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May Summer Farnsworth
@maysummers.bsky.social
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Author of Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico. Bilingual advocate, full professor of Spanish, follower of Latin American feminisms, fiction reader.
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@marcwatkins.bsky.social: "It is deeply upsetting when a student turns to a chatbot to offload their learning, but to see faculty follow suit & do similarly by using AI to grade students to save time is beyond demoralizing to our profession & undermines the very principle of learning": is.gd/Y0wXDu]
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
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October 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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A couple of actually affordable copies of my book available on Alibris: www.alibris.com/Feminist-Reh...
Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth Century Argentina and Mexico
Feminist Rehearsals documents the early stages of feminist theatre in Argentina and Mexico, revealing how various aspects of performance culture--spectator formation, playwriting, professional acting...
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March 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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rabisco rápido pra comemorar o que precisa ser comemorado
#oscar #aindaestouaqui #ditaduranuncamais
March 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I saw this film yesterday, just before the Oscar announcement. It is beautiful.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/m...
‘I’m Still Here’ Wins Oscar for Best International Feature
The Brazilian film focuses on a real activist whose husband disappeared after a military raid.
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March 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Found this on another site and I wanted to share here:
February 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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DEI in Mexico be like …
February 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I wonder which of the three Mexicos will be most affected by Trump’s tariffs
January 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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"Golfo de América" doesn't mean what he thinks it means.
January 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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me, reading all these posts about “Columbia”
a man in a red jacket is standing in a hallway holding a stack of film reels ..
ALT: a man in a red jacket is standing in a hallway holding a stack of film reels ..
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January 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Friendly reminder to all Anglo journos covering today’s news: #ItsColombiaNotColumbia
January 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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ColOmbia
with an o!
January 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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January 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Bogotá requires a visit to Librería Woolf!
January 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Everything is terrible, so here are some "Santa Conchas" brought to you by Mexico 🎅🏽
Mexican sweet bread known as "conchas" are shaped as Santa Claus
December 25, 2024 at 5:44 AM
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Rereading Cuando aprendí a pensar (Medellín, Colombia, 1962), written by my mother, Pilarica Alvear Sanin.
December 2, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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“Si se prohíbe leer, vamos a leer”. La versión argentina de la “batalla cultural”, alentada por el gobierno de Milei, generó una campaña de pánico moral contra los libros de cuatro escritoras. Escucha el episodio:
🌐 Web: bit.ly/3Ze5mLT
🟢 Spotify: bit.ly/3Z5oqvA
🟣 Apple Podcast: bit.ly/4eNg0yQ
November 29, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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Hey Google, how do you say “Turkey” in Spanish?
Mexican magazine writes “pavo” (turkey) instead of Turquía (Turkey)
November 28, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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Shouldn't we be investing MORE in Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Bilingual Education?

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Hispanic enrollment reaches new high at four-year colleges in the U.S., but affordability remains an obstacle
Hispanic enrollment at postsecondary institutions in the U.S. has risen from 1.5 million in 2000 to a new high of 3.8 million in 2019.
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November 27, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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My coauthors and I are happy to see our translation of Malena Sándor's play, Penelope No Longer Knits (Buenos Aires, 1946), in The Mercurian: the-mercurian.com/category/cur...
Current Issue – The Mercurian
Posts about Current Issue written by themercurian
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November 27, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Another feminist play translated from Spanish to English: The Siren Who Carried the Sea (Mexico, 1952) by Magdalena Mondragón. galeriahispana.omeka.net/exhibits/sho...
The Siren who Carried the Sea (Mexico, 1952) - Magdalena Mondragón · Feminist Revivals · Spanish and Hispanic Studies Digital Gallery at HWS
Collaborative projects and research generated in the Spanish and Hispanic Studies Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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November 26, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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In collaboration with Paulina Tejada and Abel Guzmán, I translated Alfonsina Storni's play, La debilidad de Mr. Dougall (1927). Read Mr. Dougall's weakness here:
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Mr. Dougall's Weakness (Argentina, c 1927) - Alfonsina Storni · Feminist Revivals · Spanish and Hispanic Studies Digital Gallery at HWS
Collaborative projects and research generated in the Spanish and Hispanic Studies Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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November 25, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Hello, bluesky. I spend a lot of my time researching theatre trends in Latin America. Here, I contribute an article on immigration and theatre in Argentina.
November 24, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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ESCRITO POR MUJERES reúne obras de teatro feministas de Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico, 1879-1938), Catalina D'Erzell (México, 1897-1950), Alfonsina Storni (Argentina,1898-1938) y Josefina Plá (Paraguay, 1903-1989). LATR books: spanport.ku.edu/latr-books-p... #teatrofeminista #feminismo
November 24, 2024 at 5:30 AM