J Wortham
jennydeluxe.bsky.social
J Wortham
@jennydeluxe.bsky.social
writer, podcaster, author
https://jennydeluxe.substack.com/
At the top of the year, I took a ten-day survivalism course to try and wrangle with my feelings about the apocalypse and our end times. It's here, for free, if you have the time www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/m...
My 10-Day Crash Course on Surviving the Apocalypse (Gift Article)
I wanted to learn how to prepare for disaster. It turned out I needed skills, yes — but the first thing was learning how to breathe.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Protest outside the NYC ICE office now demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil
#FreeMahmoudKhalil
March 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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My hometown of Waterloo, Iowa canceled its African American Read-In after Trump’s anti-diversity directives. So i got together some writer friends and I’m holding it instead.
March 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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i feel like i've read this exact story 350 times in the last decade www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...
The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0
Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Please come to the Brooklyn Heights branch of the
@bklynlibrary.bsky.social on Tuesday Feb 4 at 6pm for a conversation with @jennydeluxe.bsky.social about Love in a F*cked Up World. Wear a mask!
January 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library
February 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.
February 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Thrilled that @jennydeluxe.bsky.social reviewed @meredithdclark.bsky.social ‘s book on Black Twitter for the NYT- perfect marriage of reviewer and topic (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/b...
The Revolution Was Live-Tweeted (Gift Article)
In “We Tried to Tell Y’All,” Meredith D. Clark chronicles the heyday of Black Twitter.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.

“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
hyperallergic.com
December 28, 2024 at 3:00 AM
it almost feels too easy to think they don't get it; much scarier to consider what it means if they do
the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image

also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*
December 19, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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it really is something to go and look back at some of the 1/6 statements from people who've gone straight back to bending the knee
December 19, 2024 at 8:30 PM
to be fair (to myself), i didn't write that headline, nor would i have. and it wasn't the final headline that i saw before it went to print. i think that's shaping a lot of the reactions to be piece - which, makes sense!
December 15, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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December 14, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Quite possibly the best piece I’ve read about life after The Bird App and the rise of this app by @jennydeluxe.bsky.social who beckons us with @ruha9.bsky.social’s words to reevaluate our relationships with the Internet.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...
December 14, 2024 at 3:38 PM
"I had to make myself seen." -- may the legendary Lorraine O'Grady rest in power. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Lorraine O’Grady Has Always Been a Rebel
The eighty-eight-year-old artist and critic, whose profile has risen in the past decade, examines her role in the art world then and now.
www.newyorker.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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Those gofundmes some of you are complaining about are the only thing keeping Palestinians in Gaza alive. There are many governments who could intervene & say "if regular people can get money to Palestinians to buy food, so can we" but nobody has said that. Everything happening in Gaza is intentional
December 10, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Nikki Giovanni staunchly supported trans folks, especially trans youth. Her encouragement is a balm.

“I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”
December 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none).
December 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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Let today’s Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in spark an era of radical defiance. Trans folks refuse to bow to hate and bigotry. We demand dignity and respect. We will fight like our ancestors. We are building with our elders and peers. And trans youth will inherit a better world.

📸: Alexa Wilkinson
December 6, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Early this morning, an autonomous group of New Yorkers reclaimed an F train car, replacing ads with signage reading “A MAN WAS LYNCHED HERE” and Jordan Neely’s name, as a jury deliberates over whether to convict Daniel Penny, Neely’s killer, with his death last May.
December 5, 2024 at 2:20 PM