Amanda Henrichs

Instructional Design at Holyoke Community College. Ph.D., baker, cat lady, 17th century humanism, feminist computational humanities, they/them.

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

i was saying yesterday it's just like, a bad time to be alive right now??

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

@Jo01524822 Dm me if you want to talk; I know it's so damn hard ❤️

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

Being on and then leaving the tenure track job lottery is such a fucking nightmare and it ruined me for years (is ruining me?), but my boss is a trained pastry chef who likes to flex sometimes, and I am not upset about that at least

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

@SaronikB @goingpostale I tend to pick things I don't like, like lunges, because it gives me something else to focus on? I have to balance and shit, no time to feel like im dying lol. I wonder if just a balance pose could do the same thing? Maybe this is just another way to focus on yr body? <3

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

@SaronikB @goingpostale It's more like, anxiety is your body trying to keep you alive by getting you out of the situation, so give it something to do so it thinks you're actually responding (Sorry if this is overexplaining, I had a hard time with this advice bc it feels so counterintuitive)

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

@goingpostale @SaronikB Yes! Both of those were therapist- recommended to me: they said whereas depression can be fought or pushed on, anxiety is best addressed by going with it in some way (hence exercise or strong physical sensation)

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

@SaronikB Holding ice or iced drinks...I used to take iced coffees into department meetings! Basically a cold shock. Or if by myself I would do pushups/squats/jumping jacks...the point is to fulfill the fight or flight instinct with intense exercise. <3

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

What is their own "attunement" to their education? How do our metrics of completion and retention erase entire student populations? How can CCs do better for our students?

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

Already pretty psyched to hear Dr. Isserles talk about the origins of the book: the narrowing of definitions of success (as framed in ROIs and best practices) has caused real harm to our most vulnerable CC students.

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

At community colleges we talk a lot about our student populations: how much they work, their care responsibilities, how hard they fight to continue their education. BUT Isserles is asking (to me) the bigger question, how do these students FEEL about their own college experience?

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

I'm going to start telling my cats "that's against my hippa law" every time they want dinner early

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

@MFGuenette It's such a nightmare, I'm so sorry, and I am SO ANGRY at every one of these predators who pushed entire generations of scholars out of academia because their peers are too cowardly to do anything about it

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

I remember when I was a postdoc, and a grad student from another dep't told me about a senior prof in my dep't that she and all her friends knew to stay away from at the parties he went to (...), and I told another prof in my dep't and they were like "he's always been nice to me"

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

In conclusion, I'm sorry I didn't push harder, fuck all of you and how fucking DARE you, might delete this later, we'll see how today goes 🤡🤡🤡

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

@UncouthGentlman Like look at how perfect this cat is, he is so very goofy and I love him 😹

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

This guy is just sleeping like this?

[marginalutilite @marginalutilite]

Whose Corner Is It Anyway,our W. MA #mutualaid/#harmreduction/organizing group by/for low-income #sexworkers who use drugs/experience housing insecurity,NEEDS HELP LIKE NEVER BEFORE. We had to cancel 2/3 of programming last mnth b/c of funding shortfalls. https://t.co/BBTwZm9x0o

[Tara Allen, MA @Musically_ADHD]

If you can pause student loan debt for this long @POTUS then you can sure as hell cancel it. Stop diddling around and actually help the American people #CancelStudentDebt

[Amanda Henrichs @envynoveritas]

@hralperta This might be your hottest take ever