Wayne Au
@profwayneau.bsky.social
Radical educator, writer, father, partner, professor, old school hip hop head. Some books I wrote: Asian American Racialization and the Politics of US Education (Routledge), Unequal By Design (Routledge), and A Marxist Education (Haymarket).
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Wayne Au
@profwayneau.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hi everyone. Just trying things out here. For those who don’t know me, I’m a critical education scholar, activist, writer, and professor. I love my family, I do martial arts, I play volleyball. I roll with Rethinking Schools and Zinn Ed Project. Latest book is on Asian American Education.
My latest book has arrived! Available September 26th.
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
My latest book has arrived! Available September 26th.
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I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
June 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
We’re hiring a Director of Teacher Education at the UW Bothell School of Ed Studies!!!!
UW Human Resources
University of Washington Human Resources
uwhires.admin.washington.edu
May 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We’re hiring a Director of Teacher Education at the UW Bothell School of Ed Studies!!!!
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“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
A few pics from the Seattle protest.
April 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A few pics from the Seattle protest.
Great to connect with friends and comrades at the Ohio State University this week, but they are dealing with serious govt repression there. DEI and striking just made illegal, and there is now a post tenure review process that could be used to remove tenured faculty. Solidarity!!!!
March 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Great to connect with friends and comrades at the Ohio State University this week, but they are dealing with serious govt repression there. DEI and striking just made illegal, and there is now a post tenure review process that could be used to remove tenured faculty. Solidarity!!!!
Headed to Ohio State University to give a lecture next week. What a time to be visiting as leadership and politicians there are sharpening the attacks on DEI and professors. Looking forward to be in solidarity with the activists there.
March 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Headed to Ohio State University to give a lecture next week. What a time to be visiting as leadership and politicians there are sharpening the attacks on DEI and professors. Looking forward to be in solidarity with the activists there.
Map of federal funding that goes to WA school districts.
March 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Map of federal funding that goes to WA school districts.
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I’ll be presenting at Ohio State University on March 27th. Come through if you are around!
February 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I’ll be presenting at Ohio State University on March 27th. Come through if you are around!
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🇵🇸✊🏾🎉❤️ it is with great joy in my heart that I share that I finally have the new book I co-edited in hand!!!
For too long Palestine has been absent in the curriculum—no more!
#FreePalestine
Order today!
rethinkingschools.org/books/teachi...
For too long Palestine has been absent in the curriculum—no more!
#FreePalestine
Order today!
rethinkingschools.org/books/teachi...
February 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🇵🇸✊🏾🎉❤️ it is with great joy in my heart that I share that I finally have the new book I co-edited in hand!!!
For too long Palestine has been absent in the curriculum—no more!
#FreePalestine
Order today!
rethinkingschools.org/books/teachi...
For too long Palestine has been absent in the curriculum—no more!
#FreePalestine
Order today!
rethinkingschools.org/books/teachi...
Preview of the cover of my next book! Coming out on @tcpress.bsky.social this fall. It’s a collection of previously published pieces from both academic spaces and some I’ve written for @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Preview of the cover of my next book! Coming out on @tcpress.bsky.social this fall. It’s a collection of previously published pieces from both academic spaces and some I’ve written for @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
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Musk’s cronies take scholarships from future educators in Nebraska
A once-celebrated UNL program is the latest victim of federal spending cuts
The national effort to cut federal funding has trickled down to some University of Nebraska-Lincoln programs. The future of one program focused on recruiting and retaining teachers is now up in the ai...
nebraskapublicmedia.org
February 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Musk’s cronies take scholarships from future educators in Nebraska
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Our “late” fascism is an ideology of crisis and decline. It enlists supporters, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore puts it, on the basis of “explicit domination set against the local reality of decreasing family wealth, fear of unemployment, threat of homelessness, and ... capitalism’s many toxicities.”
The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review
A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
www.bostonreview.net
February 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our “late” fascism is an ideology of crisis and decline. It enlists supporters, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore puts it, on the basis of “explicit domination set against the local reality of decreasing family wealth, fear of unemployment, threat of homelessness, and ... capitalism’s many toxicities.”
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If you want to get a sense of what else is coming, this remains a valuable guide.
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stopproject2025comic.org
Stop Project 2025 Comic
Trump's Project 2025 is a detailed plan to shut you up, and shut you out. Don’t let it do either. Read on, then vote.
stopproject2025comic.org
January 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If you want to get a sense of what else is coming, this remains a valuable guide.
stopproject2025comic.org
stopproject2025comic.org
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He’s a Nazi. Drive him from public life.
Just in case anyone isn’t following: Elon did a Nazi salute twice and is now speaking at an AfD (neo-Nazi) rally in Germany.
If it salutes like a Nazi and campaigns for the Nazis, he’s probably a Nazi.
If it salutes like a Nazi and campaigns for the Nazis, he’s probably a Nazi.
January 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
He’s a Nazi. Drive him from public life.
I often disagree with what’s published in Jacobin, but found this to be helpful.
Donald Trump Is Weaker Than He Looks
Donald Trump’s administration is doing everything it can to project power and a sense of unstoppability in his first days as president. But the cracks are already starting to show.
jacobin.com
January 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I often disagree with what’s published in Jacobin, but found this to be helpful.
Official WA State guidance on supporting immigrant students in our schools.
Superintendent Reykdal Releases Guidance for Schools on Protections for Immigrant Students
OLYMPIA—January 23, 2025—Across the country, public schools have a constitutional and moral obligation to provide a free, high-quality public education to all students residing within their school dis...
ospi.k12.wa.us
January 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Official WA State guidance on supporting immigrant students in our schools.
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Since we continue to remain in the Trump era, it is more important than ever to teach for justice. To help, I am sharing this important chapter by Sibbett and @profwayneau.bsky.social from back in 2018 on critical social studies knowledge and practice. Download it here: bit.ly/sibbett-au
January 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Since we continue to remain in the Trump era, it is more important than ever to teach for justice. To help, I am sharing this important chapter by Sibbett and @profwayneau.bsky.social from back in 2018 on critical social studies knowledge and practice. Download it here: bit.ly/sibbett-au
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Victory for the people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ✊🏾❤️🎉💪🏾
I first read Leonard Peltier‘s book “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sundance” when I was 20, & ever since I have been tormented by the great injustice done to him. Grateful to the @ndncollective.bsky.social that fought for his freedom!
I first read Leonard Peltier‘s book “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sundance” when I was 20, & ever since I have been tormented by the great injustice done to him. Grateful to the @ndncollective.bsky.social that fought for his freedom!
January 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Victory for the people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ✊🏾❤️🎉💪🏾
I first read Leonard Peltier‘s book “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sundance” when I was 20, & ever since I have been tormented by the great injustice done to him. Grateful to the @ndncollective.bsky.social that fought for his freedom!
I first read Leonard Peltier‘s book “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sundance” when I was 20, & ever since I have been tormented by the great injustice done to him. Grateful to the @ndncollective.bsky.social that fought for his freedom!
My latest in @rethinkingschools.bsky.social on the anti-Black roots of the Model Minority and its damage to Asian Americans.
“Superachievers” vs. “Super Predators”: How the Racist Love of the Model Minority Is Weaponized Against Black and Asian American Students
Au summarizes the emergence of the Model Minority myth and its weaponization against Asian Americans and other people of color, and argues for abandoning the stereotype in favor of solidarity.
rethinkingschools.org
January 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My latest in @rethinkingschools.bsky.social on the anti-Black roots of the Model Minority and its damage to Asian Americans.
From Adam Sanchez @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
Defenders of Israel Attempt to Silence Anti-Racist Educators in Philadelphia
Sanchez describes how pro-Israel activists are bringing the war on teaching truth into blue cities like Philadelphia.
rethinkingschools.org
January 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From Adam Sanchez @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
Newest editorial from @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
Teaching Hope in Hard Times
What makes public education so dangerous is that it is grounded in hope. As the editors of our forthcoming Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices write, “one of the wonderful things […]
rethinkingschools.org
January 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Newest editorial from @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
Huge win for our students, programs, and region. Thanks to WEA for the support.
$1.5 million gift to diversify the teacher workforce - News
UW Bothell’s School of Educational Studies and the Washington Education Association are working together to support future educators and their diverse students.
www.uwb.edu
December 18, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Huge win for our students, programs, and region. Thanks to WEA for the support.