You can read the full manuscript on our website, available here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

Up next in 4.1 is @codirenee.bsky.social's "Race Conversations as Technical and Professional Communication.” In it, Blackmon makes the case for critical race conversations as TPC, arguing that dissemination of specialized information to diverse audiences is central to TPC’s social justice work. 1/2

Situating Public Memory as a Keyword in Technical and Professional Communication | Technical Communication and Social Justice Copyright (c) 2026 Alexander Slotkin, April O'Brien

You can read Slotkin and O’Brien’s article here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc...

Today, we’re spotlighting @alexslotkin.bsky.social and April O’Brien’s article, "Situating Public Memory as a Keyword in Technical and Professional Communication.” They make a case for bringing public memory and TPC together as a tool to further social impact. 1/2

In this article, Powell and Pope examine how institutional responses to George Floyd’s murder and protests provide spaces for institutional critique and reforms through the creation of positive permission structures. Read it on our website today! 2/2

Our first (official) article of 4.1 is Katie Powell and Adam Pope’s article, "Dear Campus Community: Coalitional Public Statements as Positive Permission Structures after the Social Justice Turn.” Read it here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 1/2

You can read their full article here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc...

First, we have "Design Justice: Integrating AI into Technical and Professional Communication Curricula at Hispanic Serving Institutions,” by Timothy Ponce and Amy Hodges. Situated in design justice principles, Ponce & Hodges describe the potential for AI to address the digital divide in HSIs. 1/2

We’ll be spotlighting different articles all week! Stay tuned! 2/2

TCSJ is thrilled to announce the publication of our latest issue (4.1)! Whether you are interested in TPC’s potential to further engage with race and antiracism, disparities in medical diagnosis and care, or usability research in transnational contexts, there is something for you. 1/2

FailureCFP_TCSJ Embracing and Reframing Research Failures: Toward More Socially Just Practices Special Issue for Technical Communication and Social Justice Co-Editors: Chen Chen, Utah State University, chen.chen@usu....

TCSJ and special issue co-editors Chen Chen, Emma Rose, and Dorcas Anabire are seeking proposals for a new special issue, Embracing and Reframing Research Failures: Toward More Socially Just Practices! Interested? See the CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Proposals due 3/31/2026.

Read Fallon’s full article on our website: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

Last, but certainly not least, Issue 3.2 includes Courtney Fallon’s "Good Queer, Bad Queer: Pinkwashing as LGBTQ+ Citizen-Subjectification.” Fallon traces how the NYT’s pinkwashing of Palestinian violence reinforces the “Good Queer" through positioning queer Palestinians as “Bad Queers.” 1/2

In it, Kalodner-Martin explores how four permission structures—vaccination as social responsibility, economic imperative, personal freedom, and method of institutional control—influence COVID-19 vaccination beliefs and behaviors. Read it on our website: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

3.2 also includes Elena Kalodner-Martin’s (@ekalodnermar.bsky.social)’s article, "'What Do I Need to Say to Make You Trust Me?': Influences of Competing Permission Structures on COVID-19 Vaccination Decision-Making.” 1/2

Riddick explores tensions between donation bags and concerns about the environmental impacts of overconsumption, where a consumerist permission structure contributes to greenwashing without positive environmental impacts. Learn more and check out the full article on our website, linked above! 2/2

Kicking off Monday with the latest research? Check out Sarah Riddick's (@sarahriddick.bsky.social) article "Donation Bag Programs as Multimodal Permission Structures: Selling Climate-Positive Consumerism through Digital Marketing.” You can read it here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 1/2

In it, Marek Muller and @automotricity.bsky.social offer reciprocal permission structures as a framework for exploring how resistance to cultured meat reveals tensions between state legislation, conservative values, and free enterprise.

We’re thrilled to share our next article: S. Marek Muller and David Rooney’s "Culture(d) Wars: Reciprocal Permission Structures in Cultured Meat Bans,” available here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc...

Tracing 16 states’ anti-DEI bills, Sanders identified three key rhetorical strategies: White Rage, White Narcissism, & Deflecting Histories. Read more here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

Our third article in 3.2 is Nick Sanders’ article "Anti-DEI Legislation as an Unjust Permission Structure: A Critical Discourse Analysis of White Racial Resentment in State-level Anti-DEI Bills.” 1/2

You can read @sdicag.bsky.social's full article here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

Next up, we have Sara DiCaglio’s "Permission From the Future: Science Fiction Fantasies and “Extrauterine Children” in Post-Dobbs Imaginaries.” Examining Alabama’s IVF ruling, DiCaglio shows how speculative futures function as permission structures, shaping legal, ethical, and lived realities. 1/2

Read Cheek and Dorpenyo’s article in full here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc...

Our first article in 3.2 is Ryan Cheek and Isidore Dorpenyo’s "Deny, Defend, Depose: Structuring Permission for Bureaucratic Indifference, Slow (Civic) Violence, and the Institutional Betrayal of DEI.” They explore how DDD functions rhetorically amidst increasing legislative attacks on DEI work. 1/2

The TCSJ special issue co-editors have written a dedication for Kymberly, with a statement from the UMass Amherst Composition and Rhetoric program, where Morquecho was to begin her PhD program this fall. Read the dedication here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

TCSJ also wants to take a moment to honor co-editor Kymberly Morquecho, who passed away before this special issue was published. We mourn her loss and recognize her contributions to this issue, her communities, and the field of TPC. 1/2

You can read their introduction here, which historicizes and introduces the promise of the permission structure framing for social justice-oriented work across the field of TPC: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc...

Our latest issue kicks off with "Introduction to Special Issue on Unjust “Permission Structures” in/as Technical Communication,” written by special issue co-editors R.J. Lambert, @rwmonty.bsky.social, Kymberly Morquecho, and Sarah Warren-Riley. 1/x

We’ll be spotlighting a different article all week.

Be sure to follow along and check out our latest special issue: Unjust "Permission Structures" in/as Technical Communication!