Thank you all for joining the conversation, and we hope the rest of your year is filled with joy and community!

Q5: Happy Friday! We hope this slow #literacies chat has brought about new thoughts, inquiries, and connections. More broadly, what are you hoping summer 2026 brings for you, professionally or personally? #literacies

Q4: Let’s share resources! What kinds of #literacies opportunities, symposia, conferences or events are you looking forward to attending this summer?

Q3: What advice do you have for #literacies scholars for generative summer writing, whether it be dissertation work, articles we’ve left on the backburner, or other projects?

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

A1: Suuuuuper excited to travel to Glasgow this summer for UKLA @uklitassociation.bsky.social 2026 and meet #literacies scholars from around the world (especially traveling with @rabani.bsky.social)

Q2: Let’s share our summer TBRs! What articles and books are on your summer reading list?

Q1: Wrapping up the academic year can mean a change in rhythm for many of us. What projects, side quests, and goals are you excited to pursue this summer? #literacies

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

Tomorrow begins our slow chat on #literacies Summer Kickoff: Celebrating this Year and Looking Ahead”: we hope you join the conversation!

Our slow chat, “#literacies Summer Kickoff: Celebrating this Year and Looking Ahead” is just 2 days away! Join us each day to add your voice to the conversation!

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

Join us next week at your leisure to discuss #literacies Summer Kickoff: Celebrating this Year and Looking Ahead”!

Next Monday-Friday we’ll host a slow chat on #literacies Summer Kickoff: Celebrating this Year and Looking Ahead”!

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

Join us for next week’s chat 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

Are you getting excited for our #literacies Slow Chat?

#Literacies folks! Are you ready to reflect on the spring semester and look forward to the summer? Join us May 25-29 for our Slow Chat!

Put our May #literacies Slow Chat on your calendar!

Thanks for joining us at the joint SIG business meeting with @writinglit.bsky.social ! #AERA2026 📲 A few snippets from the evening—CONGRATS to our award winners! 🥳

Grateful to @writinglit.bsky.social for honoring me with the Steve Witte lifetime achievement award. This has been my constant home within @aeraedresearch.bsky.social and will remain so. Thank you for sustaining so many literacy scholars over the years.

Q5: What are your #AERA26 reflections? Feel free to highlight different sessions, people, and experiences! #literacies

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

Join us tonight! #Literacies

Q3: What connections to your own research have you made today? What new ideas will you bring home? #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!

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

This #AERA26 have loved seeing the innovative ways #literacies researchers are thinking about how to analyze and present multimodal and arts-based data - engaging with many ways of knowing/writing gives me hope!

OMG - that looks amazing! :)

Absolutely loved presenting/chairing a #literacies roundtable about embodied storytelling on the move! Where else do we get to make and circulate a data zine?! #AERA26

See you tonight! #literacies #AERA2026

Q2: What was your experience like today at #AERA26? What sessions did you attend? #literacies

Happening tomorrow! #AERA2026 #literacies

Happening tomorrow! #AERA2026 #literacies

Happening at 8 pm tonight!

Got a bag filled with craft supplies ready to go! See you all there 🎨

Happening in one hour!

A1: I’m always happy and look forward to connecting with our #literacies community. I’m excited to present on speculative work about youths imagined futures. I’d love to see educational research take up more multimodal forms of scholarship—dissemination beyond print and text.

Q1: what are you most looking forward to this #AERA26? What are you hoping to learn about regarding information histories and imagined futures? What new visions for educational research do you foresee for AERA? #literacies

It's time for our #literacies slow chat! Once a day, check in here and reflect on your experience at #AERA2026!

Happening this evening!

HAPPENING TODAY! #literacies

🪩Almost time for our yearly #Literacies social🪩

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

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

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

Bring your crafting supplies to #AERA2026! #literacies

Travel safe to #AERA2026! We hope to see all the #literacies Graduate Students this Thursday! 🩷