Nicole R. Misra she/her
@nicolermisra.bsky.social
PhD student; education, racial literacy, translanguaging, racioliguistics. | Grad student board for Writing & Literacies SIG | Bilingual Education Research SIG Working Webinar Group Member
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You can find my recent article in @jolleuga.bsky.social here: tinyurl.com/Misra2024
I hope you can see in the citations the love and respect I have for the many scholars who have shaped my development of racial literacy and pedagogical practices. 💖 #literacies #RacialLiteracies #RacialLiteracy
I hope you can see in the citations the love and respect I have for the many scholars who have shaped my development of racial literacy and pedagogical practices. 💖 #literacies #RacialLiteracies #RacialLiteracy
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Happy Hmong New Year, Minnesota! Wishing everyone good health, good fortune, and prosperity as we head into a new year.
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Happy Hmong New Year, Minnesota! Wishing everyone good health, good fortune, and prosperity as we head into a new year.
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It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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Today's guests argue that the narratives & themes of English class are everywhere for those equipped to see them. 👇
@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today's guests argue that the narratives & themes of English class are everywhere for those equipped to see them. 👇
@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
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So honored to have Nic Stone talk to teachers about language, her books, and fighting censorship.
Thanks to the Committee Against Censorship for all their work this conference.
We’re heading home inspired. And ready to work #NCTE2025
Thanks to the Committee Against Censorship for all their work this conference.
We’re heading home inspired. And ready to work #NCTE2025
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So honored to have Nic Stone talk to teachers about language, her books, and fighting censorship.
Thanks to the Committee Against Censorship for all their work this conference.
We’re heading home inspired. And ready to work #NCTE2025
Thanks to the Committee Against Censorship for all their work this conference.
We’re heading home inspired. And ready to work #NCTE2025
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@frankstrong.bsky.social accepting @ncte.org‘s Intellectual Freedom Award!!
Honored to know him, awed by his work, and privileged to walk along the path he’s hewing.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
Honored to know him, awed by his work, and privileged to walk along the path he’s hewing.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@frankstrong.bsky.social accepting @ncte.org‘s Intellectual Freedom Award!!
Honored to know him, awed by his work, and privileged to walk along the path he’s hewing.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
Honored to know him, awed by his work, and privileged to walk along the path he’s hewing.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
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At #NCTE2025 in a fabulous session: "Preparing Preservice Teachers to Advocate Boldly for the Right to Read." Shout out for one of the articles I'm most proud to have out in the world.
So many teacher educators doing so much good to prepare future teachers to meet the challenges of this moment.
So many teacher educators doing so much good to prepare future teachers to meet the challenges of this moment.
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
At #NCTE2025 in a fabulous session: "Preparing Preservice Teachers to Advocate Boldly for the Right to Read." Shout out for one of the articles I'm most proud to have out in the world.
So many teacher educators doing so much good to prepare future teachers to meet the challenges of this moment.
So many teacher educators doing so much good to prepare future teachers to meet the challenges of this moment.
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“I have a master's degree. I've taught for two decades. I am expected to take a bullet for a child. Surely I can make an appropriate decision about what a child should know and think about and read in my class more appropriately than just about anyone else" (985).
Also at #NCTE2025
Also at #NCTE2025
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“I have a master's degree. I've taught for two decades. I am expected to take a bullet for a child. Surely I can make an appropriate decision about what a child should know and think about and read in my class more appropriately than just about anyone else" (985).
Also at #NCTE2025
Also at #NCTE2025
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A5: oftentimes, the product becomes the point. So, “making a comic” for example overtakes any pedagogic benefit.
It makes a kind of sense given the compliance, product oriented paradigms present in anti-democratic classrooms. So youth culture becomes a gimmick rather than a site for learning.
It makes a kind of sense given the compliance, product oriented paradigms present in anti-democratic classrooms. So youth culture becomes a gimmick rather than a site for learning.
Q5: An issue we've seen with integrating youth fandom #literacies into educational spaces is that these practices get co-opted or deadened. Have you seen this? How do we avoid these issues?
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A5: oftentimes, the product becomes the point. So, “making a comic” for example overtakes any pedagogic benefit.
It makes a kind of sense given the compliance, product oriented paradigms present in anti-democratic classrooms. So youth culture becomes a gimmick rather than a site for learning.
It makes a kind of sense given the compliance, product oriented paradigms present in anti-democratic classrooms. So youth culture becomes a gimmick rather than a site for learning.
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A3: In both comics and hip hop culture any number of critical issues and lenses immediately bubble to the surface. This doesn’t mean they are to be discarded. Rather the #literacies developed through loving critique makes fan spaces that shape epistemology and reality that much better.
Q3: What critical #literacies have you seen in fandom spaces? Here are some examples of issues we've identified!
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A3: In both comics and hip hop culture any number of critical issues and lenses immediately bubble to the surface. This doesn’t mean they are to be discarded. Rather the #literacies developed through loving critique makes fan spaces that shape epistemology and reality that much better.
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Critical, interdisciplinary, multimodal #literacies that foreground culturally sustaining pedagogies & civic engagement for sure!! @karismjones.bsky.social @nicole-mirra.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @snowdaylearninglab.org @haenyyoon.bsky.social
Just to name a few.
Just to name a few.
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Critical, interdisciplinary, multimodal #literacies that foreground culturally sustaining pedagogies & civic engagement for sure!! @karismjones.bsky.social @nicole-mirra.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @snowdaylearninglab.org @haenyyoon.bsky.social
Just to name a few.
Just to name a few.
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Thank you everyone for such an exciting #literacies chat tonight!! If you are headed to NCTE in Denver this week, we would love to connect with you there to continue the conversation!
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Thank you everyone for such an exciting #literacies chat tonight!! If you are headed to NCTE in Denver this week, we would love to connect with you there to continue the conversation!
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They are so fun to make and a great way to make sense of whatever you're thinking/wondering about. Makes me think an AERA 2026 @writinglit.bsky.social zine-making session could be very cool...
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
They are so fun to make and a great way to make sense of whatever you're thinking/wondering about. Makes me think an AERA 2026 @writinglit.bsky.social zine-making session could be very cool...
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Join us for our December slow chat! This will be an informal #literacies touchpoint before the start of the holidays. Let's continue the conversation!
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Join us for our December slow chat! This will be an informal #literacies touchpoint before the start of the holidays. Let's continue the conversation!
A6 1/2: One way I invited youth #literacies in was to have students analyze songs they enjoyed for rhyme scheme, metaphorical language etc. I wish I had been more connected to digital #literacies such as in Webtoon or TikTok.
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A6 1/2: One way I invited youth #literacies in was to have students analyze songs they enjoyed for rhyme scheme, metaphorical language etc. I wish I had been more connected to digital #literacies such as in Webtoon or TikTok.
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Yessss!! What we want to get across in our book is: THIS WORKS! #literacies
A5: Classrooms can easily feel like “doing school” with a focus on compliance. Instead, support students to follow their intellectual passions! Give choice about what texts to read, work to produce, and questions to pursue. I’ve seen this work in diverse and inclusive public schools! #literacies
Q5: An issue we've seen with integrating youth fandom #literacies into educational spaces is that these practices get co-opted or deadened. Have you seen this? How do we avoid these issues?
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Yessss!! What we want to get across in our book is: THIS WORKS! #literacies
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A5 I agree, @kpsinedu.bsky.social and I see this often happens within digital or affinity spaces. Sometimes when things are pulled into classrooms, that organic student-centered agency is lost. I think maintaining students’ voices has to be central rather than predetermined by teachers #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
A5 I agree, @kpsinedu.bsky.social and I see this often happens within digital or affinity spaces. Sometimes when things are pulled into classrooms, that organic student-centered agency is lost. I think maintaining students’ voices has to be central rather than predetermined by teachers #literacies
A5: I don’t have much experience with this, so I am interested to hear what others have to say. Maybe having this be student-led can help it be more organic? #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
A5: I don’t have much experience with this, so I am interested to hear what others have to say. Maybe having this be student-led can help it be more organic? #literacies
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A4: This would be really amazing to do in my classroom those last three weeks before Christmas. When we go to the library, so many of my kids have their own interests and it has so much potential for sparking conversation. I might do this for real…I’ll report back! #literacies
Q4: We invite teachers to take up a "comic convention" model of teaching as described below. What do you notice about this kind of classroom? How does it shift current instructional paradigms?
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A4: This would be really amazing to do in my classroom those last three weeks before Christmas. When we go to the library, so many of my kids have their own interests and it has so much potential for sparking conversation. I might do this for real…I’ll report back! #literacies
A4 1/2: I love this! Unlike when I was growing up, anime was extremely popular with my former students. Since I don’t really watch anime anymore, I love how this makes the students teachers on topics that they are very passionate about, shifting the power of the classroom! #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A4 1/2: I love this! Unlike when I was growing up, anime was extremely popular with my former students. Since I don’t really watch anime anymore, I love how this makes the students teachers on topics that they are very passionate about, shifting the power of the classroom! #literacies
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As someone who would nerd out on topics ranging from English Premier League soccer to Warhammer, discovering terms like "communities of practice" & "fandoms" in grad school helped me name the people/places/spaces where I explored different ways of being, speaking, thinking, etc. (i.e. #literacies!)
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
As someone who would nerd out on topics ranging from English Premier League soccer to Warhammer, discovering terms like "communities of practice" & "fandoms" in grad school helped me name the people/places/spaces where I explored different ways of being, speaking, thinking, etc. (i.e. #literacies!)
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A2: Growing up when Tumblr was a big thing was so amazing for finding people who had similar interests to me! I feel like finding those groups of people helped me to become a more critical teacher (and now scholar) because I started to see different possibilities in texts with fanfiction #literacies
Q2: In our book, we define fandoms as "communities of interested readers who engage with a particular text, text set, or media franchise." How have your own fandom experiences shaped your personal #literacies learning?
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A2: Growing up when Tumblr was a big thing was so amazing for finding people who had similar interests to me! I feel like finding those groups of people helped me to become a more critical teacher (and now scholar) because I started to see different possibilities in texts with fanfiction #literacies
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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
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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
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A3: One of the first things that comes to mind is the work of @ebonyteach.blacksky.app. I recall listening to Dr. Thomas on a podcast as she discussed casting on the new Lord of the Rings series with Sam Sanders. Dr. Thomas's fandoms work always centers criticality! #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A3: One of the first things that comes to mind is the work of @ebonyteach.blacksky.app. I recall listening to Dr. Thomas on a podcast as she discussed casting on the new Lord of the Rings series with Sam Sanders. Dr. Thomas's fandoms work always centers criticality! #literacies