Jessie Sage
@sapiotextual.bsky.social
Spicy worker, seminarian, columnist. Same beat from three angles. 📝 jessiesage.com
For my @pghcitypaper.com column this month, I had the pleasure of interviewing local witches about ritual, sex magick, and the divine spark in each of us. www.pghcitypaper.com/columns/nigh...
Love spells and sex magick create a divine confluence in Pittsburgh’s witchcraft scene
Sexual energy, divinity, and magic are closely linked, Pittsburgh witchcraft practitioners say.
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I don’t believe in hell, and I think everyone had a right to a fair defense, but I hope that the defense attorneys for the Cornell rapists burn in hell.
Accidentally wrecked a bunny nest while gardening and now I'm writing about parenthood, failure, and the Voyager Golden Record. As one does. substack.com/@sapiotextua...
The Sound of an Empty Nest
On a sound I didn’t know rabbits could make
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We put on big people clothes and left the house looking cute. Clap for us 🥰👏🏼♥️ Night out with @pjpicklejuice.bsky.social
It’s interesting to read about boundaries in seminary after years of trying to hold them with sex work clients. I wrote some thoughts on where these professions overlap and where things get messy. bothsidesofthebooth.substack.com/p/mutually-b...
Mutually Beneficial
A boundaries book for clergy, read by a sex worker
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@sapiotextual.bsky.social Thought you might like this, given your new venture! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/04/a...
Burnt out on publishing, Alice Hoffman finds new magic at Harvard - The Boston Globe
The "Practical Magic" author's work at the Divinity School led her back to the art she loved.
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Because I’m incapable of sitting still at a desk all day. 📷: Dawn Hartman
This is a fantastic article. My favorite dates are little adventures. It's why I love pool tables (radically social), skating (physically exciting), and especially unconventional museums (intellectually stimulating) so much. I love clients willing to try newness and some safer uncertainty with me!
Jessie Sage@sapiotextual.bsky.social · 2mo agoA date is how you find out who’s actually in the room with you. I asked Pittsburgh’s kinksters, sex workers, and nonconformists where they go to find out. www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-enterta...
A date is how you find out who’s actually in the room with you. I asked Pittsburgh’s kinksters, sex workers, and nonconformists where they go to find out. www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-enterta...
Fun Pittsburgh date ideas from local kinksters, free spirits, and nonconformists
Unexpected Pittsburgh date recommendations that fall outside the norm.
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Jessie‘s writing is fantastic (she’s profesh and everything!) & you should subscribe to her newsletter. I’m looking forward to reading more. helpfully, her thinking and feeling also rate!
Jessie Sage@sapiotextual.bsky.social · 2mo agoSome reflections about god, justice, and meaning making. Also, I have a substack now if you have any interest in following my seminary journey. 🩷 bothsidesofthebooth.substack.com/p/a-god-who-...
Some reflections about god, justice, and meaning making. Also, I have a substack now if you have any interest in following my seminary journey. 🩷 bothsidesofthebooth.substack.com/p/a-god-who-...
A God Who Loves the Jellyfish
Why I Can’t Believe that Everything Happens for a Reason
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Those working at the intersection of intimacy & public leadership (clergy, sex workers, politicians, activists, dancers) may be interested in this 9 month cohort starting now. I did it last year and found it to be personally and professionally enriching & meaningful. meadville.edu/light/public...
LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School
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Sitting in class listening to non-sex workers talking about their concerns about having class zooms recorded and transcribed and the surveillance it implies and trying hard not to say, “Sex workers have been saying this is a problem but no one listened to us…”
I walked into a Fluevog store yesterday in Chicago and I didn’t buy anything. Clap for me.
Polyamory is a nervous system workout. Most of us come to it with a reading list and no somatic tools at all. My new piece on Javi Vason, spicy yoga, and what the body knows that the books can’t teach. @pghcitypaper.com www.pghcitypaper.com/columns/spic...
This spicy yoga class for polyamorous couples opens up more than chakras
Javi Vason’s sexy yoga class in Pittsburgh helps non-monogamous couples heal through the hurt polyamory can trigger.
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Seminary starts for me today and I started my day at yoga where the first and last song that played was “God is a woman.” I take that as a sign.
August is fat liberation month and for August’s issue of @pghcitypaper.com I wrote about the folks making space for fat liberation and joy in Pittsburgh. www.pghcitypaper.com/columns/pill...
Night Shift: The power of fat liberation
The fat liberation movement offers resistance in the face of thinfluencers and Ozempic.
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“If there’s anything worth calling theology, it’s listening to people’s stories, listening to them and cherishing them.” Mary Pellauer
Back to the scene of the crime, 10 years later! Happy 10 year wedding anniversary (a day late) to the most kind human I could imagine hitching myself to. Whew, what a 10 years it’s been, can’t imagine doing it with anyone else ♥️ @pjpicklejuice.bsky.social
I keep forgetting this app exists and when I come back and check out the timeline I realize that I have no idea what half of the posts mean. I’m either getting old, am less online than I used to be, or both.
"The audience knows that when [Jessie] Sage says 'I learned to be a successful escort by first being a wife' that she’s inviting us to laugh with her." An excellent write-up of our @workinggirlspress.bsky.social launch of I Hate My Job! zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-i...
DISPATCH: I Hate My Job Anthology Launch (KGB Bar, New York City)
"This is by whores, for whores." On the importance of Working Girls, a press where sex-worker writers don't have to package themselves as ambassadors.
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Having a public job can be wonderful, challenging, & exhausting, no matter how much you love it! #PublicIntimacy is complicated by identity & social location. If you'd like to learn more about how to be in public well & with well-being, join us this September! meadville.edu/light/public...
Yes, I did just behave like a mom and put the toilet paper roll on the holder in my 20-something client’s apartment. Sometimes I can’t help myself.
In an interview with Julica from @uuministers.bsky.social, we talked about #PublicIntimacy, the idea of Intimacy as labor, and what you might learn about in our 26-27 cohort on Leadership & Public Intimacy from LIGHT through @meadvillelombard.bsky.social meadville.edu/light/public...