María del Pilar Blanco

Shy camera

23.05.2025 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This essay is out in the world! Huge thanks to John Alba Cutler and Marissa López (editors of Latinx Literature in Transition, v2) for giving me the chance to imagine this kinship between two greats.

30.04.2025 08:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

❤️ And now to see if we can sustain standing-room only for a whole evening in December.

05.03.2025 09:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Winter by the sea

02.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape, surrounded by blue, that is slightly offset in the middle. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

One of our great new titles coming out this month is "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World" by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaina Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
https://buff.ly/4gNvyns

02.01.2025 14:45 — 👍 122    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 3

The great Cristina Rivera Garza will deliver the next Richard Hillary lecture at Trinity College, Oxford (Thursday, 6 Feb). Book your tickets here: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/public-event...

08.01.2025 15:43 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Crisp morning

28.11.2024 07:34 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The ginormous carousel on Broad Street. Not sure if Oxford City Council got their tape measures out when they planned this one.

22.11.2024 17:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A cinematic celeriac

17.11.2024 16:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I suddenly have a lot of company here!

12.11.2024 19:54 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Martí at Museo Finlay, Havana

31.08.2024 08:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brandenburg Tor

25.03.2024 19:48 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0