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Dr. Amanda J Summers
@amandajsummers.bsky.social
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Not aspiring to be humble.
Postdoc @ Queen’s University
PhD from Temple - History
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence - identity performativity through gender/race/religions.
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This was our meme years before anyone else used it
#GoBirds
Eagles logo says “im going to kill myself” below it. A fragment of a well known meme depicting the stress of Eagles fandom.
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Question 40:
If you’re so inclined, drop a selfie or a picture of something you saw this week that was beautiful.
This is me right now. My hair is bright red but the lighting makes it look dark brown. It’s in a bun on top of my head. I’m wearing glasses and my black worn out Eagles hoodie. Behind me my wall is lit with a curtain of twinkle lights and there is a historic map of Philadelphia 1775 that the sweetest man who ever lived got me for my birthday.
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Correct. We need more costume pics!
My friends and I were one of many Louvre heists. Jacob was the Mona Lisa and yelled “protect gay art” at everyone all night.
Magical time was had in Philly’s gayborhood. 15/10 would do again.
Me in center in all black with a blue painted on burgular mask. My friend to my left is wearing a black and white striped robber shirt and a jeweled crown and my friend to my right is wearing all black with an inflated Mona Lisa around his head.
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Unacceptable behavior this morning
The NYT Connections puzzle this morning has four options lined up to say K Pop Demon Hunter
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Thanks, I hate it
(the AI, not the book)
The cover of the e-book “Afro-Caribbean Religions” depicting a chicken with red plumage, the bordered are green and read. The left column is the AI assistant summary of the book.
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Now. Will we still have a full Eagles team in the second half?
Meme with a Philadelphia Eagle flying with a football in its claws. The graph reads: “Oh boy am I excited to watch my favorite team play” “I’m going to kill myself” “Nice we won”
October 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Delco Pope says Go Birds. We are truly God’s team.

(I’m so sorry 😂😂😂)
Pope Leo XIV stands, smiling, with one hand raised, wearing Kelly green robes.
October 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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No really these men are out of pocket.
Handwritten in Spanish marginalia calling a defendant a liar and barbaric for saying she is 30 when they think she is older.
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Anyway. Work today is very fun.
An excerpt from a 1621 record of a group of people killing and eight year old boy by drinking the blood from his navel before bringing him to the devil to be cooked. It is handwritten in Spanish on a page that is yellowed with age.
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Happy Sunday. Here i am. Again.
Eagles “I’m going to kill myself” meme
September 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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We are here:
The center of the eagles meme “I am going to kill myself”
September 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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E
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EAGLES
Meme of a blonde bearded man saying “thank you for saving my life” and Saquon Barkley replying “I’m literally Saquon Barkley”
September 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Here we go boys. Go birds. 🦅
Eagles meme: A chart under a flying eagle holding a football. “Oh boy am I excited to watch my favorite team play” “I am going to kill my self” “Nice we won”
September 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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An eagles logo. Below it says im going to kill myself.
September 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Yay we can bring back this goodie
A blonde bearded cartoon man says “thank you for changing my life” A smiling Saquon Barkley replies “I’m literally Saquon Barkley”
September 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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LFG GO BIRDS

(I don’t care about anything else for the next 18+ weeks)
Howie Roseman smoking a cigar and wearing a black puffer jacket at the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl parade. He has a cut on his forehead from where a fan hit him with a beer can.
September 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Honestly love that Asunción Lavrin, that absolute legend, low key dropped a whole book on masculinity and the colonial Mexican mendicant orders last year. Brilliant timing for me, anyway. I just love everything about her work.
The cover of Lavrin’s “Men of God: Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico.” It is all tones of brown with a large image of a painting of an elderly man with a thin grey tonsure hairstyle and a brown Franciscan robe. The painting is titled “V R de el B P fray Antonio de Mergil de Jesus Religiosos del Orden de N P S Francisco en la Cruz de Queretaro. Natural de Balencia. Missionary Aposto. Murio d setente y tres años en este Conto de Mexico el dia 6 de Agosto do año 1726 despues de una exemplar vida.”
August 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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#earlymodern Paleography game! Who is Pedro, what does he do, who is he a guest of? I feel like the names don't quite line up with who I know held offices then?
August 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Howie Roseman wearing a black puffer coat smoking a cigar at the Eagles Super Bowl parade. Go Birds.
August 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Hey gang. Here’s a moment of zen. Can you find the sailboat!
A small green house with white trim in the lower right corner is surrounded by green, trimmed lawns. To the left, a neighbors Canadian flag waved in the wind, it is red and white with a maple leaf at the center. Behind them is a salt marsh and bay, with thick pine forests surrounding the coast and on an island in the center. On the bay is a distant white sailboat.
July 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I’m visiting my parents in Nova Scotia. There’s a sheep farm next door. Please enjoy these verbal sheep.
July 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I cannot believe I have to leave you so soon. I love you forever, Philly.
The Philadelphia skyline in the distance with a bright blue sky and a green field in the foreground.
July 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Quote with a pic of you in the 1980s.

Happy Pride from this bi baby.
Me as a young teen in a white shirt and painters hat and short brown hair, covered in paint.
June 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This was a just for funsies viewing at the end of my micro trip to the Rosenbach. 2 letters from Juana of Castile to Hernan Cortes. Enjoy!
A handwritten letter from the mid 1500s in Spanish. The paper is tanned and the ink is black. A handwritten letter from the mid 1500s in Spanish. The paper is tanned and the ink is black.
June 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Greetings, from the boy zoo.
The infield of citizens bank park
May 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM