Heather Chacon
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Heather Chacon
@wickettred.bsky.social
English professor (c19 American), closed adoptee, lover of the arts who studies public health & literature. Also a friendly neighborhood deadhead.
Using this poster from the first National
Coming Out Day in our Not All Boys Are Blue unit to talk about the importance of accounting for historical contexts as well as what contemporary readers of their projects might need to understand or consider to receive those contextual sources well.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Give me an old building like this any day
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I think this coat could fix me
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If these are the mistakes it makes and the best practice solution is to double check w “academic research, industry experts, and professional organizations”…why do we not just do the trusted sources first???
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Sometimes I make stuff up” is literally stated in this training wtf
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
All faculty are being made to complete this or else we loose the ability to send email
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
All I am saying is
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Do I mention this in the teeth class, or
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Fallacies 101
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Entered Odis into a contest to get a free pet portrait session and he was selected as one of the winners!
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Saved the coxcombs from the freeze.
Too pretty and fuzzy to resist.

There are others kept for seed!
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Excited to watch this for the first time since it came out. I remember it being funny, but now it enjoys a reputation for being “one of the funniest movies it is impossible to see” (not streaming anyplace).

Big cast too.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We asked my MIL if she’d like us to bring Odis to the assisted living place for a visit and she replied

“No. Too much hair.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Me element
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Oh dear
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
November 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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.
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is a copy of the original manuscript of Poe’s “Annabel Lee.” The real item is in special collections at Columbia U.
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The messy fruits of my labor (tomatoes, pumpkins & pumpkin seeds, butternut squash, kombucha, dirty paint brushes
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Watching Cat TV
October 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
They’re watching Cat TV
October 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Happy Halloween, this happened in 1907.
October 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM