Please complete and share! Our January #literacies chat will be built around the current realities of acquiring a job in academia. Questions from those job hunting and/or feedback from those that have served on hiring committees are greatly appreciated! Thanks!

A5: AERA 2026 (of course)! I’m also looking forward to moving from coursework through my comprehensive exams and the even more nuanced understandings of where my passion for #literacies fits in the broader perspectives of the ~field~ that will bring.

A5: I’m looking forward to co-authoring my first book to support language and #literacies oriented teacher-education. I’m also looking forward to summer travels

Q4: I always, always take a day to rest once a week (two if I can help it!), even from housework if I can to spend time doing something I enjoy! I'm also trying to eat well and exercise for long-term self-care. #literacies

A3: I personally like to spend extended amounts of time working on different projects. One day I work on Project A and another primarily on B. I think that sustained focus is helpful. Would love to hear how other #literacies scholars do this!

Thank you for joining our December #literacies chat! Please feel free to return to any day's questions or to continue the conversation. We hope to see you next month (and year) for our January chat!

Q5: What are you looking forward to in the coming year? #literacies

Welcome to day 4 of our #literacies slow chats! How do you prioritize rest while juggling multiple projects and commitments? Remember to answer with the hashtag #literacies!

A2: A friend recommended the audio drama Midnight Burger to me last month and it's been getting me through my commutes and mundane house chores and cleaning. It's a little absurd and sometimes poignant and I'm thankful for it. I didn't ever call myself a sci-fi person before this! #literacies

A2: Late to this question, but a post I saw earlier this AM reminded me of a favorite watch that always brings joy: the British series #Taskmaster. A fantastically low-stakes, highly hilarious watch. #literacies

A3: Much of my work is in partnership with others, folks whom I both love and love learning alongside. Whether that’s writing with cherished collaborators, teaching brilliant students, or conducting research in exciting spaces, all work is community work. That’s what sustains me. #literacies

Q4: How do you prioritize rest even amidst these multiple projects? #literacies

A3: I make a goals sheet on Google Docs each term (for fall, spring, and summer) and update and reflect upon it across the semester.i also have a progress board in my office to make visible how my #literacies oriented work is moving along across contexts

A1: I do my best to take care of myself through spending time with the people I love and through my favorite hobbies…knitting & reading! Big projects can become daunting, so I have to take breaks every now and then. Here’s a preview of the sweater I’m knitting my husband for Christmas! #literacies

A2: I find joy in my students! They are working so hard in this last bit of time before the break. I was worried about switching to teaching seniors, but they are such a joy. #literacies

Q3: As academics, we often work year-round balancing multiple projects. What ways have you found helps you do this sustainably? #literacies

A1 - Thinking of this break, I intend to continue going to the gym, enjoy some family time, lots of walks while there's daylight in Trondheim, and finish a Japa Mala I've been thinking about threading. #literacies

A2: I find joy in community, especially with local friends how are working in different fields than my #literacies oriented research. I also do not work weekends which sustains me for the work I do engage in across the week.

A2: Well, there's my #WorldwideAcademicFam, good friends all over who remind me I'm not alone (even if in a different time zone); there's also my gremlins and my partner; and of course the awesome folks who are part of my Legion! #literacies

About that, one of my professors in grad school told me one that "the week cannot last seven days" - I've turned that into a mantra as a professor so I can always have time off to regroup #literacies

Good morning, #literacies family! Join us for day 2 of our slow chat by chiming in on Q2 below: be sure to use the #literacies hashtag!

Y’all, I’m so excited to do some reading for fun over break. #HeatedRivalry, anyone? #hockeyliteracies

A1: I love catching up on recent fiction, television shows, and attending movies as part of my mid semester break #literacies

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

A1: Deep clean my house! Maybe this break I'll pick my quilt back up and also lots of reading for fun and not work. #literacies

A1: While not always, this break I’m itching to try out a new creative hobby. Knitting, in particular, has my attention 👀 thanks to @nicolermisra.bsky.social , @carolinebr.bsky.social , and @drannd.bsky.social #literacies

Hi everyone! I’m Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social [University of Pennsylvania] & GSB member of @writinglit.bsky.social l. Excited to be moderating this week's #literacies slow chat!

Q1: How do you take time to care for yourself during breaks in semesters? #literacies

Join us today for our December #literacies chat! We'll be doing a slow version of the chat where we post one question a day. We'll start today and go through Friday. We will use a Q1, Q2, Q3...format for questions. Please use A1, A2...format for answers. And be sure to use the #literacies hashtag!

Join us this upcoming week for our first mid-month #literacies Slow Chat on Balance, Rest, and Joy.

Lifting up tonight's #literacies chat! Really hated to miss it... I teach on Tuesday evenings this semester, and we had a Detroit field trip this evening. Shout out to Karis and Scott! Can't wait to catch up on the discussion. ✨

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.

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

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.

They are so fun to make and a great way to make sense of whatever you're thinking/wondering about. Makes me think an AERA 2026 @writinglit.bsky.social zine-making session could be very cool...

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!

Interested to dive deeper into fandoms in the classroom? Check out @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social's book! #literacies

A5: The tension is so real! IMO the key is authenticity. We don't have to put on a backwards hat, carry around a skateboard, and talk about skibidy toilet to let our Ss know that we take their fandom knowledge, expertise, & #literacies seriously. Affirmation & acknowledgement, not appropriation!

A6: After doing a photovoice project with my students as an elementary teacher, I learned so much about their #literacies through the images they took (even though this wasn't even the original project aim!). With that in mind, would love to keep experimenting with photo journals in the classroom!

A6 1/2: One way I invited youth #literacies in was to have students analyze songs they enjoyed for rhyme scheme, metaphorical language etc. I wish I had been more connected to digital #literacies such as in Webtoon or TikTok.

A6: I'm looking forward to reading @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social's book to get a better idea of how to do this, but I would love to bring notions of fandoms into my ELA teacher prep courses! #literacies

A6: Maybe investing in more choice assignments where students pick the text (widely defined) could help. Like, if I’m wanting kids to flex their research skills, I could let them choose a topic and research it related to that text (connected to critical #literacies, like interrogating power, etc.)

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

Q6: How do you envision inviting youth #literacies into classroom spaces? What would you like to try?

Q6 coming up in 1 min… #literacies

A5: While I haven't seen this, I can easily see how youth fandoms could be co-opted in ways that remove their joy, that deaden what brings folks to the fandom in the first place. I think, when considering how to utilize fandoms for #literacies work, we must always do so with authenticity and care.

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

It could be so cool!! I’ve got to think about which grade level to do it with…probably sophomores, but they have a County Benchmark Assessment in December, so I need to think about weaving those tested skills into their lessons with this lol. But I think it’ll happen! #literacies