Jade Wong-Baxter
@jwongbaxter.bsky.social
literary agent at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency // she/her
have discovered the 100% effective solution to seasonal depression and it is electing a smart talented progressive to political office and defeating a sex pest. can we do this every single day until the sun starts setting after 7pm again
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
have discovered the 100% effective solution to seasonal depression and it is electing a smart talented progressive to political office and defeating a sex pest. can we do this every single day until the sun starts setting after 7pm again
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
tomorrow! and it's free!
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
tomorrow! and it's free!
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i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
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About 42 million people, including 16 million children, are set to lose their SNAP benefits in November, triggering what experts say could be the worst hunger crisis since the Great Depression.
Here are some ways to help your community:
www.thecut.com/article/how-...
Here are some ways to help your community:
www.thecut.com/article/how-...
How to Help Families Losing SNAP Benefits
About 42 million people, including 16 million children, are set to lose food assistance starting on November 1.
www.thecut.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
About 42 million people, including 16 million children, are set to lose their SNAP benefits in November, triggering what experts say could be the worst hunger crisis since the Great Depression.
Here are some ways to help your community:
www.thecut.com/article/how-...
Here are some ways to help your community:
www.thecut.com/article/how-...
hannah's writing is a gift and a joy and if you've ever thought 'wow, what an incredibly weird time for health and america right now' then you should read this
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(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)
(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)
October 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
hannah's writing is a gift and a joy and if you've ever thought 'wow, what an incredibly weird time for health and america right now' then you should read this
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Pour one out for one of the best Bluesky posts of all time
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
September 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Pour one out for one of the best Bluesky posts of all time
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absolutely nuts to feel joyous about a political moment, for the first time in years and years 😭
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
absolutely nuts to feel joyous about a political moment, for the first time in years and years 😭
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not to expose myself as insufficiently cynical but I’m actually kind of shocked at how bad this is across multiple levels—as a piece of analysis, as a piece of rhetoric, and as a deployment of the NYT’s outsized power in this specific instance
Opinion | Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
not to expose myself as insufficiently cynical but I’m actually kind of shocked at how bad this is across multiple levels—as a piece of analysis, as a piece of rhetoric, and as a deployment of the NYT’s outsized power in this specific instance
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Wow, NYTimes be like, “Andrew Cuomo is our problematic fave."
The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.
The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.
NYT Editorial board effectively endorses Andrew Cuomo today in the most weaselly possible way. “Don’t rank Mamdani, and it will probably be either him or Cuomo, sooo…”
June 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Wow, NYTimes be like, “Andrew Cuomo is our problematic fave."
The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.
The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.
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Our power grows!!
We’ve been sitting on this news for a minute and are so delighted to FINALLY share that the brilliant Lucy Cleland has joined The Frances Goldin Agency as VP and Senior Agent! We are enormously lucky to have her on the team 🎉
May 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Our power grows!!
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Join us at the Poetry Project tomorrow April 23 at 8pm to celebrate LOVE IS A DANGEROUS WORD by Essex Hemphill (1957–1995). John Keene, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Pamela Sneed, and more will be reading. Come at 7:30 to toast to Hemphill before the reading!
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RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...
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RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...
April 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us at the Poetry Project tomorrow April 23 at 8pm to celebrate LOVE IS A DANGEROUS WORD by Essex Hemphill (1957–1995). John Keene, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Pamela Sneed, and more will be reading. Come at 7:30 to toast to Hemphill before the reading!
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RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...
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RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...
a true honor to help bring Essex Hemphill's work back into print -- thanks to @summ.bsky.social for capturing the labor of love that went into its publication
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
A Classic Collection of Black Gay Poetry Returns to Shelves
Poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s 1992 collection
www.publishersweekly.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
a true honor to help bring Essex Hemphill's work back into print -- thanks to @summ.bsky.social for capturing the labor of love that went into its publication
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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one thing I always wanted for my complicated birth country with a blood-drenched history was for it to also be a bankrupted casino
April 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
one thing I always wanted for my complicated birth country with a blood-drenched history was for it to also be a bankrupted casino
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"He was a lyric poet to his core, and a political poet who knew that the most devastating critique could hinge on many of poetry’s numerous resources, any of which he wielded when needed."
Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.
lithub.com/john-keene-o...
Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.
lithub.com/john-keene-o...
John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life
Throughout Essex Hemphill’s poetry, what we registered was his attentiveness to craft as well as statement, to the possibilities of performance, of form, of the line, and to the expressive content,…
lithub.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"He was a lyric poet to his core, and a political poet who knew that the most devastating critique could hinge on many of poetry’s numerous resources, any of which he wielded when needed."
Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.
lithub.com/john-keene-o...
Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.
lithub.com/john-keene-o...
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Very excited to share that this beautiful little volume of poems by the late, visionary Essex Hemphill, which I co-edited with the brilliant Robert Reid-Pharr & for which he wrote the introduction & I the afterword, will be out next week (March 5) from New Directions!
www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...
www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...
Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems
For three decades, the legacy of the revered writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent no...
www.ndbooks.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Very excited to share that this beautiful little volume of poems by the late, visionary Essex Hemphill, which I co-edited with the brilliant Robert Reid-Pharr & for which he wrote the introduction & I the afterword, will be out next week (March 5) from New Directions!
www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...
www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...
especially these days, it's been such a delight escaping into @liaholland.bsky.social's music festival mystery -- both a love letter to and pointed commentary on the intoxicating raves, community, secrets and chaos of the festival world. Very excited to be working together!!
I’m thrilled to be taking the next step toward putting my fiction out in the world by signing with @jwongbaxter.bsky.social of @goldinagency.bsky.social.
February 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
especially these days, it's been such a delight escaping into @liaholland.bsky.social's music festival mystery -- both a love letter to and pointed commentary on the intoxicating raves, community, secrets and chaos of the festival world. Very excited to be working together!!
Happy #MSWL day! Working with a decent amount of nonfiction now, so would love voice-driven upmarket fiction to balance it out. Always enjoy a splash of genre and weirdness with a heart (MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES; THE WEDDING PEOPLE, etc.) Full wishlist:
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ja...
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ja...
Jade Wong-Baxter – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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February 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Happy #MSWL day! Working with a decent amount of nonfiction now, so would love voice-driven upmarket fiction to balance it out. Always enjoy a splash of genre and weirdness with a heart (MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES; THE WEDDING PEOPLE, etc.) Full wishlist:
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ja...
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ja...
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Did you guys know that Kendrick is the first Pulitzer winner to perform at a Superbowl halftime show?
Next year book Barbara Kingsolver, you cowards.
Next year book Barbara Kingsolver, you cowards.
February 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Did you guys know that Kendrick is the first Pulitzer winner to perform at a Superbowl halftime show?
Next year book Barbara Kingsolver, you cowards.
Next year book Barbara Kingsolver, you cowards.
hire @marinafang.bsky.social for her brilliant reporting work, strong convictions, and the fact that now feels like a particularly dumb time to be laying off journalists given literally everything around us
I wrote a long goodbye email because I’ve earned that right. Debated whether to get spicy and say the part below, but I am a big believer in calling things what they are.
Please support journalists. You’ll miss journalism when it’s gone.
Please support journalists. You’ll miss journalism when it’s gone.
February 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
hire @marinafang.bsky.social for her brilliant reporting work, strong convictions, and the fact that now feels like a particularly dumb time to be laying off journalists given literally everything around us
February 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)
January 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)