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Jenn Steinfeld
@jennsteinfeld.bsky.social
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Childless cat lady (nonbinary edition). Raconteur and rabble-rouser. Liberationist. Knitter. Gardener. Aspiring public intellectual. Managing Director of @ewdinstitute.bsky.social. They/them. TheWoolverine on Ravelry.
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It is currently 8:36 AM in the UK. I am spending the day in a meeting and taking an 8 PM flight home. Somehow I land in Boston at 10:30 PM for a total of 48.5 hours wheels up to wheels down. For now in a Wildfang suit, thrifted French cuff shirt and cufflinks, found scarf, determination.
April 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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I’m on a 2 day jaunt to the UK to disrupt the wealth management industry, so I decided to lean in to the Thrifted Dandy esthetic. Schoolboy blazer and French cuff dress shirt procured on Poshmark, gifted thrifted scarf and pocket square, estate sale pansy lapel pin. #ButchDandy #OOTD #TDOV
A nonbinary person stands before a full length hotel mirror wearing a navy and white striped schoolboy blazer, a light blue French cuff dress shirt, a red, navy, and cream polka dot neckerchief, navy speckled trousers, and navy and light blue dress shoes. We know it’s about the details. A light blue and white pansy pin with a pearl center on a navy and white pinstripe blazer. We know it’s about the details. A silk pocket square printed like a piece of college ruled notebook paper in the pocket of a navy and white striped schoolboy blazer.
April 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Made good use of my time at the @justeconomy.bsky.social #JustEconomy2025 conference by working on my #ResistHat, doing a 27 year glow-up visit to Capitol Hill w @magaziner.house.gov, and getting to know my @localreturn.bsky.social compatriots better. Bringing home so much info! #KnitSky 🧶
A grey wool hat featuring 2 repeating rows of the word RESIST in pink hangs below a circular knitting needle, against a background of black pajamas featuring green leaves and brown leopards. A 47 year old human smiles into the camera in a blue blazer, white dress shirt with blue and purple stripes, a blue and purple patterned silk scarf tied in a full Windsor knot, and sunglasses, with the US Capitol dome in the background over their right shoulder. A photo of a newspaper clipping from 1998 of the same person at 20 as part of a delegation of people in front of the Capitol dome with the text “Baby’s first hill visit, April 1998” over their head. Same person stands with 3 other members of the Local Return Community Investment Cooperative team in front of a balloon arch with the words “Just Economy Conference” in the background.
March 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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You probably don’t know that #Welding is my #QueerRoot. That scene in #Flashdance where Jennifer Beals takes off her helmet & shakes out all that hair was everything to this Pittsburgh kid. So I really enjoyed the #SFOAirport exhibit on #RosieTheRiveter. Joan of Arc pageant? Yes please!
March 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I lost a dear friend in January, days before she died we had made a plan for ice cream today while I was in her area. In her honor I had a double scoop in a waffle cone in view of the Bay Bridge. I think she would approve. I love you and miss you Court.
A selfie of a person with a wrinkled forehead, black hoodie, and keffiyeh eats a large waffle cone of dark chocolate and smoked sea salt ice cream (there’s a hidden scoop of peanut butter curry below) in front of water with the Bay Bridge in the background.
March 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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#SuitButch day 2: handmade K-Zao suit, thrifted Thomas Pink pink, purple, and white striped French cuff shirt, circus print silk scarf w a half Windsor knot, college ruled pocket square, Prince and Bowie riding a pink unicorn lapel pin. #QueerStyle and #EnbyVisibility is #Resistance.
A person stands in a hotel bathroom wearing a hip length, wide lapel grey suit in a modern 1940s style; a pink, purple, and white shirt with French cuffs peeking from the suit sleeves; a pink and yellow silk scarf folded on the bias and tied in a half Windsor knot inside the open shirt collar; a silk pocket square printed like a piece of college ruled paper; and a lapel pin depicting David Bowie and Prince riding a pink unicorn with a purple mane and tail. Closeup of the college ruled paper print pocket square; David Bowie with bright red hair and Ziggy Stardust face makeup in front of Prince in a green assless suit on a pink unicorn with a curly purple mane and tail; and a pink silk scarf tied in a half Windsor knot, showing the tail of a tiger.
March 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I used to be a daily #SuitButch but now that it’s an occasional thing it’s a lot more fun. (H/t to @dieworkwear.bsky.social 4 style tips!) Handmade K-Zao suit, thrifted Thomas Pink shirt, Trafalgar naiad braces, and pink pocket square, gifted blue silk scarf, gifted flower pin. #OOTD #QueerStyle
A person stands before a mirror wearing a grey two-piece suit with a long jacket and wide lapels; a pink, fuchsia, blue, and white striped French-cuff dress shirt, a pink pocket square, a blue fabric flower stick lapel pin, a blue floral silk scarf tied on the bias in a square knot inside the open shirt collar, large black hoop earrings, with earlobe length undercut hair. A close up of the open jacket revealing a bright blue lining, the shirt stripes, and pink silk braces featuring topless naiads bathing.
March 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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My travel schedule this year doesn’t leave room for traditional #Purim fun and #Antizionist stuff can be hard to find on the road so I’m drinking #Tequila in the Charlotte airport in a #Hamantaschen hat watching fire trucks flood the tarmac. I’m sure #EverythingIsFine. I think Esther would approve.
March 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Good morning! Time change side effect is I’m up for the sun rising over my neighbor’s house again. These times are making me appreciate #SmallJoys again. What’s getting you through?
A bright golden sun emerges above the roof of a white house with the branches of a bare tree in the foreground.
March 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Freaking FINALLY got these #BrainlessSocks off my needles and onto my feet. It’s my favorite travel pattern because it’s, well, brainless, but sometimes that means a lil #knitting project takes way longer than necessary. But don’t worry I have another pair on needles! What are you making? #KnitSky
A closeup of two feet in hand knit socks in a variegated brown, green, purple, and turquoise with a cable up the inner leg that splits at the gusset, crossed against a white tiled floor with small black squares at the intersection of the white tiles.
March 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Just checked my watch and it’s #CuteBatOclock. Having a friend rewrite this meme for me to be #nonbinary inclusive yet specific to my interests made me feel really loved. How are you loving up on the #Queer, #Trans, and #Enby folks in your life? And/or how are you celebrating #Bats?
A photo shows a pink skinned human hand holding a small brown bat with its wings extended. The text reads “You may fascinate a *Jenn* by giving *them* a little palm sized bat.” Asterisks indicate where a newly typed word was pasted over the original text. If there is a better way for me to describe this please let me know, I’m trying to get better at alt text descriptions!
March 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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When you don’t feel like getting going, make your #OOTD a bright sweater and take a selfie in your friend’s teal bathroom. Pretty Snake argyle cat sweater; Pushcart Judaica hamantaschen hat; Urban Body Jewelry earrings; scratches by my nibblings. #QueerStyle #BuyLocal #ShopSmall #FitCheck
A person stands in a teal alcove wearing a red, orange, and yellow argyle sweater with a pyramid of black cat silhouettes with large orange beaded eyes, black hoop earrings, glasses, and a pale orange hat that says “hamantaschen” (a cookie for the Jewish holiday of Purim) in white script. They have a faint smile and a scratch on their upper lip from their baby nibbling and on their chin from their 4 year old nibbling. Too much roughhousing!
March 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Some days are an embarrassment of riches and today’s #OOTD reflects that. @nooworks.bsky.social painters pants in the most incredible print, #MeMade #FairfieldShirt in Joann flannel (RIP), Cats Against Catcalls crew neck, keffiyeh, #MeMade socks. Off for some somatic work for facing fear! 🧶🧵🪡
A short haired person stands in front of a full length mirror wearing red, black, and orange handknit socks; bright red painters pants printed with black vampire mouths, bloodshot eyeballs with bat wings, and the grim reaper; a white flannel shirt printed with black outlined hands making shadow puppet animals and the black shadows; a black sweatshirt with a line drawing of an upright sitting cat with script reading “cats against catcalls; a black and white keffiyeh, and large black hoop earrings. Their head is cocked to the side and they are holding their phone in their right hand taking the picture.
March 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I don’t know why it just occurred to me today that I could wear this gifted @nooworks.bsky.social turtleneck with the matching jumpsuit but I am real excited about it! #MeMade #Handknit armwarmers and socks, Muffy Brandt witch finger necklace, gifted cashmere pompom hat round out #OOTD. #Knitsky 🧶
A person stands in front of a full length mirror wearing a dusty purple hat with a fur pompom; a short sleeved jumpsuit and turtleneck printed with flaming dice, padlocks, snakes, spiderwebs, urns with wilting roses, keys and chains on a black background; a hot pink witch finger necklace (a brass cast of the rubber kids toys), armwarmers in a pink and black yarn; pink variegated socks, and a big grin. Same outfit just closeup from the waist up; the person has their eyes open wide in an expression of excitement with a big smile and their tongue stuck out.
March 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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It was a heck of a week but I took a little time out for a program called Process as Power and crafting in community and caught this snap in the museum bathroom. Pretty Snake Bone Church sweatshirt; Savage x Fenty sweatpants; keffiyeh; KN-95; mutual support; gratitude. #fitcheck #ootd
A person stands in an open bathroom stall with an open stall on either side taking a bathroom selfie. A black and ecru wallpaper with large circles featuring stylized women’s faces including a closeup of an eye with an arched brow; a nose to collar neck wearing a moon phase necklace; eyes with arched brows above two hands sipping from a teacup; and feminine features on a white circle. The person is wearing a boldly colored sweatshirt printed with parrots, carnivorous plants, and skulls; black and white checked sweatpants; and a black and white keffiyeh around their neck.
March 8, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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We got to make paper tricorns and did you know that doodad is called a cockade? As my favorite plus one said at the deli later “in these outfits we shattered any penumbra of heteronormativity.”
March 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The invite to a tea party in support of RI’s Semiquincentennial (250th) made me think “what hat should I wear?” Vintage 1940s black straw with pearl pins, thrifted silk beaded vest, black French cuff shirt, thrifted fringed black jeans, vagina dentata scarf, revolutionary heart. #FitCheck #ootd
A person stands in front of a full length mirror wearing a small brimmed 1940s vintage black straw hat with a velvet ribbon around the crown and two crossed pearl hat pins in the front bow; black spiral earrings; a fully beaded and sequined black vest, a black long sleeved shirt with French cuffs fastened with vintage 1920s snapped cufflinks with mother of pearl inlay; black jeans with silver fringe at each hip, fastened with a simple black leather belt with a silver buckle; and black socks with white bats and moons printed.
March 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Taking this #FitCheck to the school board in support of LGBTQIA+ staff. #OOTD me-made #BelvedereWaistcoat featuring local drag queens’ hands; Wildfang eyeball buttondown; locally dyed silk scarf; black jeans; studded belt; energy vampire crystal; queer rage. #AllBlackEverything with a pop of color.
A short haired person stands in front of a light colored wall wearing a white long-sleeved button down with black line-drawn eyes; a black vest with green welts at the pockets; a blue and green dyed silk scarf folded on the bias and tied in a full Windsor knot; black jeans; a thick belt with three rows of rounded studs; and a small silver chain connecting a black tourmaline crystal to their belt loop. Close up of the vest back featuring drag queens hands emerging from tropical greenery.
February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Took a little social break because ugh and OMG but my #OOTD pleased me so it’s a Monday #WFH #fitcheck featuring a gifted thrifted ska Talbots cardigan; Rihanna fast fashion sweatpants; thrifted skull print button down; my fav #MeMade socks in #Zauberball 🧶Tropical Fish, mischief.
A short-haired person stands in front of a full length mirror wearing a black cardigan with black and white checked trim on the front placket, collar, and cuffs; the tails of a black button down with grey skulls emerge from the square hemline; black and white checked sweatpants with black cuffs and an irregular check around the knees; and colorful socks one of which has a yellow and green toe blending to a red and blue mid foot and a blue ankle, the other with a blue toe blending to a yellow foot and red ankle.
February 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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A selection of #cats from the Hemingway House in Key West. My Florida vacation has been a total delight despite my anxieties. Many public restrooms have been used without incident. #TravelWhileTrans
A small grey cat extends its pink tongue into a pale blue margarita glass for a drink of water, with green palm fronds behind it. A large orange cat squats on the green wood top of a fence, ears erect and white toes on display, gazing at the camera with eyes the same green as the fence top. An orange and white cat lounges on the second level veranda of a large white cat house with yellow shutters on arched windows. Its white front feet extend over the edge as it looks back over its shoulder. Behind it a pale orange cat stands between the bars on a window on the white stucco main house. A grey tortoiseshell cat lies on mulched ground looking away from the camera, with its black speckled polydactyl (extra toes) foot extended outwards on the ground.
February 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Here is my actual #valentine from this year, celebrating my love of bats and cheese; a good reminder from @wynwoodwalls.bsky.social, and the #sunrise this morning over the sea in the Florida Keys. I am off both news and the greater good until Tuesday. Taking a deep breath to regroup and reset.
A collage featuring an image of a pyramid of different cheeses with an overlay of two Victorian bat etchings; and two Victorian etchings of women in bat costumes, with the words “I hope it’s not too cheesy to say I’m batty about you!” A set of signs made to look like interstate/state route signs on a pole poke out from behind fan palm fronds. From the top they read: BREATHE; ALL WE HAVE IS NOW; RELAX; UR OK. A low golden sun in a golden sky rises over a choppy sea with the beach in the foreground.
February 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Staff retreat day 3, so glad to be able to bring this #OOTD to work. Fav @nooworks.bsky.social business pants, Hex The Patriarchy tee, Pretty Snake linen camp shirt, keffiyeh, puffy humidity hair, “Destroy All Men Who Abuse Their Power” fanny pack by defunct feminist art collective The Bettys.
A person stands in front of a pink bathroom wall taking a mirror selfie in black and white squiggle print pleated pants; black fanny pack that reads DESTROY ALL MEN WHO ABUSE THEIR POWER in all caps; black tshirt with a witchy hand and curling smoke that reads “hex the patriarchy”; black and white keffiyeh around their neck; short sleeve black linen shirt with an all over print of freaky creatures (griffin, unicorn, angler fish; two headed skeleton; two headed coral snake)
February 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Staff retreat #OOTD: @nooworks.bsky.social linen garden suit romper in a wild Ruth Mora print; keffiyeh; lightweight black cardi with a crocheted skull back that feels like a hug from the friend who gave it to me, @toppleandburn.bsky.social F the Patriarchy earrings; 🍒 converse. #EatTheRich
A person stands in front of stall doors of a public restroom with phone in hand, wearing a black linen romper printed with pink 8-balls, orange women in white bikinis riding green motorcycles, green rats, white hands holding knives, and orange snakes; a black and white keffiyeh around their neck, and a black open cardigan. An outstretched leg showing a black converse low-top with five embroidered cherries up the side, a bare calf with exposed bottom half of a tattoo of an octopus holding an hour glass, and the leg of a black linen romper showing a green rat, pink 8-ball, orange snake, and white hand holding a knife.
February 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Ok I was real nervous about coming to Florida but this view from my morning run really helped melt that away. Also consuming zero news today.
Sun reflecting on perfectly still blue water while puffy white clouds float in the sky. Sea wall along bright blue still water reflecting the puffy white clouds in the blue sky.
February 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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As a #nonbinary person travel can be complicated and traveling to hostile territory more so. #OOTD my fav @nooworks.bsky.social pants, memorial hoodie for the best smile, keffiyeh, straw hat from my 83 year old friend, black glitter Docs, mask for collective care, apprehension. #FitCheck
White person standing in front of a mirror wearing a large straw hat with a black band; a black KN95 mask; a black and white keffiyeh; a black hoodie with a large Black person in a huge gap-toothed smile, sleeveless tee and backwards ball cap that reads “In Loving Memory, Court T King, 08/08/85-01/08/25”, and black pants with white squiggles.
February 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM