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Tasha Austin PhD [she]
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Assistant Prof Teacher Ed| Multilingualism| Language Education
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Tasha Austin PhD [she] @profeaustin.bsky.social · Jun 30
So grateful - #25 today among Amazon bestsellers at this stage of preorders!🎉

I can't wait to share this work with the world. And you don't have to support Amazon (I certainly, don't!) Revolutionary Possibilities in Black World Languaging is now available from the publisher!

#LanguageEd #TeacherEd
Purple binding and orange array of colors on cover of 'Revolutionary Possibilities in Black World Languaging" by Tasha Austin. Pictured - artwork of two Black women facing one another against a sunset colored background. Publisher - palgrave macmillan QR Code leading to palgrave macmillan website where 'Revolutionary Possibilities in Black World Languaging' can be purchased directly: https://link.springer.com/book/9783032308887
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Familiar with overperforming for institutions whose existence require my superexploitation, I told Warda not to cast her pearls before swine

Our exchanges are threads in a tapestry of triumph fueled by community, history & authenticity

DM for copies!📿📿📿

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Image of first page of peer reviewed article: Pearls before swine: an Nkwaethnographic exploration of the language and labor of Black women scholars Authors: Tasha Austin & Warda Farah Abstract: Within the modern era, Black women have been positioned as silent laborers unworthy of just compensation for their work. This positioning reflects broader western formations that thrive on Black women depicted as takers rather than contributors to society even when they are experts and professionals in their fields. Still, the navigation and understanding of the value of Black women’s intellectual labor has yet to be explored for the way it is digitally mediated and languaged through storytelling.This nkwaethnographic study reveals how the co-authors navigate suspicions about our legitimate contributions towards co-constructed community knowledges within the white-dominated contexts in which we find ourselves. Our thematic analysis revealed that our personal, cultural and professional language expertise allowed us to leverage various linguistic modalities to bear witness to one another’s realities, invite community in lieu of isolation, and dare to emerge as authentic cultural beings across time and space. Introductory paragraph: We, Tasha and Warda, connected over social media more than three years ago, finding value in one another’s critical language approaches within our respective academic fields of world language teacher preparation and speech and language pathology (SLP). Our posts expressed different perspectives on having an ethical commitment to Black and minoritized languagers within spaces dominated by white supremacy. We sustained our connection through a series of public and private conversations that revealed a transatlantic rhythm between the United States and the United Kingdom– one of resistance to commodification regarding the labor of Black women whose work is the pursuit of linguistic justice. We were both instructing at the higher education level, but n…
July 11, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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So grateful - #25 today among Amazon bestsellers at this stage of preorders!🎉

I can't wait to share this work with the world. And you don't have to support Amazon (I certainly, don't!) Revolutionary Possibilities in Black World Languaging is now available from the publisher!

#LanguageEd #TeacherEd
Purple binding and orange array of colors on cover of 'Revolutionary Possibilities in Black World Languaging" by Tasha Austin. Pictured - artwork of two Black women facing one another against a sunset colored background. Publisher - palgrave macmillan QR Code leading to palgrave macmillan website where 'Revolutionary Possibilities in Black World Languaging' can be purchased directly: https://link.springer.com/book/9783032308887
June 30, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Join us! #LanguageEducation #TeacherEducation #Culture #BlackLinguisticReparations #LimitedCapital #WorldLanguages

full paper open-access here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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
April 21, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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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
May 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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“Community Is Wherever I Am”: A Sista Circle on Othermotherwork in Teacher Education journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
“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...
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March 5, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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Clothed in gratitude🙏🏿
April 12, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Tenured!🎉

#Gratitude #Community #AcademicChatter
April 12, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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Looking forward to #AERA26... hope you'll join me!

#HigherEd #TeacherEd #AcademicSky #LanguageEd #WorldLanguages #Raciolinguistics
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)
April 2, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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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
March 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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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
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.
March 11, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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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.
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.
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March 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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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...
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]
March 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Thank you for inviting me @rjme-journal - excited to get started as a review board member! #AcademicSky #Research #LanguageEducation #TeacherEducation #WorldLanguages #BlackWorldLanguaging
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
February 27, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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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
Piscataway Public LIbrary AFrican American Read-in February 2026 Tasha Austin pictured alongside bilingual children's book 'El Barrio Mío/My Neighborhood"
February 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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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...
Webinar Zoom boxes with webinar presenters, moderators and participants
January 27, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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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...
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January 25, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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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
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?
January 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Sitting with the timeless wisdom of Fanon today:
#WorldLanguages #LanguageEducation #EduSky #AcademicSky #Blackademic #EdResearch
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)
January 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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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
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'
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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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
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."
October 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Reminder from your friendly neighborhood educational linguist:

#CheckYourself #YourSlipIsShowing #BlackWorldLanguaging
#AcademicChatter
The difference between good and bad languaging is the evaluator’s knowledge of said practice’s history and context
August 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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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
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
August 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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thank you Dr. Bettina Love for sharing this healing in the form of a blog post.

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we got this, Black folks... and those w Black politics. we are the revolution❤️🖤💚 #CBCE25
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…
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August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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When my 2023 paper was undergoing revisions, my mentor asked me why my verbal description of it to her was different from what I’d written

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July 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM