Alexandra Hidalgo
@the-alex-hidalgo
I'm a writer, filmmaker, memoirist, editor, mom, and associate professor and Crow Chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Some outtakes from our #headshot #photoshoot. Hillary Demmon, the undaunted and brilliant #photographer who captured all these images, did not color correct these, because they’re outtakes and outtakes are more fun when they’re a little messy! #Nature #Photography
Thank you to my friend Hillary Demmon for coming all the way to my house and going to my favorite woods with me so we could get some new #headshots in one of the places that gives my life meaning. Thank you! These #photos are from our delightful post-shoot lunch. #Nature #Photography
Happy 12th birthday to my darling, brilliant, sweet, curious, hilarious, and always up-to-something-fabulous Santiago. Whatever comes your way, I know you’ll make the best of it, and I can’t wait to be there with you for it. I love you, baby boy. #HappyBirthday #Childhood @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
#Venezuela has been devasted by an earthquake, a natural distaster that is not uncommon to the land. In this Substack, learn about the earthquake history and how to help the victims affected by this tragedy. #Venezuela #VenezuelanEarthquake #SOSVenezuela substack.com/home/post/p-...
#Reinventing ourselves is unsettling and electrifying. This week on Substack, I speak with novelist @raf_frumkin about identity, fear, writing, and the strange art of remaking ourselves again and again. substack.com/@alexandrahi... #Identity #PersonalGrowth #WritingCommunity #WritingLife
Thinking of everyone in my beloved #Venezuela. My family and friends are safe, but so much has been lost.
Nothing like getting to see #collegefriends. Thank you, Jonathan and Barry, for a delicious brunch together and for all those wild and beautiful memories of our Athens (Ohio!) days and those glorious detours in France and Austria. Love you guys! #Friendships #StudyAbroad @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
I’m closing my Mitchell Kahan #tribute with the last time we saw him and Chris. Here we all are in San Miguel de Allende in 2019. It was a perfect day together. There were so many of those in his life. I’m grateful we got to share in some of them! #art #Akron @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
We absolutely adored the mindblowing exhibit by Cree artist Kent Monkman at the #AkronArtMuseum after Mitchell Kahan’s #memorial. It’s #indigenous, #queer, decolonial art at its most lyrical and powerful! #Art
#HappyMothersDay to all! We all rarely get to spend it together, so this was a fabulous treat! I hope you’re all enjoying #MothersDay with your #mothers and mother figures! @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
From #eyerolls to #smiles! @billbowbaggins.bsky.social If you’re not already subscribed to my Love in Many Genres Substack, please consider doing so. I’m doing a #HappyBirthday subscription campaign! alexandrahidalgo.substack.com
Can we inherit joy as deeply as fear? My new substack ultimately asks what truly connects mothers across generations, exploring ancestry, memory, and the invisible things passed between generations. #HappyMothersDay #MothersDay #Family #Venezuela open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...
Who says #birthdays and #cemeteries don’t mix? @billbowbaggins.bsky.social If you’re not already subscribed to my Love in Many Genres Substack, please consider doing so. I’m doing a #HappyBirthday subscription campaign! alexandrahidalgo.substack.com
True love? Humoring your mom when she wants to spend hours at a museum with you. Cool first? Monet’s water lilies at the Carnegie #Museum of #Art. @billbowbaggins.bsky.social If you’re not already subscribed to my Love in Many Genres Substack, please consider doing so. alexandrahidalgo.substack.com
Some outtakes from the glorious room that houses Dan Graham’s #Heart Pavillion at the Carnegie #Museum of #Art. If you’re not already subscribed to my Love in Many Genres Substack, please consider doing so. I’m doing a #HappyBirthday subscription campaign! alexandrahidalgo.substack.com
As part of my 49th #birthday celebration, we took our yearly portrait with Dan Graham’s #Heart Pavillion (what a perfect name!) at the Carnegie #Museum of #Art. Do you have a favorite location to take portraits over time? @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
Congratulations to Sasha Jason and Gisell del Castillo on receiving Summer Immersive Fellowships from Pitt’s Humanities Engage. I’m so grateful these two women share their brilliance and expertise with our journal constellations as members of our editorial team! #TeamRhetoric #Nonprofit
I couldn’t be more proud of Gissell Del Castillo for receiving the @PittGradStudies “Service and Leadership Award.” This honor recognizes Gissell’s work teaching writing to prisoners through the @peteygreeneprogram and creating curriculum for @YES.pgh. #TeamRhetoric #Academia
NEW SUBSTACK: When All In Becomes All Out From Gilmore Girls to my own teenage almost-love, this piece starts with inexperienced, hormonal, and deliciously impractical and reflects on a love that didn’t last, but never really leaves. open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...
So proud of, Helena Mazzarella, for having successfully defended her dissertation prospectus today. She has been an unstoppable force through this whole process, and I can’t wait to see how this project continues to evolve. Thank you to Cory Holding and Xiqiao Wang, our dream committee team members.
The #EasterBunny outdid himself this year! Candy, #StrangerThings tee-shirts, #ClevelandCavaliers socks. That’s next level #Easter #Fun #Family @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
Ready for #EasterBunny to hide all over the yard! #Easter #Fun #Family @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
#Fertility, #abundance, #rebirth, #candy. Here we go! #eastereggs @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
William went with a #Mockingjay egg. Me? Random colors like every year! Unlike Panem, my system is not broken! #Easter #TheHungerGames @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
Dipping eggs in food coloring? Somehow it never gets old! #easter #easterbunny🐰 #eastereggs #easter2026 #easterbasket @billbowbaggins.bsky.social
Before you have the #Oscars2026 winning movie, you have to have a script. Here’s to all the writers out there. No matter the genre, your words matter! #Oscars #AcademyAwards
Can I have this #Oscars2026 dance? #Oscars #AcademyAwards @billbowbaggins.bsky.social