María Elena Cepeda she/her/ella 🇨🇴

I am starting to wonder if narcissists of all types might actually be overrepresented in academia. I suspect that they are.

Yesterday was a real “Llama 1-800-jodete” kind of day

I clearly watch too much Severance

Stickers found around the place where I live

I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.

Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

I wish I had a dollar for all of the non-Latinx travelers wearing enormous sombreros in the airport tonight. Why not wear a nice big sign stating “I’m racist AF” instead?

No one is an exception to becoming disabled. No one is immune to disability. Your health is not a guarantee. Even when you age, disability is almost inevitable at some point. Advocating for disabled people is advocating for your inevitable future.

This bathroom stall in Washington Dulles airport gives me some hope

Thanks for the review! I think that I will skip it too

Why Why Why?

Does anyone else detest Christmas?

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Non Spanish-speakers: Translating someone’s name from Spanish to English w/o their permission is not only rude as hell, it is a form of discursive violence rooted in colonialist ideologies. Next one who does it to me gets their name switched to Spanish. Then I’m ignoring you tiI I decide otherwise

Happy Holidays to all those spending time with their chosen instead of their biological families. Just because your parents produced you doesn’t mean they deserve access to you. Hard to hear for many Latinxs, but so very true.

Que yo sepa no pero sí hay un starter pack para investigadores y otra gente que está interesada en Colombia.

Great I’m almost done pretending to write

White people, it’s not enough to not be racist. Y’all need to HATE racism like Kendrick Lamar hates Drake. Commit to the goddamned bit.

I listen to music a lot. Sometimes I listen to the same song on repeat for hours, over days, until I hear patterns of all sorts. Obsessive? ADHD? Yes, and also two of the reasons why I am very good at what I do. No one else listens to the song 1,000 times quite literally
#criptime
#BadBunnySiempre

Besides my workplace financial software, there is nothing more confusing to me than a man who comes at me with no game or no angle.

Argh everything is hormones
Hope your day is good too!

Why was I up at 4am today? Late afternoon is going to be extra rotten

Latinx studies is not possible w/o disability studies. Punto. We can’t talk about Latin America, much less Latin American migration, w/o accounting for the debilitation & disability generated by colonization, imperialism, US military occupation & the violence of the US migration process.

Recently someone asked me “Celia Cruz o La Lupe?” & I thought qué pregunta más inútil, of course the only respuesta es LA LUPE

POST BREAKUP PERSONAL MILESTONE: I have finally stopped singing “Rata de dos patas” in my head every time a guy walks past (I know)

"It's expensive to be poor" also applies to disability

#Bobitazo

The brilliant Roxane Gay. We should all read this.

The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th”

When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

That is horrible. I am so sorry you had to experience that, Lee, and am really glad that you are ok. Amtrak really needs to review that policy re oxygen levels and no chance of relief immediately. I fear that it’s going to take a death for them to truly respond.

I flat out told a crew member that it was dangerous and asked if they could open the doors at least but they said no way. I wonder what it’s going to take to create some change around this. I was really worried