Ashlynn 🪶
@oneofthewednesdays.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English Education 🐯 | (Not So Secret) Fan Artist 🎨 and Writer ✍️ | Obsessed with Young Adult Literature 📚 | Building Relational Literacies 🌱
My latest article, More-Than-Human Literacies: Reading and Writing in the Anthropocene 🪴, is now live online in English Journal: doi.org/10.58680/ej2...
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My latest article, More-Than-Human Literacies: Reading and Writing in the Anthropocene 🪴, is now live online in English Journal: doi.org/10.58680/ej2...
I know no one wants to hear the phrase "back to school" yet, but would a swag bag make it better? Join us for our Back to School ALAN webinar, which will feature a panel of authors and librarians discussing what is possible through young adult literature!
June 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I know no one wants to hear the phrase "back to school" yet, but would a swag bag make it better? Join us for our Back to School ALAN webinar, which will feature a panel of authors and librarians discussing what is possible through young adult literature!
Be sure to join ELATE for our Summer Conference in Charleston, SC: ncte.org/groups/elate...
May 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Be sure to join ELATE for our Summer Conference in Charleston, SC: ncte.org/groups/elate...
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Call for Poetry Submissions – English Journal radicalscholarship.com/2025/05/14/c...
Call for Poetry Submissions – English Journal
[Header Photo by Trust “Tru” Katsande on Unsplash] Poetry Submissions – English Journal Editor: Paul Thomas Furman University In the pages of English Journal, we look to publish well-cr…
radicalscholarship.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Call for Poetry Submissions – English Journal radicalscholarship.com/2025/05/14/c...
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The U.S. Naval Academy recently removed 381 books from its Nimitz Library in Annapolis, Maryland, in another sick and sad blow to freedom of expression.
lithub.com/the-naval-ac...
lithub.com/the-naval-ac...
The Naval Academy banned over 300 books from its library.
The U.S. Naval Academy recently removed 381 books from its Nimitz Library in Annapolis, Maryland, in another sick and sad blow to freedom of expression. The titles are what you might expect, the re…
lithub.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The U.S. Naval Academy recently removed 381 books from its Nimitz Library in Annapolis, Maryland, in another sick and sad blow to freedom of expression.
lithub.com/the-naval-ac...
lithub.com/the-naval-ac...
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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More of this please
New York schools tell Trump administration they won’t comply with DEI order
State officials say they don’t believe US Department of Education has authority to demand end to DEI practices
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
More of this please
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Extremely dangerous —risking a student’s life by denying her access to her inhaler is horrifying. What other terrors will this administration incite on people?? Does this administration have a moral compass?
April 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Extremely dangerous —risking a student’s life by denying her access to her inhaler is horrifying. What other terrors will this administration incite on people?? Does this administration have a moral compass?
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Interested to know whose NEH grant —if anyone’s—WASNT terminated.
Anyone know?
Anyone know?
April 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Interested to know whose NEH grant —if anyone’s—WASNT terminated.
Anyone know?
Anyone know?
Ugh, I knew this was coming the moment DOGE announced cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities, but it is still deeply disappointing.
April 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Ugh, I knew this was coming the moment DOGE announced cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities, but it is still deeply disappointing.
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I miss the days when I thought The Phantom Menace opening with the "taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems" was a boring, lame way to lead into a galactic war against fascism.
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I miss the days when I thought The Phantom Menace opening with the "taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems" was a boring, lame way to lead into a galactic war against fascism.
The thought of losing the National Endowment for the Humanities actually brings me to tears. Please use the link to write your members of Congress!
DOGE is reportedly targeting the National Endowment for the Humanities: reducing staff, cutting grant programs, and rescinding grants that have been awarded.
Please contact your members of Congress and encourage them to support NEH, which enriches K–12 education in EVERY state. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
Please contact your members of Congress and encourage them to support NEH, which enriches K–12 education in EVERY state. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
p2a.co
April 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The thought of losing the National Endowment for the Humanities actually brings me to tears. Please use the link to write your members of Congress!
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If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Just did a quick look at a few channels on YouTube livestreaming Senator Booker's marathon speech. Currently:
C-SPAN - 66k+ live viewers
Cory Booker's channel - 49k+
AP - 41k+
MSNBC - 14k+
PBS NewsHour - 8.3k+
This matters. Optics matter. Seeing leadership DO SOMETHING matters.
C-SPAN - 66k+ live viewers
Cory Booker's channel - 49k+
AP - 41k+
MSNBC - 14k+
PBS NewsHour - 8.3k+
This matters. Optics matter. Seeing leadership DO SOMETHING matters.
April 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just did a quick look at a few channels on YouTube livestreaming Senator Booker's marathon speech. Currently:
C-SPAN - 66k+ live viewers
Cory Booker's channel - 49k+
AP - 41k+
MSNBC - 14k+
PBS NewsHour - 8.3k+
This matters. Optics matter. Seeing leadership DO SOMETHING matters.
C-SPAN - 66k+ live viewers
Cory Booker's channel - 49k+
AP - 41k+
MSNBC - 14k+
PBS NewsHour - 8.3k+
This matters. Optics matter. Seeing leadership DO SOMETHING matters.
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
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There were four Republican-backed extreme constitutional amendments on the ballot in Louisiana yesterday.
The voters REJECTED them all (in a state Trump won by 22 points in November).
Keep the pressure on.
The voters REJECTED them all (in a state Trump won by 22 points in November).
Keep the pressure on.
March 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
There were four Republican-backed extreme constitutional amendments on the ballot in Louisiana yesterday.
The voters REJECTED them all (in a state Trump won by 22 points in November).
Keep the pressure on.
The voters REJECTED them all (in a state Trump won by 22 points in November).
Keep the pressure on.
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“The academic community is defined not only by scholarship, but by solidarity. If we fail to speak out when one of our own is unjustly detained, we surrender to the forces that seek to silence &repress. A threat to 1 scholar, 1 student, 1 voice, is a threat to all”
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
Op-ed: A letter in defense of academic freedom, human rights and the First Amendment - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
www.tuftsdaily.com
March 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
“The academic community is defined not only by scholarship, but by solidarity. If we fail to speak out when one of our own is unjustly detained, we surrender to the forces that seek to silence &repress. A threat to 1 scholar, 1 student, 1 voice, is a threat to all”
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
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I have a new co-authored article published today in Changing English 💕 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XSAJU...
The Creative and the Critical: Probing for Practices In-Between Reading and Writing in Secondary English
This article examines creative and critical writing integration in secondary English classrooms, challenging the binary between ‘critical’ and ‘creative’ writing. Drawing on notions developed withi...
www.tandfonline.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I have a new co-authored article published today in Changing English 💕 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XSAJU...
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Columbia seems poised to cede control of their institution to the whims of people who want to destroy it and higher education as a whole. It's impossible to overstate how short-sighted this is. The idea that Trump will stop here is beyond belief. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants
The school faces a deadline to yield to administration demands, with $400 million in federal funding at stake.
www.wsj.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Columbia seems poised to cede control of their institution to the whims of people who want to destroy it and higher education as a whole. It's impossible to overstate how short-sighted this is. The idea that Trump will stop here is beyond belief. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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“So far, America’s leading universities have remained virtually silent in the face of this authoritarian assault on institutions of higher education. That must change.”
March 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“So far, America’s leading universities have remained virtually silent in the face of this authoritarian assault on institutions of higher education. That must change.”