OMG! 😍😍😍

You are amazing, Ebony! Huge, huge congratulations!!! ❤️

Rockstars!

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Congrats, Matt!!! Such great news!

❤️❤️❤️ would LOVE to hear you play!!!

It has been my pleasure! Thank you sincerely for the invitation ❤️

Yes to Kendrick Lamar!!!

This is exactly why it's so important to do. I love this example!

Absolutely - in my work, I often ask youth to respond to creative prompts that actively invite multiple modes of expression (e.g., visual, spatial). This allows youth to mobilize their whole literate repertoires. Further, I if youth are using language, I try to invite ALL their languages (if I can)

A5 Part 2 Decenter language. Make art alongside your research partners, and for the purposes they desire. #literacies

Absolutely - I also think this has to do with how such legacies are systemically marginalized in schools & other dominant civic institutions (and makes me wonder what we can do to interrupt that marginalization)

A4 Part 3 You could invite people to respond to small creative prompts, create a magazine, organize an open mic night, bring together an artist collective, and more…the possibilities are endless. #literacies

A4) Part 2 And strive to create such opportunities for others – whether they be in your schools, your universities, or your communities near and far. #literacies

It's also worth thinking about if/how these spaces should be defined/normed/bounded when they're created.

Absolutely - not all artmaking invitations are created equal/in the service of fostering civic engagement

A3) Part 2: In some of the projects I’ve run, youth have utilized their artistic gifts in different ways (e.g., drawing, poetry-writing, film-making) to express their expansive civic identities, and to dream of new worlds. #literacies

A2) Part 2: For example, undocumented creators have used artmaking to powerfully assert their rights to dignity and belonging (even as these are brutally challenged by formal civic institutions). #literacies