Have you marked your calendars for our June #literacies chat Play and Interaction in Literacy Learning with Dr. Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social ? We would love to hear from scholars, students, and in-service education professionals alike!

Happy Olivia Rodrigo Day to all who celebrate.

My small little Michigan town’s PFLAG chapter hosted a screening of #HeightenedScrutiny at our historic theater tonight. In times that can feel so isolating, so against LGBTQIA+ people’s right to simply exist, it was lovely to be surrounded by folks, all invested in fighting for a better future.

My U-M email was thinking wishfully this morning. #OneMoreYear

Announcing our June #literacies chat, Play and Interaction in Literacy Learning hosted by Dr. Alex Corbitt (alexcorbitt.bsky.social) on 6/30. We can’t wait to see you there!

This interview demonstrates the peril of our current times, how quickly trusted institutions are crumbling under the incorrigible, horrific, idiotic demands of our executive branch. Give it a listen. I was moved by Pelley’s words.

I’m so excited to read this!

A2: I’ve got a whole stack of books on collective memory, including some fun creative nonfiction texts. One example, which should arrive in the mail today, is Lafon’s “When You Listen to This Song: On Memory, Loss, and Writing.” #literacies

A1: I’m looking forward to spending the summer putting together job materials, writing my dissertation, and collaborating with some colleagues on a couple of manuscripts. #literacies

I was listening to an interview with a British mystery novelist, and he said he constantly had to think of creative means of murder “because we don’t have guns here.” And that felt both incomprehensible and awe-inspiring to my United States mind. A world without gun violence. So easily possible.

I was feeling sad about the state of the world last night, so I ordered five books. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#Literacies grads, our SIG wants to celebrate you and your accomplishments!

Little better than when warm, sunny read-outside weather finally arrives in Michigan.

Some exciting news: naeducation.org/congratulati... #NAEdSpencerFellow

Put our May #literacies Slow Chat on your calendar!

Enjoyed a wonderful book talk this afternoon from @johngmarks.com on the American memories of Washington and his legacy as an enslaver. Left me thinking a lot about the mobilizing, political forces of memory and legacy. Thanks for coming to the Henry Ford Museum, Dr. Marks!

Just hours before the 2026 #MetGala, hundreds gathered in the Meatpacking District to watch people walk down a different red carpet in custom couture. The "Ball Without Billionaires" - a runway show co-hosted by fashion stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and 'Abbott Elementary' actress Lisa Ann Walter

You all will not believe what Brown Bear, Brown Bear saw… #UncleTime

Sometimes I’m perplexed by the videos my Instagram algorithm promotes to me. But the video I just got of a Kermit the Frog puppet singing “Shiksa Goddess” from The Last Five Years musical? …Yeah, that one makes lots of sense.

Any institution where inquiry is curtailed, memory is monitored, creativity is limited, or knowledge production is forcible confined cannot call itself an institution where learning occurs. This is, without a doubt, another horrendous right-wing attack on every student’s rights to learn.

What a day.

The end of dissertation data collection is so close, I can almost reach it.

Husband and I went to see the new Mario movie today. I just kept thinking Bowser Jr. is certainly what Mitch McConnell looked like as a child.

Home from #AERA26! It was such an edifying conference. I’m grateful for the many folks who listened to me yap about my ongoing diss data collection and offered both advice and gratifying comments. I love my scholarly community. My acknowledgments section grows longer by the day!

#AERA26 bound! Looking forward to seeing so many friends and hearing about the wonderful research y’all have conducted in the last year!

Called my congressional leaders. Then sat in silence, fretting over the inoperably disempowering mechanisms of control in this country. If our leaders won’t act when the president wages illegal war, violates international law, threatens genocide…then when?

I watched basketball, and it was enjoyable! #GoBlue

Calling all #Literacies grad students for a combined @writinglit.bsky.social and @lspsig.bsky.social#Literaciessocial at #AERA2026!

Preparing my #AERA26 schedule tomorrow. Any suggested sessions, y’all? Hope to see so many of y’all there!!

Someone sent me this.

Thanks so much for hosting tonight's #literacies chat, @ryanschey.bsky.social! Everyone should check out Dr. Schey and Dr. Blackburn's recent RRQ piece titled "Censorship as Placemaking," found here: doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

A6: Another wonderful q! It makes me wonder about censorship as barrier-building, a closing in or cordoning off. It builds states, yet it separates. If my work is to push against the clandestine and shameful formative spaces of my past, my work must orient toward a logic of liberation. #literacies

A4: I love this question. It makes me think of growing up on the Ohio River. To many, the river could be understood by its surface: smooth or rough, fast-flowing or measured. Yet my father, an adept fisherman, saw the river and its tributaries in complex ways he learned from his father. (1/2)

A3:Currently in my diss, I'm thinking a lot about how English educators recognize, confront, and work within the sociopolitical affordances and constraints of their local contexts. I'm wondering how critical #literacies may vastly differ depending on context. More soon as I continue collecting data!

A2: I hope, given our current admin's complete disregard of the humanity of swaths of people, #literacies spaces will continue historical legacies of radical practice. I think of this weekend's #NoKings protests as one example where work started in small communities became visible to many.

A1: Speaking broadly and from my own experiences, I recall so many formative clandestine spaces, veiled in secrecy and shame. While these spaces were pivotal in finally naming my queer identity, I hope other queer youth might have less turmoil in their own queer places and spaces. #literacies

Hi, everyone! Kyle Smith, PhD Candidate in Educational Studies at the University of Michigan. Looking forward to tonight's chat!

Tomorrow night! Please join us!

An exchange between two students today… Student 1: Are you gaslighting me? Student 2: No, I’m Gatsby-lighting you. *proceeds to laugh at her own joke* Jeez, I’ve missed the high school ELA classroom. #Dissertation #DataCollection

Hard to have a bad day when it begins with a student comparing depictions of queerness in The Great Gatsby and Heated Rivalry. This dissertation is going to be funnnn to write!

Mood:

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 31st! We are so excited to announce our March #literacies chat "Fostering Spaces of Liberation in Literacy Research" with special guest host Dr. Ryan Schey @ryanschey.bsky.social

Connor Storrie should be in everything. #SNL #HeatedRivalry

Now reading:

I called my Rep (@debbiedingell.house.gov) and hope you’ll do the same!

Exhausted from a long day, my last meeting for the night was with a potential incoming PhD student. And even though I’m tired, it was so energizing to chat with someone who’s considering starting their journey. Serving as an ambassador for our program is always a pleasure! #GoBlue

Be sure to check out our latest Inquiring Minds podcast from From Story to System: Teaching Literacy Across Contexts at www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6K... #literacies

We got @ryanschey.bsky.social on social media, y’all! Give him a follow and join us for our March #literacies chat on 3/31. Sure to be a good one!