisive Times. Join professors from the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, including @lnakamura.bsky.social for this event on Wednesday, January 29, at 4:00pm, 3512 Haven Hall.
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Maia Gil’Adí @maiagiladi.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Today is the official publication date for my book, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations & the Aesthetics of Violence! I‘m so proud of it and so thankful for everyone (too many to name here) who helped along the way, especially the amazing team at @dukepress.bsky.social Thank you! 🥳🙏 Link below:
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
A round up some new and helpful resources for those of you embarking on your writing or book publishing journey. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/b...
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Book Publishing Resources Redux
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Sara Potter @toomanypotters.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“Armonía” (Harmony), a 1956 painting by Spanish surrealist artist Remedios Varo.
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Erin Templeton @eetempleton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This job is not tenure track, but it is renewable w/ benefits and is not all composition. We really need History of the Eng Lang, but open to a lot of other interests esp media studies & environmental humanities. Happy to answer any questions converse.isolvedhire.com/jobs/1342025...
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Instructor of English - Spartanburg, SC
The English Department at Converse University invites applications for an Instructor of English position. This is a one-year position with the possibility of renewal. This position offers the opportun...
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Every book has a story. This is the 1st I’ve acquired where a reviewer emailed me to see when it was coming out b/c they were so excited for it. Full contents coming soon to the website—Angela Lewis-Maddox, Robin Turner, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Sharon Wright Austin, Julia Jorden-Zachery & more.
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Sara Potter @toomanypotters.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We're hiring in my department! Please share widely. Position: Assistant Professor of Latine and/or Latin American Studies Application review starts on December 15. More information in the ad, but happy to answer any questions here also. utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
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Sara Potter @toomanypotters.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm really looking forward to my very first book talk on Technified Muses from @floridapress.bsky.social this Thursday, November 21 at 5:30pm at the El Paso Museum of Art! Many thanks to Dr. Marion Christina Rohrleitner and Mining Books for the invitation. Hope to see you there!
Mining Books:

Technified Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies in the National Avant-Garde 

(image of book cover, with the title, author, and image of Bernardo Fernández (BEF)'s 2023 work CyberVenus, a blue woman with flowing blue-black hair, glowing white eyes and golden wires on her face, neck, and forehead, looking slightly down and to the left)

Technified Muses examines discourses of post-revolutionary Mexican identity through the lens of gender and technology in various avant-garde texts from 1920 to the present.

When: Thursday, November 21
5:30-7:30pm

Where: El Paso Museum of Art

(Head shot of white woman with blonde hair, with cranberry lipstick and silver hoop earrings, smiling and looking slightly to the right) with text: Dr. Sara A. Potter, Associate Professor of Spanish)

For more information contact: Dr. Marion Rohrleitner
Email: mcrohrleitner@utep.edu

Thank you to our sponsors: The Department of English and the Museum of Art
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Sara Potter @toomanypotters.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
…I was, indeed, doomscrolling. This helped. ❤️
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Sara Potter @toomanypotters.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
floridapress.blog/2024/10/29/t... This link went live today! I am very relieved and excited to see the book out in the world and UPF was wonderful. If this helps convince your libraries, the discount code is HOL24 and it’s good through 12/16/24. 💙💛🩵
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Technified Muses
“Offers a highly engaging and original approach to feminine embodiment in Mexican literature through the critical figure of the muse. This book represents an important contribution to Mexican liter…
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 23/10/2024
We've been at 29 donors since yesterday morning? Want to make it a nice, round 30?
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Mom Friend S. Pumpkins @momfriend64.northsky.social · 20/10/2024
WAKE UP BABE NEW DR. SAMANTHA EGE PERFORMANCE DROPPED Dr. Ege is an incredible pianist and musicologist who's done a ton of work highlighting Black women composers through history. This Camila Cortina Bello piece is inspired by Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, two composers Ege's work highlights
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Bravura by Camila Cortina Bello (in honor of the South Side Impresarios)
YouTube video by Samantha Ege
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
If you live in one of these 10 states (AZ, TX AR, MS, FL, GA, TN, KY, IN, OH), today is THE LAST DAY you can register to vote. Even if you think you're registered already, double check to see if your registration is still active. Please do this, it only takes a few minutes. Pass it on.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 26/09/2024
Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton are bragging about having “scrubbed” the voter rolls—and the deadline to (re)register is Oct. 7. CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION TODAY. teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do
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My Voter Portal
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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Come work with me! We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of Early Islam (until ca. 1250). Please share widely!
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 20/09/2024
Info/help about voter registration from Progress Texas, now available in Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, English, and Spanish: govotetexas.org You can also donate to help Progress Texas or scroll down for one of the other organizations listed.
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“GoVoteTexas.org"
Voting is our right, and we want to make sure you have all the information you need.
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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Medieval job alert! Assistant Professor, Medieval or Early Modern History of Science, Technology, and/or Medicine at Rice.
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H-Net Job Guide
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
One thing to prepare for the aftermath of November 5: Do you even know who, in your state*, is responsible for processing, counting, & certifying election results? Well, Bolts has a state-by-state resource that'll help you catch up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Who Counts Our Elections? - Bolts
Who are the local and state officials who are responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections?
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 01/09/2024
A big welcome to everybody joining in from Brazil! This seems like a good moment to re-share the Strange Horizons special issue of Brazilian SFF, featuring incredible stories by Kali de los Santos, H. Pueyo, Sérgio Motta, Heitor Zen, and Isa Prospero! strangehorizons.com/issue/26-aug...
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26 August 2024
Visit the post for more.
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Terez @terez.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
that was every 80s king adaptation. (i don’t recall seeing this one specifically but i read the book and the books were always weird enough to begin with.)
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
The pre-order kickstarter for EMBODIED EXEGESIS: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures is now ALIVE!! Get some weird transhuman transfem cyberpunk!!! Seventeen stories, two poems, and the most beautiful cyborg cover in cyberspace!
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Three Queer Speculative Anthologies from Neon Hemlock
We're Here 2023, Baffling Year Three & Embodied Exegesis
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
Hi. I'm going to be doing a podcast, "The HIstory of Comic Books in 500 Issues," about the global history of comic books. And I'd like your help. Assume I've got all the obvious choices. What's an outstanding comic/b.d./manga/manhua/manhwa/fumetti/etc. that I'm not likely to know about? Thanks!
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 05/06/2024
Hey SFF community, can we help boost this small press doing big things like publishing bold new work and translating/publishing a story by Ihor Mysiak, who was killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine? [I know you already do a lot, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com but a share from you will help]
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Ángel Díaz Miranda @poeta.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Voy a presentar mi libro de poesía/objeto de arte en Morelia el 6 de junio y en lo que era el DF el martes 11. De verdad que me encantaría que nos acompañaran
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
We're excited to help announce Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, an anthology of 22 stories of queer hope, joy, and triumph edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social! reactormag.com/amplitudes-s...
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The Stories in Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity Showcase a Spectrum of Queer Experiences - Reactor
An anthology of queer hope, joy, and triumph.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
I need about 5 more people to sign up for this class to run, anybody willing to boost 😅
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
Studies in the Fantastic is back in Black! Read commentary on blaxploitation vamps, Afro-futurism/-pessimism in GET OUT - NOPE - US, color among the Stepford Wives + an interview w/ @tananarivedue.bsky.social. #ProjectMuse Ed. Stefanie Dunning #horror muse.jhu.edu/issue/52260
On the left, the cover of issue #16 of Studies in the Fantastic showing a sculpture that vaguely looks like a weathered stone face with its mouth in an open "O." Vaguely unsettling. It is an art piece called “Head on a Bed of Bricks” by Kendra Frorup. On the right, a still from the 2019 film "US" in which an African-American family, led by a mother played by Lupita N'yongo, grabs each other in protection and fear after seeing something frightening.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/04/2024
The schedule is up for the Jack Williamson Lectureship next week in Portales, New Mexico, at ENMU, where I'll be the keynote speaker: my.enmu.edu/jack-william...
A poster for the Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University, April 11-13. The title is Oh, The Inhumanity.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 10/01/2024
Thursday Jan 11, at 7pm CT, I'll be in an online panel discussion with Cory Doctorow and Ken Liu to discuss AI, sponsored by Illinois Libraries Present. It's a zoom event, registration is required: bit.ly/ILP_Doctorow...
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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Today’s the day: English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch (Palgrave, 2024) is out today! Hoping I can post a discount code soon if you’d like to order a copy or ask your library to buy it! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Sara Potter @toomanypotters.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
I was reminded today that despite my bio, I have not yet posted pics of my dog. Here he is. ❤️
Rex, an elderly and very furry German shepherd mix, is looking at the camera with his head slightly tilted, his tongue out, and a happy expression on his face.
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Sara Potter @toomanypotters.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
I was, indeed, automatically opted in. Have since opted out -- thanks for the heads up.
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Aurora Santiago Ortiz @santiaaurora.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Submit!!
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
A list of books, chapters, and articles published in 2023 by lit studies scholars working off the tenure track, assembled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social
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2023 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
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Ángel Díaz Miranda @poeta.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Es domingo de www.diatropika.com Pasen a leer poesía puertorriqueña actual
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Sara Potter @toomanypotters.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
It’s website live! SO EXCITED that “Technified Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde” is available for pre-order and will be out in May! upf.com/book.asp?id=...
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Technified Muses
University Press of Florida Book: Technified Muses. Contributors: Sara A. Potter. ISBN Numbers: 9781683404323 9781683404408. Subject(s): Latin American - Literature
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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
My latest episode breaks down the basic elements and musical features of the most popular African-derived religion in the Americas, called Regla de Ocha, Lucumí or Santería—as well as its influence on Cuban popular music. Hope you'll check it out! www.buzzsprout.com/2158804/1385...
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Drumming and singing for the orishas - The Clave Chronicles
The most well-known African-derived religion in the Americas is La Regla de Ocha or Lucumí, more popularly known as Santería. The music used to accompany rituals and ceremonies involves complex, pol...
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