Heather Chacon

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Thank you. Yes!

Breakfast of champions (a Guinness). I love places that wear their years on their sleeves like this, one of my former haunts in grad school.

Ha! 💞

Image of a misty spooky scene with fallen log, a pond, and patches of moss and other dark green vegetation.

Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/

You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire

I can tell I’m a whole ass adult bc I went to the clubs last night and still woke up at 8:00 no alarm

Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.

Guess who has a punk rock Halloween party to attend and just found a new w tags Hot Topic red plaid mini skirt w pleather straps for $5 at the thrift two hours before it starts!!

One time I walked out of my building after teaching to find a fleet of Clydesdales pulling a sleigh

A liberal arts college is a fun place to work on Halloween.

Eat the rich

The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.

Text: "The Black Vampyre; Legend of St. Domingo" by Uriah Derick D'Arcy written in 1819. The story of an enslaved man in St Domingo (modern day Haiti) who was thrown overboard as his enslaver attempted to kill him. He not only survives, he lives forever, and marries one of his enslaver's descendants. Reminds me of "Sinners" in a way

Wanna hear a scary story?

The first American vampire was Black.

Seriously.

78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.

It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

I wish every early author wrote as nearly as Poe egads

*digital copy

This is a copy of the original manuscript of Poe’s “Annabel Lee.” The real item is in special collections at Columbia U.

Omg they good

Yes to all of this!

Anyhow I just roasted some chestnuts

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

The messy fruits of my labor (tomatoes, pumpkins & pumpkin seeds, butternut squash, kombucha, dirty paint brushes

Autocorrect tried to change what I typed “love its aesthetic” to “love it’s pathetic” so maybe machines should not replace human writers any time soon.

It is!

Photo shows a patch of orange, yellow and red leaf-fall (maple) on the ground.

40% of SNAP recipients are kids, 18% are elderly, 11% are disabled and of the rest, ~70% already have jobs. So unless your company’s hiring Junior Juice Box Interns, grandma and her walker, or knows how to fit more hours in a day, maybe cool it with the “just get a job” takes.

I’m glad you’re not too!