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/
My contribution to literally every academic committee: "Why are we doing this?"
February 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
My contribution to literally every academic committee: "Why are we doing this?"
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NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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So delighted to announce that today is #PubDay for our book. Every Place on the Map is Disabled is now in stores and available online. Wonderful poets in here including Eli Clare, Ilya Kaminsky, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Raymond Antrobus. #disabilitypoetics #poetry #disability #publishing
February 15, 2026 at 11:41 PM
So delighted to announce that today is #PubDay for our book. Every Place on the Map is Disabled is now in stores and available online. Wonderful poets in here including Eli Clare, Ilya Kaminsky, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Raymond Antrobus. #disabilitypoetics #poetry #disability #publishing
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I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics
In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."
www.motherjones.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I often half-jokingly say that this is both my best and worst quality, but my particular mode of neurodivergence means that when I observe someone do or say something inconsiderate/harmful/unjust and I can meaningfully address it, I'm compelled to do so.
I consider it my due diligence.
I consider it my due diligence.
February 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I often half-jokingly say that this is both my best and worst quality, but my particular mode of neurodivergence means that when I observe someone do or say something inconsiderate/harmful/unjust and I can meaningfully address it, I'm compelled to do so.
I consider it my due diligence.
I consider it my due diligence.
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NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
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Join us for a free webinar! The Sick Times editors @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social — plus special guest speakers — will demystify the process of writing and pitching op-eds and essays on Long COVID. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Join us for a free webinar! The Sick Times editors @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social — plus special guest speakers — will demystify the process of writing and pitching op-eds and essays on Long COVID. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I had a basic plan for my first class today, so I started class with "moments-of-joy Monday" where I invited students to share things that recently brought them joy—whether personal joys or things they've encountered online.
10/10 would recommend taking 5–10 minutes to start class this way.
10/10 would recommend taking 5–10 minutes to start class this way.
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I had a basic plan for my first class today, so I started class with "moments-of-joy Monday" where I invited students to share things that recently brought them joy—whether personal joys or things they've encountered online.
10/10 would recommend taking 5–10 minutes to start class this way.
10/10 would recommend taking 5–10 minutes to start class this way.
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people who are saying it's no big deal to be connected to Jeffrey Epstein are soooo close to getting to exactly what the problem is. "we all are friends with rapists and predators!" — yes! that's what I'm saying!!!!!!!
February 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
people who are saying it's no big deal to be connected to Jeffrey Epstein are soooo close to getting to exactly what the problem is. "we all are friends with rapists and predators!" — yes! that's what I'm saying!!!!!!!
Yesterday I got a random DM from a student who took several professional writing classes with me during my first couple years as a brand-new professor in Arkansas ~10 years ago. She thanked me for everything she learned in our information design class, and honestly my spirit needed that.
February 5, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Yesterday I got a random DM from a student who took several professional writing classes with me during my first couple years as a brand-new professor in Arkansas ~10 years ago. She thanked me for everything she learned in our information design class, and honestly my spirit needed that.
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Days after FBI seizes 700 boxes of ballots in Fulton County GA, Trump says Republicans “should take over the voting in at least 15 places.” He’s once again saying quiet part out loud & openly telegraphing his plan to interfere in midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections
After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting "in at least 15 places.”
www.motherjones.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Days after FBI seizes 700 boxes of ballots in Fulton County GA, Trump says Republicans “should take over the voting in at least 15 places.” He’s once again saying quiet part out loud & openly telegraphing his plan to interfere in midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Okay since I just finished reading the worst “mental illness memoir” I’ve ever read (scare quotes because I’m not sure after reading this that the author believes in mental illness), who has good #DisabilityMemoir recs for me to cleanse my reading palate?
January 30, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Okay since I just finished reading the worst “mental illness memoir” I’ve ever read (scare quotes because I’m not sure after reading this that the author believes in mental illness), who has good #DisabilityMemoir recs for me to cleanse my reading palate?
Benefits of Zoom class:
✨ It's the only time face-to-face students see me without a mask
✨ I can cut/eat a slice of cake while students are working together
I appreciate these little joys, but the fact that universities no longer cancel classes because we all have "equal" access to Zoom is wack.
✨ It's the only time face-to-face students see me without a mask
✨ I can cut/eat a slice of cake while students are working together
I appreciate these little joys, but the fact that universities no longer cancel classes because we all have "equal" access to Zoom is wack.
January 26, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Benefits of Zoom class:
✨ It's the only time face-to-face students see me without a mask
✨ I can cut/eat a slice of cake while students are working together
I appreciate these little joys, but the fact that universities no longer cancel classes because we all have "equal" access to Zoom is wack.
✨ It's the only time face-to-face students see me without a mask
✨ I can cut/eat a slice of cake while students are working together
I appreciate these little joys, but the fact that universities no longer cancel classes because we all have "equal" access to Zoom is wack.
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The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
January 23, 2026 at 1:57 AM
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
I want a sticker system for books where a crip collective of disabled writers/readers vet books about disability, then add a sticker that signals to readers if the author writes from a critical disability position or is merely reinforcing ableism.
(I'm currently hate-reading a "disability" memoir.)
(I'm currently hate-reading a "disability" memoir.)
January 21, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I want a sticker system for books where a crip collective of disabled writers/readers vet books about disability, then add a sticker that signals to readers if the author writes from a critical disability position or is merely reinforcing ableism.
(I'm currently hate-reading a "disability" memoir.)
(I'm currently hate-reading a "disability" memoir.)
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What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
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The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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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 🙃