Behzad Mansouri
@mansourib.bsky.social
PhD in curriculum & instruction, University of Alabama alumnus, (language) teacher identity and agency researcher, research methodologist, program evaluator, disability research specialist
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"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable."
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Zohran Mamdani Just Gave American Politics a Raciolinguistic Reality Check
Zohran Mamdani just won the New York City mayoral race, and it’s a big deal for reasons that will no doubt be dissected for years to come. But what really stands out to me is how this moment shifts…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable."
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"This book redefines the role of emotions in shaping teacher identity, wellbeing and teaching practices. A must-read for educators, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in learning more about how teachers feel!" buff.ly/5hOeZMs
September 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"This book redefines the role of emotions in shaping teacher identity, wellbeing and teaching practices. A must-read for educators, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in learning more about how teachers feel!" buff.ly/5hOeZMs
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Check out our newly-published books!
A Handbook of Integration with Refugees
Artificial Intelligence Literacy in Higher Education
Teacher Emotions as Personal and Professional Development in Applied Linguistics
Entanglements
Second Language Anxiety
Available now on our website: buff.ly/uWOUN9f
A Handbook of Integration with Refugees
Artificial Intelligence Literacy in Higher Education
Teacher Emotions as Personal and Professional Development in Applied Linguistics
Entanglements
Second Language Anxiety
Available now on our website: buff.ly/uWOUN9f
August 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Check out our newly-published books!
A Handbook of Integration with Refugees
Artificial Intelligence Literacy in Higher Education
Teacher Emotions as Personal and Professional Development in Applied Linguistics
Entanglements
Second Language Anxiety
Available now on our website: buff.ly/uWOUN9f
A Handbook of Integration with Refugees
Artificial Intelligence Literacy in Higher Education
Teacher Emotions as Personal and Professional Development in Applied Linguistics
Entanglements
Second Language Anxiety
Available now on our website: buff.ly/uWOUN9f
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In my latest blog post I lay out some things we as faculty can do to ensure that higher education remains an incubator that prepares future generations for a multiracial democracy as opposed to an incubator for Trump's fascist agenda. Check it out!
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As Universities Cede to Fascism, Faculty Must Refuse to Follow
Once upon a time, universities sought to be spaces where critical thought was championed, diversity was celebrated, and academic freedom was valued. Since the Civil Rights Movement, many universiti…
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July 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In my latest blog post I lay out some things we as faculty can do to ensure that higher education remains an incubator that prepares future generations for a multiracial democracy as opposed to an incubator for Trump's fascist agenda. Check it out!
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@jqtsie.bsky.social is inviting Editorial Board nominations--particularly for Associate and Consulting Editors! Visit tinyurl.com/jqtsienominate to learn more about the positions and to nominate yourself/others by July 14th!
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June 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
@jqtsie.bsky.social is inviting Editorial Board nominations--particularly for Associate and Consulting Editors! Visit tinyurl.com/jqtsienominate to learn more about the positions and to nominate yourself/others by July 14th!
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎉
#highered #lgbtq #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #queer #trans
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“Pinker’s appearance marks another milestone in the efforts of many in Silicon Valley and rightwing media and at the fringes of science to rehabilitate previously discredited models of a biologically determined racial hierarchy”.
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Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism
Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’
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June 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Pinker’s appearance marks another milestone in the efforts of many in Silicon Valley and rightwing media and at the fringes of science to rehabilitate previously discredited models of a biologically determined racial hierarchy”.
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Please consider supporting this student. A graduate student who has been studying for years at UIC is facing deportation upon the revocation of her visa and student status. Even a small amount can make a big difference.
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Donate to Support Graduate Worker L Resist Visa Revocation!, organized by GEO Local 6297
Join GEO in supporting L and her sister, so they can afford rent, foo… GEO Local 6297 needs your support for Support Graduate Worker L Resist Visa Revocation!
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April 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Please consider supporting this student. A graduate student who has been studying for years at UIC is facing deportation upon the revocation of her visa and student status. Even a small amount can make a big difference.
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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
March 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
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“Sometimes you have to do things that are uncomfortable, inconvenient, or scary. Sometimes you have to challenge a bad law, a dangerous policy, a frightening authority figure.”
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UPenn ditching DEI shows lack of leadership | Opinion
Watching Penn rescinding admissions, erasing references to diversity, and deleting inclusive language is like watching someone burn their own crops and salt their own earth for generations to come.
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March 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“Sometimes you have to do things that are uncomfortable, inconvenient, or scary. Sometimes you have to challenge a bad law, a dangerous policy, a frightening authority figure.”
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35 years ago 1000 people marched from the White House to the Capitol to demand Congress pass the ADA. Activists left their mobility devices & crawled up the Capitol steps in protest of inaccessible architecture. The ADA was signed into law 4 months later. I honor them today ♿️✊🏽
March 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
35 years ago 1000 people marched from the White House to the Capitol to demand Congress pass the ADA. Activists left their mobility devices & crawled up the Capitol steps in protest of inaccessible architecture. The ADA was signed into law 4 months later. I honor them today ♿️✊🏽
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EMERGENCY: One of our colleagues is missing
February 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
EMERGENCY: One of our colleagues is missing
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My grandmother's watermelons taught me invaluable lessons about #qualitative #research and about #writing from my #heart and #gut as essential to being an #academic.
#highered #research #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #methodology
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February 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
My grandmother's watermelons taught me invaluable lessons about #qualitative #research and about #writing from my #heart and #gut as essential to being an #academic.
#highered #research #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #methodology
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📣📕📘🎉Have YOU got an amazing book idea?📣📕📘🎉
Routledge book series, "Expanding Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry," seeks authored and edited book proposals expanding what it means to do qualitative research! Email expandingqual@gmail.com w/ questions and ideas!
Routledge book series, "Expanding Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry," seeks authored and edited book proposals expanding what it means to do qualitative research! Email expandingqual@gmail.com w/ questions and ideas!
February 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
📣📕📘🎉Have YOU got an amazing book idea?📣📕📘🎉
Routledge book series, "Expanding Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry," seeks authored and edited book proposals expanding what it means to do qualitative research! Email expandingqual@gmail.com w/ questions and ideas!
Routledge book series, "Expanding Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry," seeks authored and edited book proposals expanding what it means to do qualitative research! Email expandingqual@gmail.com w/ questions and ideas!
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It is Black History Month. I am Black. Ain't enough euphemisms in the world to hide them facts!
Here's some reading for y'all as we celebrate & remember!
Solidarity & Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective in Decolonizing Linguistics
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
Here's some reading for y'all as we celebrate & remember!
Solidarity & Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective in Decolonizing Linguistics
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
Solidarity and Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective
Abstract. This chapter takes a Black Diasporic perspective on the decolonization of linguistics. The authors interrogate longstanding false institutional a
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February 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It is Black History Month. I am Black. Ain't enough euphemisms in the world to hide them facts!
Here's some reading for y'all as we celebrate & remember!
Solidarity & Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective in Decolonizing Linguistics
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
Here's some reading for y'all as we celebrate & remember!
Solidarity & Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective in Decolonizing Linguistics
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
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Bodies are still being pulled from the Potomac, some of them Massachusetts residents.
And instead of uniting our country, Trump is using this tragedy to blame "DEI," sow division, and attack minorities.
Shameful, disgusting, and more of the same.
And instead of uniting our country, Trump is using this tragedy to blame "DEI," sow division, and attack minorities.
Shameful, disgusting, and more of the same.
January 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Bodies are still being pulled from the Potomac, some of them Massachusetts residents.
And instead of uniting our country, Trump is using this tragedy to blame "DEI," sow division, and attack minorities.
Shameful, disgusting, and more of the same.
And instead of uniting our country, Trump is using this tragedy to blame "DEI," sow division, and attack minorities.
Shameful, disgusting, and more of the same.
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I listened to Trump's awful press conference so you don't have to. Trump just really thinks there's no way disabled people and people of color are qualified for the jobs they have, sigh. New from me at @motherjones.com
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Trump responds to Washington plane crash with racist, ableist diatribe
The president used the tragedy, which killed 67, to deliver a bigoted and self-promoting tirade about DEI.
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January 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I listened to Trump's awful press conference so you don't have to. Trump just really thinks there's no way disabled people and people of color are qualified for the jobs they have, sigh. New from me at @motherjones.com
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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You need this video, really. You do.
December 31, 2024 at 10:32 PM
You need this video, really. You do.
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This is Gracie. She went for the most magical car ride last night. The whole world twinkled like it was excited to see her. 13/10
December 24, 2024 at 9:01 PM
This is Gracie. She went for the most magical car ride last night. The whole world twinkled like it was excited to see her. 13/10
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Kelly W. Guyotte and I wrote "Communities of mutation: becoming feminist pedagogical monstrosities" to emphasize agency & activism in politically challenging educational spaces.
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#academia #highered #research #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #feminist #pedagogy
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Communities of mutation: becoming feminist pedagogical monstrosities
We are feminist scholars who research and teach at a university in the United States situated within histories of sociopolitical conservativism and oppressions. In the present, looming over our cla...
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November 19, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Kelly W. Guyotte and I wrote "Communities of mutation: becoming feminist pedagogical monstrosities" to emphasize agency & activism in politically challenging educational spaces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#academia #highered #research #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #feminist #pedagogy
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#academia #highered #research #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #feminist #pedagogy
Interested in connecting with researchers and scholars working on new-materialist and pos-humanist education research. Any starting pack on that?
November 17, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Interested in connecting with researchers and scholars working on new-materialist and pos-humanist education research. Any starting pack on that?