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AERA22 LITERACIES SLOW CHAT
This is the first half of the Writing and Literacies SIG Slow Chat from the AERA Annual Meeting. The questions centred around the learnings, resources, and connections at the conference in San Diego.
3/30 Centering Literacies of Joy
Drs. Kamania Wynter-Hoyte (@KWynterHoyte) & Renata Love Jones (@MsLove_Jones) invite the community to share how literacies of joy are being taken up in these times. Read the chat here.
2/23 #Literacies of Joy in an Era of #BlackLivesMatter
Dee Wellington (@DeeWellington1) & Rae L. Oviatt (rl_oviatt) led a conversation centered around finding, sustaining, sharing joy in difficult times. If you missed the chat, please check it out here.
10/27 with Dr. Marcus Croom: If “Black Lives Matter in Literacy Research,” then take this racial turn: Developing Racial Literacies
Dr. Marcus Croom (@MarcusCroom) led an engaging chat from his upcoming article in JLR with the same title as the chat, asking the important question, “Will Black human beings matter to our field?”If you missed the chat, please check it out here.Read his article here
9/22 with Dr. Stephanie Toliver, N’Kenge Robertson & Sarah Jackson: Beginning New Journeys in Contentious Times
Dr. Stephanie Toliver (@SR_Toliver), N’Kenge Robertson (@nkengerobertson) and Sarah Jackson (@ms_sarahjackson) led a reflection on holding to our anti-racist commitments and creating moments of joy in this chat: “Beginning New Journeys in Contentious Times: Highlighting and Maintaining our Commitments During Times of Transition and Tension.” If you missed the chat, please check it out here.
8/25 with Sarah Donovan and Tiffany Nyachae — Shifting with time: equity & justice in new school spaces
Sarah Donovan (@SarahJDonovan9) and Tiffany Nyachae (@tiffany_nyachae) guided us in thinking through ways we as teacher-scholar-organizers can critique and shift our practices to continue engaging in equitable work in new (digital) spaces during this global pandemic. If you missed the chat, please check it out here.
7/28 with Raúl Alberto Mora and Jayne Lammers: #globalacademic new horizons for literacies research
Raúl Alberto Mora (@elpatronhimself) and Jayne Lammers (@JayneLammers) led us in a fantastic chat engaging with literacies through a glocal lens — examining the interconnection between local and global systemic and institutional oppression/liberty. If you missed the chat, please check it out here.
6/30 with Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz: “An Invitation to Examination, Interruption & Expansion”
This month we were thrilled to dream with Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz (@RuizSealey) and engage with ideas from her book Love from the Vortex as well as her framework for critical love as shown above in “The model of the Archeology of the Self.” If you missed the chat, please check it out here.
5/26 with Tracey Flores & Justin Coles: “Together We Can Overcome”
The Covid-19 outbreak and subsequent quarantine of communities has highlighted the long history of systemic inequities that have existed for IBPOC folx since the beginning of colonization in this country. Click here for our SIG’s conversation about how we can build solidarity across communities at this time to move forward.
4/21/20 with the W&L Graduate Student Board: Research Showcase 2020
On April 21, 2020, the W&L graduate student board facilitated a virtual share-out of what our SIG members been working on this year to encourage conversations, connections & future collaborations. To view the discussion, click here.