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🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof Latinx Lit & Alum in the CUNYverse| PhD, American Studies | baking, poetry, shitposting
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Case in point:

I am getting spicy in the footnotes of this article responding to reviewer comments 😈 #AmWriting #AcademicSky

I hate y'all so much

Ah, another day that ends in Y where yt people are harassing the crap out of Black people.

A red and yellow day lily bloomed among the usual orange ones. 😍🌱

Fresh burn pad for the reply guys

Hitting the writing early* this morning. One more step toward getting this revision out. *early for someone up in the night with a baby #AmWriting #AcademicSky

Of course there is a long wait. But the comic adaption by Damian Duffy and John Jennings is available. I'm gonna read that instead.

Oooo I'm gonna take out the ebook from my local library!

New book! Such a sweet story about what is like to miss your parent when they have to leave for a work trip. Another banger from Candlewick Press. #WeNeedDiverseBooks #ChildrensLit #Parenting

Went for a hike. Touched some grass. I highly recommend it!

The Inside Out characters in my head

The inside out characters in my head

A petite bouquet from our garden. 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday

I've started this tradition of planting lavender in celebration of having a new baby. The first one I planted on the day I went to be induced with my first child. The second pic I just planted in honor of my second born. 🌱 #Parenting

I found this really beautiful bird's nest in our rose bush. 🌱

Lavender bloomin' 🪴🌱

I found some seeds beginning to sprout in an apple I was eating. So I put them in some dirt. Let's see what happens! 🌱

Adam's Administration continues to be like:

So after three years, and its most successful year ever at staving off the mayor's cuts (but not investing in more substantive programs to help New Yorkers), has the City Council finally had enough of this budget game? Sure seems like it. hellgatenyc.com/budget-victo...

When NYC Budget Victory Means Restoring Cuts That Shouldn't Exist - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com While libraries and composting were spared, parks and 3-K remain perilously underfunded.

what is your favourite black and white movie?

Who wore it better? 🤣

I've been growing my hair out again and it's at the length where I look like Eric Draven from The Crow and I love that for me.

I'm so glad Garrett Hedlund is having a comeback.

Me writing my revision letter responding to reviewer 2's comments:

Look at that smooth consistency!

Today's weekend baking: Basque Cheesecake

Look at that denarcation! Perfection 😘

Back on my bullshit with Almond Butter Stuffed Brownies

Your girl is on fire! Chocolate chip waffles:

Back on my bullshit with Almond Butter Stuffed Brownies

I'm here for the ratio

Back on my bullshit with Almond Butter Stuffed Brownies

Today's weekend baking: Basque Cheesecake

From there website: I teach college students how to actively read literature. It's hard. You cannot just throw someone into a book and actively engage with a text, and expect that it'll go well. It won't. 🙄

So they pre-recorded answers so that a computer program can spit out responses. 🥴🥴🥴

Really disappointed in every writer who participated in this. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/s...

Now You Can Read the Classics With A.I.-Powered Expert Guideswww.nytimes.com Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech.

Unserious research

So, the history of and current forms of (systemic) racism and white supremacy are now “racial conspiracy theories?” Good to know.

Case in point:

"Artificial intelligence" uses the word intelligence like the word "intelligent design" does, and you can't convince me otherwise.