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Chanea Bond
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(shuh-NAY) • The Madwoman in the Classroom • nationally recognized, award winning literacy educator • teacher-scholar • mom • your favorite teacher’s favorite English teacher • doc student • #heymrsbond 💛
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 6d
Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire

Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 8h
For two years, the world has watched as Palestinian parents held their beheaded children and gathered their bodies in trash bags. They have been displaced, bombed, and starved to death and this cowardly, nothing-burger of a statement can’t even humanize the extent of their suffering.

Thanks, Obama.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 17h
My statement on Middle East peace
A white graphic with a blue border includes the following text: My Statement on Middle East Peace October 9, 2025 After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians, with the support of the U.S. and the entire world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza – and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 8h
So freaking gross
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 8h
For two years, the world has watched as Palestinian parents held their beheaded children and gathered their bodies in trash bags. They have been displaced, bombed, and starved to death and this cowardly, nothing-burger of a statement can’t even humanize the extent of their suffering.

Thanks, Obama.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 17h
My statement on Middle East peace
A white graphic with a blue border includes the following text: My Statement on Middle East Peace October 9, 2025 After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians, with the support of the U.S. and the entire world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza – and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 9h
👀

Is that a spine?
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 17h
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 10h
❤️ love this poem for exactly this reason—it is a mainstay in our classroom now. Absolutely incredible.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 17h
Grateful to @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social for “My Father in English.”

As a Texas teacher in 2025, exposing students to stories of folks who made sacrifices that will impact generations of their family feels especially important.

(Shared with permission from the student)
Now my most favorite lines are "thank you/gracias for surrendering the past tense/ of your life so that I might conjugate myself here/in the present of this country" (lines 29-31). Those are words I wish to tell my parents one day due to them giving up their life in Mexico to be able to create my life here in the US. They gave me more than what they ever had growing up and I will always be forever grateful.
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Denise Ferreira @ferreiraeng.bsky.social · 10h
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 17h
Grateful to @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social for “My Father in English.”

As a Texas teacher in 2025, exposing students to stories of folks who made sacrifices that will impact generations of their family feels especially important.

(Shared with permission from the student)
Now my most favorite lines are "thank you/gracias for surrendering the past tense/ of your life so that I might conjugate myself here/in the present of this country" (lines 29-31). Those are words I wish to tell my parents one day due to them giving up their life in Mexico to be able to create my life here in the US. They gave me more than what they ever had growing up and I will always be forever grateful.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11h
It IS better!

I’ve taken to saying “meh” when they give me a mediocre answer to something and then helping them workshop a better one!
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11h
They’re not lying; they often ask “do you want a regular answer or a Bond-level answer?”

But MAN, nobody will have my back like kids in front of the principal 😂😂😂
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11h
Principal comes in for an eval.

Students are in groups to grade a thesis statement. One group is frustrated and when I ask why, their group leader says, in front of principal,

“We’re just trying to figure out what to contribute to the discussion. You always expect such thorough answers.”

😂😭
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 13h
I had so many wins this week, y’all.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 17h
Grateful to @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social for “My Father in English.”

As a Texas teacher in 2025, exposing students to stories of folks who made sacrifices that will impact generations of their family feels especially important.

(Shared with permission from the student)
Now my most favorite lines are "thank you/gracias for surrendering the past tense/ of your life so that I might conjugate myself here/in the present of this country" (lines 29-31). Those are words I wish to tell my parents one day due to them giving up their life in Mexico to be able to create my life here in the US. They gave me more than what they ever had growing up and I will always be forever grateful.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13h
I saved enough for a YEAR off and retirement

It’s GONE

I’m not even special

And demographically ? Nobody gives a fuck and Republicans know it

And nothing is being done to stop it and it BROKE THE COUNTRY

why would they ever give this up when “libs” and “radicals” publicly aid them
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 16h
All my friends from #PoemADayJuly, especially @marcusluther.bsky.social and @thevogelman.bsky.social
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 17h
Grateful to @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social for “My Father in English.”

As a Texas teacher in 2025, exposing students to stories of folks who made sacrifices that will impact generations of their family feels especially important.

(Shared with permission from the student)
Now my most favorite lines are "thank you/gracias for surrendering the past tense/ of your life so that I might conjugate myself here/in the present of this country" (lines 29-31). Those are words I wish to tell my parents one day due to them giving up their life in Mexico to be able to create my life here in the US. They gave me more than what they ever had growing up and I will always be forever grateful.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 22h
“Our school parking lots are not for ICE to load their weapons.”

- @mayorofchicago.bsky.social

Every mayor of a major city should follow his lead. (Looking at you Mattie Parker…)
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 1d
I actually got a student to take these right before school started! They’re growing their business and I got to be featured 😂
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 1d
This is an open invitation for Reba McEntire to be at my deathbed.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 1d
People cannot afford to be alive.

How the FUCK are people still supporting an administration that’s doing absolutely nothing but racism and destroying our livelihoods?
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d
BREAKING: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, five people with knowledge of the talks tell NBC News.
Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say
A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 1d
This is happening now!!!
SIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY. INC. ZETA ALPHA SIGMA ALUMNAE CHAPTER Proudly serving College Park/East Point & the cities that comprise of South Fulton, Clayton, Cobb, & Douglas counties since 1985! Censorship is so ZORA HURSTON 1984 A Panel Discussion About Literacy, Banned Books, and Censorship PANELISTS 105: BOVS PATRICIA THOMAS Instructional Media & Instructional Technology Specialist CHANEA BOND English Educator HOLLY BROWN Media Specialist DR. TIFFENI FONTNO Director of Peabody Library OCTOBER 8, 2025 7PM EST JOIN US AT BIT.LY/ZASBANNEDBOOKS CLASS ZETAALPHASIGMA. ORG
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 1d
I feel like I’ve been drowning lately; there are fewer and fewer pockets of air.

So when @msespo.bsky.social asked if she could send me this book, I was touched and grateful. Both Christine and Nikki Giovanni are pockets of air. 💛
Nikki Giovanni: the New book cover
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 1d
Amen
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d
The fact that Cardi dropped “Bad Bitch” during libra season is what we mean when we say give the gift you want to receive.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 2d
Nope.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 2d
I don’t think anybody with a soul can take that loss right now 😭
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 2d
This is selfish AF, but we collectively REALLY need Dolly to be okay.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d
At some point one of the Gestapo is going to pull the trigger in a crowd and America will be forced into a place it may not be able to ever fully recover from.

The fascists are going to end up killing a lot of people before this is all said and done.
Laura N. Rodríguez Presa @LAURA_N_ROD X.com A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Dec 13
I’m going to say it again, generative AI and the push for it to be used in every Avenue of learning and education is because generative AI literally is a weapon for knowledge destruction not a knowledge creation tool and silicon valleys goal is to monetize and gate off all of human knowledge
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Dec 13
The more this is explained the worse it appears.
An AI-assisted textbook at UCLA has some academics worried
The UCLA literature professor who developed the textbook says it will save students money and allow her to be the teacher she’s always wanted to be. Others aren’t so sure.
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