Documents bearing witness to the lives of enslaved people in Aruba are now recognized by UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. These documents are preserved at Aruba's National Archives & National Library, and are accessible at the Internet Archive. Learn more: blog.archive.org/2025/04/15/a...

my cats are so strange i love them

Question: why is it normalized to be unemotional in academia?

Okay, I can probably guess the whys... but like, can it stop?! (E.g. me writing, "Sorry to be dramatic, but I'm desperate for this kind of community" in a cover letter)

I am so grateful to be taking three wonderful courses this semester. Pomo Basket Weaving, and two independent studies --- American Art Historiography with my grad school bestie and a survey of disability studies in/missing from art history with my academic advisor.

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

Today is National Pickle Day.

How am I supposed to work when my cheerleader is asleep!?

Saw the most gorgeous hymnals and
music books at Winterthur yesterday!

George Kilgore music Doc #707 circa 1720-1850

Pennsylvania German hymnals
1747-1850

My brain cannot absorb any new information. November assignments in a semester that starts in August should be all synthesis-based. My sponge is full/spilling over!!

#gradschool #academicsky

Glad I have a cat because it's weirdly calming to look at something that has absolutely no capacity to understand what is happening

Also watched The Substance this weekend. I need to watch it five more times. “A movie that really feels like a movie”

Watched the incredible documentary Dahomey (dir. Mati Diop) thisweekend at the Philly Film Festival. Restitution from the perspective of West African objects. Nuanced and packed-full of info all while maintaining space for meditation and viewer reflection. a must watch imo

Uh oh my cats laid on me, sorry I can’t do the 400 pages of reading assigned for me this week! mid-way thought the semester and too many ideas floating in my brain. Do you ever have time to process as a grad student?

12 years on the bird app is over, hello sky app? Meet my cats Beau and Amigo