Join us Thurs. 9/25 5:00-6pm PT/ 8-9pm ET! #literacies chat on “Censorship and #Literacies.”

This coming Thursday, we’ll host our next #literacies chat, titled “Censorship and #Literacies” We hope to see you there!

Mark your calendars for Thursday's chat: “Censorship and #Literacies” at 9/25 5:00-6pm PT/ 8-9pm ET. We hope to see you there!

Join us for #literacies chat where we’ll discuss “Censorship and #Literacies” with @drannd.bsky.social!

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For clarification, this month's chat with Dr. Ann David "Censorship and #Literacies " will be taking place on THURSDAY, September 25th. We are so excited to connect!

A6: This is aligns perfectly with my dissertation/ongoing research! I use "aesthetic #literacies" to theorize about the diversity of practices that focus on interpreting the relationship between form/function/meaning of texts. Such relationships have always been political, but especially these days!

Want to learn more about interdisciplinary #literacies? Here are some resources from Dr. Deroo!

Thank you for joining us! We hope to see you in September for our #literacies chat hosted by @drannd.bsky.social!

A6: I think we need all of our skills, talents, and lenses working in solidarity, and very strategically, to create change. This does not mean synthesizing, agreeing, or saying the same thing - we need a multi-layered critique of the complex and changing systems we are living in #literacies

One more resource @deroomat.bsky.social recommends is the JAAL Podcast! #literacies

A6: Interdisciplinary #literacies push back against the harmful oversimplification that empowers the current sociopolitical climate. When we engage our students (and one another) in seeking connections in and across literacy practices, we subvert the "authoritative" "absolute" voice.

A6: Many folks are currently siloed within echo chambers of beliefs, perspectives, and opinions. At its heart, interdisciplinary #literacies is about breaking free from those silos and learning from and with one another. Interdisciplinarity is a model for how we can build resistance to injustice.

A6 1/2: I am thinking of Fannie Lou Hamer’s assertion, “No one is free until everyone’s free.” #literacies There are a multitude of attacks on educational equity and minoritized peoples, from a variety of angles, likewise, there must be many forms of resistance from many angles.

Q6: How do you see interdisciplinary work as necessary for resisting the injustices of the current sociopolitical climate? #literacies

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A5: While my sphere of influence is still limited as a student, I try to seek out opportunities to dialogue and reinforce interdisciplinary #literacies ideas, be that in formal classroom settings or more social, albeit research related interactions.

Q4:Examining the tension between the situated nature of #literacies & the expansive/entangled nature of our political moment is a necessary endeavor. It can be a challenge to understand where one domain/discipline ends & another begins. I wonder how those boundaries impact scholarship/teaching.

A5: I am really interested in public scholarship that draws on modalities outside the traditional academic article @snowdaylearninglab.org and Haeny Yoon's Pop and Play podcast is one of my favorite examples of this, but there are many others in the field! #literacies

A5: I think it's always important to consider the implications of our interdisciplinary #literacies work. If we truly are committed to justice for students, families, and communities, we have to consider how our scholarship can bring critical change to all in our locales.

A5: As an emerging scholar, I don’t have much experience with this, but I appreciate scholars who do blog posts or podcast interviews! #literacies I would love to hear other folks’ ideas.

Q5: How do you work to make your interdisciplinaries work accessible across broader spaces beyond academia? #literacies

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A3: Interdisciplinary #literacies reflect the intricacies that actually make up our educational, societal, and cultural systems. Students, families, and communities deserve access to these nuances. :)

A4: I love connecting with and drawing on, taking classes with and citing the work of scholars across fields! We have so much to learn from one another, and I always love seeing fresh or unexpected theories in the work of other #literacies scholars!

A4: In my personal experience, whenever I have co-taught classes in the K-12 setting, there was never planned collaboration time for us teachers. This was a very big barrier to better supporting bilingual students. #literacies

A3 1/2: No one can be an expert in everything. Like we talked about last month, I’m a trained SS/ELA/TESOL #literacies person. Not as confident in math/science. This is why we must work across discipline in collaboration with folks.

A3: This is something I've been pondering in my diss proposal. A lot of literature surrounding teaching "controversial, political" topics happened in social studies/history classes. But dealing with political #literacies feels important for all subject matters to consider, especially right now.

A3: I see interdisciplinary work as making sure children and youth have spaces to follow interests, commitments, and agendas, the #literacies that fall outside of the disciplinary boundaries they experience in school.

A3: Critiquing & re-imagining complex social, politial, & economic requires knowledge and practices from a variety of domains. Interdisciplinary #literacies allows us to put different discourses in dialogue with one another in productive ways that can account for the complexity of systems change.

Q4: What are some ways you’ve addressed challenges or encountered barriers to enacting your interdisciplinaries-based teaching or research? #literacies

A2: Interdisciplinary #literacies transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. I feel like any time we add new forms of #literacies to our work and our thinking (e.g., queer literacies), we encourage interdisciplinarity in the field.

2/2: I am a trained TESOL person, but I am committed to the flourishing of racialized bilingual communities, and I think both of those other disciplines are required to offer a critical approach that centers the perspectives of bilingual people as globally normal and not as “minorities.” #literacies

A2 1/2: Most of my #literacies work centers how people use language, so I do see the work as interdisciplinary, crossing TESOL, bilingual studies, critical race theory.

A2: My work primarily investigates multilingualism and multiculturalism in and across spaces. I am especially interested in breaking down barriers and silos where certain students are only represented (if at all) in traditional ELA #literacies spaces.

A2: To me, interdisciplinary work means not only learning from many disciplinary traditions, but also developing critiques of the impacts of disciplinary boundaries, for example, the myth that certain types of learning are “apolitical," or the siloing of scholarly work. #literacies

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We’re a little off schedule tonight due to technical difficulties, folks! Feel free to respond to questions as you see them! We want to be in conversation with you all.

Q3: How do you see interdisciplinary #literacies based-work as advancing commitments to justice for students, families, and communities?

Q2: How, if at all, do you see your #literacies work as interdisciplinary? What does interdisciplinary work mean for you?

I am feeling exasperated by this current political moment, but energized by the youth I get to research with, who are leveraging their digital #literacies to write, hack, dream, and fight for the world they deserve.

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A1: Busy times! I'm planning to defend my dissertation proposal in a couple weeks. Yet I was overjoyed to meet 21 fantastic new secondary ELA teaching interns last night during our first Methods class of the semester. Finding small joys in the insanities of this year. #literacies

A1: To be honest, I feel like I am in the calm before the storm, having submitted my IRB paperwork for dissertation work. #literacies I am also very tired of seeing the utter lack of value for human life and dignity at this present sociopolitical moment.

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We want to welcome our two new GSB Members to our Bluesky Team: Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social and Lexi K. Woodward @lexikwoodward.bsky.social! #literacies

I’m Kyle P. Smith @kpsinedu.bsky.social & a graduate student board member of @writinglit.bsky.social. I’ll be moderating tonight’s #literacies chat. I want to make a special shoutout to @carolinebr.bsky.social & @nicolermisra.bsky.social for their work on the W&L SIG Bsky team.

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

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