Jessica 🐝
@seejesswrite.bsky.social
Making my 11 yr old self proud. ❤️🔥 reader, writer, & parent in Tennessee 🌿 my book: Birth & What Came After: poems on mothering 📖 https://jessicabates.substack.com
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Jessica 🐝
@seejesswrite.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Mother Poet
After a reading, baby strapped to mepoems prick beneath my skin. A local professor asks,How does it feel to be a mother poet? I blink. Balk.If she asked today I would say:Mother fucking great. I know ...
literarymama.com
My poem MOTHER POET is in the new issue of @literarymama.bsky.social / so thrilled to be in this lovely publication. 💜
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literarymama.com/articles/dep...
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Open Table Nashville is in full-on winter mode taking care of vulnerable fellow Nashvillians. With a few clicks, you and I can be part of their efforts! They'll be busy every night this week. Let's make this happen, fam! buff.ly/yCPECcN
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November 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Open Table Nashville is in full-on winter mode taking care of vulnerable fellow Nashvillians. With a few clicks, you and I can be part of their efforts! They'll be busy every night this week. Let's make this happen, fam! buff.ly/yCPECcN
Got to see James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Jamey Johnson, and Vince Gill at the Opry last night with my Dad. Special night. 🎙️
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Got to see James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Jamey Johnson, and Vince Gill at the Opry last night with my Dad. Special night. 🎙️
Will listen to any audiobook narrated by Charlie Thurston 🎧
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Will listen to any audiobook narrated by Charlie Thurston 🎧
Scorpio season 🖤🖤🖤
a young man wearing a blue jacket and a red t-shirt is standing in front of a truck
ALT: a young man wearing a blue jacket and a red t-shirt is standing in front of a truck
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Scorpio season 🖤🖤🖤
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Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence”
No one should be caged, tortured, detained, or deported by the state — all carceral violence is done wrongfully.
truthout.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
Worked on my #wip at a solo Mexican food dinner. 10/10 highly recommend. #amwriting
October 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Worked on my #wip at a solo Mexican food dinner. 10/10 highly recommend. #amwriting
Community theatre is so sacred & gives me so much faith in humanity. Seeing grown adults take to the stage just for fun gives me all the feels. I tear up every time I see live theatre in any level of professionalism. It’s all so sacred to me.
September 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Community theatre is so sacred & gives me so much faith in humanity. Seeing grown adults take to the stage just for fun gives me all the feels. I tear up every time I see live theatre in any level of professionalism. It’s all so sacred to me.
Just submitted my full length poetry collection to an agent and I’m totally fine totally cool
September 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just submitted my full length poetry collection to an agent and I’m totally fine totally cool
Me waiting for Jesse Welles to read No More Tears by Gardiner Harris and write a J&J tune
a yellow cartoon character is holding a cup of coffee .
ALT: a yellow cartoon character is holding a cup of coffee .
media.tenor.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Me waiting for Jesse Welles to read No More Tears by Gardiner Harris and write a J&J tune
I hope this poem is irrelevant one day, and soon. / published 2023 @variantlit.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I hope this poem is irrelevant one day, and soon. / published 2023 @variantlit.bsky.social
Notes on recent reads, including Paradise Logic (!!), No More Tears (the evils of Johnson & Johnson), Demon Copperhead (& my obsession with narrator Charlie Thurston), Yellowface, & more! #booksky #amreading 📚
Is my compulsive reading habit enabling me to avoid reality?
Well, probably. But I’m not stopping, sorry suckers.
open.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Notes on recent reads, including Paradise Logic (!!), No More Tears (the evils of Johnson & Johnson), Demon Copperhead (& my obsession with narrator Charlie Thurston), Yellowface, & more! #booksky #amreading 📚
Guys, guys. This book is fucking WILD. I mean I knew it was bad, corrupt, etc, but it’s way more evil than I imagined.
August 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Guys, guys. This book is fucking WILD. I mean I knew it was bad, corrupt, etc, but it’s way more evil than I imagined.
Reposted by Jessica 🐝
The reality is that bail doesn't keep people safe. It's not a system built on "justice."
Instead, it perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time that ruins lives and makes communities less safe.
Learn more here 👇
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/inco...
Instead, it perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time that ruins lives and makes communities less safe.
Learn more here 👇
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/inco...
Detaining the Poor: How money bail perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time
Report showing poverty of those detained pretrial in local jails.
www.prisonpolicy.org
August 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The reality is that bail doesn't keep people safe. It's not a system built on "justice."
Instead, it perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time that ruins lives and makes communities less safe.
Learn more here 👇
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/inco...
Instead, it perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time that ruins lives and makes communities less safe.
Learn more here 👇
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/inco...
Queue the banger 🎵 “United Health” by Jesse Welles
"For 2026, ACA marketplace insurers have proposed eye-popping ... prices: In New York, UnitedHealthcare has proposed a 66.4% rise."
Since 1999, health insurance premiums for people with employer-provided coverage have more than quadrupled. From 2023 to 2024 alone, they rose more than 6% — a steeper increase than that of wages and overall inflation.
August 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Queue the banger 🎵 “United Health” by Jesse Welles
Reposted by Jessica 🐝
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn
Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn
August 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn
Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn
Reposted by Jessica 🐝
I should make a playlist of all of the suggestions you've made so we can all refer back to it. ALSO, how about we pick a day when all of us across the country organize local sing ins where musicians lead us in song. It would be fun. Singing secular hymns in community altogether.
August 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I should make a playlist of all of the suggestions you've made so we can all refer back to it. ALSO, how about we pick a day when all of us across the country organize local sing ins where musicians lead us in song. It would be fun. Singing secular hymns in community altogether.
“And then she sighed like a baby bird.”
Finished book 66 for the year : Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp 🐍
#amreading #booksky #yolo
Finished book 66 for the year : Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp 🐍
#amreading #booksky #yolo
a close up of a man 's face with blue eyes and a beard
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media.tenor.com
August 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“And then she sighed like a baby bird.”
Finished book 66 for the year : Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp 🐍
#amreading #booksky #yolo
Finished book 66 for the year : Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp 🐍
#amreading #booksky #yolo
Jesse Welles sold out the Ryman in Nashville in 30 minutes as I fought my phone to get service. I would love love love to go if anyone has a hookup.
August 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Jesse Welles sold out the Ryman in Nashville in 30 minutes as I fought my phone to get service. I would love love love to go if anyone has a hookup.
These caterpillar babies are so cuteeee I don’t even care if they eat all my leaves. 🐛
August 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
These caterpillar babies are so cuteeee I don’t even care if they eat all my leaves. 🐛
August 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Writing club is tonight & that makes me so happyyyyy
August 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Writing club is tonight & that makes me so happyyyyy
Getting to the end of my first draft of this new project and I can’t waittt to share with some first readers ✨ #amwriting #wip
August 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Getting to the end of my first draft of this new project and I can’t waittt to share with some first readers ✨ #amwriting #wip
Book 64 for the year : 🎧 Yellowface by @rfkuang.bsky.social #amreading
August 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Book 64 for the year : 🎧 Yellowface by @rfkuang.bsky.social #amreading