abby emerson
@abbyemerson.bsky.social
teacher education/antiracism/abolition/arts-based methodologies. asst prof of education in nyc.
We are having our third NYC Public Library Action Network People's Assembly on March 21st in Queens! Come through!!
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NYC Public Library People's Assembly
Join us on March 21 for a discussion about our visions for NYC libraries.
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February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
We are having our third NYC Public Library Action Network People's Assembly on March 21st in Queens! Come through!!
www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...
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my hatred for the sudden proliferation of AI flyers knows no bounds. they are SO bad, horrible quality, blurry, etc etc etc
February 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
my hatred for the sudden proliferation of AI flyers knows no bounds. they are SO bad, horrible quality, blurry, etc etc etc
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"A roadmap for justice-rooted education, it’s exactly the guide we need to create safe, affirming communities beyond carceral thinking." —Erica R. Meiners on BEYOND BAD APPLES by Hannah Carson Baggett https://bit.ly/4o4kGVr
February 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"A roadmap for justice-rooted education, it’s exactly the guide we need to create safe, affirming communities beyond carceral thinking." —Erica R. Meiners on BEYOND BAD APPLES by Hannah Carson Baggett https://bit.ly/4o4kGVr
this week i am reviewing literature related to punishment & exclusion in schools. spoiler: research says it's not a good idea! 1/8 #edusky
February 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM
this week i am reviewing literature related to punishment & exclusion in schools. spoiler: research says it's not a good idea! 1/8 #edusky
gentle reminder from the 6 year old. a keeper.
January 26, 2026 at 3:32 AM
gentle reminder from the 6 year old. a keeper.
Still marginally better than the alternative
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January 22, 2026 at 6:16 PM
This morning I’m giving a virtual talk at the University of Lomé in Togo. Excited to talk about normality as a social construct, inclusion, and universal design for learning!
January 22, 2026 at 4:21 PM
This morning I’m giving a virtual talk at the University of Lomé in Togo. Excited to talk about normality as a social construct, inclusion, and universal design for learning!
The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation is now accepting applications for the Jerry Greenfield National Grassroots Organizing Grant Program, which provides unrestricted general operating support to small, constituent-led organizations across the U.S.
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National Grants - Ben & Jerry's Foundation
THE JERRY GREENFIELD NATIONAL grassroots organizing Grant Program We believe those most impacted by inequity and injustice are in the best position to develop solutions. Our intent is to achieve a bet...
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January 18, 2026 at 11:28 PM
The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation is now accepting applications for the Jerry Greenfield National Grassroots Organizing Grant Program, which provides unrestricted general operating support to small, constituent-led organizations across the U.S.
benandjerrysfoundation.org/national-gra...
benandjerrysfoundation.org/national-gra...
I always loved teaching my 5th graders about Claudette Colvin each year. So many spirited debates around intentionality, palatability, and collaboration in activism... those debates always resulted in her being voted onto the "Activist Wall"
Breaking news: Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, died at 86.
Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer on a Montgomery bus, dies at 86
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. She became a star witness in a civil rights case.
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January 13, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I always loved teaching my 5th graders about Claudette Colvin each year. So many spirited debates around intentionality, palatability, and collaboration in activism... those debates always resulted in her being voted onto the "Activist Wall"
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merry christmas to me, a steward of a new @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social !
December 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
merry christmas to me, a steward of a new @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social !
i am starting the next semester in all my classes with a few slides on my beliefs about learning. it will serve as a disclaimer for the types of classes i teach. if you are hoping for a "banking model" class where i simply talk at you, you sit quietly, then churn out AI papers - try again.
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
i am starting the next semester in all my classes with a few slides on my beliefs about learning. it will serve as a disclaimer for the types of classes i teach. if you are hoping for a "banking model" class where i simply talk at you, you sit quietly, then churn out AI papers - try again.
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Do you live in NYC City Council district 27 (Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, St. Albans, Queens Village, Addisleigh Park, and Springfield Gardens)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 27 (Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, St. Albans, Queens Village, Addisleigh Park, and Springfield Gardens)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
celebrated 14 years with my partner tonight.
earlier today I took my kid holiday shopping for said partner and asked, “well, what do you think he likes?”
without hesitation my kid said, “you! but we already have you…!”
🥹
earlier today I took my kid holiday shopping for said partner and asked, “well, what do you think he likes?”
without hesitation my kid said, “you! but we already have you…!”
🥹
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
celebrated 14 years with my partner tonight.
earlier today I took my kid holiday shopping for said partner and asked, “well, what do you think he likes?”
without hesitation my kid said, “you! but we already have you…!”
🥹
earlier today I took my kid holiday shopping for said partner and asked, “well, what do you think he likes?”
without hesitation my kid said, “you! but we already have you…!”
🥹
i submitted my book manuscript to my publisher yesterday! i seem to have forgotten how it's a bit of a scramble at the end to get everything in order EVEN if it's "done" - treated myself to lunch out!
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
i submitted my book manuscript to my publisher yesterday! i seem to have forgotten how it's a bit of a scramble at the end to get everything in order EVEN if it's "done" - treated myself to lunch out!
A public school in BK where 84% of students receive free/reduced lunch is fundraising for their enrichment - a school musical and afterschool programming. Would you be able to help out? Any amount is truly appreciated. www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... (Please put "Giving Tuesday" in the note!)
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Thank you for your donation to the Brooklyn Brownstone School PTA!. We are a tax-exempt organization and your contribution qualifies as a deduction under 501(c)3.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A public school in BK where 84% of students receive free/reduced lunch is fundraising for their enrichment - a school musical and afterschool programming. Would you be able to help out? Any amount is truly appreciated. www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... (Please put "Giving Tuesday" in the note!)
i'm supposed to be doing final edits! why i am going in to add more citations and references when the final manuscript is due in 2 weeks?!
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
i'm supposed to be doing final edits! why i am going in to add more citations and references when the final manuscript is due in 2 weeks?!
3pm-10pm is entirely too many straight hours on zoom.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
3pm-10pm is entirely too many straight hours on zoom.
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Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 36 (Bed-Stuy and North Crown Heights)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 36 (Bed-Stuy and North Crown Heights)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 35 (Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, and Fort Greene)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 35 (Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, and Fort Greene)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 3 (West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Times Square, Hudson Square, Flatiron, and the Garment District)? Your city council rep is the CHAIR of the libraries subcommittee. Send a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 3 (West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Times Square, Hudson Square, Flatiron, and the Garment District)? Your city council rep is the CHAIR of the libraries subcommittee. Send a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 50 (mid-Staten Island)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding? @nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 50 (mid-Staten Island)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding? @nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...