Jessie Lynn McMains (they/she)
@rustbeltjessie.bsky.social
Writer, zine-maker, artist. Queer, disabled, & furious. Parent of two kiddos. Etc.
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Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
I haven’t posted here in a hot minute, but I’ve got a lot going on. My newest Substack has all the deets.
open.substack.com/pub/jessiely...
open.substack.com/pub/jessiely...
News & Updates
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open.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I haven’t posted here in a hot minute, but I’ve got a lot going on. My newest Substack has all the deets.
open.substack.com/pub/jessiely...
open.substack.com/pub/jessiely...
It is 10:06 p.m. on a Sunday night. I stepped outside to look at the stars, and I hear…a tuba, from several streets away. No other instruments, just tuba. Must be a kid practicing but still, what a strange thing to hear at this time of night.
March 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It is 10:06 p.m. on a Sunday night. I stepped outside to look at the stars, and I hear…a tuba, from several streets away. No other instruments, just tuba. Must be a kid practicing but still, what a strange thing to hear at this time of night.
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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Name Me, River" by Jessie Lynn McMains (@rustbeltjessie.bsky.social) #TBT
stonecirclereview.com/name-me-river/
stonecirclereview.com/name-me-river/
Name Me, River
by Jessie Lynn McMains
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Name me woman and I’ll open up my chest and show you the wind; April wind, its easterly flow.
Call me man and I’ll lift my skirt and show you the fly-trap dogbane,
its po...
stonecirclereview.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Name Me, River" by Jessie Lynn McMains (@rustbeltjessie.bsky.social) #TBT
stonecirclereview.com/name-me-river/
stonecirclereview.com/name-me-river/
For the past year, I’ve been putting out 1-3 zines a month, and sending them to my subscribers. I have three more zines (the final batch) in progress, which will be sent out come mid-February. Now is your last chance to get in on it. Details here: ko-fi.com/s/74c3f4d4c8
January 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
For the past year, I’ve been putting out 1-3 zines a month, and sending them to my subscribers. I have three more zines (the final batch) in progress, which will be sent out come mid-February. Now is your last chance to get in on it. Details here: ko-fi.com/s/74c3f4d4c8
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Public service announcement:
Gay people buying into this TERF bullshit about “gametes” or whatever are the biggest “useful idiots” ever for the right because if you read this argument in even a little bit of detail you can see it’s easily usable to outlaw gay marriage and gay sex too.
Gay people buying into this TERF bullshit about “gametes” or whatever are the biggest “useful idiots” ever for the right because if you read this argument in even a little bit of detail you can see it’s easily usable to outlaw gay marriage and gay sex too.
January 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Public service announcement:
Gay people buying into this TERF bullshit about “gametes” or whatever are the biggest “useful idiots” ever for the right because if you read this argument in even a little bit of detail you can see it’s easily usable to outlaw gay marriage and gay sex too.
Gay people buying into this TERF bullshit about “gametes” or whatever are the biggest “useful idiots” ever for the right because if you read this argument in even a little bit of detail you can see it’s easily usable to outlaw gay marriage and gay sex too.
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if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.
January 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.
One of my least favorite mental illness things is when I’m experiencing what I have dubbed “depressedlessness,” where I’m all antsy and need! to! do! something! now! but whatever I try to do kinda sucks and isn’t enjoyable for long. And I’m feeling that right now. 😩
January 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
One of my least favorite mental illness things is when I’m experiencing what I have dubbed “depressedlessness,” where I’m all antsy and need! to! do! something! now! but whatever I try to do kinda sucks and isn’t enjoyable for long. And I’m feeling that right now. 😩
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To create as much justice and safety as possible, we have to defy authority and disobey, writes @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Trump Needs Public Cooperation to Enact a Fascist Vision. Here’s How We Refuse.
Our resistance to fascistic policies must be grounded in our sense of justice, rather than arguments about what’s legal.
truthout.org
January 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
To create as much justice and safety as possible, we have to defy authority and disobey, writes @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
I’ve seen a lot of people in the last few days/months saying something like “if you, as a USAmerican, have ever had any warm feelings about this country or thought of it as anything other than a fascist state, you just don’t know your history.” And I’m sorry, but no. 1/4
January 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I’ve seen a lot of people in the last few days/months saying something like “if you, as a USAmerican, have ever had any warm feelings about this country or thought of it as anything other than a fascist state, you just don’t know your history.” And I’m sorry, but no. 1/4
Apparently today is Blue Monday, so I am using it as an excuse to post this song.
youtu.be/c1GxjzHm5us?...
youtu.be/c1GxjzHm5us?...
New Order - Blue Monday (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by New Order
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January 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Apparently today is Blue Monday, so I am using it as an excuse to post this song.
youtu.be/c1GxjzHm5us?...
youtu.be/c1GxjzHm5us?...
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These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.
January 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.
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Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
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You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
January 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
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To confront billionaire authoritarians, economic inequality and fascism, we need to build power. In MLK's words "We can all get more together than we can apart; we can get more organized together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power."
As Billionaires Consolidate Power, We Need to Recommit to MLK’s Radical Vision
MLK was assassinated on the cusp of a strike wave in a time of counterrevolution. We need his “revolution in values.”…
truthout.org
January 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
To confront billionaire authoritarians, economic inequality and fascism, we need to build power. In MLK's words "We can all get more together than we can apart; we can get more organized together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power."
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A small thing in light of this shitty news, but it would be lovely if today were the day this GoFundMe for TWIN PEAKS actor Carel Struycken and his wife, who lost their home in the Eaton Fire, reached its target www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...
January 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A small thing in light of this shitty news, but it would be lovely if today were the day this GoFundMe for TWIN PEAKS actor Carel Struycken and his wife, who lost their home in the Eaton Fire, reached its target www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...
“Everyday, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the Men’s store. A catnap in your office chair. Or two cups of good, hot black coffee.”
So long, David Lynch. May your memory be a blessing. 🖤
So long, David Lynch. May your memory be a blessing. 🖤
January 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“Everyday, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the Men’s store. A catnap in your office chair. Or two cups of good, hot black coffee.”
So long, David Lynch. May your memory be a blessing. 🖤
So long, David Lynch. May your memory be a blessing. 🖤
the problem of pleasure (this heaven gives me migraine) // Jessie Lynn McMains, January 2025
Acrylic paint, collage, rub-on lettering, and Xerox transfer on paper. Words/title/inspiration from Gang of Four’s “Natural’s Not In It.”
It’s my first completed art piece of 2025!
Acrylic paint, collage, rub-on lettering, and Xerox transfer on paper. Words/title/inspiration from Gang of Four’s “Natural’s Not In It.”
It’s my first completed art piece of 2025!
January 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
the problem of pleasure (this heaven gives me migraine) // Jessie Lynn McMains, January 2025
Acrylic paint, collage, rub-on lettering, and Xerox transfer on paper. Words/title/inspiration from Gang of Four’s “Natural’s Not In It.”
It’s my first completed art piece of 2025!
Acrylic paint, collage, rub-on lettering, and Xerox transfer on paper. Words/title/inspiration from Gang of Four’s “Natural’s Not In It.”
It’s my first completed art piece of 2025!
Today I started organizing my lists of favorite music of 2024 (LPs, EPs, and singles). I have three lists going: my top tier favorites, stuff I enjoyed a lot but wouldn’t call any fave yet, and then stuff I heard for the first time in 2024 but came out some time between 2020-2023.
December 29, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Today I started organizing my lists of favorite music of 2024 (LPs, EPs, and singles). I have three lists going: my top tier favorites, stuff I enjoyed a lot but wouldn’t call any fave yet, and then stuff I heard for the first time in 2024 but came out some time between 2020-2023.
My most recent painting. I call it “Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash,” as I was listening to that Pogues album when I made it, and the concept was simply ‘what this album makes me feel.’
November 28, 2024 at 3:51 AM
My most recent painting. I call it “Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash,” as I was listening to that Pogues album when I made it, and the concept was simply ‘what this album makes me feel.’
“Poems may not be able to solve the world’s problems, but they can sometimes make us better people, and thus, at least potentially, capable of solving the world’s problems in all the other contexts where problems need solving.”
—Matt Hart, from the Introduction to Familiar
—Matt Hart, from the Introduction to Familiar
November 18, 2024 at 10:22 PM
“Poems may not be able to solve the world’s problems, but they can sometimes make us better people, and thus, at least potentially, capable of solving the world’s problems in all the other contexts where problems need solving.”
—Matt Hart, from the Introduction to Familiar
—Matt Hart, from the Introduction to Familiar
My gender identity is complicated. I’m not going into it right now, but I just read a post from someone else with a—though different from mine—complicated gender identity. It made me happy.
November 17, 2024 at 5:02 AM
My gender identity is complicated. I’m not going into it right now, but I just read a post from someone else with a—though different from mine—complicated gender identity. It made me happy.
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i wrote about this horror classic because it deserves to be covered, especially since it was widely released in theaters on this day back in '84 🔪
butwhytho.net/2024/11/a-ni...
#horrorsky #filmsky #anightmareonelmstreet
butwhytho.net/2024/11/a-ni...
#horrorsky #filmsky #anightmareonelmstreet
A Nightmare On Elm Street 40th Anniversary - But Why Tho?
One, two, Freddy's...well, he's already shown up and A Nightmare on Elm Street is 40 years old now.
butwhytho.net
November 16, 2024 at 4:47 PM
i wrote about this horror classic because it deserves to be covered, especially since it was widely released in theaters on this day back in '84 🔪
butwhytho.net/2024/11/a-ni...
#horrorsky #filmsky #anightmareonelmstreet
butwhytho.net/2024/11/a-ni...
#horrorsky #filmsky #anightmareonelmstreet