María Laura
@luaramai.bsky.social
Mexican in Canada. Scholar, ex-twitterer. Postdoc with the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador project at Western University.
📚|🧶|🐈|🏳️🌈|Se habla español
📚|🧶|🐈|🏳️🌈|Se habla español
I'm building my research website on GitHub Pages. I had been paying for the domain for a year and a half and hadn't even used it 🤦♀️
Here's how it's looking right now: marialauraflores.me
We had a photoshoot today and everything 🤭
It's taking me a while because it's my website, so... 💅
Here's how it's looking right now: marialauraflores.me
We had a photoshoot today and everything 🤭
It's taking me a while because it's my website, so... 💅
People, Things, Traces
This website hosts examples of my research in different fields, and traces of my thoughts while I do my work.
marialauraflores.me
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I'm building my research website on GitHub Pages. I had been paying for the domain for a year and a half and hadn't even used it 🤦♀️
Here's how it's looking right now: marialauraflores.me
We had a photoshoot today and everything 🤭
It's taking me a while because it's my website, so... 💅
Here's how it's looking right now: marialauraflores.me
We had a photoshoot today and everything 🤭
It's taking me a while because it's my website, so... 💅
I created a StoryMap that explains my thesis: arcg.is/jO1vO
From Historiography to Networks:
A Digital Approach to Colonial Mexican Painters (1680-1730)
arcg.is
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I created a StoryMap that explains my thesis: arcg.is/jO1vO
Construí un StoryMap que explica mi tesis. La versión en español está acá: arcg.is/OHLyr0
De la historiografía a las redes:
Un acercamiento digital a pintores coloniales en México (1680-1730)
arcg.is
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Construí un StoryMap que explica mi tesis. La versión en español está acá: arcg.is/OHLyr0
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Now what?
Now what?
Ya terminé mi tesis 😌
(Ya solo falta que la lean mis supervisores, terminar la intro y conclusiones, hacer correcciones, armar el comité de defensa, subir la tesis al sistema de la uni, defender, hacer correcciones y volver a subirla al sistema)
(Ya solo falta que la lean mis supervisores, terminar la intro y conclusiones, hacer correcciones, armar el comité de defensa, subir la tesis al sistema de la uni, defender, hacer correcciones y volver a subirla al sistema)
June 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Now what?
Now what?
Today is the first Friday after my first week as a Doctor 😌
June 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Today is the first Friday after my first week as a Doctor 😌
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My weekly must-read list of articles and some thoughts about expecting people to own up to their mistakes.
Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Naming Our Mistakes
“The people you can easily like and trust are not a large enough force to overwhelm fascism.”
organizingmythoughts.org
May 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My weekly must-read list of articles and some thoughts about expecting people to own up to their mistakes.
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Kidnapping and trafficking are serious crimes but not human rights violations, nor do they address the incommunicado aspect of their suffering. Enforced disappearance is a human rights violation, sometimes a crime against humanity, and applies here. Thread.
April 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Kidnapping and trafficking are serious crimes but not human rights violations, nor do they address the incommunicado aspect of their suffering. Enforced disappearance is a human rights violation, sometimes a crime against humanity, and applies here. Thread.
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The participation of people with good intentions doesn’t change a system that exists to cause harm
From “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future” by Patty Krawec
From “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future” by Patty Krawec
The participation of people with good intentions doesn’t change a system that exists to cause harm – Faith & Justice Book GroupFacebook GroupFacebook Group
faithandjusticebookgroup.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The participation of people with good intentions doesn’t change a system that exists to cause harm
From “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future” by Patty Krawec
From “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future” by Patty Krawec
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That explains a lot.
April 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
That explains a lot.
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Before any of you share this article, please take a moment and refresh your understanding of digital technologies often fundamentally misunderstand portraiture. Begin with this piece by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
April 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Before any of you share this article, please take a moment and refresh your understanding of digital technologies often fundamentally misunderstand portraiture. Begin with this piece by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
Reposted by María Laura
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
April 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
Ya terminé mi tesis 😌
(Ya solo falta que la lean mis supervisores, terminar la intro y conclusiones, hacer correcciones, armar el comité de defensa, subir la tesis al sistema de la uni, defender, hacer correcciones y volver a subirla al sistema)
(Ya solo falta que la lean mis supervisores, terminar la intro y conclusiones, hacer correcciones, armar el comité de defensa, subir la tesis al sistema de la uni, defender, hacer correcciones y volver a subirla al sistema)
March 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Ya terminé mi tesis 😌
(Ya solo falta que la lean mis supervisores, terminar la intro y conclusiones, hacer correcciones, armar el comité de defensa, subir la tesis al sistema de la uni, defender, hacer correcciones y volver a subirla al sistema)
(Ya solo falta que la lean mis supervisores, terminar la intro y conclusiones, hacer correcciones, armar el comité de defensa, subir la tesis al sistema de la uni, defender, hacer correcciones y volver a subirla al sistema)
Reposted by María Laura
If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis
There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…
www.techdirt.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
Reposted by María Laura
Chapter 5
a man is sitting in front of a computer screen and eating a piece of food .
ALT: a man is sitting in front of a computer screen and eating a piece of food .
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Chapter 5
I thought I was going to be dying from the COVID and Flu shots I got yesterday but turns out I feel well enough to finish the last chapter of my dissertation 😌💪
I can finally see me all robed up this June 👩🎓
I can finally see me all robed up this June 👩🎓
January 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I thought I was going to be dying from the COVID and Flu shots I got yesterday but turns out I feel well enough to finish the last chapter of my dissertation 😌💪
I can finally see me all robed up this June 👩🎓
I can finally see me all robed up this June 👩🎓
So I’m taking vitamin D because Canadian Winter but I’ll be in El Salvador for two weeks and I don’t know if I have to take it while I’m there 🤔
January 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So I’m taking vitamin D because Canadian Winter but I’ll be in El Salvador for two weeks and I don’t know if I have to take it while I’m there 🤔
After almost 8 years living in this city, I finally got my library card 🤓
January 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
After almost 8 years living in this city, I finally got my library card 🤓
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Made a quick starter pack for the new folks coming in.
go.bsky.app/4aHbAyh
#newskies #starterpack #signalboost #newhere #help #welcome
go.bsky.app/4aHbAyh
#newskies #starterpack #signalboost #newhere #help #welcome
January 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Made a quick starter pack for the new folks coming in.
go.bsky.app/4aHbAyh
#newskies #starterpack #signalboost #newhere #help #welcome
go.bsky.app/4aHbAyh
#newskies #starterpack #signalboost #newhere #help #welcome
I had to get a massage because I was all tensed up and now that my muscles relaxed, I can feel the anxiety creeping up in my stomach.
Also, first post on bluesky.
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Also, first post on bluesky.
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January 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I had to get a massage because I was all tensed up and now that my muscles relaxed, I can feel the anxiety creeping up in my stomach.
Also, first post on bluesky.
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Also, first post on bluesky.
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