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Clara Abbott

@clarabbott.bsky.social

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she/her | literacy studies phd @PennGSE playful writing, participatory methods, critical childhoods, arts-based research

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We performed our child-devised play today 🤩 arts-based #literacies research is the absolute best.

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Absolutely loved presenting/chairing a #literacies roundtable about embodied storytelling on the move! Where else do we get to make and circulate a data zine?! #AERA26

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Got a bag filled with craft supplies ready to go! See you all there 🎨

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Come craft with us at #AERA26! So excited for this 🎨

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We had so much fun creating a pop-up museum with everyday artifacts at the Penn Ethnography Forum. Shoutout to the amazing youth publishers at NOVA LitMag for their leadership. Such moving stories and reflections on how the objects in our lives bring us together and carry stories of their own.

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

There were so many highlights of #NCTE25 but the peak was absolutely presenting alongside my 7th grade English teacher. Here’s to the roots running so deep.

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It’s going to be a great week.

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

In an “illustrated texts” class, students made fanzines about graphic novels, forming new analyses and narratives by cutting/collaging excerpts from what they read, and I heard the coolest lightbulb moment: “Wait, are we restorying?” @amystorn.bsky.social and @ebonyteach.bsky.social ✨

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“In order to understand schools in this country, you have to understand what they have meant for black people and native people” Thank you @eveewing.bsky.social for sharing your careful, profound, and always timely scholarship with Philly last night 🔥

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Yesterday I got to talk zines, writing with AI, and creating brave spaces for youth writing and artwork at the Penn Ethnography Forum with @amystorn.bsky.social @rabani.bsky.social, and the rest of our fab intergenerational research team. Still smiling!

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This week, we organized another strictly non-academic writing group, in which we wrote poems, letters, stories, journal entries - would highly recommend. We had friends there across disciplines and interests, in and out of academia - we played music and just wrote. Third spaces are so good.

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I wrote a poem about my grandfather, Anthony S. Abbott, and it was published in t’art magazine. It’s a beautiful publication for queer art/artists! Sharing here because he was the one who made me fall in love with reading as a child - all my work is in his memory www.t-artpress.co.uk/wintereditio...

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thank you @karismjones.bsky.social and @mraleosays.bsky.social for organizing this cool space! So many new ideas for bringing multimodal texts into the classroom ✨ Love any chance I get to chat about zines!

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Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Sharing experiences of writing in community with youth at #ncte24 with Jen, Danielle, Barrett, Emmy, @rabani.bsky.social…this is truly my dream job ✨

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