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Ankhi Thakurta
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Assistant Prof at Boston College studying the civic literacies & learning of urban migrant youth. Artist. Former 8th grade ELA teacher. PhD from Penn GSE.
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Always a pleasure to explore youth civic speculation with @alexcorbitt.bsky.social! Check out our new piece.
September 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I ran a literary salon with brilliant youth literary scholars! Check out that work in this new article in Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ)! Youth reveal powerful links between literary interpretation & social justice education! #literacies, #edusky, #iteachenglish, #literacy doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library
Disciplinary literacy explores knowledge-producing communities, but less often considers youth as scholars in their own right, particularly as related to English language arts. Drawing on theories of...
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June 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Thank you for joining us! Check out Dr. Thakurta’s recently released article: “Globally Marginalized People Shifting Temporalities Through Arts-Based Methodologies in Educational Research”
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March 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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A6 Part 1 I’m inspired by so many WoC creators across history, like Gloria Anzaldúa, Frida Kahlo, Arundhati Roy, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. #literacies
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · Mar 26
Q6: Who are the politically engaged artists who are inspiring you in this moment? #literacies
March 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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A5 Part 1 There are so many ways, but here are some ideas: take the time to learn about the creative traditions and legacies of your research partners. Ask folks if and how they like to create, and be responsive to those preferences in your research design. #literacies
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · Mar 26
Q5: What kinds of ethical and democratizing research methods can we use to learn more about arts-based civic literacies alongside the communities we serve? #literacies
March 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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A4) Part 1 In this era of cruel destruction, each of us must step into our roles as civic artists. Formal schooling strips us of the view that we are creators – and yet, we are. Let’s think of ways to imbue our days with small acts of artistry. #literacies
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · Mar 26
Q4: How can we foster arts-based civic literacies in this current political moment? #literacies
March 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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A3) Part 1: I’m privileged to work with immigrant youth who are heirs to rich transnational creative legacies. #literacies
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · Mar 26
Q3: In what ways have the communities that you’ve worked with used the arts for social/civic transformation? #literacies
March 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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A1) Part 1: The arts can unsettle the importance of dominant civic literacies. If we can create, we can influence public life – regardless of our “formal” status. #literacies
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · Mar 26
Q2: How can the arts expand our understandings of what counts as civic engagement? #literacies
March 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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A1) Part 1 - People have used the arts – creative literate practices (e.g., drawing, painting, dancing, acting, composing, and more) – to address sociopolitical issues in ways that traditional practices (e.g., voting) cannot. #literacies
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · Mar 26
Q1: From your perspective, what is the relationship between the arts and civic literacies? #literacies
March 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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**In 2 short hours!** - Join #literacies at 5pm PST/8pm EST tonight as we discuss Fostering Arts-Based Civic Literacies with Dr. Ankhi Thakurta!
March 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Join us for our upcoming March #literacies chat with Dr. @ankhithakurta.bsky.social!
The poster reads: Join us for our March #literacies chat! Fostering Arts-Based Civic Literacies on Tuesday 3/25 5-6 pm PT | 8-9 pm ET. Hosted by Dr. Ankhi Thakurta (@ankhithakurta.bsky.social), Assistant Professor of Education at the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development.
March 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Toni Morrison:
“No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” by Toni Morrison; excerpt reads: “Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple: 1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war. 2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists. 3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.”
March 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Tune in! Should be a great conversation.
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · Feb 26
Last but not least, please join us on Tuesday 3/25 5:00-6pm PT| 8-9pm ET for our March #literacies chat, "Fostering Arts-Based Civic Literacies," hosted by Dr. Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social #literacies
February 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Work or study in a university? Worried about cuts, closures or redundancy threats? Feeling anxious, angry, or uncertain what to do? From calming to resisting here are over 50 suggestions you can try - alone or with friends. Please share widely.
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Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times - The Research Companion
Science, healthcare and education are threatened worldwide. Here are some starter ideas for ways to work together to share and save vital information. And to care for one another.
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February 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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What keeps you standing? Honored to share my Equity & Excellence piece on how Asian American girls dexterously use civic literacies to author selves & surface buried histories. Deep love to my beautiful youth partners for sharing their brilliance w. me ❤️ ✨
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“What Keeps Me Standing”: Asian American Girls Theorize and Inhabit Public Life Through Multiple Literacies
Asian American girls face intersectional barriers to belonging in public life—that is, in the formal and informal domains of the civic community. However, scant research has explored how education ...
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February 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Feb 7
On the first floor of the hospital there is a white piano that plays old timey saloon music and there is no one sitting at the bench. It’s definitely in my top twenty creepy things I’ve seen.
February 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Honestly, district leaders should have been doing and supporting all these things already but no time like the present. Teachers need support from admin more than ever.
January 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
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A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Scholarships for Gaza students for BAs and MAs at the University of Leeds

بعثات للطلبة من غزة في جامعة ليدز لدراسة البكالوريوس والماجستير. الرجاء النشر لمن قد يهمه

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Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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December 15, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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December 10, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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#CityOfSomerville warming center
Somerville warming center is open 12/9/24-4/15/25. Located at the Cummings School. Hours 5pm - 8am.
December 10, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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December 10, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling & efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (U.S. & global) - updated w/ requests (sorry if I missed your request - inundated with notifications today) go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
November 16, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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📢 Publication alert!

💡 Ling Hao’s article “Uplifting the Voices of Asian American Parents Through an Online Family Book Club: Elicited and Silenced Cultural Knowledge” is now live
at journals.sagepub.com/home/lrx
Text on a light background of books arranged diagonally Uplifting the Voices of Asian American Parents Through an Online Family Book Club: Elicited and Silenced Cultural Knowledge Ling Hao This ethnographic case study explores how parents' participation in reading experiences influenced children's responses to culturally relevant texts. In an online family book club, parents and children sat together, read culturally relevant picture books, and discussed the books after reading. The book clubs helped children recognize parents as cultural resources and reading partners, which helped children make personal and cultural connections Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice Bluesky @LRTMP Facebook LRTMP Instagram @LR_TMP Created in partnership with the Education Now Lab. Check out Volume 73!
December 2, 2024 at 5:36 PM