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Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)
debreese
I strive to #DisruptTexts every day, and invite you to read my critiques of classics (like LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE), and to read the work done by the #DisruptTexts
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K. Imani Tennyson
K_Imani
True story: I had a student, a young black girl, who loved reading and writing. She was a talented writer who loved writing fan fiction and fantasy. I exposed her
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Idil Abdulkadir
Idil_A_
For my folks not in K-12 edutwitter:There is a mess over at #DistruptTexts, a movement started by a brilliant group of educators (women of colour).Could you use #DisruptTexts share a
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Matthew Ryan
MatRyanELATeach
I disagree with much of what is presented by #DisruptTexts on this page. 1/5https://disrupttexts.org/2018/10/25/5-disrupting-shakespeare/ “Any [every] playwright” doesn’t have literary merit. And some have more than others. Artists ar
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Dept. of Wokeness Studies
DeptStudies
Do y'all mind if I interrogate these principles that everyone is telling me I don't understand, #DisruptTexts? On #1: No, you don't believe this. In fact, you've consistently shut down
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Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul
SonjaCherryPaul
1/6 Cowards swim in the sea of intentional ignorance and ingest the water willfully. They are the “anti-intellectuals’ they claim others to be. And they reveal themselves when the racist
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Nicholas A. Christakis
NAChristakis
I had assumed that the #DisruptTexts movement was organic. But I recently discovered https://disrupttexts.org , and I think that, in addition to publishers springing into action to meet market demand, they
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Christie
ChristieNold
So much of the conversation about #DisruptTexts necessarily centers the reading lives of Black & brown students.I'm going to do the WW thing of centering whiteness in the conversation for
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Tricia Ebarvia
triciaebarvia
What would you need to know or understand in order to consider changing your mind? This is a question that puts the responsibility back on those who resist antiracist curriculum/instruction.
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David Withun
DavidWithun
After spending a couple of days engaging with #DisruptTexts and its most vociferous Twitter defenders, here is what I've learned: 1. Many of its most outspoken defenders are also outspoken
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Daniel Buck
MrDanielBuck
So my biggest problem with the whole #DisruptTexts thing isn't their treatment of "the canon" (whatever that means) but their literary theory.It turns every book into an echo chamber. Traditional
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Jessica Ann
Varizey
There are so many laughable claims in that WSJ hitjob, but I'm going to focus on the first (of so many) things I learned from @juliaerin80 @triciaebarvia @TchKimPossible @nenagerman and
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Lorie Barber #BlackLivesMatter ♥
barberchicago
A thread on the value of #DisruptTexts at the elementary level, because I can’t stop thinking of yesterday’s drivel. In an Oct. 2020 interview, MG author of #WHATLANE?, @TorreyMaldonado, said:“I’ve
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Clint Smith
ClintSmithIII
The best teachers I know teach their students to critically interrogate *every* text they read. They teach both Morrison & Shakespeare. Baldwin & Frost. Contemporary YA & 19th century novels.
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Tricia Ebarvia
triciaebarvia
If choosing not to teach classic and predominantly White authors is "banning" and "censorship," what is it called when BIPOC authors are systematically excluded from even being published and don't
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David Withun
DavidWithun
There seems to be an assumption by many on both sides of the #DisruptTexts debate that there is a conflict between classic texts and diverse texts. I have to admit
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