Jen Deaderick 🗃️ (She/Her)
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Jen Deaderick 🗃️ (She/Her)
@jendeaderick.bsky.social
DED-er-ick. Author SHE THE PEOPLE, a history of women’s citizenship in the US. Writer on gender, economics, boobs for Dame, NBER, NYT. May or may not be notable.

Substack:

https://jendeaderick.substack.com

Other stuff:

https://linktr.ee/jendeaderick
I've put together a compilation of my first year of post on my Substack: Dispatches from a Porch Swing.

It's now available as a book(!) at Barnes & Noble.

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dispatches...
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I live in such a small town now that I have nothing to vote on today. It all got settled in town meeting a couple of weeks ago.

Just know that I am voting in my heart.
November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
To honor my Mom, who is living with Alzheimers, I'm raising funds and awareness to help #ENDALZ 💜 Will you support me by making a donation to my Walk to End Alzheimer's page?

alzm.org/781iy
September 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“We were so innocent then.”

jendeaderick.substack.com/p/innocent
May 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“Mitra Farmand is sitting across from me, drawing me as I write this.”

jendeaderick.substack.com/p/still
January 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“I’m no George Carlin, but I had my moments.”

jendeaderick.substack.com/p/stand-up
September 6, 2023 at 12:45 AM
“He’s healthy and unstooped, and has as many marbles as he ever had.”

open.substack.com/pub/jendeade...
August 31, 2023 at 1:45 PM
“The only physical evidence that she’d been on the floor were rug burns on her elbows.”

open.substack.com/pub/jendeade...
August 23, 2023 at 12:22 AM
“My brain shut off at that point.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/detached
August 11, 2023 at 9:25 PM
“Why am I not married to a movie star? Why does everything need dusting?”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/wake-up
August 4, 2023 at 7:04 PM
“I got Funfetti chocolate cake mix and blue Funfetti frosting.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/plan-e07
July 28, 2023 at 3:35 PM
“My Mom loved Sinead O’Connor.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/sinead
July 27, 2023 at 2:07 PM
“It captures that sudden drunken awareness that maybe things have gone awry, and there’s not much you can or will do about it.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/mama
July 26, 2023 at 1:11 PM
“It’s men who tend to experience the wrath of my keyboard, the fury of my thumbs. I’m more flummoxed by women.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/raging
July 25, 2023 at 4:03 PM
“My Mom was a charter subscriber to Ms. Magazine, and thought Barbie was keeping women in chains.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/pink
July 24, 2023 at 3:06 PM
“It’s a yearly week of nuisance.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/cloud
July 21, 2023 at 2:05 PM
July 20, 2023 at 5:15 PM
I’m right! Found a map!

https://www.hudsonrivervalley.org/knox-trail

Well, not necessarily about Warren St. They don’t have the Chestnut Hill Mall on this map, so it’s hard to figure out exact streets. 🗃️
July 11, 2023 at 11:05 PM
“The knuckle folds on my right thumb are still stretched out compared to the ones on my left.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/pacifier
July 11, 2023 at 1:35 PM
“It happened in a parallel time.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/cake
July 10, 2023 at 12:44 PM
“…no, say it like you really say it.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/cookout
July 4, 2023 at 12:35 PM
“This Substack has been great and satisfying and has only occasionally gotten me into trouble.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/custom
July 2, 2023 at 4:37 PM
“I believe that’s how one uses the phrase.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/ashes
July 1, 2023 at 11:59 PM
“She seemed fearless, but of course she wasn’t. It’s not smart to be fearless.”

https://jendeaderick.substack.com/p/tina
May 25, 2023 at 1:21 AM
“It had just started blending in, I guess.”

jendeaderick.substack.com/p/untidy
May 23, 2023 at 8:54 PM