If you’re wondering how disciplinary #literacies could be more joyful, we’d love to share this piece with you. Be prepared for some playful shenanigans!

I love @charleswlogan.bsky.social’s suggestions of activities that can help educators and their students attend to the language of educational technology!

Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:

When @danhf.bsky.social shared with me his idea for a special issue on The Dark Fantastic, I was surprised, honored & (truly) shy about it all. My dear colleagues @srtoliver.bsky.social & @autumnadia.bsky.social have curated an incredible issue here. Grateful to SR, Autumn, Dan, Gerry & SFFTV! 🖤✨🎬

Calling all literacy and ELA leaders (department chairs, supervisors, coaches, and more)! Submit a conference proposal exploring the intersection of “literacy” and “English” in our field. What does it mean to be a literacy leader and/or an English leader? #CEL26 #NCTE26 ncte.org/groups/cel/2...

#literacies folks, my institution is hiring for Fall 2026. Share widely. Very much an early reading position focused on STR/SoR. We're a very small program and teaching focused. Happy to connect before I'm told I'm on the hiring committee and HR tells me I can't talk to anyone.

We have to do a better job supporting teachers at work following a miscarriage. For more on the layered pressures they face, see this article in AERA Open, "The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers' Leave Decisions and Well-Being ..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Q2: Where are you finding joy to sustain you personally and professionally? #literacies

Two years in the making, and this co-edited special issue based on Ebony Thomas’ (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) amazing book is finally published! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3

What a pleasure to have this out in the world! Read our editorial to learn about this open access issue featuring research re: the use of digital texts in classrooms!

PhD students, check out this free webinar with my mentor Dr. Jayne Lammers! calendar.app.google/jR4oZSneUeFA...

How local activism to make inequities visible can change the public conversation about school funding write @karismjones.bsky.social of @baylor.bsky.social and Jyl Josephson and Nooreen Fatima of Rutgers University-Newark blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and @anna-phd.bsky.social write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!

So exciting for this to roll out as our first articles from the special issue are released! Read the first two pieces here: citejournal.org/category/eng...

For 3 years, they have been building this work with an incredible network of educators and researchers, curating mentor texts, tools, class resources, and academic research on digital media. Our forthcoming CITE special issue, “Digital Texts and How to Teach Them,” highlights this scholarship.

It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant! My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st. forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...

Happy to share that our RRQ article is out theorizing interactivity: "The Reader‐Player Interactivity Framework: How Do Readers Navigate Diverse Varieties of Narrative Texts?" ~Read here or listen to our companion podcast with @humanrestorationproject.org ~ dx.doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

Thrilled to share this new pub! In this article, my brilliant coauthors and I explore a framework for narrative activity in a variety of texts. It’s open access- please read, share, and tell me what you think! doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

Top tier podcast episode title: “Are we readers or are we players?” 😂

Another reminder that the anti-censorship work is happening at #NCTE2025! @hcodymiller.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

Join us to preview work from the upcoming @cite-ela.bsky.social special issue “Digital Texts and How to Teach Them” #literacies

Members of the Critical Gaming #Literacies study group will be leading a game breakout tomorrow at #NCTE2025! You’ll have the opportunity to create a complex and capable “troublemaker” with us. One of my favorite sessions every year, organized by #MakersInTheMiddle by @alexcorbitt.bsky.social !

A3: In both comics and hip hop culture any number of critical issues and lenses immediately bubble to the surface. This doesn’t mean they are to be discarded. Rather the #literacies developed through loving critique makes fan spaces that shape epistemology and reality that much better.

A3: distributed #literacy and expertise. Power and knowledge production become shared and co-generative. Transmediated, transliterated, and multimodal approaches mean un-fixed/unsettled meaning making. Possibilities for play, remix and imagination abound.

Critical, interdisciplinary, multimodal #literacies that foreground culturally sustaining pedagogies & civic engagement for sure!! @karismjones.bsky.social @nicole-mirra.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @snowdaylearninglab.org @haenyyoon.bsky.social Just to name a few.

Great example of what a fandom classroom looks like! #literacies

Join us for our December slow chat! This will be an informal #literacies touchpoint before the start of the holidays. Let's continue the conversation!

Thank you everyone for such an exciting #literacies chat tonight!! If you are headed to NCTE in Denver this week, we would love to connect with you there to continue the conversation!

We stan zines!! #literacies

A5: I think moving away from co-opting happens in all the small decisions educators reposition themselves away from being central and instead, elevate students to lead the #literacies interactions and invite the beautiful messiness that that can entail into the classroom :)

A6: This was a practice that I felt I could do much more easily as a classroom teacher. Currently, I am dreaming about how to engage and excite the college students I get to teach about how to begin this work. #literacies

WOOO!!! We love hearing from readers! #literacies

A6: If you’re at #NCTE2025, join us to experience some of these ideas live! 💡(we will sign your book!) @scottstorm.bsky.social #literacies Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST   Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B

Yessss!! What we want to get across in our book is: THIS WORKS! #literacies

Plug and play approaches can lead to deadening!!! #literacies

📣 love this: the speculative helps us to consider what’s wrong AND challenge it! This is what I love about participatory fandom communities #literacies

A4: This shift creates a more student-centered community. Instead of teachers spending time preparing lectures and worksheets, they facilitate a community where students use literacy to pursue intellectual interests, analyze a wide range of texts, and construct new knowledge together. #literacies

A4: Classrooms inspired by comic conventions center *all* youth’s expertise and knowledge! #literacies

A3: Our book is about the high school class we designed where youth study fandoms—including franchises they love and texts fans produce. Our students used critical literacies to transform fandom spaces—for example, posting critiques of fandoms that relied on oppressive jokes. #literacies

A2: I looove scifi and fantasy books and movies. I feel like my love for the overall genre has impacted how I make meaning in the world. I’m always thinking toward the future and other worlds.

A2: I’m a Lord of the Rings fan first and foremost! I have a lot of feelings about the new Rings of Power series, we can chat at #NCTE 😂 #literacies

A1: I love seeing all these #literacies inspirations!! I have to shout out @aleciamarie.bsky.social and @jaynelammers.bsky.social for their work on fanfiction and its amazing writerly communities

A1: I’m always inspired by work that is grounded in the arts. Give me stories, painting, film, dance and all the things. Folks that inspire me include the amazing @ebonyteach.blacksky.app (my first academic fangirl moment was w/her). Also love me some @gholdym.bsky.social, @shamarireid.bsky.social

A1: I am continually inspired by Dr. Grace D Player's work with the Simmering Spices art collective, thinking about the relational, curatorial and imaginative #literacies of Girls of Color. As an arts-based scholar, this is the kind of meaningful participatory work I really aspire to.

A1: Inspired by many scholars! @amystorn.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @ebonyteach.blacksky.app @anna-phd.bsky.social @dlowliteracy.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social @aleciamarie.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @alexcorbitt.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social Many more! #literacies

Hello #literacies! This is Karis, co-host with @scottstorm.bsky.social, signing in from Waco TX at Baylor University 🥳 We are so excited to hear from everyone tonight!!

#literacies chat starting now! So excited!

Can’t wait to chat with you all TONIGHT! @scottstorm.bsky.social #literacies

Happy to share this new #literacies piece with @sarahejerasa.bsky.social comparing ways that content is suggested and circulated across platforms like TikTok and Webtoon. It was fun to think with frameworks of sponsorship and to talk about webcomics, which I love!

Who will we see at next week's #literacies chat? Join @scottstorm.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social in discussing their new book, Fandoms in the Classroom!