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Jess Wright
@sublunam.bsky.social
writer, teacher, garden nerd in west yorkshire

occasional historian of the body: The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity (UC Press, 2022), Psychiatry: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2025)

www.jessica-wright.co.uk
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This is what I wrote at the time and I still believe it even though it made a lot of people mad.

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The Library Is a Commons
A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism.
inthesetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I keep telling my friends: find your thing. Find one issue. Bury yourself in. Find comrades to join you. Build build build. Then the coalitions will form.
August 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Happy 21st day of Pride! It’s Pride Solstice! Pride Midsommar! Your goal today is florals, garlands and pagan weirdness so unsettling it scares the straights! Build a Wicker Gay! Lure folks to your gay rural village! Possibly don’t throw them off cliff! All hail the Green Man of Pride!
June 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The literary world's prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly has surpassed 22k followers on Bluesky, which is more than the Paris Review, Granta, and Ploughshares combined. I assure you there is no literary world. It's just this contextual silo from like 20 years ago that's still pointlessly gatekept
June 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM