Melissa Blanco Borelli

phd scholar. writer. dancer. cultural critic. music fiend.

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Love and Other Experiments

By Billy-Ray Belcourt 1. He told me he was into natives, but he couldn’t love the traumas hidden in my breathing. 2. How do you tell a ghost that it’s already dead, that its body is a fairy tale yo...

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The Colors of Feelings

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hey girl. capitalist patriarchy: mediocre, amirite?

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The Three Degrees (Valerie Holiday, Sheila Ferguson and Helen Scott (Fayette Pinkney left in 1976) dance with Prince Charles at a charity event for the Prince’s Trust at the King’s Country Club in Eastbourne, England in July 1978. Photo: Getty.

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Falling through time.

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Happy Friday! (detail from Loomis Dean photograph of Rita Moreno, 1954) #ritamoreno

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Jade Willoughby: A Native Model Does Her First New York Fashion Week

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Nothing like a good stretch on a Sunday. (Joan Smalls and Lil Buck photographed by Daniel Jackson for WSJ 11/2014)

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Thank you dear friends and family for the birthday wishes. You are all stars!

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Enjoying some "Quiet Time" in the office (literally and figuratively).

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"When your hands leap  towards mine, love,  what do they bring me in flight?" #PabloNeruda (at Χαλάνδρι, Αθήνα)

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Nice beats.

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Zizek and Performance out now. I'm chapter 11. Thank you Broderick Chow for the opportunity.

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Arachne hard at work on a misty Autumn morning. #spiderwebs (at Royal Holloway, University of London)

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Jeffrey Brodsky / I'll Be Strong / Music Video