Clara Abbott

A6: One way I've been thinking about addressing these issues is through partnerships with Indigenous teachers in Mexico. I wonder how we can re-think Latinx multilingual education in the U.S. by working alongside Indigenous educators to transform education for our students? #literacies

Yes!! Love this idea for transnational pedagogy and bringing in the experts like the grandmas, aunties, etc.! #literacies

So excited to join this chat tonight! #literacies

I think a lot about ways to share, spread, and democratize academic knowledge. Unfortunately, most of the tools and mediums I encounter are digital. I love this as an analog alternative! Feels up your alley, @clarabbott.bsky.social!

One of my favorite @writinglit.bsky.social #literacies chats yet! Thank you @snowdaylearninglab.org and @haenyyoon.bsky.social!!

Q5 1/2: My colleagues and I organized play retreats once a month on Fridays to work/play/make. It was amazing to see people in a different light. Maybe it’s not about separating the space between play and work, but knowing that a spirit of playfulness informs and pushes our work #literacies

A4: If you’re a teacher, find/create opportunities to play with your students. Give them opportunities, IN CLASS, to make digital (and tangible) things. Give them space to try something new, mess around with it, iterate on it, or abandon it. Stop restricting and start widening! #literacies

A4: I agree with Gray, but the level of "surveillance" (of play) has changed, even in seemingly offline contexts (e.g., Flock cameras). I think it is important to discuss this as youth explore and engage in play, both digital and otherwise #literacies

A4: Building pockets of intentional community is important. @clarabbott.bsky.social and @rabani.bsky.social have made me more aware of the importance of shifting responsibility for accountability from users to companies for the impact of algorithms on both young and older folks alike. #literacies

We are only TWO DAYS away from our July #literacies chat all about Black Girl Literacies, hosted by the incredible Dr. Barrett Rosser ( @drbarrettrosser.bsky.social )!

Yes!! You're making me think about the concept of "bleed" in RPG studies! Huizinga's magic circle of play is POROUS and we are simultaneously representing and creating who we are (and who we are to become)! #literacies

A2: Rules are constraints, but I also think rules can be affordances. These days, I have been thinking a lot about graduate writing & the so-called "rules" of unfamiliar genres we - as advisors, colleagues, mentors - do not necessarily teach or expose our students to (e.g., grant apps). #literacies

Only 10 min til #literacies chat! Come share your perspective on Play and Interaction in Literacy Learning!

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 🎨

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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

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)

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!

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

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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!

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!

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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!