@mbatiz
Mexican-Canadian writer, professor & translator based in the Greater Toronto Area. Book, music & animal lover. Mother of three. “A Daughter’s Place,” my first novel, is now available through your favourite bookseller! Published by House of Anansi Press
CBC Arts: Why Alberta’s book banning initiative is an affront to democracy
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Para celebrar por todo lo alto el #8M, respondí a preguntas de chicas y chicos del Colegio Rural Agrupado #LaCandeleta de Azany, El Grado, Estada, Estadilla, Fonz y Naval.
No sé si el amor por estas escuelas se hereda, pero lo siento igual que mis abuelos y abuela, maestros rurales.
✒️ Cómo un bolso (y no un arma) pudo ser el preludio de la cultura
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Ilustración de Ramiro Alonso
@ladiaria.bsky.social #Uruguay
Please end this "spring forward/fall back" bullshit I am DYING
God, the levels to which technology will be dumbing everyone down (voluntarily, too!) make me sick. This should be stopped. Declared illegal. We’re fostering idiots who’ll believe they’re brilliant and degrees should still mean something.
Amazing. 🤣
Los gringos han perdido desde la cabeza hasta la dignidad y la decencia (que antes al menos procuraban fingir). Lo que estamos viviendo daría para un BB a lo bestia si no fuera porque es real y da pavor lo que nos puedan hacer. Un abrazo.
I couldn’t be more honoured to have spent the evening hosting the book launch for this LEGEND: the resplendent Alison Gadsby.
People of BSKY: I hope you’ll pick up a copy of Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive from your local library or bookstore. ♥️
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Delighted to share that #ADaughtersPlace is a 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist in the #HistoricalFiction category. Thank you, @houseofanansi.bsky.social, for believing in this project!
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A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
I actually would like to be under the sea in an Octopus' garden- that sounds nice.
While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test...
McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.
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«Decían que el mejor señuelo para atrapar atención es el sexo. Hoy las redes sociales han demostrado que el odio es mucho más adictivo, más orgiástico, más contagioso, más irresistible».
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#Milenio #México
🎨 Román Rivas
La colgó de un abedul
Nuevo estudio sugiere que leer y escribir puede reducir el riesgo de demencia hasta un 38%
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Minuto a minuto, desde el borde del precipicio.
#Milenio #México
Cristiano Banti's 1857 painting Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition, with an angry-looking inquisitor in clerical attire, seated at a desk, pointing at a document, while a young Galileo, in purple velvet robe, appears unphased. Behind him hangs a statue of Christ. By Cristiano Banti - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/galileotrial.jpghttps://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530043-300-popes-impending-call-for-climate-action-is-refreshing/ image, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=631170
Today in #LaborHistory 2/26/1616: #Catholic Church banned #Galileo from teaching the view that earth orbits the sun. 1633, convicted him of heresy, imprisoned him rest of his life. Brecht wrote Galileo play 1938 & had to flee #Nazis 1933.
#FreeSpeech #science #censorship #drama #playwright
'My Wife's Lovers', 1893 painting by Carl Kahler (1856–1906).
Mil gracias, querido mío 🥰😘🙏💃🏼🎉🥳
Atención, que este pedazo de (tele)novela histórica sobre las mujeres de la vida de Cervantes ya está disponible en español. ¡Corred a por él, que os va a encantar!
Seguimos construyendo la destrucción del futuro...
#LasCervantas en la Feria de Minería en #CDMX
Mira, @hachefilardi.bsky.social este libro tan recién nacido 😍
Estoy que lo veo y no lo creo 🙏
Gracias #HachetteLivreMexico y #VFAgenciaLiteraria 🥳
#LasCervantas entre los #librosimperdibles que se publican en #México en marzo 🥳 Gracias @hachettelibrary.bsky.social y #Librotea
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Played “Ball and Chain” by Social Distortion today.
Tried it clean once.
Didn’t work.
So I added some growl and leaned into the grit.
Punk just needs a little dirt on it.
Carissa, “Prophecy” is fascinating —intelligent, witty, insightful, and bold enough to avoid falling into resigned sighing. I love the invigorating philosophy that flows from the book. Epicurus would have enthusiastically enjoyed it.
