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Jackie Domenus
@jackiedwrites.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in The Offing Mag, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House ‘21. They/she.📍NJ.
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Happy Halloween from Elliott and ET! 🎃
Baby dressed as Elliott from ET sitting in a milk crate next to Reese’s Pieces and a dog wrapped in a towel. Screen capture from the film ET of Elliott riding a bike with ET in a crate on the front.
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Tin pan with the words “always support the bottom” printed on.
August 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Lesbians packing for vacation
Notes app screen shot with a list of 3 things: Polaroid, Vibrator, Bananagrams
August 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Trying to spread some positivity so here’s me announcing that our queer little family is about to grow! Please enjoy this ridiculous photo of my dog.
Yorki-poo dog wearing glasses sitting behind a book titled “What to Expect When Your Humans are Expecting”. String of baby clothes, decor, and ultrasound picture in background.
May 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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The 3 sexual orientations:
List of tv shows titled I Killed My BFF, I Kissed a Boy, I Kissed a Girl
April 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Wow. Omar El Akkad’s ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS is a must-read. Especially in this moment, as the government continues its violent attempts to silence those who speak out against genocide.
As always, the dead will be made to pay the moral debt born oftheir killing. At the start of this campaign, one oft-parroted justification was the nonsensical contrivance that Palestinians in Gaza were subject to a collective guilt on account of their voting for Hamas. It is somewhat pointless to note that most Gazans are too young to have voted for Hamas in the most recent election, or that collective punishment of a civilian population for their electoral choices would be subject to a far higher standard of scrutiny if that population werent a politically powerless contingent of Brown people, or that the very same terror group had long received support from the Israeli government as a matter of strategy so as to keep an thily in power that at least partially shared the governments disdain for peace or a two-state solution, or that the occupation and terror inflicted on Palestinians long predates the creation Oftlamas. It is pointless, even, to make the obvious analogies, to imagine the response had almost any other country on earth killed hundreds or thousands of civilians on a hostage rescue mission, or flattened every hospital in a city on the hunt for a terror group, and then bragged about its success. Pointless because such things assume a conversation anchored in facts or reason or even the thinnest presupposition that the people being killed, like those killed on October 7, are human beings, their loss an utter indictment of the systems and leaders and world that allowed it. Instead, as the scope and scale of annihilation intensifies, an opposite presupposition becomes necessary, one that imposes onto the dead the appropriate mendacity to justify their killing. A few weeks in, the notion that Palestinians deserve to die because some of them voted for Hamas becomes insufficient to hold up the body count. Soon, Palestinians become indistinguishable from Nazis, and then worse than Nazis. As their eradication continues, they must transform into the worst human beings on earth, the weight of their deaths only then sufficiently lightened.
April 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Just accidentally captured my entire attitude on my laptop screen. The unexpected perks of having written a book whose title begins with “no” lol.
A computer screen with two Microsoft Word docs open and a list of files in the background all titled “no”
April 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Got some sweet sweet book mail! Can’t wait to dig into this one by @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social!
Cover of Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly
April 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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There is only so much fluorescent lighting one can handle, but I did make it to 3 great panels: Writing Sex Beyond Survival, Experiments in Time, and Reporting the Self. Got to hear some of my favs: @melissafebos.bsky.social @hbrenhouse.bsky.social @jailthepoets.bsky.social & more!
Author speaking from a podium at a panel Authors sitting at a long table having a panel discussion Authors sitting at a long table having a panel discussion
April 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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AWP recap in photos. 📸 Great readings, lovely writers. Completely exhausted, but good vibes overall. @zoebossiere.bsky.social @womanistbae.bsky.social @earthtokb.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social
Copy of the book No Offense: A Memoir in Essays in front of the 2025 AWP sign Five memoir authors holding copies of their books Three nonfiction authors posing in front of Skylight Books sign Display of various books and merch from the AWP conference
April 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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What an honor to be in discussion with @athenadixon.bsky.social whose work I admire so deeply. Thank you for the thoughtful questions and good laughs. And many thanks to A Novel Idea for hosting us, and to the friends who came out to support.
Jackie Domenus and Athena Dixon sitting next to each other, each holding books and laughing in front of a backdrop of bookshelves Jackie Domenus and Athena Dixon with two rows of event attendees behind them smiling
March 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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AWP is in a week! 🌴 Let’s hang out and talk about words!
JACKIE DOMENUS AT AWP 2025 WEDS. 3/26 @ 7 PM: EXISTENCE AS RESISTANCE A QUEER AND TRANS MEMOIR OFFSITE AWP EVENT W/ KRYS MALCOLM BELC. ZOE BOSSIERE, KB BROOKINS, FREDA EPUM LIBERATION COFFEE HOUSE AT LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER 6725 SANTA MONICA BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90038 THURS. 3/27 @ 2 PM: AUTHOR SIGNING BOOTH 718 - ROWAN UNIVERSITY / GLASSWORKS/SINGULARITY PRESS LOS ANGELESE CONVENTION CENTER FRI. 3/28 @ 7 PM: A NIGHT OF NONBINARY) - FICTION W/ ZOE BOSSIERE, KB BROOKINS, NEESHA POWELL-INGABIRE SKYLIGHT BOOKS 1818 N VERMONT AVE. LOS ANGELES, CA 90027
March 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Today’s installment of @writingco-lab.bsky.social’s 100 Days of Resistance by @torreypeters.bsky.social is keeping me going.
Torrey Peters Is Talking... So look. This idea of trying to find the simplest route between addresser/ addressee also sustains me in this political era. These fuckers are destroying the institutions. I can't get an NEA grant anymore, because of "gender ideology." And to that I say: eh whatever. Because an NEA grant is nice, but very likely not the simplest route between addresser and addressee. The simplest route to an addressee is at a nearby reading. It's doing an event with a friend. It's xeroxing some wild shit and leaving it at a cafe a la Sybil Lamb (the writer with whom I first shared that stage, when I bombed).
March 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Who do I know in Baltimore?! Come hang out and talk with us about creating change as queer artists. The venue is beautiful, it’s BYOB, the vibes will be immaculate. partiful.com/e/Qhupwv8ulQ...
Event flyer: Kap2ure Film Studios presents Creators of Change, Queer Perspectives with special guests Black Assets, Katie Simbala, and Jackie Domenus. April 8, 2025 @ 7 pm. 1414 N. Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD 21213. BYOB.
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Had a v lovely, v gay discussion with @otroedgargomez.bsky.social at The Nonbinarian Bookstore in Brooklyn the other night.✨
Edgar Gomez and Jackie Domenus sitting in chairs holding microphones in front of a mural of colorful, mythical creatures. Jackie Domenus and Edgar Gomez posing with a seated audience behind them in a bookstore. Copies of No Offense and Alligator Tears displayed on a table with stickers and miscellaneous items. Edgar Gomez and Jackie Domenus standing back to back holding their books in front of a mural of colorful, mythical creatures.
March 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Will be reading and chatting and signing books at Asbury Book Cooperative on March 22nd! Come through! www.eventbrite.com/e/presentati...
Purple flyer for event: Queer book club pick. Join us for a presentation and signing with Jackie Domenus. Saturday, March 22nd at 7pm. 644A Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ 07712.
March 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Philly Philly! Come hang out at A Novel Idea on March 20th and help us launch No Offense in the greatest city of all time. I’ll be reading from the book and talking all things memoir and essay with the brilliant @athenadixon.bsky.social! Register here: anovelideaphilly.com/events/
Purple event flyer. No Offense: Philly Book Launch with Jackie Domenus and Athena Dixon on Thursday, March 20th 6pm at A Novel Idea.
March 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Last week, I had a book launch, the first of many events for NO OFFENSE. I am so overwhelmed with gratitude that over 60 people showed up - friends, family, and folks I’d never met before. What a night.
A crowd of people seated in an art gallery facing a speaker at a podium. Author Heather Lanier and Jackie Domenus sitting across from each other interview style holding microphones. A book cake with the cover of No Offense printed on it surrounded by purple and pink icing. Author Matthew Vesely standing at a podium speaking into a microphone as others watch from chairs behind him.
March 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be there or be square. RSVP here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...
Flyer for offsite AWP event Existence as Resistance: A Queer and Trans Memoir event featuring Krys Malcolm Belc, Zoe Bossiere, KB Brookins, Jackie Domenus, Freda Epum. March 26 at 7pm at Liberation Coffee House at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
March 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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AWP OFFSITE UPDATE! 📢🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @fredaepum.bsky.social has joined the lineup! RSVP here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...
Flyer for offsite AWP event Existence as Resistance: A Queer and Trans Memoir event featuring Krys Malcolm Belc, Zoe Bossiere, KB Brookins, Jackie Domenus, Freda Epum. March 26 at 7pm at Liberation Coffee House at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
March 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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AWP folks! Mark your calendars and RSVP here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...! The event is free but we highly suggest making a donation to LA fire relief funds.
Flyer for offsite AWP event Existence as Resistance: A Queer and Trans Memoir event featuring Krys Malcolm Belc, Zoe Bossiere, KB Brookins, and Jackie Domenus. March 26 at 7pm at Liberation Coffee House at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
February 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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NJ, Brooklyn, Philly: come talk about memoir and queerness and the current collapse of society with me!
No Offense Events. Feb 26 South Jersey Book Launch @ Rowan Art Gallery. Mar 13 Queer Memoir in NYC @ The Nonbinarian Bookstore. Mar 20 Philly Book Launch @ A Novel Idea. Mar 22 Queer Book Club @ Asbury Book Cooperative.
February 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Author copies have arrived, it’s getting real!! I did the whole unboxing vid thing over on Instagram (@jackie.d.writes) if you wanna watch me be proud and awkward at the same time!!
Copies of No Offense: A Memoir in Essays in a cardboard box, purple cover with pink and dark purple speech bubbles. Jackie wears a light pink shirt while smiling and holding a copy of No Offense: A Memoir in Essays
February 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Oh wow look at this super real, not-edited-at-all screenshot of Time’s 40** most anticipated books of 2025!
Edited screenshot of Time’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025 lists to include No Offense: A Memoir in Essays
December 18, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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This beauty arrived in the mail and I can’t wait to crack it open! @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
Copy of These Worn Bodies by Avitus B. Carle
December 6, 2024 at 12:41 AM