Alhelí

Ugh typo *collaborative

Directions on how to photocopy and assemble rabbits

My fave item in the archive is this hunker of a xerox with a risograph maintenance tutorial stored in the top little sleeve compartment

A collaged rabbit!

Collaborative re/assembly of the rabbit!

Pamphlets! Info about the exhibition and artists and the press

Materials

Did yall know there’s a cute cool little book shop named after Ulises Carrión in Philly??? and they have a hands on colla exhibition space? And an ARCHIVE?

And a really good musical score!!!

diagram showing how a film set might simulate an underwater view, with the arrangement (from left to right) of a film camera, an aquarium, a woman dressed as a mermaid, and three sheets

my article on Georges Méliès and aquariums—the first thing published from my dissertation—is now out open access at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social!!

read on to see how fairy tale grottoes, Jules Verne's science fiction, and water infrastructure are all connected!!!

quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...

🌷special giddiness of a successful catchup about mid century color and Latinx “excess“ (Londoño’s superb Abstract Barrios) setting up Wednesday’s (surprisingly anticipated?) X-Files day🛸 plus! Ranfla cósmica with guidance from an LA times piece by the one and only @cmonstah.bsky.social

Exciting!!!

I beg everyone to please explicitly cite who they are engaging with when they use a concept so I don’t have to do so much background psychanalysis reading to maybe understand the concept you’re engaging but didn’t cite outright

Poster for the film screening at Penn Libraries on March 18 at 4pm

Excited to host this film screening of Searching for the Songs of Wanaragua next month at Penn Libraries! Learn about Garifuna language preservaation in Honduras. www.library.upenn.edu/events/searc...

Truly so special 💌

I couldn’t have timed today better: we read Julianne Burton-Carvajal’s “Surprise Package”, screened “The Three Caballeros” AND!! Opened Mail Art from @elikaortega.bsky.social ‘s spectacular students.

Elkotsh :: rhlt jdi

aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/02/25/e...

Under the Cairene sun, Egyptian electronic music mutates in Elkotsh’s grip, tapping into a universal urban freneticism that feels at once visceral and off-world.

An amazing #TwinPeaks Day to all my fellow freaks.

This was already the only reboot I can recall being interested in (possibly ever), but I LOVE Deadwyler's work (an actual chameleon) so this just got fun.

Pink book cover with white stylized castle, leaf, and butterfly; title "Imagined Worlds" and Alexander Girard.

Discover the visionary world of Alexander Girard. The Museum of International Folk Art  is proud to announce the release of Alexander Girard’s Imagined Worlds in Spring 2026. Published by Hirmer Publishers in association with MOIFA, the 432-page volume will be available in mid-March 2026.

Delightful!

But when you think about the Experience!! Is there a proper food car?? or did you have to pack snacks (both??)

I know at least one person who is stranded! How much was the train?

Worth reading this very concise little thread to just get a clearer sense of what has and hasn’t occurred in Mexico in the past 24 hours. gracias @elikaortega.bsky.social por el esfuerzo. un abrazo

A poster for the 1996 Zia Regional Rodeo sponsored by the igra (international gay Rodeo Association) and the main illustration is a big pink and blue cowboy boot with a scene of the Sun and a Bronco Rider on it

Albuquerque, 1996

How “Archive” Became a Verb Debates over a proposed national data center in the 1960s reveal how privacy concerns led to corporate control of personal data.

"By failing to create a National Data Center, the government opened space for corporations to aggregate data for their own use and profit. Preventing a nationalized data center enabled a new market for privatized data banks and data integration solutions to take hold and thrive."

Willie Colón, salsa pioneer, has died at 75 The South Bronx bandleader took the Latin genre to new heights while recording for Fania Records.

The South Bronx bandleader took the Latin genre to new heights while recording for Fania Records. n.pr/4kLTCKV

Heart as hard as nails I worry that we have let Sad Song mean too many things, that it’s too easy a phrase to describe such a deep well, and it’s time to find new words for the walls we hit on the way down.

I've been very depressed lately, for reasons big and small, and so I wrote a newsletter about the falling snow, Jason Molina, Craig Finn, and Sade.

www.anxietyshark.ca/heart-as-har...

Doesnt Gremlins have both Night of the Living Dead and Snow White??

Yall remember this form last week? And how on thursday the board of regents voted to not have students learn about “controversial topics” “unnecessarily“? well it’s Friday and the presidents office is already denying people tenure.

i Don’t even know if it’s good or not I can’t stand it lol

The amount of times I was forced to watch Grease— main reason I hated school

black text on a white background reads: "latinx methods, politics of praxis on the left. on the right, the event details: Friday, February 27 Fisher Bennett 330, 2 PM, Thomas Conners in conversation with Alheli Harvey. This dialogue will draw on Latinx Methods and the Politics of Praxis, a volume co-edited by Thomas Conners, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida. Alhelí Harvey is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Email natreyes@sas.upenn.edu for pre-circulated reading."

Next Friday at 2 PM, we'll be discussing LATINX METHODS AND THE POLITICS OF PRAXIS in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

Killing of a scared deer. I was shaking I was so angry and at this point—I don’t even remember what the plot is, I remember my outrage