Brenna Clarke Gray
@brennacgray.bsky.social
She/her. Li'l EdTech; big mouth. Settler. Feminist. Reader, writer, teacher, scholar, doozer.
Podcasts too much: creator of Community of Praxis; co-host of @hkhspod.bsky.social.
Opinions yours.
Podcasts too much: creator of Community of Praxis; co-host of @hkhspod.bsky.social.
Opinions yours.
If you need a break from doomscrolling, here’s the baby using the cat as a pillow.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
If you need a break from doomscrolling, here’s the baby using the cat as a pillow.
Incredibly, it is still online. What a time to be alive.
![Over morning coffee at Balzac’s in Toronto’s Distillery District, Joseph Boyden muses about where he feels most at home. “There’s something called the ‘two-spirit person’ in a lot of First Nations cultures,” he says, “meaning somebody who is never completely in one physical place, in one mental place, and I think I’m a bit of a two-spirit person. Home for me has to be both places—it has to be New Orleans, it [also] has to be Ontario. I would be very incomplete without either of those. It might be a little schizophrenic, but it works for me.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r3gkhkdzfuhhrlisczios3li/bafkreieevcnmrfuuxqwc7yjuzig7j42k6gveybqszcr6vplve3hfll33oy@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Incredibly, it is still online. What a time to be alive.
STOP THE COUNT
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
STOP THE COUNT
We are out for an adventure.
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We are out for an adventure.
Both sides of this petty shit is the energy of the whole fucking country, I regret to confirm.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Both sides of this petty shit is the energy of the whole fucking country, I regret to confirm.
Mine aren’t great (or have children in them) but here’s the face in action. I’ll try to nab a better one
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Mine aren’t great (or have children in them) but here’s the face in action. I’ll try to nab a better one
Hey, are you at #OpenEd25 and a fan of manifestos? Come chat with me about how Open can be at the forefront of better. I bet we hate all the same stuff; let's breathe some fire. Starting in fifteen minutes!
October 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hey, are you at #OpenEd25 and a fan of manifestos? Come chat with me about how Open can be at the forefront of better. I bet we hate all the same stuff; let's breathe some fire. Starting in fifteen minutes!
This is a very stupid and bad take and we do not have to nod sagely and pretend it’s not very stupid and very bad.
Anthropomorphizing an algorithm does not, in fact, make it a human being. You actually cannot do a eugenics to a computer!
“What even is a real person” oh not a computer, hth.
Anthropomorphizing an algorithm does not, in fact, make it a human being. You actually cannot do a eugenics to a computer!
“What even is a real person” oh not a computer, hth.
October 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is a very stupid and bad take and we do not have to nod sagely and pretend it’s not very stupid and very bad.
Anthropomorphizing an algorithm does not, in fact, make it a human being. You actually cannot do a eugenics to a computer!
“What even is a real person” oh not a computer, hth.
Anthropomorphizing an algorithm does not, in fact, make it a human being. You actually cannot do a eugenics to a computer!
“What even is a real person” oh not a computer, hth.
Get in, losers, Fernando Alonso is within a breath of winning Driver of the Day.
October 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Get in, losers, Fernando Alonso is within a breath of winning Driver of the Day.
66. A Truce That Is Not a Peace by Miriam Toews. God. I love Toews so much. Everything she writes. This memoir is perfect for people who have already read All My Puny Sorrows and Swing Low, because it’s really about her life triangulated through the suicides of her father and sister.
September 18, 2025 at 5:35 AM
66. A Truce That Is Not a Peace by Miriam Toews. God. I love Toews so much. Everything she writes. This memoir is perfect for people who have already read All My Puny Sorrows and Swing Low, because it’s really about her life triangulated through the suicides of her father and sister.
65. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. I finally got a spot in the library book club (I have been trying for years!) and this is our first title. I loved it. I’m so excited to talk about it! Reading this made me want to buy elaborate bouquets from local flower farmers.
September 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
65. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. I finally got a spot in the library book club (I have been trying for years!) and this is our first title. I loved it. I’m so excited to talk about it! Reading this made me want to buy elaborate bouquets from local flower farmers.
64. The Book That Nobody Wanted to Read by Richard Ayoade. My kid is on a British panel show kick so this was a bedtime story hit last week. It’s very funny and weird and metatextual and delightful. It’s 100% Richard Ayoade’s voice in all the best ways.
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
64. The Book That Nobody Wanted to Read by Richard Ayoade. My kid is on a British panel show kick so this was a bedtime story hit last week. It’s very funny and weird and metatextual and delightful. It’s 100% Richard Ayoade’s voice in all the best ways.
63. Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson. More reading to kiddo. I missed this so much. We both really enjoyed the whimsy and humour in this one (kiddo had read a bunch of the stories solo, but decided it was more fun to read together).
September 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
63. Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson. More reading to kiddo. I missed this so much. We both really enjoyed the whimsy and humour in this one (kiddo had read a bunch of the stories solo, but decided it was more fun to read together).
The first feature-length episode of Community of Praxis is out! I got to have a long chat with @cjdenial.bsky.social about kindness, ungrading, and the radical act of actually trying to assess learning. Please listen and share! www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Scholarly-Po...
September 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The first feature-length episode of Community of Praxis is out! I got to have a long chat with @cjdenial.bsky.social about kindness, ungrading, and the radical act of actually trying to assess learning. Please listen and share! www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Scholarly-Po...
She left a tiny ledger.
September 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
She left a tiny ledger.
62. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure by Jeff Kinney. This is a landmark book — the baby finally sleeps reliably enough that I’m able to read to Thing 1 at night again, so this is the first novel we’ve finished together in a year. It’s also a great introduction to metatext.
September 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
62. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure by Jeff Kinney. This is a landmark book — the baby finally sleeps reliably enough that I’m able to read to Thing 1 at night again, so this is the first novel we’ve finished together in a year. It’s also a great introduction to metatext.
61. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. For the podcast book club. A moving novel-in-verse telling the story of two sisters who lose their father in a plane crash — except one lives in America and one in the Dominican Republic, and they didn’t know about each other.
September 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
61. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. For the podcast book club. A moving novel-in-verse telling the story of two sisters who lose their father in a plane crash — except one lives in America and one in the Dominican Republic, and they didn’t know about each other.
60. War on Gaza by Joe Sacco. What can I say; it’s Joe Sacco. I cried with rage through the whole thing.
September 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
60. War on Gaza by Joe Sacco. What can I say; it’s Joe Sacco. I cried with rage through the whole thing.
59. Muybridge by Guy Delisle. I loved this graphic biography of the man who first captured studies of motion on camera. Delisle’s clever use of actual Muybridge photos juxtaposed with his cartoon reimaginings is very effective.
September 1, 2025 at 6:22 AM
59. Muybridge by Guy Delisle. I loved this graphic biography of the man who first captured studies of motion on camera. Delisle’s clever use of actual Muybridge photos juxtaposed with his cartoon reimaginings is very effective.
We are so cooked.
August 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We are so cooked.
58. Real Ones by Katherena Vermette. Really loved this novel about the ripples through a pair of Métis sisters of the pretendianism of their estranged/deranged white mother, an artist going by the name Raven Bearclaw. It’s funny and moving and speaks to this moment, identity, belongingness.
July 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
58. Real Ones by Katherena Vermette. Really loved this novel about the ripples through a pair of Métis sisters of the pretendianism of their estranged/deranged white mother, an artist going by the name Raven Bearclaw. It’s funny and moving and speaks to this moment, identity, belongingness.
57. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. I really enjoyed this, definitely got hooked by the mystery, but boy howdy is this ever an egregious example of cheap, cynical UK-US localization. Why do American publishers think readers need this book to randomly be set in Connecticut?
July 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
57. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. I really enjoyed this, definitely got hooked by the mystery, but boy howdy is this ever an egregious example of cheap, cynical UK-US localization. Why do American publishers think readers need this book to randomly be set in Connecticut?
56. Dan in Green Gables by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre. A queer modernization of Anne of Green Gables featuring hi-jinx, standing up for yourself, and preserved peaches. This is a joyful book for sure.
July 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
56. Dan in Green Gables by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre. A queer modernization of Anne of Green Gables featuring hi-jinx, standing up for yourself, and preserved peaches. This is a joyful book for sure.
55. Felix Ever After by Kaden Callender. This month’s book club pick for @hkhspod.bsky.social is a really delightful transmasc YA romance. I think the best bits of the book give language for confronting TERFs to teen readers. But it’s also just very charming.
July 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
55. Felix Ever After by Kaden Callender. This month’s book club pick for @hkhspod.bsky.social is a really delightful transmasc YA romance. I think the best bits of the book give language for confronting TERFs to teen readers. But it’s also just very charming.
54. Origin by Dan Brown. Summer is for really dumb thrillers that have the benefit of sending you down Wikipedia rabbit holes. I also love that Dan Brown has perfected the “every chapter ends on a cliffhanger” trope. The red herring here was super underdeveloped but it was still a fun read.
July 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
54. Origin by Dan Brown. Summer is for really dumb thrillers that have the benefit of sending you down Wikipedia rabbit holes. I also love that Dan Brown has perfected the “every chapter ends on a cliffhanger” trope. The red herring here was super underdeveloped but it was still a fun read.