English @ SUNY Geneseo | Cindy Castillo | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ccastillo/activity/ Activity feed for Cindy Castillo. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 c7f1ad07d76ffd4ada842e9cb466821c Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Failure is My Friend in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12889/ Thu, 16 May 2019 19:54:33 -0500 When I think about this course, what I’ve gained and the ways in which I have contributed towards the community we’ve built in the shaggy room located in Welles 216, I become overwhelmed by how many kind, eag […]

]]> 0 c5142b57662c4aba69246d1aefd3dde5 Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Project: Encoding Thoreau in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12864/ Tue, 14 May 2019 17:09:21 -0500 By: Emilio Garcia, Cindy Castillo, Nicole Logrieco, Mallory DelSignore, and Anonymous

Our Project, Encoding Thoreau aimed at inquiring deeper into TEI, the markup language most commonly used for scholarly digital […]

]]> 0 88818a811d195598d9be056ed7d8360c Cindy Castillo wrote a new blog post Yikes! Beware of Trolls in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12772/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:49:29 -0500 Technology, specifically the internet and social media, is crucial in the development of Long Division by Kiese Laymon.

We see how Laymon uses the differences in technological advances and culture to […]

]]> 0 decf50524ed94d9d26dd99aecf707232 Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Thank you, Ariel Alejandro. in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12770/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:46:06 -0500 As I was scrolling through my classmates blog posts, I stumbled upon one I found intriguing titled: For Gus (thank you for cleaning our suite sophomore year). Upon reading it, I felt inspired to write my very own […]

]]> 0 94cc1b830e2970389cfcfb29e54fa48a Cindy Castillo edited the blog post W.E.B Du Bois, Double Consciousness, Double Standards in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12766/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:30:10 -0500          This semester, one of our required course texts was W.E.B Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk. In the text, we were introduced to the term “double consciousness,” although perhaps some of us were already fa […]

]]> 0 fe5ca7b394a4a0c33d6fc3c190a041ba Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Getting Our GroOove On in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12759/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:07:52 -0500       I must admit, Dr. Mark Broomfield’s class was probably my favorite although I will admit that my love for dance might make this declaration a bit biased. I grew up listening to Spanish music so it comes to n […]

]]> 0 bdb863485d5d3470478507241c0e688f Cindy Castillo edited the blog post What This Class has Taught Me as An Artist and Writer in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12735/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:38:54 -0500 If you’ve read any of my blog posts by now, you might have already noticed my deep admiration for my Mexican heritage, my family, and my love for art. Growing up, I was surrounded by my rich, diverse culture, a […]

]]> 0 c6c2dda1c10c7f80229d928ebe9d9641 Cindy Castillo edited the blog post A New Kind of Stank, My Own Kinda Stank ft. a Lil Bit of Magic in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12677/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 05:57:37 -0500 “I am a Southern black worker, committed to building stank-ass art rooted in honesty, will, and imagination.”- Kiese Laymon

     I grew up in a small Brooklyn apartment, right in what felt like the center o […]

]]> 0 5e805b3a70f38407cf08c58a57cc0a50 Cindy Castillo edited the blog post The Hardest Part is to Start in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12666/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 19:10:42 -0500       As I meditated on what I’ve gained in this course thus far and what I could possibly write about in my blog posts, many thoughts emerged. I could begin by delving in what I consider the most significant chan […]

]]> 0 3e3aa1faf8cf918c10f912cfe254b910 Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Sustainability in the Age of Information in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12572/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 03:13:29 -0500 As I pondered on what I’ve gained in this course, many thoughts emersed. I could begin by delving in what I consider the most significant change I’ve noticed which is the way I now interact with information and […]

]]> 0 5f82a0bb7f724ac7bd3d0002160a90fc Cindy Castillo edited the blog post DAMN, That's Important. in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12729/ Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:04:22 -0500 “Hail Mary, Jesus and Joseph/ The great American flag is wrapped and dragged with explosives/ Compulsive disorder, sons and daughters/ Barricaded blocks and borders/ Look what you taught us.”- Kendrick Lamar, […]

]]> 0 84f6f55191424164179cfc0ea458e76e Cindy Castillo edited the blog post What Frida Kahlo and Steve Prince have in Common in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12752/ Thu, 28 Mar 2019 02:15:06 -0500          Frida Kahlo has always been a major source of inspiration for me growing up. I admired her ability to articulate and express both her femininity and masculinity, as well as her approach in cons […]

]]> 0 b7d1ca9e3be3acf410155f7dac0b3367 Cindy Castillo changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12320/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 05:00:00 -0500 0 bf2418a3310aba069224117483c5335c Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Technology, Humans, and Art in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12319/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 04:56:52 -0500 First and foremost, I was a bit hesitant coming into this course, I had never really considered myself technologically savvy so naturally, I felt quite nervous having to work with programs I had never even heard […]

]]> 0 c8c2768aae257d2f48251993ce4bdb6f Cindy Castillo joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12318/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 03:35:54 -0500 0 abcdf9083fc72ae39697428be27903f9 Cindy Castillo edited the blog post What We Talk About When We Art in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12235/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:56:35 -0500 “My job is to notice…and to notice that you can notice.”–Dionne Brand

To be quite frank, I felt an immediate sense of excitement when I learned that Geneseo would be offering INTD288, a course explo […]

]]> 0 8c5a3ca9a2ed72313f0b385d161c2194 Cindy Castillo edited the blog post What the F*uck is Going on? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11578/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:03:35 -0500 It was a typical Wednesday morning when my morning ritual began: get dressed; grab my morning cup of coffee and begin my commute to campus. It’s not unusual to see me rambling out the door, my hair dripping wet […]

]]> 0 b19e493cdb4bc1dd6efcd92d832e85cc Cindy Castillo posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11500/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:45:02 -0500 Wisdom, W.B Yeats

The true faith discovered was

When painted panel, statuary.

Glass−mosaic, window−glass,

Straightened all that went awry

When some peasant gospeller

Imagined Him upon the flo […]

]]> 0 89c4b85df0ce6827a9a688ab084bbef3 Cindy Castillo edited the blog post My Reaction to Molly Mattison’s Group Blog Post LIVE IN ART??? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11446/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:30:32 -0500 I was scrolling down our courses blog post feed in hopes of finding something that would catch my eye. Well, hold and behold, I have found it. Molly Mattison and her group wrote a piece titled “LIVE IN ART??” and […]

]]> 0 395d21d65f58cb652e6680c367d443d0 Cindy Castillo wrote a new blog post In Response to Jose Romero’s The World of Children: Immigrant & Orogene Bound in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11391/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 02:10:40 -0500 I must say, I quite enjoyed Jose Romero’s The World of Children: Immigrant & Oregene Bound blog post. It was compelling, beautifully rendered and intimate. The short anecdotes Romero shares about his parents i […]

]]> 0 9c99ddd4a7e8b362e4262e3cd3b45166 Cindy Castillo wrote a new blog post In Response to Denis Hartnett’s Separating Good Art From Problematic Artist in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11347/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:35:19 -0500 While scrolling through my peer’s blog posts one in particular caught my eye, Denis Hartnett’s “Separating Good Art From Problematic Artists.” If I am not mistaken, I was in that discussion group where we delved […]

]]> 0 b2a74a3e06e31422fee1109153fa041d Cindy Castillo posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11306/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:05:42 -0500 Wisdom
(Poem as it appeared in The Tower, 1928)

The true faith discovered was
When painted panel, statuary.
Glass-mosaic, window-glass,
Straightened all that went awry
When some pleasant […]

]]> 0 ba8bbfaaa83c31379490cbd4301e2f7b Cindy Castillo joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10882/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:50:39 -0500 0 7dbd1fea797727ff0d861da4e81a7e87 Cindy Castillo became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10880/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:48:29 -0500 0