Amalia S. Levi, PhD

@amaliasl.bsky.social

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Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/

Flyer for the competition "Drawing Self-Emancipation"

Cover of a booklet of advertisements for Self-Emancipating enslaved people in Barbados, in 18th and 19th centuries.

Rutger Hauer's monologue in Blade Runner.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off (the) shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Image attribution: Jurgen Rossi, Tears in the Rain, https://medium.com/@jurgenrossi685/tears-in-the-rain-d562000f62b7