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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 💛 • she/her
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · Oct 3
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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"There was no pussyfooting. There was no soft-pedaling. ...There was nothing about 'racially tinged.' Racism was called out clearly." @sulliview.bsky.social

Australian media to note:
when reporting on One Nation, you can use the "R" word. #auspol
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Yes! THIS is how it's done, New York Times
Much more blunt truth-telling, please
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February 10, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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“More of this fearless straight talk, please.”

@sulliview.bsky.social

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Yes! THIS is how it's done, New York Times
Much more blunt truth-telling, please
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February 10, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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As a literature educator, for me, poetry begins and ends with Audre Lorde. Every student I have has read “Poetry is not a Luxury.” “Litany for Survival” is the poem that reminds us Who and Whose we are, because we were never meant to survive.

28 poems for #blackhistorymonth day 9
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children's mouths so their dreams will not reflect the death of ours: For those of us who were imprinted with fear like a faint line in the center of our foreheads learning to be afraid with our mother's milk for by this weapon this illusion of some safety to be found the heavy-footed hoped to silence us For all of us this instant and this triumph We were never meant to survive. And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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My little sister has spent the year doing the impossible: making an ornery group of seniors and an eager group of emergent bilinguals READ BOOKS. Her mission is to encourage reading (in TX 😩) and we’d be grateful if you would consider donating a book or two. +
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Check out my list on Amazon
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February 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
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February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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The #SuperBowl is emblematic of all that’s wrong with America and

tonight, for the second year in a row, millions watched as historically and systemically marginalized Americans showed us pieces of their beautiful, rich, and complex humanity that is so much bigger than oppression.

Multitudes.
February 9, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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My favorite days on the internet are when people across diasporas come together to prove, yet again, that whiteness really isn’t all that.

#SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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The same with Dre and Snoop’s love of California and Los Angeles as a whole in their half time show.
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Bad Bunny’s beautiful and joyful portrayal of Puerto Rico stands on the shoulders of Kendrick Lamar’s love letter to Compton last year.

Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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Bad Bunny’s beautiful and joyful portrayal of Puerto Rico stands on the shoulders of Kendrick Lamar’s love letter to Compton last year.

Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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This is the most beautiful, elaborate, culturally significant set I’ve ever seen at the Super Bowl.

Whoever designed this should be paid a million dollars. #SuperBowl #BadBunny
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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I love when Lady Gaga shows up at the Super Bowl to remind people she can sing 😭
February 9, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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We were down a teacher, so my sister has spent the year doing the impossible with an ornery group of seniors and an eager group of emergent bilinguals. Her mission is to encourage reading (in TX ) and we'd be grateful if you would consider donating a book or two. +

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Billie Joe Armstrong sounds incredible. His voice has matured, but it still sounds perfectly intact.

Also, Green Day at the Super Bowl was a choice…🤣
February 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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My students know Hanif Abdurraqib. They refer to him as “our man Hanif” and “Uncle Hanif.” On Super Bowl Sunday, “IT’S JUST THAT I’M NOT REALLY INTO POLITICS” is THE poem to remind us that every single thing is political, especially when it’s uncomfortable.

28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 8
IT'S JUST THAT I'M NOT REALLY INTO POLITICS by Hanif Abdurragib violence begets more / violence / or so l've been told / but all of this country's skyscrapers / are still standing / despite the blood / that builds a boat underneath the tongue / after speaking its name / violence begets / more photo opportunities / at the feet of a burning / temple / I show up to the resistance / and someone hands me a rose / the color of surrender / violence begets thirst / a new thing in need / of clean water / once / towards the black / and spotted sky / I raised a fist / inside of a glove / sewn in a country / torn apart by our bombs / I purchased the gloves in a store / after midnight / from a cashier who wore a picture / of her daughter on her chest / and looked as though she might have been crying / before I arrived / violence begets a hunger for warmth / at all costs / I sit in a running car / and count all of the things / yet to be swallowed / by the horned ghosts of empire / If you make your own prison / you can find your own map / to freedom / the smoke from all our engines / is beckoning the sun / close / the oceans are rising / to the height of a child / sitting on a mother's shoulders / pointing to the horizon with a single / trembling / finger
February 8, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson is the newest poem in my teaching bag. Woodson's care and grief are a reminder that we contain multitudes and our desire for a better world includes the ground we stand on.
28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 7
Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson Dear Future Ones who do not understand an old woman puzzling over January crocuses and the delicate shoots of tulips poking through winter leaves Winter leaves us questioning the absence of snow. A headshake, a sigh, a mind turning inside the past: Twenty years on this planet and my daughter can count snowstorms lived through on a single hand. Oh Dear Future Ones, I apologize for decades of Styrofoam lunches eaten happily because the world would always be the way I knew it as a child. I apologize from tin cans thrown into trashcans. For the many years I loved helium-filled mylar balloons. I apologize for the time I bought an expensive deodorant, desired because I could spray it instead of rolling it on. I apologize for the magical thinking that led me to believe this world as I knew it would always be here and bred you into with my mind on other freedoms cuz how many dreams of freedom can a single body hold now old, you see me back bent and frowning grateful for iceless sidewalks all winter long and terrified. Oh Dear Future Ones. You do not know a world that isn't already burning, a time when flowers bloomed in seasons we understood (Because once there were seasons here in New York). Once snow barricaded me into my childhood home. Brooklyn. Blizzard of 78. We waited, my siblings and I, gleefully imagining a June thaw the four of us skeletons heartbreakingly remembered. Were history, we said. As though we already knew what was coming. As though, Future Ones, we already saw you out there reading about us and remembering snow. This the honey edited by Kwame Alexander
February 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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Because Democrats have been voting with Republicans in bipartisan support of the fascist ICE agency going back to 2003 when George Bush started it, with increases in funding & detentions of innocent people year over year over year. That's why.
Latinoamérica21 One region, all voices Republicans and Democrats While criticism of the Trump administration is common, ICE is not an exclusively Republican creation. Its foundation was a bipartisan effort during George W. Bush's presidency, with support from Democrats such as Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. DHS, to which ICE belongs, is a permanent federal agency, a structural part of the U.S. government-not a temporary creation or partisan project. Both parties, despite their slightly different rhetoric, support strict and exclusionary immigration policies. Let's not forget that Democrats often soften the discourse but maintain hardline practices. During Obama's presidency, the U.S. reached record numbers of deportations. Kamala Harris, despite her progressive tone, traveled through Latin America during the Biden administration securing agreements to block undesirable foreigners. Repression is a shared endeavor-only the language and political strategy differ. What Is the 'Bipartisan Border Bill' and How Would It Change the US Immigration System? Published: November 1, 2024 American Immigration Council However, the bill would also give $3.2 billion to ICE to expand its immigration detention system to 50,000 beds, which is an increase from its current capacity of 41,500 beds, despite over 30 people dying in detention due to poor conditions this year alone. This is an increase of 47 percent from the 34,000 beds allocated in 2023, 2022, and 2021. The bill additionally requires continued construction of the Trump-era border wall. After President Biden signed a 2024 spending bill that provides $3.4 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to jail 41,500 immigrants per day, 200 NGOs delivered a letter to the White House today opposing this unprecedented expansion of the immigration detention system.
February 8, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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Thank you for standing by our Palestinian cause.
February 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Read this first thing this morning and HOWLED.

I’m so excited for @biblioracle.bsky.social. This is an incredible opportunity 🤣😭
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Believe it or not, Reese W. and I remain in contact about a promotional opportunity for my book. We're hammering out the details now. I shall reporting the full scope of our correspondence at my newsletter out on Sunday morning. biblioracle.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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We studied Harrison Bergeron during Super Bowl Week; my students discussed Trumpism, the negative rhetoric surrounding trans women in sports, and the complicity of broadcast media, and I didn’t have to say a word!!

Did I do this right?!
a man in a tuxedo has his hand on his face
Alt: Bad Bunny emotionally respond to winning AOY in a tuxedo with his hand on his face
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February 8, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

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February 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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The imagery in “That was her way of showing God,” by Jasmine Man’s, is at once mundane and reverential, which captures the essence of life in the body of a Black woman in America. I love this poem. My students love this poem. This book of poetry is stunning.

28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 6
That Was Her Way of Showing God by Jasmine Mans We didn't go to church on Sundays, but my mother cleaned the whole house. Wiped from behind the toilet-to inside of the oven. That was her way of honoring God. Separating cloth by color. making sure nothing bled, onto anything else. stretching pork across seven days, because even poverty knows ritual. Baptizing Black babies in bathtubs of hand-me-down water, one, after another. A poor woman's tradition, but of its own abundance. That was her way of showing God that she had a servant's heart. that she was a good woman, with all of the little she had. Cover of BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME POEMS JASMINE MANS
February 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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And that’s all I have to say about that
As a Black woman who educates children in deeply red Texas, today was just a normal Friday because Donald Trump has been a raging racist, and Republicans have excused and enabled his racism since he announced his campaign in 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants rapists. The racism is a feature, not a bug. What shocks and appalls me is how quickly republicans have clamored to decry that this is not reflective of America after aiding, abetting, and codifying this racism for almost a decade. You don't get to absolve yourself because this was "just too far." You built this. This is exactly who you are. You don't get to put the mask back on.
February 7, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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And that’s all I have to say about that
As a Black woman who educates children in deeply red Texas, today was just a normal Friday because Donald Trump has been a raging racist, and Republicans have excused and enabled his racism since he announced his campaign in 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants rapists. The racism is a feature, not a bug. What shocks and appalls me is how quickly republicans have clamored to decry that this is not reflective of America after aiding, abetting, and codifying this racism for almost a decade. You don't get to absolve yourself because this was "just too far." You built this. This is exactly who you are. You don't get to put the mask back on.
February 7, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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I taught my ass off today and my students and I are better thinkers because of our conversations.
February 6, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Nikki Giovanni’s poems are deceptively accessible; getting it is a master class in close reading. I read
“Legacies” to my students the day she died. The poem’s a reminder that I live at the intersection of generational inheritance & torch-bearer.

28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 5
Legacies By Nikki Giovanni her grandmother called her from the playground "yes, ma'am" "i want chu to learn how to make rolls" said the old woman proudly but the little girl didn't want to learn how because she knew even if she couldn't say it that that would mean when the old one died she would be less dependent on her spirit so she said "i don't want to know how to make no rolls" with her lips poked out and the old woman wiped her hands on her apron saying "lord these children" and neither of them ever said what they meant and i guess nobody ever does
February 5, 2026 at 4:18 PM