Alhelí
@casadefauxdobe.bsky.social
Professional nerd in Latinx Studies
Currently a postdoc @ CLALS, U Penn
I write about art, the built environment, adobe building practices, and tourism in NM
🌸 she/her/ella 🌸
Currently a postdoc @ CLALS, U Penn
I write about art, the built environment, adobe building practices, and tourism in NM
🌸 she/her/ella 🌸
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Alhelí
@casadefauxdobe.bsky.social
· Nov 8
I know things are very stressful and scary so if you would like to distract yourself, I offer what I think is a fun read. Thanks so much to the ppl who encouraged me to do keep at it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Other Worlds Just Like This One: Enchantment at Meow Wolf’s “The House of Eternal Return” - Alhelí Harvey, 2024
Santa Fe, New Mexico is one of the most iconic cities in the United States, devoted to its distinctive architectural image. Meow Wolf (MW), a Santa Fe–based art...
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I write about what “enchantment” is, art, place, and what we might be encouraging in a fantastical but familiar imagined environment.. and I consider how it’s already nested in another one! Happy to think and write about NM 💖
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A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
It Starts With a Whisper
A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.
vucavu.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
I made this for my intro to latinx studies class in 2022 and I have gotten to use it at least once a year since then.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I made this for my intro to latinx studies class in 2022 and I have gotten to use it at least once a year since then.
As expected, this was fun and delight full and every culdesac was a pop culture thing I am personally obsessed with. it was to think of things and that have those things be examples also immediately— confirmation bias for nerds!
Santa Claus temporarily stopped whittling by candlelight and embraced a space age vision of the future during the Cold War. Why? I joined @yourewrongabout.bsky.social to investigate. We talked aluminum, NORAD, department stores, Charlie Brown and The Grinch: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
As expected, this was fun and delight full and every culdesac was a pop culture thing I am personally obsessed with. it was to think of things and that have those things be examples also immediately— confirmation bias for nerds!
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
Happening shortly! 🎊
Very stoked to share my work on some little appreciated Lee Marmon photographs on Friday 🚗 📸
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Happening shortly! 🎊
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Why is Miss Universe always from Earth?
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Why is Miss Universe always from Earth?
Very stoked to share my work on some little appreciated Lee Marmon photographs on Friday 🚗 📸
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Very stoked to share my work on some little appreciated Lee Marmon photographs on Friday 🚗 📸
Ay, the NM affect of walking into a coffee shop playing The Cure and thinking “mi gente”
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ay, the NM affect of walking into a coffee shop playing The Cure and thinking “mi gente”
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A young Caribbean Flamingo named Frankie flew away from a zoo in Cornwall, England. She was located 130 miles away in France, where her keepers said they would likely have to leave her.
On a Clipped Wing, Flamingo Escapes a British Zoo for a Life in France
Frankie, a young Caribbean Flamingo, flew 130 miles from captivity. Her keepers said they would likely have to leave her in France.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Get in losers we're ruining the workplace.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Get in losers we're ruining the workplace.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
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not to be alarmist but in any scenario where this isn’t just more “dudebro waving his dick around to look cool” posturing basically implies that the scale of mass murder by the US armed forces in LatAm is about to accelerate through the roof
Hmmmm
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
not to be alarmist but in any scenario where this isn’t just more “dudebro waving his dick around to look cool” posturing basically implies that the scale of mass murder by the US armed forces in LatAm is about to accelerate through the roof
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Ver estas cosas sólo hace que me odie más por tener síndrome del impostor...
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Ver estas cosas sólo hace que me odie más por tener síndrome del impostor...
Sometimes I am so bad at date recall I misremember something that happened in 2021 as from 2008 and this is the kind of moment that makes me think “ah yes, vibes, it was the vibe”
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Sometimes I am so bad at date recall I misremember something that happened in 2021 as from 2008 and this is the kind of moment that makes me think “ah yes, vibes, it was the vibe”
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Take a look at this shot of the northern lights behind the Sandias!
📸 Kateri West
📸 Kateri West
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Take a look at this shot of the northern lights behind the Sandias!
📸 Kateri West
📸 Kateri West
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Just yesterday the Techtonic podcast had an episode about data centers setting up in rural Mexican villages & suddenly there's a hepatitis outbreak because there's no longer enough potable water for washing & the local doctor has to do stitches by candlelight, don't tell me this isn't also racism.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just yesterday the Techtonic podcast had an episode about data centers setting up in rural Mexican villages & suddenly there's a hepatitis outbreak because there's no longer enough potable water for washing & the local doctor has to do stitches by candlelight, don't tell me this isn't also racism.
Feeling down? Put this on! its fun and sweet and a good decision you can make for yourself.
Here’s a few screenshots of MYSTERY CUDDLERS from the minds of Pen Ward & Jack Pendarvis. The pilot is available to watch for free on the Adult Swim YouTube. I’ve been quietly working on this for the past year or so.
I drew these backgrounds, Elle Michalka colored them.
I drew these backgrounds, Elle Michalka colored them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Feeling down? Put this on! its fun and sweet and a good decision you can make for yourself.
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MIRANDA: the firm doesn’t want to make me partner because I’m a woman
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
MIRANDA: the firm doesn’t want to make me partner because I’m a woman
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
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Those of us in the Effron Center are also devastated. Such loss. Such a shock. 💔
I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
www.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Those of us in the Effron Center are also devastated. Such loss. Such a shock. 💔
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Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
as an alumni of the Mexican American & Latina/o Studies dept., the work of our peers in AAADS & WGS do is part of our strength: we share a building, take pedagogy courses together, show up at the same events. our commitments to solidarity with one another make us a target.
UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
as an alumni of the Mexican American & Latina/o Studies dept., the work of our peers in AAADS & WGS do is part of our strength: we share a building, take pedagogy courses together, show up at the same events. our commitments to solidarity with one another make us a target.
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Florence Welch making an album inspired by Buffy Season 6 in the Year of the Lord 2025 is true elder millennial shit
a woman says see what i did there in yellow text
ALT: a woman says see what i did there in yellow text
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Florence Welch making an album inspired by Buffy Season 6 in the Year of the Lord 2025 is true elder millennial shit