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Heather McShane

@estheralbern.bsky.social
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Author of NO HOME BUT EVERYWHERE. I teach in the English Department at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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?” www.artic.edu/videos/206/w...
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What's so surreal about a book? | Art Institute Shorts | The Art Institute of Chicago
Mary Reynolds's deluxe book bindings gave physical forms to the ideas within the pages. Reynolds often created works for her friends and acquaintances, including the artist Man Ray, whose illustration...
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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...
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Heather McShane's Notes from the UIC Teach-In: Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights held on the National Day of Action for Higher Education, April 17, 2025
Notes from the UIC Teach-In: Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights held on the National Day of Action for Higher Education, Apr...
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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 1/4
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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—
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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. buff.ly/3EatFDz
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Brian Gresko @briangresko.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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 To get on this list: site.corsizio.com/register/674...
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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 🤞🏻
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NWS Chicago Unofficial (inactive) @nwschicago.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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
Headline: Submit A Snow Measurement.  Sub Headline: We are interested in knowing how much snow has fallen by you. What To Do:Find a flat and solid surface.  Choose one away from trees, buildings and snow drifts.  Use a ruler and take several measurements around the area.  Then use the average of your measurements. Send us your reports by replying to this post!  Be sure to include your location. Add your cross streets if willing.  Graphic Created: Friday, January 10, 2025 6:56 PM CST
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I listened to kids spell more than 500 words as a judge at L’s school today
A photo of white person’s fingers holding a sheet of paper with instructions about spelling bee recordkeeping
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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.
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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
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Heather McShane @estheralbern.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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?”
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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