Beth Howard
@jbethiejean.bsky.social
community organizer, writer, Kentuckian
Forthcoming memoir Song For a Hard-Hit People from Haymarket Books available 4/21/2026 ❤️🔥
Substack: working class love notes
IG and everywhere else: @jbethiejean
Web: bethhowardky.org
Forthcoming memoir Song For a Hard-Hit People from Haymarket Books available 4/21/2026 ❤️🔥
Substack: working class love notes
IG and everywhere else: @jbethiejean
Web: bethhowardky.org
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Beth Howard
@jbethiejean.bsky.social
· Sep 22
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
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Pre-orders are so important to the life of a book... who in your circle can you make a "pre-ordered for you!" gift certificate for?
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Pre-orders are so important to the life of a book... who in your circle can you make a "pre-ordered for you!" gift certificate for?
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“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
Teen Vogue's Closure and the Quiet Defunding of Worker Consciousness
Teen Vogue’s shutdown marks more than a media loss. This is a warning about how profit-driven consolidation quietly dismantles worker awareness and voice.
thisislaborwise.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
Let’s go EKY!
#NoKings 285 people in Morehead, Kentucky, pop. 6789. That's 4.1% of the population!
KY Tenants Union even did a training on direct action before hand.
KY Tenants Union even did a training on direct action before hand.
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Let’s go EKY!
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Working Class Love Notes #14: Song For a Hard-Hit People
pre-orders are open for this love song to the multiracial working class that is going to get us free ❤️🔥
so freaking proud of @jbethiejean.bsky.social for the cultural + organizing work she gives her whole heart to!
pre-orders are open for this love song to the multiracial working class that is going to get us free ❤️🔥
so freaking proud of @jbethiejean.bsky.social for the cultural + organizing work she gives her whole heart to!
Working Class Love Notes #14: Song For a Hard-Hit People
My Memoir Cover Reveal and Pre-Orders Are Open!
open.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Working Class Love Notes #14: Song For a Hard-Hit People
pre-orders are open for this love song to the multiracial working class that is going to get us free ❤️🔥
so freaking proud of @jbethiejean.bsky.social for the cultural + organizing work she gives her whole heart to!
pre-orders are open for this love song to the multiracial working class that is going to get us free ❤️🔥
so freaking proud of @jbethiejean.bsky.social for the cultural + organizing work she gives her whole heart to!
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@jbethiejean.bsky.social is a lovely and fierce soul and I know her memoir is the same:
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
September 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
@jbethiejean.bsky.social is a lovely and fierce soul and I know her memoir is the same:
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my friend, comrade + conspirator @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book that WE NEED RIGHT NOW
look at this cover! ❤️🔥
pre-orders are open + they are IMPORTANT
hello to my fellow white antiracists: we need this story!
HUZZAH to you, Beth 🎉👏🏻🤌🏻
bookshop.org/p/books/like...
look at this cover! ❤️🔥
pre-orders are open + they are IMPORTANT
hello to my fellow white antiracists: we need this story!
HUZZAH to you, Beth 🎉👏🏻🤌🏻
bookshop.org/p/books/like...
September 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
my friend, comrade + conspirator @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book that WE NEED RIGHT NOW
look at this cover! ❤️🔥
pre-orders are open + they are IMPORTANT
hello to my fellow white antiracists: we need this story!
HUZZAH to you, Beth 🎉👏🏻🤌🏻
bookshop.org/p/books/like...
look at this cover! ❤️🔥
pre-orders are open + they are IMPORTANT
hello to my fellow white antiracists: we need this story!
HUZZAH to you, Beth 🎉👏🏻🤌🏻
bookshop.org/p/books/like...
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SURJ's very own @jbethiejean.bsky.social has a book coming out next year ⬇️ check it out!
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
September 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
SURJ's very own @jbethiejean.bsky.social has a book coming out next year ⬇️ check it out!
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My friend @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book! I’m so looking forward to reading 🤓
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
September 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My friend @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book! I’m so looking forward to reading 🤓
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
September 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
Already pre-ordered my copy! Cannot wait to read my teacher and friend @sheainthecatskills.com ‘s essay! 💖✨plus an essay by @laetitiacartomancy.bsky.social !
The Devil anthology is now available for preorder!
120 pages, 38 writers + artists exploring power, rebellion, desire, shadow work & more.
Ships in early Oct.
Profits support social justice orgs.
Get your copy: www.therebis.com/products/devil
120 pages, 38 writers + artists exploring power, rebellion, desire, shadow work & more.
Ships in early Oct.
Profits support social justice orgs.
Get your copy: www.therebis.com/products/devil
September 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Already pre-ordered my copy! Cannot wait to read my teacher and friend @sheainthecatskills.com ‘s essay! 💖✨plus an essay by @laetitiacartomancy.bsky.social !
Lora Eli Smith’s “Gobsmacked!” in @oxfordamerican.bsky.social is an excellent @longreads.com pick! It’s the best essay I’ve read this year: ecology, grief, wonder, and goblins ✨ oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...
Gobsmacked! Supernatural Sightings After a Flood
oxfordamerican.org
September 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Lora Eli Smith’s “Gobsmacked!” in @oxfordamerican.bsky.social is an excellent @longreads.com pick! It’s the best essay I’ve read this year: ecology, grief, wonder, and goblins ✨ oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...
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Some cool queer KY history in @jbethiejean.bsky.social's latest Substack! I really enjoyed this. workingclasslovenotes.substack.com/p/working-cl...
Working Class Love Notes #11: Pride
Celebrating Pride and all the Country Queers
workingclasslovenotes.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Some cool queer KY history in @jbethiejean.bsky.social's latest Substack! I really enjoyed this. workingclasslovenotes.substack.com/p/working-cl...
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@jbethiejean.bsky.social with a Love Note for us: "Through mending circle, we are learning how to change and reimagine the broken system we live in so we can work towards a new way of living and being together, like dreaming up worker cooperatives." ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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Working Class Love Notes #10: Community
Some notes on finding your people and mending our hearts, plus so many things I love
open.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
@jbethiejean.bsky.social with a Love Note for us: "Through mending circle, we are learning how to change and reimagine the broken system we live in so we can work towards a new way of living and being together, like dreaming up worker cooperatives." ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
I'm a paid subscriber—you can become one too!
I'm a paid subscriber—you can become one too!
Loved talking about rural organizing and Rednecks for Black Lives on @tvlrfm.bsky.social ❤️🔥
March 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Loved talking about rural organizing and Rednecks for Black Lives on @tvlrfm.bsky.social ❤️🔥
Loved talking about fellow Kentuckian Anne Braden on @mountainlaurels.bsky.social 💖💖💖 thank you for having me on! open.spotify.com/episode/6QXo...
My Kind of Southern Woman
Mountain Laurels: Women of Appalachia · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Loved talking about fellow Kentuckian Anne Braden on @mountainlaurels.bsky.social 💖💖💖 thank you for having me on! open.spotify.com/episode/6QXo...
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“Our right-wing opponents have been serious about investing in organizing rural communities for generations. It’s time progressives are serious, too.”
@jbethiejean.bsky.social @convergencemag.com
convergencemag.com/articles/fro...
@jbethiejean.bsky.social @convergencemag.com
convergencemag.com/articles/fro...
From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery
Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.
convergencemag.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Our right-wing opponents have been serious about investing in organizing rural communities for generations. It’s time progressives are serious, too.”
@jbethiejean.bsky.social @convergencemag.com
convergencemag.com/articles/fro...
@jbethiejean.bsky.social @convergencemag.com
convergencemag.com/articles/fro...
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This is a good piece that talks about solidarity and coalition building in left-behind areas where people's needs aren't being met.
It's really heartening, and heartbreaking, to recognize our lived experiences and frustrations reflected elsewhere.
It's really heartening, and heartbreaking, to recognize our lived experiences and frustrations reflected elsewhere.
From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery
Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.
convergencemag.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is a good piece that talks about solidarity and coalition building in left-behind areas where people's needs aren't being met.
It's really heartening, and heartbreaking, to recognize our lived experiences and frustrations reflected elsewhere.
It's really heartening, and heartbreaking, to recognize our lived experiences and frustrations reflected elsewhere.
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We'll be talking with @jbethiejean.bsky.social and Stephen Smith on Friday on Block & Build. Join us on Friday at 2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxnV...
February 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We'll be talking with @jbethiejean.bsky.social and Stephen Smith on Friday on Block & Build. Join us on Friday at 2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxnV...
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"Our right-wing opponents have been serious about investing in organizing rural communities for generations. It’s time progressives are serious, too." ❤️🔥
New article in @convergence about the dignity and power of rural people, places, and organizing which we should all invest in. Proud to be a co-author with my friend Stephen Smith, also one of my fellow co-founders of the Rural Defenders Union. ❤️🔥
From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery
Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.
convergencemag.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"Our right-wing opponents have been serious about investing in organizing rural communities for generations. It’s time progressives are serious, too." ❤️🔥
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"Attacks on democratic institutions merely scratch the surface of what we’re up against. In most rural places, we are facing a generational crisis."
From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery
Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.
convergencemag.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"Attacks on democratic institutions merely scratch the surface of what we’re up against. In most rural places, we are facing a generational crisis."
New article in @convergence about the dignity and power of rural people, places, and organizing which we should all invest in. Proud to be a co-author with my friend Stephen Smith, also one of my fellow co-founders of the Rural Defenders Union. ❤️🔥
From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery
Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.
convergencemag.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New article in @convergence about the dignity and power of rural people, places, and organizing which we should all invest in. Proud to be a co-author with my friend Stephen Smith, also one of my fellow co-founders of the Rural Defenders Union. ❤️🔥
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Corporate Coup in Global Context
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies
Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies
Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
February 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Corporate Coup in Global Context
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies
Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies
Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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Today’s art project — with a quote from @margaret.bsky.social
“Deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy.” 🌸
“Deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy.” 🌸
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Today’s art project — with a quote from @margaret.bsky.social
“Deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy.” 🌸
“Deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy.” 🌸
Yes, @sheainthecatskills.com we all gotta build that muscle of refusal and breaking rules ❤️🔥
We receive “rewards” for being “good” + playing by the rules: the temporary good graces of those who control resources + and access to other things we want + need. The cost, tho, is that everyone who is excluded from these so-called rewards is left to fend for themselves.
February 2025: entering our villain era — shea✨ in the catskills
major arcana 15: entering our villain era I started joking with my tarot students late last year about “entering our villain era” when I saw the Devil arcana showing up again + again in our pulls. O...
www.sheainthecatskills.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Yes, @sheainthecatskills.com we all gotta build that muscle of refusal and breaking rules ❤️🔥