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Jackie Hedeman
@jackiehedeman.bsky.social
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Writer. Flâneuse. Spy. Bi sky at night, sailor's delight. Co-creator of The Pasithea Powder. Writing all over the place. She/her 🪩

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@mollyolguin.bsky.social and I crushed Halloween if I do say so myself
Us, dressed as flappers (ie Daisy and Jordan) A Kate Beaton comic of Daisy saying “WHAT BABY” Morticia and Gomez sighing deeply Us as Morticia and Gomez
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Eleven years ago yesterday, my greatest victory.
I am wearing a cardboard (woefully skinny) replica of Scout's ham costume from To Kill a Mockingbird.
November 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Angels in America! Prior Walter is in his hospital bed. Confetti explodes in front of him.
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Some representative images
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Got my shit wrecked by Heath Ledger yet again
A marquee with Brokeback Mountain on it
June 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Encore de gay
Me at the Subaru service center A protest An array of ten gay book faves A library display on lavender marriage
June 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Gay x 4
A picture of my living room with a Microsoft word doc open on my laptop in the foreground Something gay every day, part 10: my ability to post here every day about being queer was gifted to me because disenfranchised people (mostly trans women, mostly people of color) knew when it was time to throw a brick. Queerness is a history of cool people and banging literature, and also a history of pushing back, sometimes physically, when you and your people are being violated. I know I'm mostly preaching to the choir here, but the disjuncture I've been feeling over the last few years (between massive public strides and brutal, local crackdowns), has really struck me these past few gay ass days, so here's a celebratory gay suggestion to anyone who is feeling a little overwhelmed & wants direction: follow and/or set up a monthly contribution to Cairr ke or Stranslawcenter or ©thepert, or find your own local agency where the gift of your eyeballs or your $ will have impact. Make time to party and make time to show up. There's no need to reinvent the wheel. There are experts, people with lived experience who have been doing this work for a long time. They just need to be supported. A picture of my girlfriend surrounded by a lot of v enthusiastic Instagram stickers Me, reflected in a mirror, holding a sticker that says “God loves fags.”
June 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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HI GUYS, the @mollyolguin.bsky.social summer tour is on!
A list of tour stops that Molly will be making to promote The Sea Gives Up the Dead, including: June 22nd - NYC BGSQD, 3pm July 1st - Portland ME Print Bookstore, 7pm July 24th - St Paul Next Chapter Books, 6pm July 25th - Columbus Two Dollar Radio, 8pm August 2nd - Kansas City Big Brothers Big Sisters - 2pm + a signing at Afterword Bar - 3pm August 14th - LA The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
June 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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More gay for more days
Friends on laptop in the foreground; The Wedding Banquet 2025 in the background A Spotify playlist by me called junejunejunejune A float from Pride KC Sunflowers
June 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Anyway, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexua...
June 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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In June I like to do Something Gay Every Day in my personal insta stories. Updating here in batches of four-ish. 🌈
The Lilac People by Milo Todd Me, wearing a Sasha Velour T-shirt and rainbow nails The remains of a rainbow cake A cocktail called Sapphire, named for Elizabeth Taylor, from a book called Queer Cocktails
June 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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The essay I began at OSU and took to Lambda and finished in Kansas and Missouri finally has a home in Foglifter, exactly where it belongs. 🌈 ✍🏻 🕵🏻‍♀️
A page featuring the beginning of my essay “The Moscow Rules.” It reads, “ I am a writer, or I am a spy. Beyond these facts I have attempted to figure myself out, to choose between already existing, ill-fitting words and perfect phrases lacking that succinc specificity. I have tried on labels in my head. I have worn them in the privacy of my own thoughts for days, months, weeks at a time before deciding they sit poorly. I have noted how these words change my behaviors, how with these notions echoing in my head I begin to conform.” The cover of Foglifter literary journal. It features a red, sun-shaped ceramic figure. I have placed it on a bright yellow floral surface
May 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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This is a belated post about how cool it was to attend @mollyolguin.bsky.social’s book launch in Seattle a few weeks back! She’s got a few dates in the Midwest, East Coast, and LA in the summer months, and a virtual launch coming up next week! Don’t miss out!
May 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Sometimes you gotta pour a wine and INVESTIGATE
Three photos of Jackie holding wine and looking delighted with her phone
April 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A little glimpse:
Against a stormy rainbow backdrop, text reads, “My therapist would say I have been struggling with narrative essays ever since I realized how deep the well of my queerness went. I need to find a way to write about all this that's a little more elliptical. I need to make words work for me. I need to learn how to get in a fight. My zodiac sign is Sagittarius, if that makes me seem cool in any way
April 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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My preorder of @mollyolguin.bsky.social’s The Sea Gives Up the Dead arrived (early!) with the flowers. I love this beautiful, dark book. A bright spot, a joy. 🌺 ❤️‍🔥
April 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Real ones know Richard Chamberlain from The Three Musketeers (1973)
A still from The Three Musketeers. The musketeers and Planchet are sitting slumped and contentedly eating.
March 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Picked up my first book for #TransRightsReadathon so I’m ready to go! If you’re wanting to participate and looking for recs, I’ve got some faves below! #TRR25
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
March 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Dust, 5:00 PM
March 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Back in January I downloaded that app that externalizes self care by nurturing a little baby bird every time you cross something off a list. Today, I’m proud to announce, my baby bird reached probably the most important milestone it’s possible to reach.
A little animated penguin levitating with a croissant hovering above him. The text reads, “Baby discovered Croissant!”
March 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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When your signed @meakoopa.bsky.social copies of biblical pornography arrive in the mail at the same time. Feat. @mollyolguin.bsky.social
Jackie and Molly hold copies of Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira. We are delighted.
February 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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My house is named Natalie and when I moved in I did a Jackie + Natalie registry and every year @aneelin.bsky.social reminds her to get me something for Valentine’s Day 🥰. I love friendship! And also my house!
Hot chocolate in fancy containers. In the foreground, a note reading, “Dear Jackie, Here's to whisking up gourmet hot chocolate for one! Endlessly going down, & shoveling out the long slide to happiness. Love, Natalie P.S. Love my new togs! xx”
February 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Fifth time watching Pride (2014) with the crew. Feels like more, but in the best way.
A living room with mood lighting and string lights. In the foreground, three people smiling in Skype. In the background, a tv screen illuminated reading Lesbian & Gay Pride ‘85
February 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Dug out my driveway; had a little hot cocoa in a thermos waiting for me, under a tea cosy, balanced on top of my car.
the high femme to stone butch spectrum, with "butchy femme" circled
January 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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December 27, 2024 at 1:45 AM