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Welcome to the first issue of 2024 with your new editorial team for the Bilingual Research Journal. This issue of the BRJ attests to the importance of critical theories of language in examining inequities in bilingual education contexts. Authors of these articles draw from raciolinguistic perspectives, AsianCrit, heteroglossia, and Vygotsky’s concept of perezhivanie to examine the perspectives and experiences of pre-and inservice teachers, students in a Two-Way Immersion program, family ideologies about language, and the historical forces at play in the shortage of AAPI teachers in bilingual education. These critical perspectives illustrate the raciolinguistic dynamics at play–or the ways in which language and race are contemporarily and historically co-naturalized–in the experiences of multilingual people of Color across geographical contexts, further contributing to our understanding of bilingual education teaching …