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Deborah Heiligman (she/her)
@dheiligman.bsky.social
Author, writer (yes they're sort of different), dog person, human mom & partner, too. Love reading, social justice, peace, cooking vegetarian, fountain pens. Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) www.Deborahheiligman.com
I was so busy BEING there at @usbby.bsky.social I forgot to take photos. If anyone has some of my panel, please send! Thank you. Here are some slides from our talk about #Kidlit #nonfiction @mackidssl.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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DYK that Helen wang started the #namethetranslator hashtag? Lots of top Shenjeng books are translated from around the world. #IBBYRegional
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Getting ready to hear a conversation among Katherine Paterson, Claudia Lepman Logan and Christopher Franceschelli moderated by Marc Anderson #IBBYRegional25
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@usbby.bsky.social Katherine Paterson is in the room.
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Yay! Please let me know what you think of EG!!
Have you started your Know-vember reading challenge?? 💡📚 #TLSky #BookSky My next nonfiction read- Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by @dheiligman.bsky.social #EduSky
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Tomorrow—a new book festival in Philly for #kidlit authors. I’ll be talking about history, research, resistance, loudmouths….
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Why do I keep getting emails from a tractor supplier and Dick's Sporting Goods? I would think the algorithm would do a better job. Is this just another sign of decline?
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is what resistance looks like. Bravo!!!!
I've got some great news: It is thoroughly satisfying to share what I hope will be my last-ever update on the 2023 Texas book ban, a.k.a. House Bill 900, a.k.a. the READER Act, which is that a federal judge has stopped the law with a permanent injunction.

chrisbarton.info/the-case-aga...
October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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ICE agents get the NYC salute
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I treated myself to a new fountain pen & it came today. It's a red Pilot Metropolitan with a stub nib, also called an italic nib. I got Iroshizuku Momiji to go with it. I'm very happy. It's the little things, friends. #fountainpens
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Looking forward to this @usbby.bsky.social #nonfiction for kids has never been more important. @mackidssl.bsky.social #teachers #librarians #booksky #kidlit
October 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
What a great deal, MA teachers & librarians!!
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Don't tell Trump or Speaker Johnson or Kristi Noem...

But NYPD said there were no arrests at the peaceful No Kings protest in New York City...
October 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
October 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Necesito comprar más libros de Español
And how about this one:

"Darn it, I gave away all of my Spanish books and of course now I’m trying to learn it again. How can a person ever get rid of a book, I ask you, and yet I must because I need room on my shelves."

Did Deborah Heiligman say that, or did I?
October 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hint: it was either me or Chris.
Who said it, @dheiligman.bsky.social or me?

"The first book I remember loving...[was] A Pickle for a Nickel, and it was about a boy named William who taught the heretofore quiet parrot of his silence-loving neighbor, Mr. Bumble, to loudly repeat the title phrase."

chrisbarton.info/how-do-we-ma...
How Do WE Match? (and book giveaway) with author Deborah Heiligman - Bartography
This month I'm giving away four copies of Deborah Heiligman's new YA nonfiction book, LOUDMOUTH: EMMA GOLDMAN VS. AMERICA (A LOVE STORY).
chrisbarton.info
October 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Starting a new book....
October 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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LOL
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Sorry for the fuzzy image. But what I say isn't fuzzy. And there is a whole great playlist of other authors, mostly #Kidlit and #Yalit saying why books MATTER and should not be BANNED! #bannedbookweek xoxo
October 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
NYC area friends: I hope march on the 18th #nokings and then come hear about how #EmmaGoldman started it all. Details here:
October 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM