Shayne Leslie Figueroa, PhD

@shaynefig.bsky.social

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Food history professor and romance novel reader. Loves her cats and yours, very much.

A green table with cakes decorated as hamburgers and watermelon stacked two deep.
Blue Stars on white background with a book cover of a woman and man in a library looking at each other snd the book title You Me and the Conspiracy in gold under them.
1980s sepia toned photograph of a six year old girl with big brown hair on rollerskates wearing a red striped short sleeve shirt and gold lame shorts.
Poster for a panel on food history that used the Taylor swift Eras tour poster template. Nine colored blocks w images surrounding a front later large woman. In this case it’s an anonymous 1930s woman in a flower patterned apron reading g a cookbook while looking at a small box of food.
Neon lighted sign for Chicago’ Wrigley Field announcing a Bruce Springsteen and the E street band concert. It’s dusk so the sign is nice and bright on an early September night in 2015.
Round large tubs of Aquaphor, African Shea Butter, and lavender Salve. Awuaphor is a white tub with blue and red writing. Shea butter is a clear color brained with gold label. Lavender is from Los Poblanos farm and has old fashioned white label on an opaque jar with black lid. It’s the smallest container.
A hearty slice of cranberry and pear pie. Top crust is flaky golden and the inside is a great magenta maroon. On a plate with a similar tone red ring and on a reddish tablecloth.
A slice of orange-brown pumpkin pie and a golden slice of apple crumble pie with a scoop of while vanilla icecream all in a bowl with blue and white checkered pattern.
A sweet grey and white tuxedo kitty lovingly gazing up at his human mom (who is out of frame but wearing a cozy grey sweatshirt).
Tired (poem by Langston Hughes) I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind.