dr. emily aguiló-pérez (ella/she) 🇵🇷 👩‍🏫🧙‍♀️

@WCUPAEnglish • @WCUYouthLit • reviewer @LatinosInKidLit • '22 Newbery Committee • Disney & #Barbie studies • opinions my own

[dr. emily aguiló-pérez (ella/she) 🇵🇷 👩‍🏫🧙‍♀️ @ProfEmilyAguilo]

AN AMERICAN ICON IN PUERTO RICO: Barbie, #Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play by Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez. Read the Intro: https://t.co/CWaruVsFbl Learn more: https://t.co/jk42FB2Kor

[Taylor Swift Updates+ @chartstswifty]

Piers Henwood shares a business lesson he learned from Taylor Swift during “The Red Tour”:

“Standing beside the standard items - water, wine and snacks - were four Mason jars of strawberry jam and a carefully placed handwritten note from Swift, welcoming Tegan and Sara to the tour.
None of us could believe she had taken the time to personally write a welcome note, but when she sauntered into the room a few minutes later to say hi, we were even more dumbfounded. How could someone who juggled constant media obligations, millions of fans and a relentless touring schedule find the time? […] Over 100 crew members, 24 trucks, 15 buses and 86 shows across 12 countries. Every key decision was made by Swift, who was no different than the CEO of a successful multinational business.
This was not a pop star who let other people pull the strings, this was a leader involved in all elements of her business, top to bottom.
Was making that jam a good use of her time that week? It turns out, yes. Besides being a relaxing ritual amidst her high-pressure life, it was a disarming gesture from a global superstar that quietly leveled the playing field. The potential stress of the day dissolved into a shared confidence that everyone was in it together. I started to see the homemade jam as a subtle and unconventional type of leadership through personal connection and service.”

[Alef @alefvernon]

I knew it, I knew you... ☁️

[dr. emily aguiló-pérez (ella/she) 🇵🇷 👩‍🏫🧙‍♀️ @ProfEmilyAguilo]

@TCD_INT Yes please!!!!

[nicole ❤️‍🔥 @nicolesversi0n]

did you really beam me up?

[everslay⸆⸉ ☁️ @everslay13]

this not being an exaggeration

[Michael Billeaux-Martinez @michaelbilleaux]

The impression one gets from the ongoing citation discourse on here is that humanities scholars just work much harder on their publications than others do

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Today is Endangered Species Day. The Trump administration has rolled back protections for:

—Wolverines
—Sea turtles
—Monarch butterflies
—Bison
—Polar bears
—Rice's whales
—Alligator snapping turtles
—Saltmarsh sparrows
—Florida panthers

[Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax @aspiringpeasant]

In 15 min they decided this entire whale species was less important than money from oil drilling.

15 minutes.

FIFTEEN MINUTES.

[ً @wynrosei]

Women perform the majority of emotional labor in heterosexual relationships: initiating difficult conversations, managing conflict, tracking partners' needs. Research suggests married men benefit significantly from marriage in terms of health and happiness; married women show no comparable benefit.

[🌤️❤️‍🔥 @aloi_asaf]

"if the tour grosses more, the bonus should be higher" 🙂‍↕️ https://t.co/3JA8ZqLTL9

[Seth Daniel @sethdanie1]

As a millennial:

Phone is for fun internet (shit posting)
Computer is for serious internet (booking flights)

[dr. emily aguiló-pérez (ella/she) 🇵🇷 👩‍🏫🧙‍♀️ @ProfEmilyAguilo]

@voguemagazine *arrive

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

I see no lies here

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Eric Kripke says Donald Trump posting a photo of himself as Jesus ruined the Homelander as God joke in ‘THE BOYS’.

“A month ago when we were talking about marketing, I was like, Homelander saying he’s God is so out there. We have to be careful about how we even introduce the idea to the public because they’ll say he’s gone too far and here we are. It’s just really hard to out-satire this world.”

(Source: https://t.co/qmq48tStfA)

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Taylor Swift’s record contract could lead to millions of dollars being paid to artists as UMG prepares to sell half of their equity stake in Spotify.

When Swift signed her contract in 2018, she negotiated a clause stating that any sale of UMG’s Spotify shares would result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable.

Her “non-recoupable” clause ensures that artists receive that money even if they still owe advances to the label that signed them.

(https://t.co/a6vxKX98qo)

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We cannot have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

If you were horrified last night watching our elected leaders run and scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed.

Now, becomes a part of the solution and only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

[ver. @cryeyesviolet_]

I still have in mind what Taylor said about this song on release day two years ago.

“My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys is a song I wrote alone, and it's a metaphor of, you know, from the perspective of a child's toy, being somebody's favorite toy, until they break you, and then don't want to play with you anymore, which is, you know, how a lot of us are in relationships, where we are so valued by a person in the beginning, and then all of a sudden, they break us, or they devalue us in their mind, and we're still clinging onto, 'No, no, no, you should've seen them the first time they saw me. They'll come back to that. They'll get back to that. So it's kind of like, a song about denial, really. So that you can live in this world where there's still hope for a toxic, broken relationship.”

[jezz @JezziiB]

Men who slam doors and punch walls want you to hear how hard they want to hit you.

Read that as many times as it takes.