Doin a heckin science
#forensics #forensicanthropology #anthropologist #thanatology #Thanatologist
13.05.2025 20:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve greatly enjoyed having a platform bed frame! The extra storage is excellent and it’s nice not being able to lose anything under the bed 😅 Purple Mattress has been good to Lily and me!
27.02.2025 18:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It’s less a “follow the breadcrumbs” situation and more of a “giant, Vegas-style neon arrow sign pointing directly at what we all expected” kinda deal
27.02.2025 18:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@zombeesknees.bsky.social
27.02.2025 18:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
Beautiful work, friend! 😍
25.02.2025 13:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Teaching two classes for Phoenix College, TAing a third for ASU, starting my dissertation fieldwork, semifinalist for a Fulbright Fellowship, offering a free monthly curanderismo class for the community…it’s gonna be a BIG year, but it’s all good, exciting, fulfilling work. Pa’rriba y pa’lante!
14.01.2025 12:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Haha! Humerus
11.01.2025 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Have you ever been to an American wedding? Where is the vodka?? Where is marinated herring???
09.01.2025 05:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy New Year, Chag Urim Sameach, and happy night 7, familia! 💙🕎🕯️
De las 12 verdades del mundo, hermano bueno, que me digas 7:
7 días de creación
6 puntos de la estrella
5 libros de la Santa Torá
4 matriarcas
3 patriarcas
2 Tablas de Moisés
1 Casa Santa de Jerusalén, y 1 es Adonai, nuestro Dios.
02.01.2025 02:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chag Urim Sameach! Happy night 6, fam 💙🕎🕯️
De las doce verdades del mundo, hermano bueno, que me digas seis:
Seis puntos de la estrella del Rey David
Cinco libros de la Santa Torá
Cuatro matriarcas
Tres patriarcas
Dos tablas de Moisés
Una Casa Santa de Jerusalén, y Uno es Adonai, Nuestro Dios.
31.12.2024 04:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chag Urim Sameach! Happy night 5, familia 💙🕎🕯️
De las doce verdades del mundo, hermano bueno, que me digas cinco:
Cinco libros de la Santa Torá
Cuatro matriarcas
Tres patriarcas
Dos tablas de Moisés
Una Casa Santa de Jerusalén, y Uno es Adonai, Nuestro Dios.
30.12.2024 04:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First volunteer flowers of the season! Alyssum and a gorgeous sunburst cempasúchil - a nice little wink, nod, and blessing from the ancestors 💚
29.12.2024 17:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chag Urim Sameach! Happy night 4, familia 💙🕎🕯️
De las doce verdades del mundo, hermano bueno, que me digas cuatro:
Cuatro matriarcas: Sarah, Rivqah, Rachel, y Le’ah
Tres patriarcas
Dos tablas de Moisés
Una Casa Santa de Jerusalén, y Uno es Adonai, Nuestro Dios.
29.12.2024 03:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shabbat Shalom & Chag Urim Sameach! Happy night 3, familia 💙🕎🕯️
De las doce verdades del mundo, hermano bueno, que me digas tres:
Tres patriarcas: Avraham, Yitzhaq, y Ya’akov
Dos tablas de Moisés
Una Casa Santa de Jerusalén, y Uno es Adonai, Nuestro Dios.
28.12.2024 03:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you to everyone who helped me get here, but especially my loves Dr. Lily Villa and Darryl Pittman - les quiero chingos!! ❤️🔥
11.12.2024 03:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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…the sciences) becoming more accepting of the validity of Indigenous ways of knowing, including the traditions of Chicano & Mexican curanderismo I carry. It’s especially beautiful and powerful to be part of one of those academic spaces - tlazkamati, notemachtianimeh 🙏🏼
11.12.2024 03:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Patiloni Collective: Traditional Medicine and Ancestral Healing Arts
A South Phoenix healing collective dedicated to community education, healing, and wellness for a holistically healthy future.
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…the Patiloni Collective, patiloni.org) taught me that we offer ceremony when we’re about to speak on sacred things, and few things are as sacred as death and dying (the subject of my specialty, thanatology). It’s a beautiful and powerful thing to see more and more academic spaces (especially…
11.12.2024 03:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m deeply grateful to be part of an academic program where I can openly and proudly wear my curanderismo ceremonial clothing and offer ancestral ceremony as part of my work. My maestras, maestres, and maestros (but especially Doña Patricia Federico of Mi Tierra Healing arts and…
11.12.2024 03:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As of this morning I’m officially a Ph.D. Candidate in the ASU School of Transborder Studies! Now on to fieldwork, dissertation writing, and - con el favor del Creador, la Creadora, y los ancestros - becoming the second Dr. Villa of the house 😁📜🎓🪬
Gratitudes in the comments - pa’lante!
11.12.2024 03:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0
Never thought I’d be a dog daddy, but like. What am I supposed to do? Look at this perfect girl 😭
25.11.2024 16:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Axcan totlahpalloliz in Weyi Quetzalkoatl-Ehekatl Totemachtiani 💚🐍🪶
Something beautiful for a fresh start 🪬
16.11.2024 20:09 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
