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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I know academics get it, but sometimes I just miss "home." I don't even know where it is anymore. What weird jobs we have, that force us away from our communities and families.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Of course in the local schools around me they are no longer using full length novels.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I appreciate this work! I'm interested in response to literature in secondary classrooms. A lot of English Ed is about better text selection (which is needed). I study how grieving teachers change their teaching of literature, and so I work more with the canonical texts and response.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We so rarely see literary scholarship that brings in scholars of education, including Applebee and Rosenblatt, as this piece does. This article is really interesting to me--still thinking it through. There's a lot going on. Somehow, it still leads with Holden Caufield. 😜😭

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

You're so kind! He did read I Am a Slime Monster ... I think the week it came out. 😊

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Yesterday I was telling Aaron over dinner that I had been looking up and reserving some new books based on new releases. I told him I look up authors I like and find out if they have new books. Aaron: So look up Jarod Rosello to see if the new book is out. 😀

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 19/02/2026

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A5. This decreased my anxiety over how much time it really took to do all the stuff associated with job applications. Not to say it wasn't still hard. Still, it helped to shift focus away from things I could not control (where jobs were, getting a job) until it was time to think about those things.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A5. Late to this #literacies chat but 1 thing that helped me was reframing the activities (material creation, interviews) as definitional work. Reframing the process as an opportunity to refine how I wrote and talked about my scholarship meant it was time well spent whether I got the job or not.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I have never been great at being crafty or creating an atmosphere as a host but suddenly my son (almost 8) wants to have a birthday party (1st time he has wanted one) with a space theme and I'm obsessed with plates that look like planets and astronaut balloons.

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Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Despite the limitations of the term 'bereavement leave', I'm so pleased the #EmploymentRightsAct at the very end of 2025 means #pregnancy ending before 24-week viability for any reason now entitles people to leave from work. #pregnancyloss #miscarriage #abortion #TOPFA #TFMR

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Bereavement leave acknowledges someone’s loss of a baby. When only sick leave is accessible, we ignore the grief people experience. Glad to see some local change.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I really love all of Kate Morton’s books and The House at Riverton was my fav. A little bit of family drama meets mystery. I was completely absorbed by each book.

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Journal of Language and Literacy Education @jolleuga.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

JoLLE calls are still open for one more month! Submit your work today and add to the conversation. 🤝❤️🖤

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We have to do a better job supporting teachers at work following a miscarriage. For more on the layered pressures they face, see this article in AERA Open, "The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers' Leave Decisions and Well-Being ..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The thing is … people unfortunately and unforgivably do not care. I do not know why.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This semester has been 🗑️ at work and really stressful for me personally bc I am worried about my kid. But you know what? One thing that always makes me feel good is receiving and giving updates back and forth with teachers I've interviewed. No matter what the future holds, I'm so grateful for it. 🌻

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I read Uniquely Human at your suggestion and liked it a lot!

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Hey #literacies friends. I am headed to #ncte25. Very excited to be back in Denver. During aera, I took an inexpensive Lyft to Red Rocks if you are looking for a few hours to clear your mind! Highly recommend.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Yeah … no. They will not put up with certain things at all. Solidarity.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Just starting to orient myself toward #NCTE25 and suddenly remembered how last year I got to sit about 10 feet from Ada Limon while she read poems to me. 🤓🌻

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

So much gratitude to the GSB Homecoming Planning Committee for inviting us back to guest host tonight. Let us know how else we can support the efforts chatted about tonight. As you could see, there’s lots of love for #literacies chat! We’re here to support the team!

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I think it would be good! 8 PM is also a hard time for me as a parent. No time is great for everyone. Slow chat opens up asynchronous participation. #literacies

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I'm sure you of anyone can understand, but sometimes a focus on literacy teachers and their lives isn't seen as literacies ...

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

@deroomat.bsky.social we were friends anyway but I feel like our #literacies twitter chats spurred the Early Career Cohort we co-lead with NCTEAR. Strengthened our friendship and sparked the idea for how we wanted to serve the community.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

So much same! I still don't always feel like a #literacies scholar in the "right" way. Yet the online space was a way for me to get to know people's work in a deeper way and feel more included.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

On a nerdy level, I felt like asynchronous or synchronous online writing became a chain in a string of #literacies utterances, including in person interactions months late. Writing as social participation!

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I think #literacies chats was where I became familiar with you and your work, @profhsieh.bsky.social ! 💜

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

For sure! I missed most of the #literacies chat tonight and am catching up. A bunch of doctoral students from MSU were on them from 2015 ish on and I "met" so many scholars and learned about their work that way. Then I met them in person and it was easier to jump right in to conversations.

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

THANK YOU to Drs. @anna-phd.bsky.social , @esp-phd.bsky.social , and the entire #Literacies chat 'class of 2012' for creating this space built on community, connection, scholarship, practice, and all things #literacies !

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Thanks for caring and listening. :)

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Oh they are not helpful at all. I'm disgusted!! (but also I'm in education, so I try to be empathetic and know teachers are doing too much, spread too thin). But I'm stuck in a state where the support isn't going to be great and I'm also an academic so moving is .... really hard (and I've tried!!) 😔

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Thank you! Yes, we have done social skills group consistently and recently got external support to go to school. I’m just drowning trying to navigate school and I don’t know when the drawbacks outweigh the benefits, tbh.

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Why do we have so many resources on reaching a diagnosis but so little on how we can actually better support kiddos once they have the diagnosis?

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Do any of my academic friends have suggestions for resources about supporting an autistic child in the first years of school? (hyper verbal, high IQ, serious obstacles in building social relationships). When I search I get a zillion resources about identifying autism... I want to know what to do!

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Hochschild is brilliant!! It’s a shame that so many people misuse concepts from her studies, which are fantastic and framed through the lens of labor. Her concepts are about WORK. She just so happened to include women’s uncompensated work in domestic spheres.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

What Arlie Hoschild found was that when women entered the workforce en masse in the 20th century, men functionally went on strike from domestic labor—forcing women to take on a double day of wages and caretaking work.

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 at 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional @deroomat.bsky.social @brownellcassie.bsky.social @mandiedunn.bsky.social @gemmasupernova.bsky.social @nicole-mirra.bsky.social

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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I set ONE work boundary after 6 years of constantly being overly nice and accommodating. And I got email screamed at by a man who I have worked closely with for 6 years, for whom I have always been covering for when he needed it. #academia

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sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🔵 FACULTY POSITION 🔵 U of Illinois is hiring a Secondary Literacy professor (open rank, tenure-track)! 💰 $78K-$130K (rank dependent) 📅 Start 9/2026 ⏰ Deadline: 10/20/25 For more info: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #AcademicJobs #LiteracyEducation #HigherEd #Literacies Please boost! 🚀

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