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Samantha Field

@samanthafield.bsky.social
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queer feminist, homeschool survivor/apostate, 16-year-old me would be horrified

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jessica @jessduit.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
In 2023, I created an annual day of awareness for abused homeschooled kids. It was called Day of the Homeschooled Child. It doesn’t exist anymore, even if the org where I created it, @responsiblehs.bsky.social, says otherwise. Here's what happened, and what's next: jessduit.com/2026/04/30/d...
Day of the Homeschooled Child, a retrospective.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
CRHE may have taken a day meant to mourn the lives of the children lost b/c of lax homeschool law and turned it into a self-congratulatory book tour stop, but I will never forget what #DayOfTheHomeschooledChild really means: what we owe to every suffering homeschooled child. @jessduit.bsky.social
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Day of the Homeschooled Child, a retrospective – Jess Du It
[Content note: some descriptions of child abuse and neglect] In 2023, I created an annual day of awareness for kids abused in homeschool settings. It was called Day of the Homeschooled Child, and it r...
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Fondly looking back on my first legislative win at @responsiblehs.bsky.social in 2019, the passing of GA HB 530, that helped protect homeschooled children from being hidden by their abusers. share.google/7UBUwyXWGHLf...
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Victory for Homeschooled Students in Georgia! | Coalition for Responsible Home Education
For Immediate Release: Lawmakers supported homeschooled students last week by passing bill to catch parents who abuse the law Canton, Ma., 04/03/2019—The Co ...
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
On the Kendra Duggar arrest today: under Arkansas statute, it's essentially impossible for "false imprisonment" to apply to her own children. They are not old enough. As their legal guardian, Kendra can "give permission" to ... """contain""" her children. #homeschoolabuse #kendraduggar #joduggar
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Shit Homeschool Parents Say @shit-hs-parent-say.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The takeaway here is there is no reform that can fix this. These children are being #homeschooled entirely BECAUSE their parents are stupid. They will have no balance, no differing perspective, no exposure to science or history. All the accountability and oversight in the world can't stop this.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
When I was around 13, my Sunday school teacher told me I needed to start wearing control-top pantihose and walk sideways up the stairs to the piano because my "behind" was "tempting her husband." Her husband the church deacon. Conservative Christians don't bat an eye at pedophilia and never will.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No one who had eyeballs during the *extended* Josh Duggar scandal should be even remotely surprised by the Christian response to the Epstein files. Everyone knew he was a pdfile for years and he still rose in the Christian ranks. It was being on AshleyMadison that got him fired, not the pedophilia.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is what your average homeschool parent will just straight-up admit to, without any prompting. They *voluntarily* tell the world this crap because they see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
In response to raising concerns about AI, I'm getting told some version of "yeah but we've been through this before- industrial revolution, AV media, they all caused huge change" YEAH AND SOME OF THOSE CHANGES WERE BAD AND WE SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT HARDER ABOUT THEIR IMPLEMENTATION
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Something I heard all growing up was how it's not the job of government to feed people-- that's the responsibility of the church. The typical rejoinder is something like "churches don't feed people tho" (see: "churches wouldn't help a mom get formula"). That's great, but I reject the premise.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I taught Composition & Rhetoric at Liberty University for two years. I would've failed that Fulnecky paper. In fact, I ran into something similar-ish there. #storytime
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
My MIL reminded me of the "liberal Christians just want their ears tickled" turn of phrase, and it occurred to me that I've felt more challenged ("convicted") by my UCC-trained lesbian minister in the last three years than I ever was in two decades of fundamentalism.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
omg it happened a rando accused my statement "homo sapiens evolved in Africa" of being a "religious belief" (we were not debating origins, so I was surprised) I'm the Big Scary Evolutionist now I'm so proud
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a cartoon of spongebob squarepants is smiling with his mouth open
Alt: SpongeBob rainbow meme
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The recent #Rapture nonsense has me reliving my Pre-Trib days and I'm cringing so hard at teenaged me I stopped reading Left Behind because a book's cliffhanger was "This character either dies or accepts the Mark!" and Option A was too depressing and Option B was theologically heinous. So I quit. 🤣
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Reddit post by Beach Pellini: If some men have nothing else, they will always have the audacity
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Not a lawyer BUT I am an #exfundie so I didn't have to Google "plenary authority." Silver lining to fundie theology being constructed largely by lawyers and preached by people who think using archaic terms makes them Very Correct, I suppose?
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This will eternally be my favorite Christian doctrine Hot Take: Jesus was trans. If you believe in the Virgin Birth, then Jesus had no Y chromosome, yet lived and was treated as a man. He is a "man born with no penis" he tells his followers to accept and love in Matthew 19:11-12.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I have an urgent need to see Billy Porter in this skirt by Miss Sohee:
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This will eternally be my favorite Christian doctrine Hot Take: Jesus was trans. If you believe in the Virgin Birth, then Jesus had no Y chromosome, yet lived and was treated as a man. He is a "man born with no penis" he tells his followers to accept and love in Matthew 19:11-12.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
My toddler: Biting is just the language of the unheard, mother
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thought we covered the concept of "AI girlfriends" in the Myth of Narcissus in 8 ACE, but ok
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
So what's the pianist's version of "anyway here's Wonderwall" and why is it Solfeggietto
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Applied to a job I'm absolutely perfect for. I hope they feel the same.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
oh it's nothing just me, an ex-fundie homeschool girl re-reading *The Tombs of Atuan* and crying
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
So some Southern Baptists want to address "willful childlessness" in their role as the morality police. Interesting. Yknow someone who was willfully childless? Jesus.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
so who else is having Elsie Dinsmore flashbacks due to a certain arrest of that Australian writer today?
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Preface: I'm not a political scientist, legal expert, economist, or sociologist. These are just my observations and theories. Growing up, my very conservative, very Republican family praised the Founding Fathers' wisdom in creating the "separation of powers."
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Y'know the scam emails with bad grammar and typos are deliberate to weed out less gullible people? so my partner is a fed worker. The OPM email today was a FAQ with "oh yeah we'll totally put all this in a contract! Just resign first!" OPM is basically just a Nigerian prince right now
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
welp reading about bird flu transmission was a mistake and I regret everything So you don't have to: 1) no more runny eggs 2) no bird feeders 3) call legislators and ask them to ban raw milk sales, it's the raw milk that's going to do us all in
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hey to the newbies and just one quick point of clarification so we all can find the right audience: I want homeschooling to be regulated. Assessments (not necessarily testing), contact with mandatory reporters, etc. Homeschooling law is often weaponized by abusers, and I want that to end.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
You should already 👏 know 👏 this 👏 You should've known this LAST YEAR IN AUGUST.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
I was interviewed for this and I'm happy with it. However, the parent interviewed *laughed* at the very idea that some Michigan homeschool parents might be abusing their kids. "What parents? What parents?" she kept asking. Ok, Amy. These parents. A Thread. youtu.be/mNaJWgTX2Gc?...
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Uptick in Homeschooling Sparks Debate About Regulations
Homeschooling saw an uptick during the pandemic as children were forced to stay home. Years later, many families have chosen to continue at-home education in...
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
No one who's reasonable expects a child-- even a teenaged child-- to teach themselves everything they'll need for an open future.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
All the "Parents' Bill of Rights" legislation storming state houses are the most shameless examples of a Nanny State I've ever seen. These bills aren't written to protect parents, they're to help parents abandon their job to actually be parents.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
Wanna know something odd about homeschool policy? While most states don't have anything in-statute about assessments, the ones that do stipulate "norms-referenced" tests. Here's the thing about norms-referenced tests: no one legit uses them anymore because they're bad tests.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
It's been a day and I can't get over this post that popped up in a local group I'm in. I'm sorry. MA'AM. You don't have money, need to get a job, and you're looking for a private tutor+nanny to "homeschool"??? PUBLIC SCHOOL IS FREE. You live in an area with awesome schools!
Hello in me of help please my son is 5 years old an is being home schooled I just moved to the area don't have a lot of money right now but really need somebody to help with his school so i can get a job we are flexible with days  I need someone that will be reliable
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Been thinking a lot today about the phrase "do men even *like* women?"-- context being there's an awful lot of supposedly cishet men who treat women as nothing more than bangmaids and seem to resent their presence otherwise. Obviously there's tons of misogyny here BUT
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
When homeschool alum talk a/b experiences of neglect, isolation, anxiety, etc, often we're met with "I went to school and also struggle with X." Sometimes this is meant to comfort, sometimes to dismiss. It's always annoying, because they're missing the *totality* of the homeschool experience. Ex:
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
There's been a smattering of articles written by folks trying to stir up homeschooling parents into a panic about some supposed push to "regulate homeschooling." There is no such push. In fact, the opposite is happening, driven by HSLDA.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
it's hilarious to me MTG is out there telling women to be more modest and I'm just like Babe. Honey. I've never seen you in a dress without at least five "eye traps." The women I grew up with would call you loose, fast, and worse. Also you're an adulterer. So like. lmao
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
homeschool alum lemme know if this sounds familiar Week 1: new textbooks! Month 1: genuine effort Months 2-3: slacking off Months 4-6: school abandoned Month 7: 🤬 it's the "end of the year" quick cram 5 months into 3 weeks Month 8 that's impossible? Right guess it's time to cheat and make $#!+ up!
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
Somehow I am continuously astonished at what homeschool parents will just admit to out loud with their whole face. Just from the last 24 hours: "Going to the grocery store is good socialization." "I don't teach my kids science, but I feel like they're still learning it." Just. Wat. 🤯🤬
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
People will announce the most ridiculous, made-up nonsense about homeschool policy in this country. I can't even with this dude
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
One of the annoying questions I get from researchers/producers/reporters: "what state would you say has good homeschool policy?" NONE. There is not a single state with adequate policies. They *all* have such massive loopholes that allow both atrocious educational neglect or torture. All. Of. Them.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
So with the logo being a butterfly, what do you think we'll end up calling a post on here? A flutter? A flit?
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Total number of any person killed in a school shooting that took place on elementary or high school grounds since 2000: 106 Number of children murdered by their home educator since 2000 (that we know of, most of these were hidden for years): 198.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
There is a fundamental disconnect between the experience of a homeschooling parent and a homeschooled child. They are raising their children in a lifestyle and inculturation they did not experience and cannot understand without considerable effort. A minor example:
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Really sick of researchers reading a single statute, talking to one associationand co-op, and thinking that makes them an expert on homeschooling in that state. Unless you're talking to *homeschool alumni*, you don't know jack about how homeschooling actually works anywhere.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
I'm in a few FB groups for parents to help find things like babysitters. There's often posts looking for what they call a "momma's helper," which include cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, etc. So... a maid. They want a maid.
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Samantha Field @samanthafield.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Criticism we got today: Person: No. I'm a Christian there are two genders. Me, seminary graduate: well Barbara I'm a Christian and there are SIX biblical genders
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