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Yes! Though it requires ACTFL membership: my.actfl.org/SIG_WEBINAR_...

All publicly accessible talks are on my site... I try to keep it up to date! www.premiseed.com/presentation...

Spring 2026 Webinar Series: From Cultural Capital to Culture as Praxis in World Language Education Tasha Austin PhD Monday April 27 2026 5pm-6pm CST This webinar focuses on the need to denaturalize various 'capitals' which frame an economic approach to world language teaching. The webinar is based on the article by Dr. Tasha Austin titled Limited capital: A genealogy of culturelessness in (language) teacher education. The abstract for the article is included: Black youth as 'struggling students' is a persistent narrative in the contemporary U.S. psyche, both preceded by and markedly displayed through the 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, which reflected coded language encouraging a return to the pre-Civil Rights United States. This framing positioned Black students as culprits for the ills of U.S. schooling - a continuation of a history of educational policy that discursively enforces the need to defend society against 'subhuman' populations. Placing the 1983 policy report in conversation with Zwiers' Building Academic Language: Meeting Common Core Standards Across Disciplines (2013) via raciolinguistic genealogy, I problematize the ways in which texts like these reinforce discourses of Black cultures and languages as subhuman, deviant threats to U.S. society ACTFL 'Language Connects' Critical & Social Justice Approaches and African American Students SIG

Join us! #LanguageEducation #TeacherEducation #Culture #BlackLinguisticReparations #LimitedCapital #WorldLanguages

full paper open-access here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

World Languages for Black linguistic reparations: we badly need "a recreation of the "world" as narrated through a global, rather than a white Western lens"
#lingsky #langsky #WorldLanguageTeachers

“Community Is Wherever I Am”: A Sista Circle on Othermotherwork in Teacher Education - Tasha Austin, Dawnavyn James, Teresa Leggard, Rosangela Bencosme-Perez, Modiegi Notoane-Eugene, 2025 As an exploration of potential support structures for Black women teachers, this study elicits the wisdom of Black women as othermothers who serve in an array o...

“Community Is Wherever I Am”: A Sista Circle on Othermotherwork in Teacher Education journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you so much!

*seems like it would😅

Clothed in gratitude🙏🏿

Tenured!🎉

#Gratitude #Community #AcademicChatter

AERA2026 Flyer reads: "I'm presenting" with conference dates and presenter information. April 8-12 in Los Angeles, CA. Presenter Tasha Austin 4/11 [Roundtable: co-author] Mathematics Ability as Property: Examining Mathematics Reform as a Racial Project Through Raciolinguistic Genealogy (Marriott Ground Floor Gold 2) 4/12 [Symposium: chair/presenter] Where in the World are World Languages? (Marriott 2nd Floor Platinum A)

Looking forward to #AERA26... hope you'll join me!

#HigherEd #TeacherEd #AcademicSky #LanguageEd #WorldLanguages #Raciolinguistics

A previous version of my 'Labor vs Leisure' talk has just been published! Thank you to the good folks at @ucl.ac.uk and @uco.es for inviting me and for sponsoring this important event!

You can find the full talk on my website: www.premiseed.com/presentation...

#AcademicSky #LanguageEducation

Flyer of Dr. Austin reads "presenting at the 2026 convention & expo Dr. Tasha Austin. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages international association. "Critical Collaborative Reflection, linguistic landscapes & material culture in teacher preparation." Wednesday March 25th, 1:00pm-1:45pm.

Excited for this invited workshop with #TESOL in Utah!

We'll engage in a digital linguistic landscape & discuss the potential of critical collaborative reflection w/in TESOL teacher education & beyond

Upcoming events & more on my revamped website!
www.premiseed.com

#AcademicSky #LanguageEducation

New York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam AG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo.

NY Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

Flyer for AAAL 2026 Dr. Tasha Austin pictured with names of research presentations: (1) “They is Me!”: Redefining ‘Traditional’ Students through Narratives of Black World Language Teachers. [Tuesday, March 24 9:10-9:40am] (2) Leisure vs. Labor: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy on the Decline of World Language Study [Tuesday, March 24 11:20-11:50am]

Looking forward to presenting at AAAL 2026 in Chicago! The first paper I'll present has been published (link below) and the other is under review

Hope to see you all there!

#AcademicSky #TeacherEducation #LanguageEducation #WorldLanguages #BlackWorldLanguaging

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/modl...

mil gracias😊 it's truly innovative and humanizing - hope you'll read/submit and share!

Racial Justice in Multilingual Education: A New Open-Access Journal on Race, Language and Education. I've joined the RJME Review Board! Check it out at rjme.org! 1-Read and Share 2-Submit Your Work 3-Ask me Your Questions

Thank you for inviting me @rjme-journal - excited to get started as a review board member! #AcademicSky #Research #LanguageEducation #TeacherEducation #WorldLanguages #BlackWorldLanguaging

Piscataway Public LIbrary AFrican American Read-in February 2026 Tasha Austin pictured alongside bilingual children's book 'El Barrio Mío/My Neighborhood"

So excited to read as a part of the African American Read-In! If you know families with littles, please encourage them to register for this amazing event!

#BlackHistoryMonth #TeacherEducation #KidLit #AcademicSky #LanguageEducation

www.piscatawaylibrary.org/read-in

Webinar Zoom boxes with webinar presenters, moderators and participants

Power matters in the language classroom but we can redistribute the labor of who gets to be 'home & target cultures' with perspective-making

Thank you New York State Department of Education & Erin Kearney!
#WorldLanguages #AcademicSky #TeacherEducation

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Language learning is not a privilege, but a necessity - a joy!

My autobiographical bilingual children's book explores Spanish language learning in community; as relationship

Amplify narratives of linguistic & cultural diversity🌍
#AcademicSky #EduSky #Skybrarian

www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore...

Title of slide: Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023) [Image of documentary on Zora Neale Hurston 'Claiming A Space'] Text of slide: What do you see as the challenges of being a cultural insider/outsider? How might funding produce a conflict of interest in one’s work? What is the role of linguistic fidelity in qualitative work? How do time spent, dis/honesty and compensation impact ethnography? Other?

as i launch my first ever k-12 study, a class from the course i teach on ed research hits different

breaking the observer/ed hierarchy/dichotomy & working as a cultural insider rather than an objectifier is a beautiful labor

thank you ancestor Zora
so humbled
so grateful♥️🖤💚

#EduSky #AcademicSky

Culture eminently eludes any form of simplification. When the colonized intellectual writing for his people uses the past he must do so with the intention of opening up the future, of spurring them into action and fostering hope. -Fanon (1961)

Sitting with the timeless wisdom of Fanon today:
#WorldLanguages #LanguageEducation #EduSky #AcademicSky #Blackademic #EdResearch

Dr. Betina Hsieh & Dr. Tasha Austin hug after doctoral hooding

4 images of a recently graduated Dr. Austin in various poses & fits around the campus of the school from which she graduated. Announcement reads 'Rutgers 2022' 'Dr. Tasha Austin, PhD' 'Venmo library fund @Tasha-Austin-2'

in search of wrapping paper anoche i stumbled upon my graduation announcement. the me of 2022 could not have fathomed the healing i now experience

my homie hooded me in the sala
i skipped graduation & kept my integrity
the pomp dont change your circumstance
love does.

#EduSky #AcademicSky

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Spencer Small grant team - T. Austin, D. James & A. Raysor smile for Zoom photo

"Thank you for submitting your proposal, “They is me!”: Redefining ‘Traditional’ Students Through Narratives of Black World Language Teachers, for presentation at the 2026 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. We are pleased to inform you that your submission has been selected for inclusion in the conference program as an individual paper. As a reminder, you submitted this proposal for the following conference: Chicago: March 21-24 2026 This year we received more than 2400 proposals for consideration. Decisions were reached after an extensive review process involving 54 strand coordinators, 647 peer reviewers, and the conference organizing committee. Due to the limitations placed on us by scheduling and space, the acceptance rate for submissions was quite competitive. So, warm congratulations! Look for more information after November 6, 2025."

Indescribably proud to lead this team! @spencerfoundation.bsky.social study on Black WL teachers accepted to AAAL 2026 in Chicago!

Aminah Raysor & @queendomteaching.bsky.social are brilliant emerging scholars. Let's hear it for them!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
#TeacherEducation #LanguageEducation #BlackWorldLanguaging

The difference between good and bad languaging is the evaluator’s knowledge of said practice’s history and context

Reminder from your friendly neighborhood educational linguist:

#CheckYourself #YourSlipIsShowing #BlackWorldLanguaging
#AcademicChatter

Thanks to the brilliant editors and to Erin Kearney for collaborating on this with me.

DM for a copy!

#AcademicChatter #WorldLanguages #Interculturality #TeacherPreparation #BeyondCurriculum #PedagogicalInnovation #InstructionalDesign

increasing the likelihood of sustained interest and robust cultural representation in WL instruction.

We know that Black and marginalized learners in US WLs are framed as neither home nor target cultures. WLTs have the power to change that through design and pedagogy choices!

Having just returned from 🇪🇸 after 18yrs away, I am ever more affirmed in our need for perspective-making in WLs.

WL educators can lighten the burden of acknowledging, centering and validating the experiences of those multiply marginalized /2

Holding the handbook of research in world language instruction smiling

Chapter 17: Perspective Making and Its Potential in Intercultural Learning - book open to the first page of the co-authored chapter by Erin Kearney and Tasha Austin

Our chapter on perspective-making is out! I just received my copy of the handbook of research in world language instruction and couldn’t be more excited! /1

From Mutual Aid to Hood Utopias: A Testimony on Black Communal Care By Saint Trey Wooden Before I ever learned the word mutual aid, I knew what it meant to be fed by grief that did not ask for language.  After my mother died, the world did not stop, but the bl…

thank you Dr. Bettina Love for sharing this healing in the form of a blog post.

iansamag.com/2025/08/04/f...

we got this, Black folks... and those w Black politics. we are the revolution❤️🖤💚 #CBCE25