Thank you to the W & L SIG Graduate Student Board, and the Bluesky team in particular, for continuing to build community in our SIG! #literacies

Thanks, @mgonzalezybarra.bsky.social for hosting tonight's chat! We're lucky that you're this year's W&L SIG's Comms Chair. Everyone, make sure you check out Dr. González Ybarra's work! #literacies

I'm excited to think about curriculum being created in partnership with youth and families. This sounds so beautiful! #literacies

Youth are constantly teaching us about the nuances in language! They truly are our linguistic experts #literacies

Yes!! Love this idea for transnational pedagogy and bringing in the experts like the grandmas, aunties, etc.! #literacies

A6: One way I've been thinking about addressing these issues is through partnerships with Indigenous teachers in Mexico. I wonder how we can re-think Latinx multilingual education in the U.S. by working alongside Indigenous educators to transform education for our students? #literacies

Yes! Within the Mexican context where I work with Mayan teachers they describe having to create their own curriculum that often lives within a box in their classrooms or in random fb groups where teachers share what they've created. #literacies

I wonder, what linguistic knowledge and literacies are we missing when we advocacy for English-Spanish bilingual education? In fighting for Spanish to be valued in the U.S. are we missing the opportunity to grapple with it's historical and contemporary colonial imprints? #literacies

Some students come to the classroom knowing 2-3 languages and admit to not being able to speak some of their Indigenous languages anymore because they are not a part of their daily learning. #literacies

However, in my work with multilingual Latinx youth who come from Indigenous homes and communities, I have learned that despite having amazing Latinx teachers who value bilingualism, these young people's multilingualism is often overlooked or simplified into the Spanish-English dichotomy. #literacies

A5: In my work in education, I have seen how Latinx educators, activists, and allies have worked tirelessly to advocate for bilingual education so that Latinx children can get the support they need in their home and community language as well as maintain their bilingualism. #literacies

I feel you on this! My pre-service teachers talk about feeling the weight even before entering the classroom #literacies

Yes! So many children's educational trajectories are marked by home language surveys. #literacies

I've had to reckon with mestizaje and the colonial history of Spanish and it's contemporary role in linguistic hierarchies across Latin America. #literacies

For me, Spanish is a language of love and endearment. A language that connects me to my grandparents and to their place of origin. However, in my recent work with Mayan teachers in Yucatán, I have come to see Spanish through a more nuanced lens. #literacies

A4: As a scholar, educator, and parent I have advocated for bilingual education to support the educational trajectories of Latinx students. As a mother raising a bilingual child, I have committed to raising my child using the language of my home and community, Spanish. #literacies

I remember when I first traveled to a place where neither of my languages were the dominant languages spoken. It's such a great opportunity for reflection. #literacies

It's so refreshing to hear about how teachers are doing this! I want my preservice teachers to hear about the teachers in the classroom are engaging in subversive practices and resistance. #literacies

My bilingual parenting requires me to grapple with these issues and ensure that my child, as a racialized emergent bilingual, understands that bilingualism is a matter of the heart but also a resistant practice in the face of English superiority in the U.S. #literacies

In my personal life, I have had to sit with what these discourses mean for me as a mother raising a bilingual child "Spanish-first." #literacies