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Ankhi Thakurta

@ankhithakurta.bsky.social
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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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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New publication 🌟 doi.org/10.1111/lit....
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Creative Civic Literacies: Exploring Asian Girls' Compositions in a Virtual Diasporic Third Space
Drawing on sociocultural literacy, Asian American feminist and third space lenses, this paper explores how nine US-based Asian diasporic girls composed for civic learning in a virtual Youth Participa...
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Karis Jones Ph.D. @karismjones.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New release: ETPC special issue "Advancing critical gaming literacies in language arts and literacy education”! Gather your teacher bffs, Discord server, or PSTs to play our *roleplaying game* for reading the issue together 🎮🎲👾 www.emerald.com/etpc/article... @virginiak.bsky.social
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Guest editorial: Advancing critical gaming literacies in language arts and literacy education
Games proliferate in our modern world, ranging from online video games to board games and table-top roleplaying games, each with their unique communities and practices. Accordingly, it can be difficul...
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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm delighted to share my new piece for the Journal of Literacy Research 🥰 This paper explores Indonesian American girls’ civic compositional literacies. Check it out to learn more about three girls’ gorgeous, critical, and visionary composing! doi.org/10.1177/1086...
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Civic Compositional Literacies of Indonesian American Girlhood - Ankhi G. Thakurta, 2026
This paper examines how, in a virtual critical literacy community, Indonesian American girls took up invitations for civic composing. While these young women fa...
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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Always a pleasure to explore youth civic speculation with @alexcorbitt.bsky.social! Check out our new piece.
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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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....
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<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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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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
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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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
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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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
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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A3) Part 1: I’m privileged to work with immigrant youth who are heirs to rich transnational creative legacies. #literacies
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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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
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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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
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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
**In 2 short hours!** - Join #literacies at 5pm PST/8pm EST tonight as we discuss Fostering Arts-Based Civic Literacies with Dr. Ankhi Thakurta!
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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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.
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 09/03/2025
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.”
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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Tune in! Should be a great conversation.
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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. #AcademicSky theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...
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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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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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 ❤️ ✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Dr. Noreen Naseem Rodríguez @nrdz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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.
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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
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.
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Omar AlShehabi @omaralshehabi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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 www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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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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Carmen Houston @carmabsolutely.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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lseward.bsky.social @lseward.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#CityOfSomerville warming center
Somerville warming center is open 12/9/24-4/15/25.  Located at the Cummings School. Hours 5pm - 8am.
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Ankhi Thakurta @ankhithakurta.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
❤️
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Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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
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Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice @lrtmp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📢 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!
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Patrick Proctor @cpatrickproctor.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Proud to publish this piece with Chris Leider (@cmleider.bsky.social). We ask educational psychologists to consider students’ “dynamic idiolects” to better understand reading development and achievement. First 50 downloads are free! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EAP95...
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Toward a dynamic idiolect: Multilingual perspectives on the “science of reading”
In this essay, we address the multilingual challenge that is faced by both the “science of reading” and the field of educational psychology. We describe some significant contributions made by educa...
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.
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Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Educators: if you need strategies to support your immigrant/refugee students, this book is a good place to start Link: www.tcpress.com/humanizing-e... [If this is a financial hardship & you work with newcomer youth, reach out & we will find a way to get you a book] @lesleybartlett.bsky.social
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Karis Jones Ph.D. @karismjones.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A pleasure to write this piece with @gemmasupernova.bsky.social to look across two virtual out-of-school writing programs. doi.org/10.1002/jaal... We explore a common trajectory across both cases for our focal youth advocates… (1/2)
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Remi Kalir @remikalir.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I wrote Gloria Anzaldúa’s phrase on the border wall at Playas de Tijuana. Then I photographed my annotation. The image is now my book's cover. "Re/Marks on Power" book cover reveal: remikalir.com/blog/re-mark... @mitpress.bsky.social #BookSky #Books #AcademicSky #EduSky #literacies #annotation
The cover of my forthcoming book "Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice" from MIT Press. The cover includes my photograph of the US-Mexico border wall at Playas de Tijuana. I wrote Gloria Anzaldúa’s phrase "An Unnatural Boundary" on one of the wall's metal slats. Razor wire, a light tower, and a secondary border fence are visible in the background.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
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Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem – Demystifying Language Project
Students of color are always being told that they need to change the way they speak. But what if, instead, educators changed the way they listen?
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