Jackie Domenus

@jackiedwrites.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in Huff Post, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House ‘21. They/she.📍NJ.

Spent last week at Sunlit Residency in Ithaca, NY. The residency honors Dr. Su-Je Lee Gage and her dedication to human rights and social justice. I feel so lucky to have had the week to reset and re-focus on my creative work.

Wooden desk with open laptop, sticky notes, pen, stack of books, and microphone/headphones. Window behind desk shows snow covered ground outside.White garage door with painted dark blue circle and light blue lotus flower, next to a light purple entry door.

Headed to a writing residency next week and looking for book/essay recs on the theme of “control,” especially in relation to gender, mental illness, death/grief. Can be very specifically related or broadly related. I’ll take whatever ya got!

And if you can afford it, buy physical copies. Now more than ever, we need to archive what we can. Digital can no longer be trusted. Especially in this day when our own information can be easily modified or deleted. Let’s get back to actually owning things and preserve a library for the future.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky