Allison Hitt, she/her
@ahhitt.bsky.social
writing professor ✨ appalachian transplant ✨ bad feminist
I talk a lot about accessibility, disability justice, self-care, teaching, zines, & wildflowers.
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I talk a lot about accessibility, disability justice, self-care, teaching, zines, & wildflowers.
allisonhitt.com
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Allison Hitt, she/her
@ahhitt.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Research, Allison H. Hitt, Ph.D.
My research addresses the in/accessibility of writing instruction, from first-year writing classrooms to technical and professional writing classrooms to...
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I adapted the ideas from my academic book—Rhetorics of Overcoming: Rewriting Narratives of Disability and Accessibility in Writing Studies—into a plain-language zine! You can download a version from my website (linked under “Book Resources”).
allisonhitt.com/research/
allisonhitt.com/research/
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“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Okay writing instructors (or anyone who teaches invitational rhetoric or intercultural communication in some way), I have a great recommendation for a game that emphasizes community building and learning about each other through storytelling: Story Stitch!
www.greencardvoices.org/programs/sto...
www.greencardvoices.org/programs/sto...
October 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Okay writing instructors (or anyone who teaches invitational rhetoric or intercultural communication in some way), I have a great recommendation for a game that emphasizes community building and learning about each other through storytelling: Story Stitch!
www.greencardvoices.org/programs/sto...
www.greencardvoices.org/programs/sto...
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The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯
Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚
And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋
youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared
Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚
And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋
youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯
Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚
And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋
youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared
Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚
And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋
youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared
My morning class is interrupted every day at 11:40 by a campus tour. Today I lost track of time and was dramatically telling a story about a former professor who repeatedly made us watch PETA videos of animals dying. I said, “I was like I’M DYINGGGGG every day in class” right as a tour walked past 🙃
October 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My morning class is interrupted every day at 11:40 by a campus tour. Today I lost track of time and was dramatically telling a story about a former professor who repeatedly made us watch PETA videos of animals dying. I said, “I was like I’M DYINGGGGG every day in class” right as a tour walked past 🙃
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A thread of dogs, because this is what we need today, starting with el Negro Matapacos
May his spirit protect the Sumud Flotilla and all protesting for freedom
Enjoy this timeline cleanse
🧵
May his spirit protect the Sumud Flotilla and all protesting for freedom
Enjoy this timeline cleanse
🧵
El Negro Matapacos was a riot dog that participated in the 2011–2013 Chilean student protests in Santiago, Chile.
He later became a symbol in the 2019–2020 Chilean protests as a sort of resistance to police brutality and to represent the fight for dignity.
He later became a symbol in the 2019–2020 Chilean protests as a sort of resistance to police brutality and to represent the fight for dignity.
October 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A thread of dogs, because this is what we need today, starting with el Negro Matapacos
May his spirit protect the Sumud Flotilla and all protesting for freedom
Enjoy this timeline cleanse
🧵
May his spirit protect the Sumud Flotilla and all protesting for freedom
Enjoy this timeline cleanse
🧵
My writing process:
1. Think about the topic for several weeks without any research or writing beyond recording a random voice note or jotting an idea in my notes app ~50%
2. Research the topic and/or similar genres ~20%
3. Brain-dump every thought I have about the topic ~10%
4. Revise and edit ~20%
1. Think about the topic for several weeks without any research or writing beyond recording a random voice note or jotting an idea in my notes app ~50%
2. Research the topic and/or similar genres ~20%
3. Brain-dump every thought I have about the topic ~10%
4. Revise and edit ~20%
September 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My writing process:
1. Think about the topic for several weeks without any research or writing beyond recording a random voice note or jotting an idea in my notes app ~50%
2. Research the topic and/or similar genres ~20%
3. Brain-dump every thought I have about the topic ~10%
4. Revise and edit ~20%
1. Think about the topic for several weeks without any research or writing beyond recording a random voice note or jotting an idea in my notes app ~50%
2. Research the topic and/or similar genres ~20%
3. Brain-dump every thought I have about the topic ~10%
4. Revise and edit ~20%
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Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.
September 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.
I love taking snacks to class for work days or peer review workshops. Usually I choose the safest, plainest snacks possible. Recently, my strategy is to buy random snacks from the Asian market in town and watch my students react to random textures/flavors, and it is an absolute delight.
September 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I love taking snacks to class for work days or peer review workshops. Usually I choose the safest, plainest snacks possible. Recently, my strategy is to buy random snacks from the Asian market in town and watch my students react to random textures/flavors, and it is an absolute delight.
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Pretty common thing I get told when I point out an accessibility fail: "They mean well, so give them a break."
Unfortunately, that's not how this works. Accessibility is about what is and isn't, not what's intended. Giving people breaks for half-assing accessibility just normalizes inaccessibility.
Unfortunately, that's not how this works. Accessibility is about what is and isn't, not what's intended. Giving people breaks for half-assing accessibility just normalizes inaccessibility.
September 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pretty common thing I get told when I point out an accessibility fail: "They mean well, so give them a break."
Unfortunately, that's not how this works. Accessibility is about what is and isn't, not what's intended. Giving people breaks for half-assing accessibility just normalizes inaccessibility.
Unfortunately, that's not how this works. Accessibility is about what is and isn't, not what's intended. Giving people breaks for half-assing accessibility just normalizes inaccessibility.
I was honestly feeling dread about scheduling a day in first-year writing where we read and talk only about AI, but students had really interesting things to say about what they think the purpose of higher ed is and how AI can facilitate or hinder that, as well as a slew of ethical concerns.
August 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I was honestly feeling dread about scheduling a day in first-year writing where we read and talk only about AI, but students had really interesting things to say about what they think the purpose of higher ed is and how AI can facilitate or hinder that, as well as a slew of ethical concerns.
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I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
US government orders states to destroy trans education materials
The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
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Is this digital humanities?
August 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Is this digital humanities?
I bought small (4"x5") notebooks for the students enrolled in my first-year writing class this semester. The goal is to journal periodically about their writing processes. I distributed them in class today, and it was so cool seeing them all writing by hand about their processes.
August 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I bought small (4"x5") notebooks for the students enrolled in my first-year writing class this semester. The goal is to journal periodically about their writing processes. I distributed them in class today, and it was so cool seeing them all writing by hand about their processes.
I am the type of colleague who talks trash almost constantly but will also bake cookies for the staff/faculty/grad students in celebration of us making it through the first week of classes. It’s all about balance 😅
August 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I am the type of colleague who talks trash almost constantly but will also bake cookies for the staff/faculty/grad students in celebration of us making it through the first week of classes. It’s all about balance 😅
There are so many things that worry me about AI. Environmental racism, algorithmic biases, unethical labor conditions, mental health crises, AI hallucinations, the coordinated push to get people to think/read/write solely with AI (diminishing critical thinking/reading/writing skills) are just a few.
August 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
There are so many things that worry me about AI. Environmental racism, algorithmic biases, unethical labor conditions, mental health crises, AI hallucinations, the coordinated push to get people to think/read/write solely with AI (diminishing critical thinking/reading/writing skills) are just a few.
The fact that American universities don't want students to learn critical thinking skills (and are now framing AI usage as an ethical responsibility) is such a red flag.
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
August 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The fact that American universities don't want students to learn critical thinking skills (and are now framing AI usage as an ethical responsibility) is such a red flag.
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Wanna learn more about the Panthers’ work around disability? It wasn’t just the 504 sit-in. I have 2 chapters about them in my book Black Disability Politics which is available for purchase or free open access here from @dukepress.bsky.social:
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
August 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Wanna learn more about the Panthers’ work around disability? It wasn’t just the 504 sit-in. I have 2 chapters about them in my book Black Disability Politics which is available for purchase or free open access here from @dukepress.bsky.social:
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
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I wrote about how Trump's threat to end mail-in voting is just his latest attack on disabled people, some of whom find voting by mail to be much more accessible, at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's promise to end vote-by-mail is yet another attack on disabled voters
The president credits democracy superfan Vladimir Putin with the idea. Yes, really.
www.motherjones.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I wrote about how Trump's threat to end mail-in voting is just his latest attack on disabled people, some of whom find voting by mail to be much more accessible, at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I am admittedly a grinch, but even I have to admit that there is something very special about the energy in the classroom on the first day of classes—especially when you're teaching first-semester first-year students. All 25 of them were seated and chatting five minutes before class started. 😌
August 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I am admittedly a grinch, but even I have to admit that there is something very special about the energy in the classroom on the first day of classes—especially when you're teaching first-semester first-year students. All 25 of them were seated and chatting five minutes before class started. 😌
I wouldn’t say I feel the normal excitement for the start of a new academic year in the face of *gestures wildly* everything that’s happening around the world, across the country, and within higher ed, so I’m leaning heavily into the most care-focused pedagogy I can muster this semester.
August 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I wouldn’t say I feel the normal excitement for the start of a new academic year in the face of *gestures wildly* everything that’s happening around the world, across the country, and within higher ed, so I’m leaning heavily into the most care-focused pedagogy I can muster this semester.
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽