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!

We performed our child-devised play today 🤩 arts-based #literacies research is the absolute best.

📚New Pub! From our guest edited special issue series on Digital Texts and How to Teach Them, Mary Elizabeth Talian, Jen Freed, @clarabbott.bsky.social, Julia Adler & @amystorn.bsky.social discuss "Learning Alongside Youth in an Online Writing Community: A Digital Field Site for Teacher Learning”!

A5: I am excited to keep reading widely and deeply this summer, both academic and non academic texts. I always want more time for this in the academic year, and love reading while traveling and/or on the move 📚#literacies

A4: Our research team studying digital writing in a platformed age is loving playing with our data at Dream Lab this week through @pricelab.bsky.social at Penn! #literacies

A2: ever since I was in the classroom full time, I have I always tried to keep YA/children’s books as part of my regular reading rotation. Hari Kumar: Ultimate Superstar and Ghost Boys are two I have been wanting to read #literacies

See you tonight! #literacies #AERA2026

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

See you there!

Come craft with us at #AERA26! So excited for this 🎨

A6 1/2: I think of Toni Morrison’s quote that the purpose of racism is distraction. I think “Victorious Futures” in this sociopolitical context means not merely reacting but continuing long-term proactive building of power and resources for the flourishing of minoritized communities. #literacies

A6: Thinking back to our opening question, I think a "Victorious Future" must necessarily be a co-constructed one, a future that, much like the good ole Fortnite gaming lobby, is made by a multitudinous mix of folks, all doing our own dances yet working toward the same #victory. #literacies

A2. I’m interested in how asymmetric games - games in which players have different roles, objectives, and mechanics (i.e., Netrunner, MtG, Root) - might illuminate ways that people can compose together in community through processes that are both unique AND congruent. #literacies

More reason communities must end Flock contracts: "Flock devices have been installed by more than 100 public school systems nationally...and audit logs from six Texas school districts show campus camera feeds are captured in a national database that police agencies across the country can access.”

We had so much fun creating a pop-up museum with everyday artifacts at the Penn Ethnography Forum. Shoutout to the amazing youth publishers at NOVA LitMag for their leadership. Such moving stories and reflections on how the objects in our lives bring us together and carry stories of their own.

Join us for our February #literacies chat on the intersections between gaming and literacy with @elpatronhimself.bsky.social!

Thank you all for joining tonight! Please keep in touch and explore Dr. Hedrick-Shaw's upcoming work! #literacies

As graduate students, the support of this incredible community never ceases to blow us away! Thankful for all the #literacies scholars :')

Less than a min to #literacies! All are welcome to the conversation on Navigating the #literacies Job Market: Sustaining Practices for Academics.

Join us for January's #literacies chat where we’ll discuss “Navigating the #literacies Job Market: Sustaining Practices for Academics” with Dr. Hedrick-Shaw (Devon Hedrick-Shaw#literacies#literacies

Our kids don't deserve to live with gun violence. Neither do yours. Neither do kids anywhere on Earth. “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” Baldwin.

Absolutely loved chairing this #LRA2025 panel - so much powerful child-centered #literacies research happening right now! Thank you @zach-ryan.bsky.social @brownellcassie.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social Mandy Shimizu and Haeny Yoon for sharing your brilliance!

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

There were so many highlights of #NCTE25 but the peak was absolutely presenting alongside my 7th grade English teacher. Here’s to the roots running so deep.

If you are at #NCTE2025, come join us to talk about Digital Texts and How to Teach Them. And scan QR to join our crowdsourced collection of mentor texts, tools, resources, & academic research on digital media @karismjones.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social

see you there!

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!

A3: I asked folks in my English Ed methods class to speculate on the future of literacy education and their role in that future via story. I noticed how the speculative gave them space to really consider not just what they perceive as wrong in the field but also how they challenge them. #literacies

A5: I think about this tension so much when thinking about arts-based #literacies more broadly, and I see one path forward as empowering students to lead the design of a unit or activity so they can bring the practice to life in context. I think a plug and play approach can often lead to deadening!

A4: I've used a zine fair model with children before and I see lots of cool intersections with this idea! One element I love is how children and youth are framed as experts in their fandoms, and have an authentic audience for sharing their #literacies

A3: On the "fandoms" channel on the Write4Change Discord server, it is so cool to see youth imagining characters in ways that disrupt their representation in the media, especially imagining and drawing characters in queer relationships and gender-bending. #literacies

A2: I love this question! As a teen, I loved scrolling on arts and creative blogs on Tumblr and Pinterest, and that has no doubt contributed to my interest in the intersections between the arts and the digital and arts based #literacies of youth.

A1: I am continually inspired by Dr. Grace D Player's work with the Simmering Spices art collective, thinking about the relational, curatorial and imaginative #literacies of Girls of Color. As an arts-based scholar, this is the kind of meaningful participatory work I really aspire to.

Hi everyone! My name is Clara Abbott (she/her) - I am a 3rd year doctoral candidate (🥳 ) at University of Pennsylvania & a graduate student board member of @writinglit.bsky.social. Excited to take part in this #literacies chat!

Me! See you there

Our team met this morning to discuss and plan ways we can move forward the ideas from the #Literacies homecoming chat. We've got some exciting things in the works! @clarabbott.bsky.social @lexikwoodward.bsky.social @nicolermisra.bsky.social @carolinebr.bsky.social @kpsinedu.bsky.social

A6: Finding the play all around us in everyday literacies and sparking more joy out there!

A6: For this question, I return to the Bell quote that @anna-phd.bsky.social and @esp-phd.bsky.social evoked to start the chat: "We exist only in relation." In this moment, those relations are vital to our survival. I look forward to a continued #literacies community that exists far into the future.

A6. Subversive, transgressive, fugitive, and joyful world-building #literacies

A6: As an arts-based researcher interested in digital #literacies, I am super interested in a #literacies future that uses art as a way to critique and imagine the relationships we have with tech. As an extension, curious about how making/sharing artwork could make its way into #literacies chats!

A5: I always love when these chats can bring together scholars and practitioners/K-12 educators to discuss a shared interest. AI #literacies immediately comes to mind, but there are so many other topics which might bring together emerging research as well as useful classroom resources!

A4: I think the biggest challenge is getting more people on this platform for the chat because it is still relatively new. It makes me think of the "bring a friend" idea at gyms, classes, etc. We could try that here! This month's chat has been a great step in that direction. #literacies

A3: I have loved learning from @anna-phd.bsky.social about the first #literacies chats, and the seminal papers and ideas that have come out of this space. Here's to many more to come!

A2: I am newer to these, so it was the most recent chat for me! After discussing censorship with other scholars, as well as literacy practitioners, I have been seeing it everywhere and considering its applications on digital platforms. Loved that discussion with @drannd.bsky.social! #literacies

A1: As a doctoral student, it was actually the emergence of Bluesky which led me to the #literacies chats! I was interested to connect with other #literacies scholars online, and only more recently have I learned about what a cool history these chats had back on Twitter as well.

Hi everyone! My name is Clara Abbott (she/her) and I'm a 3rd-year doctoral student in Literacy Studies at University of Pennsylvania GSE. Joining the chat as a proud member of the @writinglit.bsky.social GSB. Looking forward to being in conversation with you all in this #literacies homecoming!

One more day! See you tomorrow night 💫

See you Tuesday!!

SO excited for this. A blast from the #literacies past.

I've not yet met a teacher who testifies in favor of the legislation that restricts books in classrooms. #literacies