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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Excited to share my newest publication! #HipHopEd #educationresearch #education www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Dr. Kristin Sinclair @ksinclair04.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Beyond honored and proud to put the CUFA 2025 CFP together alongside the brilliant @drtmp.bsky.social, @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social, and @jjcarterford.bsky.social. Please share widely! Lets make the world together! ✊🏼

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Join me and the Georgia Association of Teacher Educators for this virtual event! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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Manny Faces @mannyfaces.com · 26/01/2025

I spend a good deal of time working to convince people of the ongoing and vitally important power of Hip Hop music and culture as a force for good in humanity. Luckily, I'm not alone. Here are some good folks in similar lanes.

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Check out my new piece, where I push back on the notion that drill music “glorifies” violence. Instead I reframe this narrative to show the ways drill music provides a detailed account of the impact of social inequities on individuals. medium.com/national-cen...

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Drill music doesn’t glorify violence; it details the raw realities of everyday life

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Dr. Noreen Naseem Rodríguez @nrdz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Are you a fan of Social Studies for a Better World? This afternoon we submitted proofs for the SECOND EDITION, which features interviews with teachers who were fired or pushed out for their anti-oppressive approaches! Can’t wait for y’all to read it… it’ll be ready for the world in March 2025!

Cover of Social Studies for a Better World with navy blue background and image of silhouettes of two children running with kites set against a beautiful sunset.

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

ya’ll critique trap and drill music more than the systemic inequities that create the realities rappers be talking about, and that’s really my issue with some of y’all 😒

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a man wearing glasses and a striped jacket is sitting in a crowd and says the end

Alt: a person wearing glasses and a striped jacket is sitting in a crowd and says the end

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HipHopEd @hiphoped.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It’s been a long time coming and a change is gonna come. #HipHopEd

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We presented to a full house and connected with a number of educators interested in bringing hip hop into their classroom. I consider that a great #NCSS2024 🙌🏽

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My colleagues and I will be sharing strategies and resources for teaching social studies through hip hop tomorrow at #NCSS2024 …join us!

Screenshot of conference schedule for presentation “Hip Hop Pedagogy and Social Studies” Saturday November 23 at 2:25-3:20pm in room 103

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American Educational Studies Association @aesatalk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

1. Adjapong, E. and @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social (2023). Teaching for liberation: On freedom dreaming in the field of hip-hop education. Peter Lang Inc. www.peterlang.com/document/133...

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I wrote a thing and people thought I should be recognized for it 😂 This award and the work it’s about isn’t about me…it’s about everyone who sees themselves in the work. From the ratchet girls to the yns, this work is for you. May you forever know the brilliance you embody.

Picture of a slide acknowledging the CUFA Kipchoge Neftali Kirkland Social Justice Award, awarded to Kelly Allen for a paper titled (Re)membering Beyond Respectability: Honoring Trap Epistemologies in History Education. A picture of Kelly Allen is featured on the slide.

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/H3QkVDR

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about. Here’s mine: 1. social studies teachers’ implementation of hip-hop education 2. trap epistemologies

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Let's do a #facecard for all the educators - outside of your job plz and include one fun fact about you. I'll start. I garden year round in my backyard & I have a goal to grow all the vegetables my family eats for an entire year.

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’m so excited that The Theory-Story Reader for Social Studies, edited by @brettonvarga.bsky.social and Erin Adams, is out! In my chapter I introduce trap critical theory as a way to honor trap epistemologies in classroom spaces

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The AERA Undergraduate Student Education Research Training Workshop Call for Applications deadline is approaching! Applications are due November 20. www.aera.net/Professional...

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Undergraduate Student Education Research Training Workshop

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Kelly Allen @kellyreneeallen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

*walks up to mic* Ahem, is this thing on? I post about the intersection of education, race & hip hop & I’m looking to follow other #education folks that have migrated to this app

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