Technical Communication & Social Justice Journal

FailureCFP_TCSJ Embracing and Reframing Research Failures: Toward More Socially Just Practices Special Issue for Technical Communication and Social Justice Co-Editors: Chen Chen, Utah State University, chen.chen@usu....

TCSJ and special issue co-editors Chen Chen, Emma Rose, and Dorcas Anabire are seeking proposals for a new special issue, Embracing and Reframing Research Failures: Toward More Socially Just Practices! Interested? See the CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Proposals due 3/31/2026.

Read Fallon’s full article on our website: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

Last, but certainly not least, Issue 3.2 includes Courtney Fallon’s "Good Queer, Bad Queer: Pinkwashing as LGBTQ+ Citizen-Subjectification.” Fallon traces how the NYT’s pinkwashing of Palestinian violence reinforces the “Good Queer" through positioning queer Palestinians as “Bad Queers.” 1/2

In it, Kalodner-Martin explores how four permission structures—vaccination as social responsibility, economic imperative, personal freedom, and method of institutional control—influence COVID-19 vaccination beliefs and behaviors. Read it on our website: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

3.2 also includes Elena Kalodner-Martin’s (@ekalodnermar.bsky.social)’s article, "'What Do I Need to Say to Make You Trust Me?': Influences of Competing Permission Structures on COVID-19 Vaccination Decision-Making.” 1/2

Riddick explores tensions between donation bags and concerns about the environmental impacts of overconsumption, where a consumerist permission structure contributes to greenwashing without positive environmental impacts. Learn more and check out the full article on our website, linked above! 2/2

Kicking off Monday with the latest research? Check out Sarah Riddick's (@sarahriddick.bsky.social) article "Donation Bag Programs as Multimodal Permission Structures: Selling Climate-Positive Consumerism through Digital Marketing.” You can read it here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 1/2

In it, Marek Muller and @automotricity.bsky.social offer reciprocal permission structures as a framework for exploring how resistance to cultured meat reveals tensions between state legislation, conservative values, and free enterprise.

We’re thrilled to share our next article: S. Marek Muller and David Rooney’s "Culture(d) Wars: Reciprocal Permission Structures in Cultured Meat Bans,” available here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc...

Tracing 16 states’ anti-DEI bills, Sanders identified three key rhetorical strategies: White Rage, White Narcissism, & Deflecting Histories. Read more here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

Our third article in 3.2 is Nick Sanders’ article "Anti-DEI Legislation as an Unjust Permission Structure: A Critical Discourse Analysis of White Racial Resentment in State-level Anti-DEI Bills.” 1/2

You can read @sdicag.bsky.social's full article here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

Next up, we have Sara DiCaglio’s "Permission From the Future: Science Fiction Fantasies and “Extrauterine Children” in Post-Dobbs Imaginaries.” Examining Alabama’s IVF ruling, DiCaglio shows how speculative futures function as permission structures, shaping legal, ethical, and lived realities. 1/2

Read Cheek and Dorpenyo’s article in full here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc...

Our first article in 3.2 is Ryan Cheek and Isidore Dorpenyo’s "Deny, Defend, Depose: Structuring Permission for Bureaucratic Indifference, Slow (Civic) Violence, and the Institutional Betrayal of DEI.” They explore how DDD functions rhetorically amidst increasing legislative attacks on DEI work. 1/2

The TCSJ special issue co-editors have written a dedication for Kymberly, with a statement from the UMass Amherst Composition and Rhetoric program, where Morquecho was to begin her PhD program this fall. Read the dedication here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 2/2

TCSJ also wants to take a moment to honor co-editor Kymberly Morquecho, who passed away before this special issue was published. We mourn her loss and recognize her contributions to this issue, her communities, and the field of TPC. 1/2

You can read their introduction here, which historicizes and introduces the promise of the permission structure framing for social justice-oriented work across the field of TPC: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc...

Our latest issue kicks off with "Introduction to Special Issue on Unjust “Permission Structures” in/as Technical Communication,” written by special issue co-editors R.J. Lambert, @rwmonty.bsky.social, Kymberly Morquecho, and Sarah Warren-Riley. 1/x

We’ll be spotlighting a different article all week.

Be sure to follow along and check out our latest special issue: Unjust "Permission Structures" in/as Technical Communication!

We are thrilled to share Vol. 3, Issue 2!

Contributors include R.J. Lambert, Randall W. Monty, Kymberly Morquecho, Sarah Warren-Riley (Eds.), Ryan Cheek, Isidore Dorpenyo, Sara DiCaglio, Nick Sanders, S. Marek Muller, David Rooney, Sarah Riddick, Elena Kalodner-Martin, and Courtney Fallon.

Thanks to everyone who joined us! For more information about TCSJ, please visit techcommsocialjustice.org. You can also reach out to our editors directly at editors@techcommsocialjustice.org if you're interested in pitching a project, being a reviewer, or with any other questions.

@beaupihlaja.bsky.social and @ekalodnermar.bsky.social are here at the Editors' Roundtable answering questions about TCSJ! If you're at #ATTW25 (in person or on Zoom), come on by.

#ATTW25 attendees: come to the TPC Editors' Roundtable today at 4:45pm CST in BCH 125 and on Zoom! I'll be there on behalf of @tcsocialjustice.bsky.social. We look forward to chatting with you about all things submitting, reviewing, and more.

Evans uses Jenkins’s (2006) transmedia storytelling to reenvision writing courses as transmodal, translingual, and transmedia systems. As transmedia evolves, Evans argues, pedagogy should adapt to a network of interactions across physical and virtual realities. Check it out! 2/2

Last but not least in issue 3.1 is Theresa Evans' article, "Transcending Binaries of Course Delivery: A Transmedia Mindset as Resistance to a Single Standard and a Default Normal." Give it a read here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 1/2

In this article, Ramsey explores decolonizing pedagogy challenges in writing classes, advocating for a digital-decolonial approach that emphasizes digital rhetorics, intersectionality, and inclusion of underrepresented students. Give it a read on our website! 2/2

Looking for some Monday reading to start your week? Check out Shelby Ramsey article, "A Digital-Decolonial Approach to Writing Pedagogy," published in our most recent special issue. You can read it here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 1/2

In this article, Jin introduces "interest-driven public networks" (IDPN) as a framework for teaching activism in TPC and writing studies. Through this, she develops a model for interest-driven public writing pedagogy, using digital spaces as activism tools in the classroom. 2/2

Our next featured article is Eva Jin's "Interest-Driven Public Networks and Writing Pedagogy: Reframing and Harnessing Digital Spaces as Activism Playgrounds" available here: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc... 1/2