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alanirosa.bsky.social
@alanirosa.bsky.social
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Reader | Writer | Researcher | Translator | Watercolorer | Opera💕 | Medieval & Early Modern Literature. A mussitator, I am always in nudiustertian mode…writing angry poems and crying to/at/for/about/alongside/in spite of my cat
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disasterstrat.bsky.social
Con profundo dolor compartimos que Patty Berne, cofundadora y directora de Sins Invalid, se unió a les ancestres el 29 de mayo de 2025. Su amor, visión y lucha viven en nosotres. Honramos su legado continuando el trabajo que lideró. #PattyPresente
Descripción de imagen: Patty Berne, una persona japonesa-haitiana con piel de color café claro, sonríe de manera juguetona; brillan de sus ojos color café amor y luz. Lleva un vestido azul tornasol con hombros descubiertos y un colgante de amatista. Su cabello castaño está recogido en su estilo distintivo: dos moños. Detrás de Patty hay un fondo color rosa, con flores radiantes rojas y amarillas. En la parte superior de la imagen, unas letras mayúsculas de color tornasol forman la frase "PATTY BERNE ¡PRESENTE!" En la esquina inferior derecha, el logotipo de Sins Invalid, un recuadro rectangular negro con letras blancas que dicen "Sins Invalid."
June 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
alanirosa.bsky.social
All of these books are really fantastic, with Amphion being a particular favorite!!!
uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · May 30
Check out the new titles in our Thinking Literature series!
- Julia Jarcho: Throw Yourself Away
- John Lurz: The Barthes Fantastic
- Leah Middlebrook: Amphion
- Robert Lucas Scott: Reading Hegel
- Jennifer Soong: Slips of the Mind
Learn more: buff.ly/qO6iA5a. #ACLA2025
Logo for Thinking Literature series at the top, surrounded by five book covers: Reading Hegel, Slips of the Mind, Amphion, Throw Yourself Away, and The Barthes Fantastic.
June 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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uchicagopress.bsky.social
Check out the new titles in our Thinking Literature series!
- Julia Jarcho: Throw Yourself Away
- John Lurz: The Barthes Fantastic
- Leah Middlebrook: Amphion
- Robert Lucas Scott: Reading Hegel
- Jennifer Soong: Slips of the Mind
Learn more: buff.ly/qO6iA5a. #ACLA2025
Logo for Thinking Literature series at the top, surrounded by five book covers: Reading Hegel, Slips of the Mind, Amphion, Throw Yourself Away, and The Barthes Fantastic.
May 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
alanirosa.bsky.social
Nearly always Amalia! <3
Thrilled to have my translation in TR. REVIEW OF TRANSLATIONS.
blacklawrence.bsky.social Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · May 29
We've published two new pieces in TR. REVIEW OF TRANSLATIONS:

-THE ARRIVAL by Amalia Guglielminetti, translated by Alani Hicks-Bartlett
-1.4 (FROM THE INK'S PATH) by Bernard Noël, translated by Eléna Rivera

www.trreview.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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folger.edu
What were the top musical hits of Shakespeare’s England? 🎶 On the podcast, researchers @angelamcshane.bsky.social and Christopher Marsh of the 100 Ballads project discuss what these ballads tell us about moral norms, sensationalism, and everyday life. Listen at: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
Top Pop Songs of the 1600s | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
May 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Violet Affleck makes a powerful argument that society has a lot to learn from people with Long Covid & ME/CFS about the importance of pacing as a means to prevent “crashes,” both for individuals & societies faced with climate crises. #IllnessPolitics
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
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May 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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jamespaz.bsky.social
Delighted to see that my creative-critical Old English eco-poetics article is now out, Open Access, in Postmedieval (thanks to @postmedieval.bsky.social): link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky #oldenglish
Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry - postmedieval
This article looks at how ecocritical readings of The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and Exeter Book riddles can inspire an ‘ecocreative’ way of rewriting and reimagining Old English verse. My creative-...
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May 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Disability, Eugenics, and the Value of Human Life
The eugenicists Your worth is not tied to what you can do. Your worth is not tied to your health. Your worth is not tied to all the things you can do...
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April 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Disability is not a moral failing. It’s not a punishment. It’s not karma.

It’s part of the human experience. Our bodies are frail, and given enough time most people will experience disability.

The idea that we’re lazy, choosing not to “try hard” or want to be sick is a fallacy born out of ableism
April 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
alanirosa.bsky.social
So thrilled to have my translation of this gorgeous (that is, bleak and beautiful) poem by the ever cheery Paolina Secco Suardo Grismondi (Lesbia Cidonia) appear in SWWIM!

@swwim.bsky.social #translation
#poetry
#italianliterature
#18thcentury
#settecento
#poesia
#letteratura
March 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
I signed copies of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY at Harvard Book Store today.

Get them while they last, @medievalacademy.bsky.social #MAA2025 #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 folks and #Cambridge #Boston folks!

💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #18thCentury #HAMH 1/2
Historic street corner with a store, Harvard Book Store, on both sides of the corner, with dark trim around windows and borders. Grey stone, brick, and ironwork building. Oval signs hang from above, with bookstore’s name. Me in a busy bookstore signing a copy of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Other copies are on a low table nearby. I’m wearing a mid-blow sweater with a bright yellow collar and yellow and white flowers on it. Me in front of a tall bookcase, gesturing at my book. Three rows of said bookcase. HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is at the left-hand corner of the lowest visible shelf.
March 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
Parker Library On the Web massively transformed the access to medieval manuscripts

Just listen to @stewartbrookes.bsky.social give a powerful testimony on the impact it had for research

www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope...
#PLOW #ParkerLibrary
Opening up Access
Dr Stewart Brookes recalls the time before and after Parker Library On the Web, and remembers the difference that online access to medieval manuscripts made for researchers
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk
January 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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guillaumecandela.bsky.social
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Capitalisme, une histoire de la Terre : avant l’ère industrielle
Peut-on parler de capitalisme avant l’ère industrielle ? La question fait débat. En soulignant sa nature systémique et interconnectée, l’approche globale proposée par Alessandro Stanziani permet une n...
www.radiofrance.fr
January 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
alanirosa.bsky.social
#eatonfire #lafires
ronitadancis.bsky.social Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · Jan 18
#transit heroes.

'Moreira and his colleagues drove four more buses into black smoke with flames around them.'

They're NOT trained to drive in wildfires. They all volunteered anyway & saved lives.

www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
Pasadena bus drivers rushed into the Eaton Fire to save 500 seniors
When the Eaton Fire first started, bus drivers from Pasadena jumped into action to help rescue hundreds of seniors.
www.cbsnews.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
alanirosa.bsky.social
❤️❤️
January 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
alanirosa.bsky.social
Helpful mental health resources re: fires

Thanks for sharing, Jonathan!
jonathanhsy.bsky.social Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social · Jan 12
#LAFires
mattokumura.bsky.social Matt Okumura @mattokumura.bsky.social · Jan 12
Free mental health services for LA wildfire victims posted by Mark Duplass on the other site: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
January 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
alanirosa.bsky.social
This, exactly, and more. I’m really struggling w words right now, but it’s like heartbreak after heartbreak, uggghh 💔 #LAfires #pasadena #altadena #EatonFire #PalisadesFire
santiagomayer.com Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · Jan 13
I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.
January 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
alanirosa.bsky.social
One of the many fire-related issues tearing at my heart right now #LAfires #EatonFire #firefighters
January 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
alanirosa.bsky.social
Absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating #EatonFire #LAFires
jonathanhsy.bsky.social Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social · Jan 11
#LAFires #EatonFire #Altadena #disability
vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · Jan 11
One of many tragedies. It's not just the rich and white who have suffered in the LA fires.

“He probably could have gotten up and walked away, but he’s not gonna leave my brother"...So the pair huddled together awaiting a rescue that never came...

www.latimes.com/california/s...
January 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#LAFires
thesicktimes.org The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · Jan 10
As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, COVID-19 advocates and mutual aid groups stepped in to fill the gaps left by local and state governments, providing respirators and crucial information about clean air. bit.ly/4jaTnYs
Mask Bloc LA member Abby Mahler poses with a wagon full of free high-quality masks The text on the image reads, “THE SICK TIMES: COVID-19 advocates are distributing masks to protect Californians from wildfire smoke. By Sam Rhodehamel. “We knew it had to happen from us. There was no one else doing it. No one to call,” Abby Mahler, a member of Mask Bloc LA, told The Sick Times. “We deserve to breathe clean air. That is not being provided to us by the government that we pay for.”
January 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
alanirosa.bsky.social
Really terrifying
vinguptamd.bsky.social Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · Jan 8
Smoke inhalation — even for seconds - can impair consciousness.

To anyone in the immediate vicinity of this unprecedented fire in the nations most populous county, urgently heed the evacuation orders NOW.

Smoke is as dangerous as the flames behind them.
January 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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digitalorientalist.bsky.social
In our final post of 2024 🎉 Anais Wion explores PEMM, a new database hosting 1000+ manuscripts and 2500 illuminations of Ethiopian Marian miracles.

digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/31/e...
Ethiopic Miracles: A Database to Link Images and Texts of Marian Miracles
The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean & Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project (PEMM), hosted by Princeton University, aims to bring together the miracles of the Virgin Mary that have circulated in the …
digitalorientalist.com
December 31, 2024 at 5:54 PM
alanirosa.bsky.social
What will surely be an absolutely brilliant talk (and take) by Véronique Tadjo! So sad to miss it
envhumsoxford.bsky.social EnvHumsOxford.bsky.social @envhumsoxford.bsky.social · Jan 22
Véronique Tadjo will kick off the Weidenfeld Lectures on Wed Jan 24 at 5:30pm, Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, @StAnnesCollege with a talk on 'The Role of Fiction in the Environmental Crisis'.

occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-we...
The Weidenfeld Lectures 2024: The Role of Fiction in the Environmental Crisis
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December 21, 2024 at 4:59 AM