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</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/vershawn-young" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/vershawn-young"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Vershawn
Ashanti Young</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">? Known as </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">dr.
vay, he </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">has recently edited a new textbook</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">:
</span><a href="https://bit.ly/3lTQ21g" title="https://bit.ly/3lTQ21g" style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
Ain't Yesterday's Literacy: Culture and Education After George Floyd</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
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I have heard Dr. vay speak previously, and every time I have come away transformed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Vershawn Ashanti Young discusses his new reader "This Ain't Yesterday's Literacy"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">A Conversation with Vershawn Ashanti Young</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Having productive conversations with students about current social movements</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Helping students understand historical conversations about race, protest, language and identity, and policing</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">How This Ain't Yesterday's Literacy was developed and designed to support students and faculty</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sharing insights about educating students—and ourselves—around these important topics</span></li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vershawn Ashanti Young, who goes by dr. vay, has been writing for newspapers and magazines
for almost 20 years. He is a solo-performance artist as well as professor of communication, race, gender, literature, writing, and performance. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including Other People's English (Parlor Press, 2019); The Routledge
Reader of African American Rhetoric (Routledge 2018); and Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow (2018). He is currently the chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the largest educational organization dedicated to college
literacies of communication and writing.</span></div>
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