Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈⬛
@cristinalalfar.bsky.social
Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
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Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories
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Just a reminder to authors working on #EarlyModern English drama that I edit a book series, "Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Histories and Theories. I would love to read your proposal! #Drama #16thC #17thC 🗃️ wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
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Not that it would redeem them if it were otherwise but the cultural ignorance of the largely monoglot defenders of "western culture," and their refusal to be patrons of culture, or to do anything that challenges their brains is: whew
February 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Not that it would redeem them if it were otherwise but the cultural ignorance of the largely monoglot defenders of "western culture," and their refusal to be patrons of culture, or to do anything that challenges their brains is: whew
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The US is creating a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. Trump's & Rubio's blockade is punishing the Cuban people, not the regime.
We must learn from 6 decades of failed Cuba-policy & reverse course.
We must learn from 6 decades of failed Cuba-policy & reverse course.
Cuba’s Food and Water Supplies Threatened Under U.S. Pressure, U.N. Says
Mexico, Chile and other countries said they were rushing aid to the Caribbean island, but economists said it would do little to alleviate the crisis
www.wsj.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The US is creating a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. Trump's & Rubio's blockade is punishing the Cuban people, not the regime.
We must learn from 6 decades of failed Cuba-policy & reverse course.
We must learn from 6 decades of failed Cuba-policy & reverse course.
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This is the photo that I can’t get past.
February 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
This is the photo that I can’t get past.
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Remembering the beauty of yesterday and the promise of spring, now we’re back in the depths of winter, and comfort eating our way through the darkness
February 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Remembering the beauty of yesterday and the promise of spring, now we’re back in the depths of winter, and comfort eating our way through the darkness
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NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it."
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This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.
www.thebulwark.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
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White folx often talk about wanting to “unlearn” racism.
But too often, that’s framed like a curriculum. A set of knowledge and skills you acquire until you eventually graduate.
That framing is a trap.
Because it positions racism as something external to you.
Something you picked up.
But too often, that’s framed like a curriculum. A set of knowledge and skills you acquire until you eventually graduate.
That framing is a trap.
Because it positions racism as something external to you.
Something you picked up.
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 PM
White folx often talk about wanting to “unlearn” racism.
But too often, that’s framed like a curriculum. A set of knowledge and skills you acquire until you eventually graduate.
That framing is a trap.
Because it positions racism as something external to you.
Something you picked up.
But too often, that’s framed like a curriculum. A set of knowledge and skills you acquire until you eventually graduate.
That framing is a trap.
Because it positions racism as something external to you.
Something you picked up.
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New surveillance footage shows kids running from a NJ bus stop after ICE agents were spotted nearby. One of the students, a 10-year-old-boy, tearfully said he fears his parents will be targeted.
@ahylton26.bsky.social : "This is what we're doing to children all across the country right now."
@ahylton26.bsky.social : "This is what we're doing to children all across the country right now."
February 15, 2026 at 12:47 AM
New surveillance footage shows kids running from a NJ bus stop after ICE agents were spotted nearby. One of the students, a 10-year-old-boy, tearfully said he fears his parents will be targeted.
@ahylton26.bsky.social : "This is what we're doing to children all across the country right now."
@ahylton26.bsky.social : "This is what we're doing to children all across the country right now."
The segment with @elyuma.bsky.social reminds us of US history in Cuba. It's available where you get your podcasts.
Joining us: Max Rose, Susan Del Percio, Any Lucía López Belloza, @toddcpomerleau.bsky.social, @jayapal.house.gov, John Brennan, @letsgomathias.bsky.social, @dwallacewells.bsky.social, @jamessample.bsky.social, @cfcolemanjr.bsky.social, @mhackman.bsky.social, and @elyuma.bsky.social.
February 15, 2026 at 2:39 PM
The segment with @elyuma.bsky.social reminds us of US history in Cuba. It's available where you get your podcasts.
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The slop analysis of the metrics measuring the slop traffic of slopbots scraping slopsites on the now mostly slopnet.
Seeds are going to be the new currency.
Seeds are going to be the new currency.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM
The slop analysis of the metrics measuring the slop traffic of slopbots scraping slopsites on the now mostly slopnet.
Seeds are going to be the new currency.
Seeds are going to be the new currency.
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Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
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Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.
It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise
Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.
No
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is advancing a $50 billion plan to modernize rural health care. n.pr/40awKLq
Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is advancing a $50 billion plan to modernize rural health care.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 10:51 PM
No
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This is a good read.
Meet Thomas the carter… New post follows Tudors moving around London, on the back of some recent research. What did Shakespeare’s commute look like and who invented the one-way street?
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A Shakespearean History of Traffic
Could Shakespeare ride a horse? How did Tudor wine orders get delivered? Did playhouses cause congestion? and other questions
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This is a good read.
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If #Valentines is a difficult day for you, please know that even though she hasn’t met you, Tulip loves you 🖤🐕🦺
February 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM
If #Valentines is a difficult day for you, please know that even though she hasn’t met you, Tulip loves you 🖤🐕🦺
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Happy Valentine's Day! Here is a matchless quatrain from "The Ecstasy" by John Donne.
When love with one another so
Interinanimates two souls,
That abler soul, which thence doth flow,
Defects of loneliness controls.
When love with one another so
Interinanimates two souls,
That abler soul, which thence doth flow,
Defects of loneliness controls.
February 14, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Happy Valentine's Day! Here is a matchless quatrain from "The Ecstasy" by John Donne.
When love with one another so
Interinanimates two souls,
That abler soul, which thence doth flow,
Defects of loneliness controls.
When love with one another so
Interinanimates two souls,
That abler soul, which thence doth flow,
Defects of loneliness controls.
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"Parents Are Getting Deported Without Having Any Idea Where Their Kids Are: A new method of detaining and deporting immigrants seems 'engineered to lead to family separation,' one advocate told HuffPost."
The Trump Administration Has Created A New Form Of Family Separation
A new method of detaining and deporting immigrants seems “engineered to lead to family separation,” one advocate told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
"Parents Are Getting Deported Without Having Any Idea Where Their Kids Are: A new method of detaining and deporting immigrants seems 'engineered to lead to family separation,' one advocate told HuffPost."
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happy to all who celebrate
Valentine's Day marks death of James Cook, a significant day for Native Hawaiians
Most people think of Feb. 14 as Valentine's Day. But the date also marks a noteworthy event in Hawaiʻi's history: the death of British explorer and Navy Capt. James Cook on Hawaiʻi Island. HPR's Kuʻuw...
www.hawaiipublicradio.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:11 PM
happy to all who celebrate
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ICYMI:
I got to speak with someone in Minneapolis/ St. Paul about the REALITY there: ICE agents are still terrorizing people, but she also shared the work she’s doing like countless others to provide mutual aid and help to their communities.
youtu.be/dx6uCnJFD6o?...
I got to speak with someone in Minneapolis/ St. Paul about the REALITY there: ICE agents are still terrorizing people, but she also shared the work she’s doing like countless others to provide mutual aid and help to their communities.
youtu.be/dx6uCnJFD6o?...
BOMBSHELL: Minnesotan EXPOSES Trump’s Latest ICE Scheme
YouTube video by The Contrarian
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February 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
ICYMI:
I got to speak with someone in Minneapolis/ St. Paul about the REALITY there: ICE agents are still terrorizing people, but she also shared the work she’s doing like countless others to provide mutual aid and help to their communities.
youtu.be/dx6uCnJFD6o?...
I got to speak with someone in Minneapolis/ St. Paul about the REALITY there: ICE agents are still terrorizing people, but she also shared the work she’s doing like countless others to provide mutual aid and help to their communities.
youtu.be/dx6uCnJFD6o?...
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Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys committed to makinge somethinge trulye weirde, even shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte the art, at everye steppe thinkinge, "Yes, Ich am drawinge a sexy C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wrong.
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys committed to makinge somethinge trulye weirde, even shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte the art, at everye steppe thinkinge, "Yes, Ich am drawinge a sexy C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wrong.
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Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500."
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
Middle English Compendium
quod.lib.umich.edu
February 12, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500."
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
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If you want a really informative and humane podcast about early modern medicine - its principles and its personnel - I can highly recommend Alanna Skuse's How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England from Not Just the Tudors
music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/0d7...
music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/0d7...
music.amazon.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 8:21 AM
If you want a really informative and humane podcast about early modern medicine - its principles and its personnel - I can highly recommend Alanna Skuse's How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England from Not Just the Tudors
music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/0d7...
music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/0d7...
Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k)
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Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
February 14, 2026 at 1:30 PM
😂
Wait till they hear about people who don’t go to parties at all
February 14, 2026 at 1:28 PM
😂
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Last semester, I got very excited about one endnote, then ALL the endnotes, in Wilson’s Iliad. Then @bookpostusa.bsky.social gave me the chance to write about them: books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...
February 14, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Last semester, I got very excited about one endnote, then ALL the endnotes, in Wilson’s Iliad. Then @bookpostusa.bsky.social gave me the chance to write about them: books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...
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Happy Valentine's Day!
The National Capital Planning Commission has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White House complex.
Written comments are due March 4, 2026 at Noon ET.
The National Capital Planning Commission has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White House complex.
Written comments are due March 4, 2026 at Noon ET.
Public Comment Period Open: White House Ballroom Proposal | National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom additi...
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February 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Happy Valentine's Day!
The National Capital Planning Commission has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White House complex.
Written comments are due March 4, 2026 at Noon ET.
The National Capital Planning Commission has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White House complex.
Written comments are due March 4, 2026 at Noon ET.