Jessica Matzko
@jmatzko.bsky.social
Hyperfixating on interiors, books, and nature.
“Radical self-belief was a religion for me, a coping mechanism, the only way I could survive my childhood with a sense of self, with a shred of ambition to be more than what little my undiverse community expected of me.” open.substack.com/pub/katjolew...
How to Define Success as a Writer
On Ambition in the Face of Failure
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“Radical self-belief was a religion for me, a coping mechanism, the only way I could survive my childhood with a sense of self, with a shred of ambition to be more than what little my undiverse community expected of me.” open.substack.com/pub/katjolew...
Reposted by Jessica Matzko
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Zuckerberg's concern for “masculine energy” is giving the same vibes a professor emanated in 2007 when he told me: "You should consider a PhD although this would ... continue to lead to the feminization of my field." 🙄
a woman sits at a desk in a classroom with a mgm logo on the bottom
ALT: a woman sits at a desk in a classroom with a mgm logo on the bottom
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Zuckerberg's concern for “masculine energy” is giving the same vibes a professor emanated in 2007 when he told me: "You should consider a PhD although this would ... continue to lead to the feminization of my field." 🙄
Grew up listening to A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Thomas) each holiday season. Getting the prickling that this beautiful work—Time of the Child—may have to be added to the tradition …
January 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Grew up listening to A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Thomas) each holiday season. Getting the prickling that this beautiful work—Time of the Child—may have to be added to the tradition …
The stories we tell ourselves matter more than we’d like to believe.
The sneaky thing that might be standing in the way of your creative work.
Why the Self story is the most important story
open.substack.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The stories we tell ourselves matter more than we’d like to believe.
Spent my holiday making a TBR holds list on my local library's Libby app. Did not realize managing 10+ holds by staggering the delivery dates between Dec 30 and February 15 would be a full time job.
a shelf full of books including one that says ' i love you '
ALT: a shelf full of books including one that says ' i love you '
media.tenor.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Spent my holiday making a TBR holds list on my local library's Libby app. Did not realize managing 10+ holds by staggering the delivery dates between Dec 30 and February 15 would be a full time job.
The Scorpio energy we all know and married 😭
January 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Scorpio energy we all know and married 😭
Reposted by Jessica Matzko
‘The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw.’
Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial:
Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial:
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
‘The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw.’
Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial:
Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial:
Reposted by Jessica Matzko
“When you come please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate… Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.”
On Henry Miller's birthday, his notice to visitors https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/27/henry-miller-notice-to-visitors/
On Henry Miller's birthday, his notice to visitors https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/27/henry-miller-notice-to-visitors/
Henry Miller’s Notice to Visitors
“When you come please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate… Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 27, 2024 at 1:33 AM
“When you come please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate… Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.”
On Henry Miller's birthday, his notice to visitors https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/27/henry-miller-notice-to-visitors/
On Henry Miller's birthday, his notice to visitors https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/27/henry-miller-notice-to-visitors/
Too often "speaking up" is a call for women to "[cosplay] an Oxbridge debating society male in order to fit in" rather than contribute to the "existential and relational" facets of the questions at hand morefullyalive.substack.com/p/just-call-...
Just call me token woman
The pleasures, pains and paradoxes of being a public female.
morefullyalive.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Too often "speaking up" is a call for women to "[cosplay] an Oxbridge debating society male in order to fit in" rather than contribute to the "existential and relational" facets of the questions at hand morefullyalive.substack.com/p/just-call-...