COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 12.2 (Spring 2018) | The journal understands “community literacy” as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it is represented and used. Thus, literacy makes reference not just to letters and to text but to other multimodal and technological representations as well. We publish work that contributes to the field’s emerging methodologies and research agendas. CONTENTS: Editors’ Introduction from Paul Feigenbaum and Veronica House “The Promising and Challenging Present of Community Literacy” | Interview with Founding Editors Michael Moore and John Warnock | Keynote Address from the 2017 Conference on Community Writing “Place and Relationships in Community Writing” by Ellen Cushman ARTICLES: “#StayWoke: The Language and Literacies of #BlackLivesMatter” by Elaine Richardson and Alice Ragland | PROJECT PROFILES: “The CitiZINE Project: Reflections on a Political Engagement Project” by Lesley Graybeal and Kristen Spickard | ISSUES IN COMMUNITY LITERACY: “Intentionally Public, Intentionally Private: Gender Non-Binary Youth on Tumblr and the Queering of Community Literacy Research” by Megan Opperman | BOOK AND NEW MEDIA REVIEWS: From the Book & New Media Review Editor’s Desk by Jessica Shumake | Keyword Essay: “Health Literacy” By Jessica Nalani Lee and Amy Hickman | Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy by Eric Darnell Pritchard, Review by Casely E. Coan | Teaching Controversial Issues: The Case for Critical Thinking and Moral Commitment in the Classroom by Nel Noddings and Laurie Brooks, Review by Mary Birdsall | Turning Teaching Inside Out: A Pedagogy of Transformation for Community-Based Education by Simone Weil Davis and Barbara Sherr Roswell (Eds.), Review by Brittny M. Byrom | South Asian in the Mid-South: Migrations of Literacies by Iswari P. Pandey, Review by Amber Hadenfeldt | First Semester: Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground by Jessica Restaino, Review by Dan Martin | Partners in Literacy: A Writing Center Model for Civic Engagement by Allen Brizee and Jaclyn M. Wells, Review by Allison Bennett | A Rhetoric of Reflection by Kathleen Blake Yancey (Ed.), Review by Anthony DeGenaro | Contributors.
