Going back to DePaul in the fall to teach my artists’ books and zines class and just found this short video called “What’s So Surreal About a Book?”
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direct quotations, if not, paraphrases, from the speakers on the panel, though please forgive me if I misheard/misunderstood points. 2/2
Up now on the Peripety and/or Tronies site are my notes from “Teach-In: Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights” from the panel held on April 17, 2025, at University of Illinois at Chicago. Much of the text could be considered 1/2 peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2025/04/heat...
• The Department of Education has been eviscerated jeopardizing student services and financial aid 4/4
with deportation for exercising their First Amendment rights in solidarity with the people of Gaza
• The Smithsonian museums are being taken over and whitewashed to conform to “correct ideology”that does not mention “divisive” issues like race 3/4
• The principles of “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion” are being abandoned under threat of financial penalties, with words banned from websites, and offices and programs closed
• International students with permanent resident status are being swept up by masked ICE agents and threatened 2/4
This Thursday, UIC is holding events for National Day of Action for Higher Education, including Teach In: The Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights.
• Universities are in deep crisis
• Biomedical research grants are being cancelled abruptly endangering lives
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I’ll be reading a scene or two, possibly involving a drone or a cat or athletic socks—fiction, from my novel— featuring some weirdo artist types. It might be funny! Looking forward to seeing you and the LA sun, though even in Chicago tonight, there’s the bright full moon—
I think I have officially taught a long time because I saw not one but two of my former students today, the first of whom, as a freshman, was in my artists’ books and zines class at DePaul and now works at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!
If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!
Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.
JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺
#24HourEconomicBlackout
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
UPDATE: Secret Service agents — not ICE — were denied entry at a Chicago school despite initial CPS reports, a CPS source said.
Secret Service agents were looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, the source said. https://buff.ly/3EatFDz
100 Days of Creative Resistance launches Monday with @rokwon.bsky.social followed this week with posts from @melissafebos.bsky.social Denne Michele Norris & Edgar Gomez
This is a free program via @writingco-lab.bsky.social
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On the first day of the new semester, I tried to appeal to my students’ concerns for the environment by telling them how energy consumptive AI is 🤞🏻
Lingering flurries possible overnight, most of the system snow is moving to the east. But❄️WE WANT YOUR SNOW REPORTS!❄️ If anyone has any snowfall reports from around the area, we'd love if you'd share them with us! Be sure to include neighborhood/nearby intersection! #ILwx #INwx
provided major assistance with this project: “The Airbnb Curtains: Disposable Camera Images Captured by Four Children” 2/2
I supplied my nephews, niece, and child with disposable cameras and had them shoot a photo a day on our summer trip. I also asked them to write a line each day, but part of the text was lost when my child misplaced her bag so I used only the photos for the zine. My sisters and their husbands 1/2
I listened to kids spell more than 500 words as a judge at L’s school today
Good to know!
My kid’s favorite author is Reina Telgemeier ☺️
Lol true
To clarify: I don’t so much care if the videos show drones or aircrafts or UFOs or something else entirely. Just collecting information for a novel
Some of the videos look like three laser pointer lights in the sky to me, like something cats would chase 🤣
If anyone on this platform comes across posts about the mysterious “drone” sightings, please forward to me. I’m interested in them for research purposes.
What are the ladybugs in Chicago doing this December 9th? Earlier this afternoon I shot 15 videos of different ladybugs outside of UIC’s University Hall where there is a wind tunnel, but I don’t think that explains the strange (and late?) appearance of the ladybugs that should be hibernating
Two of the questions posed in this insightful piece: “How many other people are in this position, too ill and poor to afford affordable housing? And too poor to be homeless?”
Thank you!
How do you do that import??
