Fiona Serrano
@reallyblxndes.bsky.social
UCLA History PhD student
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Fiona Serrano
@reallyblxndes.bsky.social
· May 12
i am graduating and going to a doctoral program bc i had access to safe, accessible, and legal abortion.
we must continue to fight for its legality in all 50 states and work to de-stigmatize it. abortion is necessary and lifesaving!!
we must continue to fight for its legality in all 50 states and work to de-stigmatize it. abortion is necessary and lifesaving!!
sm nostalgia in writing my finals in snowy buffalo w the bills game on 😌
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
sm nostalgia in writing my finals in snowy buffalo w the bills game on 😌
ive been in LA for abt 3 months and ive already grown accustomed to the weather... its 61 degrees and im freezing!!
i have no idea how ive endured the buffalo cold for 3 and a half years.
i have no idea how ive endured the buffalo cold for 3 and a half years.
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
ive been in LA for abt 3 months and ive already grown accustomed to the weather... its 61 degrees and im freezing!!
i have no idea how ive endured the buffalo cold for 3 and a half years.
i have no idea how ive endured the buffalo cold for 3 and a half years.
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Teen Vogue rising after the 2016 election and dying after the 2024 election doesn't even feel like a metaphor as much as a microcosm of what is happening all over places that were once strong areas of resistance.
November 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Teen Vogue rising after the 2016 election and dying after the 2024 election doesn't even feel like a metaphor as much as a microcosm of what is happening all over places that were once strong areas of resistance.
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Teen Vogue changed my life and their politics team was doing incredible journalism comparable to very little other publications. I can't say I'm not disappointed with this decision. Sending y'all love❤️
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Teen Vogue changed my life and their politics team was doing incredible journalism comparable to very little other publications. I can't say I'm not disappointed with this decision. Sending y'all love❤️
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Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
it’s my first day of graduate school! ⭐️ i could literally jump for joy !!
September 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
it’s my first day of graduate school! ⭐️ i could literally jump for joy !!
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Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.
September 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.
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Nice article by Franklin Schneider @theatlantic.com (also featuring me) #skystorians #deodorant #history
You’re Probably Wearing Too Much Deodorant
Whole-body deodorant is thriving. But at what cost?
www.theatlantic.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Nice article by Franklin Schneider @theatlantic.com (also featuring me) #skystorians #deodorant #history
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Trans rights are human rights.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trans rights are human rights.
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one broken phone, one broken windshield wiper, two terrible thunder storms and two days left to drive 😅
August 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
one broken phone, one broken windshield wiper, two terrible thunder storms and two days left to drive 😅
i found UCLA pants in a thrift store in riga like what a sign
July 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
i found UCLA pants in a thrift store in riga like what a sign
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Check out our newly released special issue, "Reproductive Objects"! Through a collection of stellar articles, it traces the material "stuff" that constitutes the uneven tapestries of power, authority, and knowledge making around human reproduction.
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
www.press.jhu.edu
July 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Check out our newly released special issue, "Reproductive Objects"! Through a collection of stellar articles, it traces the material "stuff" that constitutes the uneven tapestries of power, authority, and knowledge making around human reproduction.
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...
u must finish ur ice cream cone before riding public transportation in daugavpils
July 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
u must finish ur ice cream cone before riding public transportation in daugavpils
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Eliminating academic programs does not eliminate the need for the expertise those programs produce. Instead those same knowledges and skills will now be the responsibility of increasingly overburdened and underprepared instructors across the institution.
July 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Eliminating academic programs does not eliminate the need for the expertise those programs produce. Instead those same knowledges and skills will now be the responsibility of increasingly overburdened and underprepared instructors across the institution.
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IU's Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian programs were among the best in the world, a gem of American academia that nurtured numerous giants, including Stephen Cohen. Now almost all of them are abolished, including PhD programs. What an unmitigated disaster.
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
IU's Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian programs were among the best in the world, a gem of American academia that nurtured numerous giants, including Stephen Cohen. Now almost all of them are abolished, including PhD programs. What an unmitigated disaster.
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At a ceremony in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. They were donated to the MFA in 2013 and 2018.
MFA returns two stolen works from Benin Kingdom
At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. They were donated to the MFA in 2013 an...
www.wbur.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
At a ceremony in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. They were donated to the MFA in 2013 and 2018.
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Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
to second this: i dropped out of school and when i returned to university (on my own terms, years later), my grades improved significantly and my future prospects did too !! taking time to do things on ur own terms is so okay!! even if it’s later than the “standard time”
And if you need to take a year or two to work after high school to figure that out first, there's nothing wrong with that and it often helps a lot.
Yes, this all day. Don't waste your time trying to game some system. Do what you really care about and you're far more likely to excel at it and connect with people who add to your life and support your goals.
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
to second this: i dropped out of school and when i returned to university (on my own terms, years later), my grades improved significantly and my future prospects did too !! taking time to do things on ur own terms is so okay!! even if it’s later than the “standard time”
i’m so proud to be a new yorker!!!!
June 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
i’m so proud to be a new yorker!!!!
just got back from ligo and wow…. the dancing, the music, what a time !!!
June 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
just got back from ligo and wow…. the dancing, the music, what a time !!!
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Watching the Democratic establishment come together to crush Mamdani while complaining about not being able to inspire young people is just….
June 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Watching the Democratic establishment come together to crush Mamdani while complaining about not being able to inspire young people is just….
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Five things to remember about war:
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Five things to remember about war:
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Love this. AI booby traps!
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Love this. AI booby traps!