Amanda Hunt
@amandaghunt.bsky.social
Social Work PhD student studying how women develop, communicate, and apply vernacular health theory to cover gaps in medical research and access
https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/phd/phd-student-profiles/amanda-hunt/
https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/phd/phd-student-profiles/amanda-hunt/
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Amanda Hunt
@amandaghunt.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Deleted my account on the other site, setting up over here! I'm a PhD student at the University of Maryland School of Social Work looking at how women fill the gaps in medical care and research by turning to one another - particularly in menopause, LGBTQ+ health, and gender-affirming care.
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FSC's @mikestabile.bsky.social explains why the SCREEN Act, and bills like it, are a Trojan Horse for more widespread censorship.
Thank you to @mikestabile.bsky.social for coming on my podcast to chat about the SCREEN Act and how dangerous and bad these age/ID verification laws are!!! Please watch and share
Congress Is Pushing Another Internet Censorship Law
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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January 9, 2026 at 9:41 PM
FSC's @mikestabile.bsky.social explains why the SCREEN Act, and bills like it, are a Trojan Horse for more widespread censorship.
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and the fact that it wasn’t pulled immediately after the grok CSAM incident says everything you need to know about the way “protecting children” is used as a justification for anything else. it’s never really about that at all. it’s all just power & capital.
Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
and the fact that it wasn’t pulled immediately after the grok CSAM incident says everything you need to know about the way “protecting children” is used as a justification for anything else. it’s never really about that at all. it’s all just power & capital.
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"GenAI is the futu--
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 AM
"GenAI is the futu--
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Exactly this. I’ve stopped doing real-time online aides when I teach. Too unreliable. Too many ads. Too much misinformation.
It feels like it happened really quickly too. In the spring I teach a research unit to my English class and it has basically become impossible for them to find sources because search engines aren't designed to be informative anymore, but instead to feed the kids slop.
January 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Exactly this. I’ve stopped doing real-time online aides when I teach. Too unreliable. Too many ads. Too much misinformation.
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Academic freedom is applicable to anyone with a teaching role. You can’t ask graduate students to teach, advise students, and evaluate student work with granting them academic freedom. The recent debacle at OU and a previous one in the School of Social Work at UT Austin illustrate this.
Pitt’s graduate student union sees bargaining for academic freedom as a “no-brainer.” The university sees it differently: “Graduate students are not faculty members and therefore academic freedom is not applicable.”
Why academic freedom is a heated topic in Pitt grad union negotiations
As the University of Pittsburgh embarks on union negotiations with graduate students, bargaining over the concept of academic freedom has been contentious.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Academic freedom is applicable to anyone with a teaching role. You can’t ask graduate students to teach, advise students, and evaluate student work with granting them academic freedom. The recent debacle at OU and a previous one in the School of Social Work at UT Austin illustrate this.
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I love alt-health vitamin discourse and its good/evil binary.
❌ Doctors giving vitamin K in the hospital? Diabolical, toxic, monstrous, how could they poison newborns like that
✅ Me selling vitamin C from my online store? Revolutionary, amazing, lifesaving, give me your money already you rubes
❌ Doctors giving vitamin K in the hospital? Diabolical, toxic, monstrous, how could they poison newborns like that
✅ Me selling vitamin C from my online store? Revolutionary, amazing, lifesaving, give me your money already you rubes
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I love alt-health vitamin discourse and its good/evil binary.
❌ Doctors giving vitamin K in the hospital? Diabolical, toxic, monstrous, how could they poison newborns like that
✅ Me selling vitamin C from my online store? Revolutionary, amazing, lifesaving, give me your money already you rubes
❌ Doctors giving vitamin K in the hospital? Diabolical, toxic, monstrous, how could they poison newborns like that
✅ Me selling vitamin C from my online store? Revolutionary, amazing, lifesaving, give me your money already you rubes
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
AI in my daughter's search engine, what could go wrong?
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
AI in my daughter's search engine, what could go wrong?
Such a well-considered post - a colleague and I are leading a class discussion on AI ethics in teaching next month, and this will definitely be a reading
Some teachers are using AI to grade and few are talking about it. Scantrons are one thing, but automating grading, feedback, and assessing written work with AI poses massive ethical challenges and should not become the default or go to choice in education.
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October 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Such a well-considered post - a colleague and I are leading a class discussion on AI ethics in teaching next month, and this will definitely be a reading
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Wow. My University of Washington colleague Amy Hagopian was expelled from APHA for her pro-Palestinan advocacy. 🧵
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What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart
BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…
academeblog.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Wow. My University of Washington colleague Amy Hagopian was expelled from APHA for her pro-Palestinan advocacy. 🧵
academeblog.org/2025/10/07/w...
academeblog.org/2025/10/07/w...
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1/3 The mask many women have worn for decades rarely survives perimenopause.
Brain fog creeps in. Tasks unravel. Emotional regulation slips. Sensory overwhelm spikes.
What looked like competence was masking. When hormones shift, the mask breaks.
#ADHDWomen #Neurodivergent
Brain fog creeps in. Tasks unravel. Emotional regulation slips. Sensory overwhelm spikes.
What looked like competence was masking. When hormones shift, the mask breaks.
#ADHDWomen #Neurodivergent
September 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
1/3 The mask many women have worn for decades rarely survives perimenopause.
Brain fog creeps in. Tasks unravel. Emotional regulation slips. Sensory overwhelm spikes.
What looked like competence was masking. When hormones shift, the mask breaks.
#ADHDWomen #Neurodivergent
Brain fog creeps in. Tasks unravel. Emotional regulation slips. Sensory overwhelm spikes.
What looked like competence was masking. When hormones shift, the mask breaks.
#ADHDWomen #Neurodivergent
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Reading the circuit court opinion in Chiles v Salazar and just couldn’t get past this statement where she asserts that the skill required to facilitate her sessions is roughly on par with that of an undergrad who has taken an intro to psychology course.
![word games, attempting to regulate speech by
speech by
improperly relabeling it as conduct" (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)). She likewise
"contests the conflation of her speech with 'medical treatment." Opening Br. at 23 n.4. In her view, "[t]he conversations she has with clients are 'not medical at all' but are 'a client-directed conversation consisting entirely of speech." Opening Br. at 23 n.4 (quoting Otto v. City of Boca Raton, Fla., 981 F.3d 854, 866 n.3 (11th Cir. 2020)). Ms. Chiles compares the professional counseling services she provides to conversations a "sophomore psychology major" could have with a fellow student, which "[njo one" would](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v4jfgpnpcxd2be2hekn5iocf/bafkreiaospmccru76sidsa6uhy4rcyjspp6yqjbz6c2dag5fvlcf3jhv5q@jpeg)
October 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Reading the circuit court opinion in Chiles v Salazar and just couldn’t get past this statement where she asserts that the skill required to facilitate her sessions is roughly on par with that of an undergrad who has taken an intro to psychology course.
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Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.
Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
October 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.
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One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.
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Saw someone call AI users “botlickers” and that is very funny
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Saw someone call AI users “botlickers” and that is very funny
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To the extent that there’s a profit function, it’s often more in creating dread among the population so that the rich and powerful can bully them into doing whatever they want.
One of the hardest-to-hear kinds of responses to my new story are premised on ICE detention being motivated by profit—and in part, it is—or on cheap or free forced labor—again, some is. But these detention centers also cost millions and now billions to run. Profit is not a top motive here.
The Abuses at ICE Detention Centers Fulfill a Trump Campaign Promise
Mass detention isn’t merely a step along the way to achieving Trump’s goal of mass deportation. Mass detention is also the goal.
newrepublic.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
To the extent that there’s a profit function, it’s often more in creating dread among the population so that the rich and powerful can bully them into doing whatever they want.
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Queer women will be hit especially hard by the incoming Medicaid cuts and restrictions in Trump's tax law.
That includes Sara Habein, a mother of two living in northern Montana, who recently learned that she has cysts in her brain.
Read her story in the latest from me and @chabeli.bsky.social
That includes Sara Habein, a mother of two living in northern Montana, who recently learned that she has cysts in her brain.
Read her story in the latest from me and @chabeli.bsky.social
Over a million queer women rely on Medicaid. What happens if they lose it?
Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be low-income, more likely to be parents and more likely to rely on Medicaid. They could fall through the cracks of Trump’s new tax law.
19thnews.org
July 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Queer women will be hit especially hard by the incoming Medicaid cuts and restrictions in Trump's tax law.
That includes Sara Habein, a mother of two living in northern Montana, who recently learned that she has cysts in her brain.
Read her story in the latest from me and @chabeli.bsky.social
That includes Sara Habein, a mother of two living in northern Montana, who recently learned that she has cysts in her brain.
Read her story in the latest from me and @chabeli.bsky.social
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It’s worth noting however that civil commitment is primarily a state level process. There is no federal infrastructure at scale for what he describes, which begs a series of increasingly disturbing questions about how this will be carried out.
July 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It’s worth noting however that civil commitment is primarily a state level process. There is no federal infrastructure at scale for what he describes, which begs a series of increasingly disturbing questions about how this will be carried out.
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Involuntary “treatment” does not work. What it does do is permanently alienate people with addictions from potential treatment providers, drives up overdose deaths and maximizes “revolving door” use of facilities such that people who are ready to make a change and want treatment can’t get a bed.
July 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Involuntary “treatment” does not work. What it does do is permanently alienate people with addictions from potential treatment providers, drives up overdose deaths and maximizes “revolving door” use of facilities such that people who are ready to make a change and want treatment can’t get a bed.
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“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic
they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned
they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned
You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone
July 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic
they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned
they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned