Alhelí
@casadefauxdobe.bsky.social
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 🌸
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
· Nov 8
I know things are very stressful and scary so if you would like to distract yourself, I offer what I think is a fun read. Thanks so much to the ppl who encouraged me to do keep at it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Other Worlds Just Like This One: Enchantment at Meow Wolf’s “The House of Eternal Return” - Alhelí Harvey, 2024
Santa Fe, New Mexico is one of the most iconic cities in the United States, devoted to its distinctive architectural image. Meow Wolf (MW), a Santa Fe–based art...
journals.sagepub.com
I write about what “enchantment” is, art, place, and what we might be encouraging in a fantastical but familiar imagined environment.. and I consider how it’s already nested in another one! Happy to think and write about NM 💖
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Why is Miss Universe always from Earth?
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Why is Miss Universe always from Earth?
Very stoked to share my work on some little appreciated Lee Marmon photographs on Friday 🚗 📸
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Very stoked to share my work on some little appreciated Lee Marmon photographs on Friday 🚗 📸
Ay, the NM affect of walking into a coffee shop playing The Cure and thinking “mi gente”
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ay, the NM affect of walking into a coffee shop playing The Cure and thinking “mi gente”
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A young Caribbean Flamingo named Frankie flew away from a zoo in Cornwall, England. She was located 130 miles away in France, where her keepers said they would likely have to leave her.
On a Clipped Wing, Flamingo Escapes a British Zoo for a Life in France
Frankie, a young Caribbean Flamingo, flew 130 miles from captivity. Her keepers said they would likely have to leave her in France.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Get in losers we're ruining the workplace.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Get in losers we're ruining the workplace.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
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not to be alarmist but in any scenario where this isn’t just more “dudebro waving his dick around to look cool” posturing basically implies that the scale of mass murder by the US armed forces in LatAm is about to accelerate through the roof
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
not to be alarmist but in any scenario where this isn’t just more “dudebro waving his dick around to look cool” posturing basically implies that the scale of mass murder by the US armed forces in LatAm is about to accelerate through the roof
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Ver estas cosas sólo hace que me odie más por tener síndrome del impostor...
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Ver estas cosas sólo hace que me odie más por tener síndrome del impostor...
Sometimes I am so bad at date recall I misremember something that happened in 2021 as from 2008 and this is the kind of moment that makes me think “ah yes, vibes, it was the vibe”
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Sometimes I am so bad at date recall I misremember something that happened in 2021 as from 2008 and this is the kind of moment that makes me think “ah yes, vibes, it was the vibe”
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Take a look at this shot of the northern lights behind the Sandias!
📸 Kateri West
📸 Kateri West
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Take a look at this shot of the northern lights behind the Sandias!
📸 Kateri West
📸 Kateri West
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Just yesterday the Techtonic podcast had an episode about data centers setting up in rural Mexican villages & suddenly there's a hepatitis outbreak because there's no longer enough potable water for washing & the local doctor has to do stitches by candlelight, don't tell me this isn't also racism.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just yesterday the Techtonic podcast had an episode about data centers setting up in rural Mexican villages & suddenly there's a hepatitis outbreak because there's no longer enough potable water for washing & the local doctor has to do stitches by candlelight, don't tell me this isn't also racism.
Feeling down? Put this on! its fun and sweet and a good decision you can make for yourself.
Here’s a few screenshots of MYSTERY CUDDLERS from the minds of Pen Ward & Jack Pendarvis. The pilot is available to watch for free on the Adult Swim YouTube. I’ve been quietly working on this for the past year or so.
I drew these backgrounds, Elle Michalka colored them.
I drew these backgrounds, Elle Michalka colored them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Feeling down? Put this on! its fun and sweet and a good decision you can make for yourself.
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MIRANDA: the firm doesn’t want to make me partner because I’m a woman
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
MIRANDA: the firm doesn’t want to make me partner because I’m a woman
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
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Those of us in the Effron Center are also devastated. Such loss. Such a shock. 💔
I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
www.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Those of us in the Effron Center are also devastated. Such loss. Such a shock. 💔
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Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
as an alumni of the Mexican American & Latina/o Studies dept., the work of our peers in AAADS & WGS do is part of our strength: we share a building, take pedagogy courses together, show up at the same events. our commitments to solidarity with one another make us a target.
UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
as an alumni of the Mexican American & Latina/o Studies dept., the work of our peers in AAADS & WGS do is part of our strength: we share a building, take pedagogy courses together, show up at the same events. our commitments to solidarity with one another make us a target.
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Florence Welch making an album inspired by Buffy Season 6 in the Year of the Lord 2025 is true elder millennial shit
a woman says see what i did there in yellow text
ALT: a woman says see what i did there in yellow text
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Florence Welch making an album inspired by Buffy Season 6 in the Year of the Lord 2025 is true elder millennial shit
what is rizz if not a qualitative method
fully 50% of the most recent People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive (TM) were humanities majors (and the others didn't go to college). Which points to an ongoing crisis in higher education: why are STEM programs taking our tax dollars yet failing to give our young men critical Sexiness skills?!
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
what is rizz if not a qualitative method
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The correctest take
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The correctest take
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Algo divertido de la reacción gringa "no somoz azi" ante el trumpismo es que, viéndonos lo más buena onda posible e ignorando siglos de historia, llevan por lo menos 25 años siendo así y la evidencia más contundente de ello es Dick Cheney.
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Algo divertido de la reacción gringa "no somoz azi" ante el trumpismo es que, viéndonos lo más buena onda posible e ignorando siglos de historia, llevan por lo menos 25 años siendo así y la evidencia más contundente de ello es Dick Cheney.
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
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Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com
According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”
www.thecut.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
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This Thursday at U of T! Thomas Pringle.
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/thoma...
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/thoma...
After Denial, Resilience: Climate Change and Media History at Exxon Valdez
More than 30 years after the Exxon Valdez supertanker hit a reef and released 10 million gallons of petroleum into the Alaskan coastal ecosystem, residents still find congealed oil beneath rocks. At t...
www.cinema.utoronto.ca
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This Thursday at U of T! Thomas Pringle.
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/thoma...
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/thoma...