Profile avatar
shawnacoppola.bsky.social
#AuDHD • Educator• Doctoral Student • Author of Literacy for All & Writing, Redefined • Wanna be a sociolinguist when I grow up #FreePalestine 🍉🏳️‍🌈
376 posts 1,627 followers 908 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 27 Comments 23

What’d I do why y’all following me all of a sudden 👀

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I really, really despise compulsory sexuality.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said, "The power of the people is greater than the people in power." This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward. “I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now. Here:

submitted 20 days ago • 55 comments

It’s a common misconception that ADHD is just an inability to focus. Really, it’s a struggle to control focus. I can hyperfixate for hours on complex but pointless tasks and freeze on simple tasks. Some days, my brain’s a Lamborghini with no brakes. Other days, a rusty bike with a stuck chain.

submitted 33 days ago • 26 comments

I hope all the ⚪️ folks who for decades have said things like, “Oh, but I can’t IMAGINE they would—” have the day they deserve.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Mediocre white men should never be in positions of power anywhere or anytime.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Individual teachers cannot be expected to solve this problem, and the challenge requires us to get to roots of a system that students see as purely transactional (for good reason) and for which AI can fulfill the transaction. Putting this on individual teachers is simply unfair.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I would like to take this moment to formally thank @georgejaneteas.bsky.social for this period’s royalty check 😂🫡 🩷

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

*stares into the abyss*

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

A super easy action item: call your reps, regardless of party affiliation, and use this (or your own!) script.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes it takes a bit for a book to find its audience. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on rn, but I’m sure as heck grateful for all of the love this lil’ book has been receiving lately. 🩷 I can’t WAIT to hear what your students and book group members have to say about it. #EduSky

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes it takes a bit for a book to find its audience. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on rn, but I’m sure as heck grateful for all of the love this lil’ book has been receiving lately. 🩷 I can’t WAIT to hear what your students and book group members have to say about it. #EduSky

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

will someone go to my dentist appointment for me pls I’ll pay u

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Finally, some good news 😀

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

The frozen state of sitting in your car trying to hype yourself up to enter the building you work in where you will be perceived #autism

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Every day when I open this app or any other app or turn on my TV or listen to the radio or

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Sir, DMing silly videos literally IS how we check in with our loved ones. Signed, an Autistic 🩷

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Lmaoooooo

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about this phenomenon in my book, which just happens to be on sale right now 🙂 #EduSky www.routledge.com/Literacy-for...

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

submitted 64 days ago • 808 comments

Belle Gibson, Ruby Franke, and Amanda Riley will all have their lies, scams, and abusive actions dissected in television series and documentaries over the next several years, and I fear we won’t meaningfully address how whiteness works in this, and why they were able to get away with it for so long.

submitted 65 days ago • 11 comments

submitted 70 days ago • 9 comments

I got death threats for exposing the young men who were sexually harassing me in high school. Get out of here with that.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

If you aren’t following @stopproject25comic.bsky.social, you should be. #Project2025 #comics

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Gender is such an immutable, natural binary that we have to enforce it with the full power of the state.

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

What are your favorite class texts for HS at the moment? #EduThreads Novels, novellas, short story collections? TY!

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

Slight correction—WE got better at finding us.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments