Jenny Chamarette
@jennychambles.bsky.social
Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. Certified DISCO DIVA (IYKYK). I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
A bit of news from me: Q IS FOR GARDEN is out with MUP in July 2026!
Please stay tuned for event updates…
Please stay tuned for event updates…
We are delighted to announce we are publishing @jennychambles.bsky.social's bold exploration of how queerness & nature entwine in July 2026.
'Q is for garden' blends memoir, history & cultural criticism, drawing on the histories of queer gardeners, botanists, artists & agriculturalists. #booksky
'Q is for garden' blends memoir, history & cultural criticism, drawing on the histories of queer gardeners, botanists, artists & agriculturalists. #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A bit of news from me: Q IS FOR GARDEN is out with MUP in July 2026!
Please stay tuned for event updates…
Please stay tuned for event updates…
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💥NEW EPISODE!💥 This month Tim is joined by film academic @jennychambles.bsky.social to discuss Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (1934).
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
💥NEW EPISODE!💥 This month Tim is joined by film academic @jennychambles.bsky.social to discuss Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (1934).
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Currently reading Theory of Water. Looking forward to listening to this conversation, then re-reading, then re-listening. 🌊
What would happen to our writing, our politics, our living if we thought of land as pedagogy, theory as something embodied & kinetic? Theory of Water is the touchstone book for me this year, a map for the future.
Audio📻🌊: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
Audio📻🌊: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water - Tin House
What would it mean for our writing, thinking, and living if we looked to land as pedagogy, or if we thought of theory as something embodied and kinetic? In Theory of Water Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...
tinhouse.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Currently reading Theory of Water. Looking forward to listening to this conversation, then re-reading, then re-listening. 🌊
Lovelies, I’m not getting on with this app. It looks a wee bit too much like the formerly and deceased and I’ve lost my mojo for sharing, spouting, oo-er silliness and reframing good stuff. I can’t sort my algorithm and there’s… All This Going On Out Here. Want to help me get my mojo back?
April 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Lovelies, I’m not getting on with this app. It looks a wee bit too much like the formerly and deceased and I’ve lost my mojo for sharing, spouting, oo-er silliness and reframing good stuff. I can’t sort my algorithm and there’s… All This Going On Out Here. Want to help me get my mojo back?
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March 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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March 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Oh no it’s me that’s honoured to be a friend and accomplice of @clubdesfemmes.bsky.social
We're honoured to be bringing les lez vibes to BFI symposium on #ChantalAkerman, alongside friends des femmes inc Ros Murray, @jennychambles.bsky.social & the legendary B Ruby Rich
Sat 8 March, NFT1 #FilmSky
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Sat 8 March, NFT1 #FilmSky
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Buy cinema tickets for Chantal Akerman Symposium | BFI Southbank
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March 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Oh no it’s me that’s honoured to be a friend and accomplice of @clubdesfemmes.bsky.social
Assessing cool research publications while getting angry about university systems and fending off neighbourhood cats from the frogspawn in the pond. Sounds on-brand.
February 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Assessing cool research publications while getting angry about university systems and fending off neighbourhood cats from the frogspawn in the pond. Sounds on-brand.
I got an ellipsis problem so big the first f*cking academic essay I ever published was ABOUT ellipsis.
Was once told by an editor to "tether the meta-effusion" due to a particularly winding sentence that had – ( ) & ; referring to a text, its paratexts, citations of its paratexts & one of its own influences, but also didn't actually close its opening clause, so…
like the first time i saw this i felt fully attacked. don’t make me go back to being a parentheses ass bitch
February 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I got an ellipsis problem so big the first f*cking academic essay I ever published was ABOUT ellipsis.
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Was once told by an editor to "tether the meta-effusion" due to a particularly winding sentence that had – ( ) & ; referring to a text, its paratexts, citations of its paratexts & one of its own influences, but also didn't actually close its opening clause, so…
like the first time i saw this i felt fully attacked. don’t make me go back to being a parentheses ass bitch
February 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Was once told by an editor to "tether the meta-effusion" due to a particularly winding sentence that had – ( ) & ; referring to a text, its paratexts, citations of its paratexts & one of its own influences, but also didn't actually close its opening clause, so…
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From @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social from her July 2024 appearance on On Being: "So mushrooms, I feel like they’re our great detoxer. They’re the ones who understand that nothing needs to be wasted; that everything can be used in some way..." onbeing.org/programs/adr...
adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life
The social creative and visionary of emergence. Fractals. Pleasure activism. How we change — and change together.
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February 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
From @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social from her July 2024 appearance on On Being: "So mushrooms, I feel like they’re our great detoxer. They’re the ones who understand that nothing needs to be wasted; that everything can be used in some way..." onbeing.org/programs/adr...
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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“Gaza’s youth are unstoppable in their drive to learn & work. They push forward, even when everything seems against them…You can help turn their determination into real opportunities & lasting change.” ‼️
Help sustain this remote working space in Gaza!
Help sustain this remote working space in Gaza!
🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken...
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February 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
“Gaza’s youth are unstoppable in their drive to learn & work. They push forward, even when everything seems against them…You can help turn their determination into real opportunities & lasting change.” ‼️
Help sustain this remote working space in Gaza!
Help sustain this remote working space in Gaza!
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There is a word for this, and it is appeasement.
February 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
There is a word for this, and it is appeasement.
Statistical misogyny - or the statistical evidence of misogyny - feels at once vindicating and extremely tiring. Because the evidence was always there. Always. I’m so tired of equalities statistics. They show the same thing over and over. And the same abusive senior figures keep on abusin’
“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…”
www.nber.org/papers/w28494
www.nber.org/papers/w28494
Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 30, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Statistical misogyny - or the statistical evidence of misogyny - feels at once vindicating and extremely tiring. Because the evidence was always there. Always. I’m so tired of equalities statistics. They show the same thing over and over. And the same abusive senior figures keep on abusin’
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Cool project! Great to click on this and learn about Kate Mackintosh, who designed Dawson's Heights, one of my favourite features of the skyline in my old neighbourhood.
These are among many project's featured in Part W's and Edit Collective's Women’s Work: London map... which is an amazing resource for discovering great architecture designed by women and too often missed off maps, journals, archives etc www.part-w.com/womens-work-...
Women’s Work: London — Part W
www.part-w.com
December 28, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Cool project! Great to click on this and learn about Kate Mackintosh, who designed Dawson's Heights, one of my favourite features of the skyline in my old neighbourhood.
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I was beguiled by this sinuous piece in which @jennychambles.bsky.social "asks questions I don’t have words for" #BlueSpaces 💙
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...
Shadows & Reflections: Jenny Chamarette | Caught by the River | Caught by the River
www.caughtbytheriver.net
December 27, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I was beguiled by this sinuous piece in which @jennychambles.bsky.social "asks questions I don’t have words for" #BlueSpaces 💙
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...
An end of year piece from the height of summer while I was on a residency in North Virginia, published by the gorgeous @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
'Questions asked by the water don’t always return the same day, or week, or month. Back by the indigo-green waters, questions float to meet hollow circles among the wind-blown ribbons.'
@jennychambles.bsky.social on a 2024 of questions, answers and bodies of water https://buff.ly/41CWO3X
@jennychambles.bsky.social on a 2024 of questions, answers and bodies of water https://buff.ly/41CWO3X
December 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM
An end of year piece from the height of summer while I was on a residency in North Virginia, published by the gorgeous @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
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'Questions asked by the water don’t always return the same day, or week, or month. Back by the indigo-green waters, questions float to meet hollow circles among the wind-blown ribbons.'
@jennychambles.bsky.social on a 2024 of questions, answers and bodies of water https://buff.ly/41CWO3X
@jennychambles.bsky.social on a 2024 of questions, answers and bodies of water https://buff.ly/41CWO3X
December 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM
'Questions asked by the water don’t always return the same day, or week, or month. Back by the indigo-green waters, questions float to meet hollow circles among the wind-blown ribbons.'
@jennychambles.bsky.social on a 2024 of questions, answers and bodies of water https://buff.ly/41CWO3X
@jennychambles.bsky.social on a 2024 of questions, answers and bodies of water https://buff.ly/41CWO3X
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Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one
December 10, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one
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RIP Nikki Giovanni 💜 my favorite poem of hers, one I shared with my students every year
December 10, 2024 at 3:34 AM
RIP Nikki Giovanni 💜 my favorite poem of hers, one I shared with my students every year
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RIP Nikki Giovanni who my mom read to me as a child. I published a poem for her once upon a time. What a legacy and inspiration 👑🙏
December 10, 2024 at 6:38 AM
RIP Nikki Giovanni who my mom read to me as a child. I published a poem for her once upon a time. What a legacy and inspiration 👑🙏
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Now with added @telltales.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @argonautbooks.bsky.social & @poetrybookshop.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳 We're almost at 60 UK & Irish indie bookstores, keep following, keep buying books & keep em coming #BookSky
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December 7, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Now with added @telltales.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @argonautbooks.bsky.social & @poetrybookshop.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳 We're almost at 60 UK & Irish indie bookstores, keep following, keep buying books & keep em coming #BookSky
go.bsky.app/K7P6mVw
go.bsky.app/K7P6mVw