Alex Shevrin Venet
@asv.bsky.social
Educator & author. Books: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education & Becoming an Everyday Changemaker. Vermont explorer in the #251club. Working on a memoir!
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Alex Shevrin Venet
@asv.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Did you know that I wrote some books for teachers and you should read them? I wrote them as a call to take action and transform schools with mental health and wellbeing in mind. I'd love if you checked them out.
www.unconditionallearning.org/books
www.unconditionallearning.org/books
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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if you’d like to learn more about my Memoir Year workshop, come to this free virtual info session on 12/8! writer.org/event/virtua...
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
if you’d like to learn more about my Memoir Year workshop, come to this free virtual info session on 12/8! writer.org/event/virtua...
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Even if you haven’t been masking, even if you’re a little embarrassed, no matter what the circumstances, masking in the airport and on the plane can keep everyone safer, including you, your loved ones & everyone you don’t know too! And bonus-hides judgy facial expressions. Mask up!
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Even if you haven’t been masking, even if you’re a little embarrassed, no matter what the circumstances, masking in the airport and on the plane can keep everyone safer, including you, your loved ones & everyone you don’t know too! And bonus-hides judgy facial expressions. Mask up!
I'm getting ready to send my book draft out to its first batch of beta readers. This is, to me, the second-most-nervewracking part of the entire book writing process (first on the list is turning in the page proofs and realizing you really can't keep changing stuff)
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I'm getting ready to send my book draft out to its first batch of beta readers. This is, to me, the second-most-nervewracking part of the entire book writing process (first on the list is turning in the page proofs and realizing you really can't keep changing stuff)
One thing I miss a lot about edutwitter: people live tweeting from conferences. I used to really enjoy that during these big conference weeks
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
One thing I miss a lot about edutwitter: people live tweeting from conferences. I used to really enjoy that during these big conference weeks
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Yes please. Additionally, you can stand up for immigrants without reinforcing the good immigrant/bad immigrant binary (innocent v criminal). This moment should teach us criminal is just whatever those in power want it to be. It’s a category meant to dehumanize & deny rights
friendly reminder, you can stand up for immigrants without tying our worth/intrinsic value to our labor
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Yes please. Additionally, you can stand up for immigrants without reinforcing the good immigrant/bad immigrant binary (innocent v criminal). This moment should teach us criminal is just whatever those in power want it to be. It’s a category meant to dehumanize & deny rights
Officially on break for the next week 🥳 it's been a busy and fulfilling semester so far and I am tired!!!! Break plans include tea, books, pecan pie, a small road trip, and absolutely no talking or thinking about education.
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Officially on break for the next week 🥳 it's been a busy and fulfilling semester so far and I am tired!!!! Break plans include tea, books, pecan pie, a small road trip, and absolutely no talking or thinking about education.
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Really thrilled to have a piece up at @disabilitytorah.bsky.social this week. Even more special? This is the parsha I chanted at my bat mitzvah.
#JewSky
www.disabilitytorahproject.org/writings/tol...
#JewSky
www.disabilitytorahproject.org/writings/tol...
Imperfect Ancestors — Disability Torah Project
By Alex Shevrin Venet “Imperfect Ancestors” | Parashat Toldot | 5786
www.disabilitytorahproject.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Really thrilled to have a piece up at @disabilitytorah.bsky.social this week. Even more special? This is the parsha I chanted at my bat mitzvah.
#JewSky
www.disabilitytorahproject.org/writings/tol...
#JewSky
www.disabilitytorahproject.org/writings/tol...
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I went back to a reflection from a year ago this week after reading @asv.bsky.social's Becoming an Everyday Changemaker and decided to lean on "Vent diagrams" again—a both/and practice that forces me to leave space in the center that I really don't have the words for.
Here's where I'm at right now:
Here's where I'm at right now:
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I went back to a reflection from a year ago this week after reading @asv.bsky.social's Becoming an Everyday Changemaker and decided to lean on "Vent diagrams" again—a both/and practice that forces me to leave space in the center that I really don't have the words for.
Here's where I'm at right now:
Here's where I'm at right now:
People who go to Montreal a lot: what is your favorite specific street if you want to walk around and go in and out of little shops and peruse in a leisurely fashion! The more specific the better!
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
People who go to Montreal a lot: what is your favorite specific street if you want to walk around and go in and out of little shops and peruse in a leisurely fashion! The more specific the better!
If I can get all my grading done today then apart from 1 meeting tomorrow I'll be on break. I need it!!!
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If I can get all my grading done today then apart from 1 meeting tomorrow I'll be on break. I need it!!!
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Really thrilled to have a piece up at @disabilitytorah.bsky.social this week. Even more special? This is the parsha I chanted at my bat mitzvah.
#JewSky
www.disabilitytorahproject.org/writings/tol...
#JewSky
www.disabilitytorahproject.org/writings/tol...
Imperfect Ancestors — Disability Torah Project
By Alex Shevrin Venet “Imperfect Ancestors” | Parashat Toldot | 5786
www.disabilitytorahproject.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Really thrilled to have a piece up at @disabilitytorah.bsky.social this week. Even more special? This is the parsha I chanted at my bat mitzvah.
#JewSky
www.disabilitytorahproject.org/writings/tol...
#JewSky
www.disabilitytorahproject.org/writings/tol...
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For a lot of people it's a journey & there's one day where you go shit, I'm disabled. Maybe you even had a diagnosis before or maybe not. But something dawns on you, your challenges aren't abled. You're actually a disabled person. That's when you start to connect with disability justice.
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
For a lot of people it's a journey & there's one day where you go shit, I'm disabled. Maybe you even had a diagnosis before or maybe not. But something dawns on you, your challenges aren't abled. You're actually a disabled person. That's when you start to connect with disability justice.
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Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
My pay-what-you-can webinar on school transitions (class-to-class, school-to-break and back) is starting at 7 Eastern and you can still join! Look at your confirmation email for the Zoom link. No breakouts and I don't expect your camera on!
www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...
www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...
Register – Trauma-Informed Transitions: Class to Class, School to Break, Break to School, and More! – Zoom
Trauma-Informed Transitions: Class to Class, School to Break, Break to School, and More! – Zoom, Mon Nov 17, 2025 - If you have taught for even one day, you know that some of the toughest moments are ...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
My pay-what-you-can webinar on school transitions (class-to-class, school-to-break and back) is starting at 7 Eastern and you can still join! Look at your confirmation email for the Zoom link. No breakouts and I don't expect your camera on!
www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...
www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...
Today is your last day to enter!!!
Hey all, we're almost at the end of our Ed Books Against Hunger fund drive. It would mean a lot to me if you'd participate! Just donate to your local food shelf and then fill out the form below. It's my b-day next week, do this for my present 🥰 Please repost & share! #EduSky
bit.ly/EdBooksAgain...
bit.ly/EdBooksAgain...
November 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Today is your last day to enter!!!
Monday!
My next pay-what-you-can workshop is open for registration! It's on 11/17 and (fittingly for the week before Thanksgiving) we'll be talking about transitions in school: class to class, school to break and back to school, and more!
www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...
www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Monday!
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We should make the world Alice Wong wanted. We have to.
November 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
We should make the world Alice Wong wanted. We have to.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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If somehow you never knew about Alice Wong and her bad ass, powerful, astute, vulnerable, triumphant work as a writer and disability rights advocate, go fix that. You'll understand why so many of us are gutted by her passing.
I’m devastated by @sfdirewolf.bsky.social’s passing. Alice was an incredible advocate, writer, and human. I miss her so much already and am grateful for our time together but mostly for the legacy she left us all. Her memory is a huge blessing. www.facebook.com/share/14QATF...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If somehow you never knew about Alice Wong and her bad ass, powerful, astute, vulnerable, triumphant work as a writer and disability rights advocate, go fix that. You'll understand why so many of us are gutted by her passing.
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In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary.
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary.
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with:
“Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”
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If you're at that point in the school year that you need to mix it up a bit with student writing, these continue to be a great tool in our own room—feel free to use/adapt for your own space!
docs.google.com/presentation...
docs.google.com/presentation...
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
If you're at that point in the school year that you need to mix it up a bit with student writing, these continue to be a great tool in our own room—feel free to use/adapt for your own space!
docs.google.com/presentation...
docs.google.com/presentation...
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Hey all, we're almost at the end of our Ed Books Against Hunger fund drive. It would mean a lot to me if you'd participate! Just donate to your local food shelf and then fill out the form below. It's my b-day next week, do this for my present 🥰 Please repost & share! #EduSky
bit.ly/EdBooksAgain...
bit.ly/EdBooksAgain...
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Hey all, we're almost at the end of our Ed Books Against Hunger fund drive. It would mean a lot to me if you'd participate! Just donate to your local food shelf and then fill out the form below. It's my b-day next week, do this for my present 🥰 Please repost & share! #EduSky
bit.ly/EdBooksAgain...
bit.ly/EdBooksAgain...