New York City's skyline on June 7, 2023, covered in orange wildfire smoke.

New York City's skyline, one year ago today.

It's criminal that one year later, Governor Hochul is trying to kill off one of New York's most important climate policies ever.

My website has been updated. I will not have time to swim today. Totally unrelated.

Midjourney-generated image, prompt was: happy german family --ar 4:3

In recent weeks, we've seen a wave of AI-generated images of white, blonde families presented by neo-fascist online accounts as models of a desirable future. As disgusting as this is, it seems no coincidence that AI is being used for reactionary propaganda
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I swam today, the first time this year. 2024 meters of glory.

Not in vain have his colleagues and friends called him “El Adelantado,” which can be translated as “The Pioneer” or most literally as “the one who is (always) ahead.”

Felo was the second director (the first to lead an operational school) of the School of Architecture at the University of Costa Rica from 1972 to 1979.

He's known for his efforts to promote new forms of culture within what he himself called "a depressed society." While working to establish the School of Architecture, his inquisitive nature stood out.

Rafael Angel 'Felo' García (Paraíso, Cartago, 1928-2023). Famous for his artistic work—once influenced by North American and British abstract expressionism and its techniques—a football player and the first director of the General Directorate of Arts.

Men keep explaining things to me.

On Being Fired: Academic Repression and the Struggle for Palestine For the fall 2023 semester, I was hired as an adjunct lecturer to teach Dance 540, the history/theory seminar for graduate students in the dance department at Smith College. On Wednesday November 1, 2...

Precarity is a recipe for academic silencing of dissenting voices. The US keeps academics precarious and union protections are even worse than the UK.

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I'm so glad to share a second collaboration with my dear friend Luis Durán regarding the work of Ofelia Sanou Alfaro, a Costa Rican architect and architectural historian. The piece explores Sanou's role in writing architectural history from Costa Rica. revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/di...

A few weeks ago, I organized a workshop entitled “Reimagining the Future,” when one of the guests asked what worries me about the future, I replied that seeing penguins disappear was one of my top worries.

No luck!

Vidler passed away.

I do somewhere but I cannot find it, will keep searching.

Am I a leftist or just left-handed?

Yo pego mi linda pezuña con frecuencia, en ese estironazo.

I haven't had the time to swim this week.

Yesterday, I swam 2400m. It was my first time swimming in a 43 yo body. I had had a dinner party the night before.

Today, I swam for the last time at 42 yo. 2650 m in 50 min. Far from old PBs but also far from the 1500m I swam when I returned to the pool about a year and a half ago ( I also stopped for about six months). 2650 of happiness, discipline, pain, freedom, aches and pains, consciousness, and joy. 🏊‍♀️🦈

Yesterday I said: Tomorrow is Saturday, I will stay in bed. Today, my brain said: Waky waky at 4.50 am.

And today, after sending 2 essays after revision, I got comments on a book chapter. Amazing, potent, and insightful comments btw.

This. Everyday.

I've submitted 2 papers within 10 days, one in Spanish and one in English. Both were revisions after the initial review. As always, I'm exhausted + fascinated by the differences in comments, tones, nuanced opinions, compliments, and critiques and how they come across so differently in 2 languages.

Always.

Bueno chiquillxs, ya encontré un montón de gente del barrio que tenía en el lugar aquel que se cae a pedazos y estoy feliz.

Si, y hola hello welcome bem-vinda. Ve que lindo es aquí.

My dear coauthor: We only need two paragraphs to comply with the editor's comments on our piece. U write one, and I write the other. Me: Sure. Also: Let us buy some plants and search online for cute door handles. Also, me: Let's learn how to search 4 info on a Mac without a mouse or trackpad.

This is my first “bsky”, and I will dedicate it to the most important question of them all: Why do men (some men) keep explaining things to me? This is an intended reference to Solnit's essay (just in case). The next post will probably be dedicated to writing about environmental decay or swimming.