A1: analyze, analyze, analyze my dissertation! I'm going to continue crocheting on the weekends and hopefully have a regular exercise routine to care for my body and mind. #literacies

For this week's #literacies Slow Chat, we will use a Q1, Q2...format for questions. Please use A1, A2...format for answers.

Last set of book recommendations for this year's AAPI Month~

Our upcoming slow chat on “#literacies Summer Kickoff: Celebrating this Year and Looking Ahead” is happening starting Monday, join us!

Mark your calendars to join our slow chat next week on #literacies Summer Kickoff: Celebrating this Year and Looking Ahead”!

Calling all Writing and Literacies PhD students who defended dissertations this past year: We want to celebrate you! Please complete this form, and we’ll include you in our annual #PhinisheD celebration! bit.ly/2026PhinisheD

Pass this on to a #literacies recent grad!

Week 3 #AAPIMonth book recommendations.

Put our May #literacies Slow Chat on your calendar!

AAPI Month Week 2 Books~ 🩷

Happy AAPI Month! The book recommendations begin this week! #AAPIMonth #AAPIBooks

Q4: What are your takeaways/advice about finding and attending sessions at #AERA26? Have you made any connections with others in sessions you've attended? #literacies

The 2027 AERA Annual Meeting theme, "Transcending Borders and Boundaries in Education Research: Toward a Beloved Global Community," has been released. Read more about the theme here: www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

A1 2/2: Thinking a lot about the Sankofa bird featured prominently this year, which my research team has used conceptualizing our research for years. Especially now, we need to look back into what the Ancestors and Elders did to survive their times to see what to bring into the future #literacies

A2 1/2: I am/was looking forward to connecting with old colleagues and meeting new peoples. Excited to learn anything about supporting bilingual youth especially in the Midwest!

This was so amazing yesterday! #literacies

Happening tomorrow! #AERA2026 #literacies

On deck at #AERA2026! @rjme-journal.bsky.social

I’ve been keeping a low profile these days but yall catch me at #AERA2026 and SRA 2026. No AERA presentations this year but I’m getting an award on my anniversary of my dissertation defense ✨ blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/16...

Join us for an interactive dialogue with a panel of critical scholars guiding us to work toward just educational futures through partnerships in these precarious times. #literacies #AERA2026

🪩Almost time for our yearly #Literacies social🪩

Safe travels!!

Bring your crafting supplies to #AERA2026! #literacies

Imagining Just Educational Futures Through Media and Literacies Partnerships in Precarious Times | Co-sponsored Business Meeting from @mclsig.bsky.social and Writing & #Literacies

Community is an important part of #literacies scholarship. We hope you'll join us!

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

What are you bringing to Crafting #Literacies at #AERA2026?

Join us Friday at #AERA2026 for our Multi-SIG #Literacies Social with the Literature, the Media, Culture, and Learning (@mclsig.bsky.social#AERA2026#Literacies and Writing & Literacies SIGs.

Anyone got any good, fast-paced albums to listen to that aren't in English? #music

Join us Saturday night for a Multi Literacies SIG Social! 🗓 Saturday, 7–9pm 📍 Prank Bar (1100 S. Hope St.) Come connect, unwind, and build community with fellow scholars. 🍸 Open bar for the first 50 attendees + appetizers available We hope to see you there! #AERA2026 @writinglit.bsky.social

A6: 2/2: These ideas were at the center of an article Mollie Blackburn and I co-wrote about #literacies, censorship, and placemaking focusing on LGBTQ+ identities ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Q6: Moore (2013) explains that censorship is “primarily a geopolitical technology—an instrument of place making...[and] is about state making, not subject making.” If censoring #literacies is about placemaking, how are you approaching the resistant political project of building places of liberation?

A3 1/2: During COVID lockdowns I began facilitating an online group with rural teachers across the US, and we’re 6 years in! Sometimes I’m fatigued and think I don’t have energy to meet that month, but when I show up, I always feel more energized after. So support is built into the group #literacies

Q4: Tuck and McKenzie (2015) call us “to move beyond understandings of place as neutral backdrop […] or as only physical landscape, to instead theorize and practice place more deeply” (p. 18). What kinds of metaphors/images are helpful in your thinking about space/place in #literacies research?

I agree. I remember required "professional learning community" meetings when I taught high school. They never felt like a Pink TIGers meeting! And you're totally spot on about being organic. That's a good descriptor I should've added. Having choice feels important, and it shifts the entire dynamic

A2: One thing I learned from the Pink TIGers is the vibrancy of long-term activist communities. For me, these communities help make activist work sustained and sustainable. In my eyes, sustainability is important because fostering liberatory spaces in #literacies education requires a lot of time.

And the early years of the group are cataloged here: www.tcpress.com/products/act... Later years here: www.routledge.com/Stepping-Up-...

Q2: What kinds of spaces and places are needed in #literacies education right now? How are you imagining these spaces/places?

A1: Growing up, I was majorly influenced by trips to my local library and online fandom spaces. Now, the most vivid example I draw on continues to be the multilingual classrooms I have had the privilege to work in #literacies

Q1: What is an important place or space that has shaped how you approach the work you do in #literacies and/or literacy learning and/or literacy research?

For tonight's #literacies convo, we will use a Q1, Q2...format for questions. Please use A1, A2...format for answers.

Please make sure to tag #literacies to all tweets tonight for this chat. Let your voice be heard!

Only 30 min until #literacies chat! Come let your voice be heard as we discuss Fostering Spaces of Liberation in Literacy Research.

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

Holding Dolores Huerta in my heart today and always for what she did for my people and what she endured along the way.

Holding these women and children today.

We're very crafting inclusive! What is your favorite form of crafting?

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

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!