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Stephanie Porras

@periodeye.bsky.social

5.1K followers 2.2K following 2.4K posts

Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 19h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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FawkesandBull @fawkesandbull.bsky.social · 12h

Orleans Parish, please go vote. Multiple important seats but only roughly a 25% turnout so far. Beautiful day to exercise your rights. Y'all deserve better!

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 12h

Just walked to vote and everybody on their porch, that’s how you know it’s fall finally

Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 16h

There were DOZENS of them, and dolphins and crabs and tons of lovely birds, etc

Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 16h

It’s perfect, I love it and can’t believe it’s taken me so long to visit

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 16h

Mississippi, I was unfamiliar with your game.

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 1d

That’s horrifying (and def feels CSAM to me) and I’m sorry. You don’t want to be connected to anyone who found that funny AT ALL. Their loss, not yours.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Network news could put this guy on the air during like Lester Holt or the Sunday shows but they don't because they know stories like this would help stop the administration and then the big bet they made on fascism would be for nothing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Carolyn @newscarolyn.com · 1d

I couldn’t find any information about this on the news sites, only on Nola.gov, but you don’t need a prescription anymore to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Louisiana. Spread the word, a lot of people were probably not going to the 💉because of that dumb restriction that was in place.

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 1d

Lunch. Hot stuff always hits right.

Fried pork chops, collards, hush puppies and okra and tomatoes. Hot sauce. Topo Chico all laid out on cafeteria plates.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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catsforall.bsky.social @catsforall.bsky.social · 3d

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 2d

I agree. It’s an immediate cultural response, lol.

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Loglady Marmalade (Coleen) @coldbean.bsky.social · 3d

New Orleans vaccine update from the health department

Covid & flu vaccines now available in New Orleans without prescription. Contact Nola.gov/vaccines or Walgreens.com/schedulevaccine

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 2d

Carefully taking screenshots for class as a scholar who works on the 17th century Dutch and Spanish empires, eager to remind everyone that empires have fallen and millions have died for spices

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant Colleague's
New Book Alert!

Buy Chris Fletcher's latest,
hot off the presses or read the OPEN ACCESS version online!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

Arc Humanities book cover for "Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis."

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 2d

My kids have! You pay extra and you walk them to gate and your designated pick up person meets them at the landing gate

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 3d

My most GenX quality (I’m an Xennial I think) is the fact I love long phone calls w folks I love. Just spent couple hours catching up w one of my besties and I wish timezones and well, life allowed for this all the time. I want to lay on the floor and chat like we did in middle school.

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 3d

Well @carey.bsky.social 😉 and some of my favorite people in New Orleans

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 3d

Do you want to come by the operations manager for the Newcomb Art department at Tulane? It's a well paid gig, supervising 4 staff, managing facilities and budgets - ideally someone who wants to work with artists! happy to chat to folks jobs.tulane.edu/position/IRC...

Tulane Staff Positions

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. I can’t believe it

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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 4d

Here is is, from Bryan Stevenson @eji.org.
What's wrong with "heroic history?"
"It’s like saying, 'I’m going to the doctor, but I’ve already instructed my doctor, Don’t give me any bad news' ... if you don’t want to be sick... you have to be willing to hear the truth of your condition."
[gift link]:

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 4d

Currently perusing your fine website!

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