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Wayne Au

@profwayneau.bsky.social
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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 · 17/09/2025
My latest book has arrived! Available September 26th.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We’re hiring a Director of Teacher Education at the UW Bothell School of Ed Studies!!!!
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UW Human Resources
University of Washington Human Resources
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
“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...
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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 ...
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A few pics from the Seattle protest.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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!!!!
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Map of federal funding that goes to WA school districts.
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sammyunni.bsky.social @sammyunni.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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US judge orders Trump administration to restore teacher preparation grants
A federal judge on Monday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to temporarily restore grant funding for teacher preparation programs in eight Democratic-led states that it nixed as part of Republicans' efforts to eradicate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from the government.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I’ll be presenting at Ohio State University on March 27th. Come through if you are around!
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Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🇵🇸✊🏾🎉❤️ 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...
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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
Book cover with the title, “Race, Curriculum, and the Politics of Educational Justice”
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Gabriel Gutiérrez @maestrogtz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Musk’s cronies take scholarships from future educators in Nebraska
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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...
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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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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.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/01/2025
If you want to get a sense of what else is coming, this remains a valuable guide. stopproject2025comic.org
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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.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
He’s a Nazi. Drive him from public life.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I often disagree with what’s published in Jacobin, but found this to be helpful.
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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.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Official WA State guidance on supporting immigrant students in our schools.
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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...
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Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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
Book cover for "Social Studies Teacher Education" by Christopher C. Martell
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Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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!
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
My latest in @rethinkingschools.bsky.social on the anti-Black roots of the Model Minority and its damage to Asian Americans.
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“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.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
From Adam Sanchez @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
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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.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Newest editorial from @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
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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 […]
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Huge win for our students, programs, and region. Thanks to WEA for the support.
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$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.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Rethinking Schools is now on Bluesky!
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
New pub alert! 50 free downloads. Basically condensed versions of several arguments from my book.
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“How does it feel to Be a solution?”: Asian American racialization and the politics of U.S. education
This paper considers the implications of the Asian American Model Minority being framed as a solution to racial inequality, especially within education. It begins with a discussion of the origins a...
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Truth
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I’ve realized that looking at the @theonion.com’s posts here is a really good way to identify right wing trolls and block them. There are always some who can’t stop themselves from commenting.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 29/11/2024
ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 3rd! www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/140-ha...
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Happy Holidays! 40% OFF ALL Haymarket Books
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 3rd! For one-stop shopping, check out our eleven curated gift bundles: each includes 5 books for $5...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Another example of Biden paving the way for Trump: Biden is going after the Climate Justice Alliance for supporting a ceasefire in Gaza. theintercept.com/2024/11/29/b...
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Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
The Biden administration is withholding funds from the Climate Justice Alliance, a federal grantee that has spoken out about Palestine.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/11/2024
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Teen’s Eyes Begin Glowing Red While Reciting Forbidden Knowledge From Book On Critical Race Theory
FORT MYERS, FL—His bedroom walls quivering and cracking the moment he opened the secret tome, local teen Charlie Donnell reportedly found his eyes beginning to glow red Thursday as he recited forbidde...
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Another funny mash up.
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Sesame Street: Respect World
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
lol. Too funny.
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Sesame Street: Respect is Coming
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/11/2024
Activist Haim Bresheeth, the son of Holocaust survivors and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, speaks out.
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Jewish Anti-Zionist Activist Describes His Arrest Under UK’s Anti-Terror Law
Activist Haim Bresheeth, the son of Holocaust survivors and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, speaks out.
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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I teach face validity using examples like this. 21% of people are trans? 30% of people live in NYC? Does that pass the "sniff test?" Absolutely not. Zero face validity. I worry about an individual's critical thinking ability if they can't figure this out.
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p.m. newlove @petenewlove.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Lesson plan on deportations from the Zinn Ed Project www.zinnedproject.org/materials/de...
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Deportations on Trial: Mexican Americans During the Great Depression
Students analyze who is to blame for the illegal mass deportations of Mexican Americans and immigrants during the Great Depression.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If this passes tomorrow, it is going to cause so much damage.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I’m loving the #ungradingchat slow chat that is happening. Lots of great models, ideas, and approaches.
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Lee Iskander @lee-iskander.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I have a new article out today with colleagues @drmcquillan.bsky.social @harperkeenan.bsky.social @ftmathteacher.bsky.social, Bishop Owis, Christina Cook and Daniel Gallardo! We interviewed trans school workers and invited them to respond to this cultural moment: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZVP6D...
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‘Everything they think they know, they should forget’: how trans school workers respond to transphobic discourses
This article explores how trans school employees redeploy, trouble, challenge, and refuse prevalent discourses about transness and education. Drawing from interviews with 100 school workers in Cana...
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19/11/2024
We Grow the World Together is a vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition. For every copy we sell on our website this month, we'll send a free copy through our Books Not Bars program to a reader who is currently incarcerated.
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We Grow the World Together
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15/11/2024
Here's 50 storytellers and comrades we think are worth a follow go.bsky.app/5RpSsNS ... will share more soon too
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is going to be a hellish ride.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I love Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Accurate description of my life as an education dean.
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I Am a Passionate Mid-Level University Administrator, and I’m Gonna Administrate the Shit Out of This Place
Look, this place needs to be administrated, and I’m the guy to do it. I know you’ve been doing your best, but you’ve been held back. You haven’t be...
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/11/2024
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
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OiYan Poon (she/her) @oiyanpoon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Thursday and Friday 11/21-11/22, Té Té and I will be in the Twin Cities! THURSDAY - ST. PAUL @ 6:30 p.m. - Bookstore event with Bao Phi! blackgarnetbooks.com/events/12800... FRIDAY @ 2 p.m. - #ASHE2024 Fireside chat with Chase Catalano!
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Community Talk: "Asian American Is Not a Color" with Dr. OiYan Poon
Independent bookstore in Saint Paul selling curated books by BIPOC authors/illustrators.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found. www.propublica.org/article/segr...
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Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Another great starter pack.
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Wayne Au @profwayneau.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Sharing this great starter pack. Also, remember that if new folks are added to a starter pack you already follow, you won’t be added as a follower. You need to go back in and hit follow all again.
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