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Jackie Domenus

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in Huff Post, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House ‘21. They/she.📍NJ.

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Quincy Scott Jones @quincyscottjones.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
#NYC! Looking for a #nonfiction reading between Knicks games, check out Must Love Memoir's at Jake's Dilemma tonight (June 9) at 7:30 PM. with @saribotton.bsky.social @francescafontana.bsky.social @jackiedwrites.bsky.social Nikkya Hargrove @prachigu.bsky.social & @ninasharmawriter.bsky.social
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Episode 9 of the QT Nonfiction Pod feat. @otroedgargomez.bsky.social is out now!
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Episode 9: Edgar Gomez
The Queer & Trans Nonfiction Podcast · Episode
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The one and only @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social is on the most recent episode of the QT Nonfiction Pod! Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or Podbean!
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Episode 8: Aubrey Hirsch
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I was so moved by Another Word for Love and it was an honor to talk with Carvell Wallace for the QT Nonfiction Pod.
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Episode 7: Carvell Wallace
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New episode out today featuring @zoebossiere.bsky.social! Don’t miss all the knowledge they’re dropping as a writer and editor. Available on Spotify, Apple, and Podbean.
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Episode 6: Zoë Bossiere
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Ok so I thought people were over exaggerating on how bad the new season of Euphoria is, but damn. How does a show go from the best writing to the absolute worst?
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Not gonna lie, I am a little upset I wasted 2 of my Cinemark credits on this one. At least Michaela Cole’s acting was top tier as usual.
Mother Mary movie poster featuring Anne Hathaway in a red dress floating upward
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Every so often on the Queer & Trans Nonfiction Pod, we’ll have a “Genre Switch” episode where I talk with a writer about their fiction or poetry. The first ever Genre Switch ep (featuring @mcrane12.bsky.social) is out now!
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Episode 4 - Genre Switch: Mac Crane
On the first ever Genre Switch episode of the QT Nonfiction pod, Mac Crane and I discuss their novel A Sharp Endless Need, as well as experimenting with form as a way to access deeper truths, interper...
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Episode 3 featuring the legendary Jean Grae is available now on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple!
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Episode 3: Jean Grae
On episode 3 of the QT Nonfiction Pod, Jean Grae and I discuss unmasking the self while writing a memoir, creative output as “the next logical step,” audiobooks, genuine narrative voice, place as more...
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Episode 2 featuring @richardscottlarson.com is available now on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple!
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Episode 2: Richard Scott Larson
On episode 2 of the QT Nonfiction Pod, Richard Scott Larson and I discuss his memoir, The Long Hallway, as well as topics like braiding parallel narratives, attempting to write a novel and realizing i...
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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 07/04/2026
I had a great time talking to @jackiedwrites.bsky.social about my memoir for this new podcast about queer and trans nonfiction writing... very grateful to be able to keep discussing this book almost two years after it first appeared 🤓🔥
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The Queer & Trans Nonfiction Podcast | jackiedomenus
The QT (Queer & Trans) Nonfiction Podcast, hosted by writer Jackie Domenus, explores the best of today’s memoirs, essay collections, journalism, and more by LGBTQ+ authors. Listen in on discussion...
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Episode 1 featuring KB Brookins is available now on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple!
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Episode 1: KB Brookins
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Just in time for No Kings Day! Here’s a piece I wrote for Autostraddle on missed miscarriages, D&Cs, and how reproductive rights are also LGBTQ+ rights.
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My Wife’s Missed Miscarriage Reiterated That Reproductive Rights Are LGBTQ+ Rights
Reproductive rights are intertwined tightly with LGBTQ+ rights; they always have been.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Intro episode is available now on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple. Follow @qtnonfictionpod on Instagram!
QUEER & TRANS NONFICTION PODCAST
WHAT IS IT?
THE QT (QUEER & TRANS) NONFICTION PODCAST EXPLORES THE BEST OF TODAY'S MEMOIRS, ESSAY COLLECTIONS, JOURNALISM, AND MORE BY LGBTQ+ AUTHORS. LISTEN IN ON DISCUSSIONS OF NONFICTION FORMS, CRAFT, LANGUAGE, PUBLICATION, AND BEYOND.
TRUE STORIES FROM QUEER AND TRANS PERSPECTIVES ARE PROOF OF OUR EXISTENCE WHICH IS NOW, IN AND OF ITSELF, A FORM OF RESISTANCE.QUEER & TRANS NONFICTION PODCAST
WHO IS IT?
JACKIE DOMENUS (THEY/SHE)
JACKIE DOMENUS IS THE QUEER
AUTHOR OF NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS. A FORMER SUNDRESS ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS RESIDENT AND TIN HOUSE WORKSHOP GRADUATE, JACKIE'S WORK HAS APPEARED IN HUFFPOST, THE NORMAL SCHOOL, FOGLIFTER JOURNAL, AND ELSEWHERE.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Ummm is this real life??? No Offense is a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award!!! 😭
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I’ve been cooking up something…👀 Give @qtnonfictionpod a follow on Instagram!
Pink and purple logo reading QT: Queer & Trans Nonfiction Podcast on a black background
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...
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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022
“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
AWP was chaotic and wonderful as usual. Happy to connect with so many new writing folks and catch up with friends. Also very pleased with my haul this year - can’t wait to dig in!
Mid Atlantic Arts booth at AWP conference with purple and neon yellow banner behind two people sitting. Books and paper handouts covering table.Two people speaking in front of a mic with a backdrop of black polka dot wall art.Audience in seats at a reading venue.Pile of books, stickers, and other merch acquired at AWP conference.
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J Brooke @jbrookewrites.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Great night and music by #QUEENHD and drinks and connections and readings and fundraiser and friends! #AWP #AWPWRITER @jackiedwrites.bsky.social @nonbinarypapi.bsky.social @jendireiter.bsky.social @driftwoodpress.bsky.social
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Also…our offsite reading is an easy 10 min walk from the convention center AND raises money for trans youth. Just sayin’.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Here’s where I’ll be this week!
JACKIE DOMENUS at AWP 2026
MID ATLANTIC ARTS Booth 505 (3/5 - 3/7)
THE BODY POLITIC: A TRANS & NONBINARY READING The Black Genius Art Show - 106 N
Eutaw St. Suite 1 Baltimore, MD21201 (3/5 @ 6PM)
BOOK SIGNING Booth 305 - Queer Love Project (3/6 @ 11AM)
HARD TIMES REQUIRE FURIOUS DANCING
4 N. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21201 (3/6 @ 6:30PM)
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Spent last week at Sunlit Residency in Ithaca, NY. The residency honors Dr. Su-Je Lee Gage and her dedication to human rights and social justice. I feel so lucky to have had the week to reset and re-focus on my creative work.
Wooden desk with open laptop, sticky notes, pen, stack of books, and microphone/headphones. Window behind desk shows snow covered ground outside.White garage door with painted dark blue circle and light blue lotus flower, next to a light purple entry door.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
No Offense is officially one year old. I’ll never forget the feeling of holding this thing I worked so hard to create in my hands for the first time. This last year has been a whirlwind.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Headed to a writing residency next week and looking for book/essay recs on the theme of “control,” especially in relation to gender, mental illness, death/grief. Can be very specifically related or broadly related. I’ll take whatever ya got!
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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J Brooke @jbrookewrites.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Come join me, @jackiedwrites.bsky.social @nonbinarypapi.bsky.social @jendireiter.bsky.social for a GREAT #queer @southernequality.bsky.social cause (admission and drinks free) AND DJ QUEEN HD !!!
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Ok but why did I think this was about a drag queen named Patty Melt who was currently serving?
Foldable sign outside of Five Guys restaurant reading “now serving: patty melt” with white lettering and red background
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support
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Support Independent Journalism | GF
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My fav Christmas gift this year.
Light blue tie dye t-shirt with the words “Abolish Ice - Keep families together” in the style of Icee brand blue and red logo with polar bear
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Neal 🔜 BLFC-MFF-FC @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
And if you can afford it, buy physical copies. Now more than ever, we need to archive what we can. Digital can no longer be trusted. Especially in this day when our own information can be easily modified or deleted. Let’s get back to actually owning things and preserve a library for the future.
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Carli Boo-locci 👻 @carlivelocci.com · 30/01/2026
Me every morning in this fucking country
A news report screenshot. There's a grim reaper. The chyron says "Yikes! Stay tuned."
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
If you’re going to #AWP26 and you want to support trans youth and you also love free drinks, save the date!
Event flyer: THE BODY POLITIC: A TRANS & NONBINARY READING & DISSUSSION Ralsing
Funds For TRANS YOUTH EMERGENCY PROJECT featuring J Brooke, Kelsey L. Smoot, Jendi Reiter, Jackie Domenus
FREE COCKTAILS & GREAT MUSIC! Thursday March 5, 2026, 6:00-7:30pm The Black Genius Art Show 106 N. Eutaw St. Suite 1 Baltimore, MD 21201Trans Youth Emergency Project flyer reading: WE HELP FAMILIES OF TRANS YOUTH THROUGH THE MAZE OF ACCESSING HEALTH CARE IN THIS TIME OF CRISIS PATIENT NAVIGATION to care providers unimpacted by restrictions TRANS YOUTH EMERGENCY "PROJECT TRAVEL GRANTS to help get your family to your appointment WRAPAROUND SUPPORT with resources and resilience tools GET SUPPORT
www.TransYouthEmergencyProject.org
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🧵 5/5 ... Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyen (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) & No Offense by Jackie Domenus (@emergejournal.bsky.social). See alt-text! @jackiedwrites.bsky.social @xbennyboo.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books #bookish #BooksWorthReading #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyen (Catapult): Romance featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " This is a book for the cynical romance reader, for someone who wants to see characters’ obsessive and jealous tendencies and how we tear each other apart online for likes. With its addictive social media lingo, you won’t be able to stop reading about the relationship between Six and Green, two trans women playing in the competitive and ruthless male volleyball league." https://books.catapult.co/books/hot-girls-with-balls/
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Not to mention another officer clapping as the man is being shot.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I have been working out fairly consistently for the last 5 weeks or so and I am sorry to report that it does in fact have a positive impact on my mental health. 🙄
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
For me, one of the most disturbing parts of Renee Good’s murder has been the photos from inside the vehicle. Blood everywhere among her and her family’s every day mundanities: a sticker-covered water bottle, gloves, kids toys. It was just another day, and then it wasn’t.
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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There is nothing that is happening in 2026 that’s not built on a solid base of white supremacy. If you are outraged by ICE (and you should be) look closely at how the police behave in your own community. It started there.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
They are selling these at the secondhand baby clothes store in case you wanna raise your child to be a lesbian.
Large carabiner for hooking bags onto a baby stroller
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I actually honestly don’t understand the whole AI thing. Not in the like “oh I’m so cool I’m the only one who doesn’t care about this suddenly popular thing” way, but in a “genuinely have never used chat gpt or ever felt the want/need to” kinda way. Like…ppl want to be less creative? Couldn’t be me.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A lot happened for me in 2025, namely publishing a book and becoming a parent. Of course, I want people to read my book, but if you want something quicker, I’m also extremely proud of this piece I wrote for HuffPost early in the year. Support gender affirming care for all!
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I Had Life-Changing Surgery The Same Week A Nonbinary Teen Died. It Made Me Face A Sinister Truth.
"There was something disturbing about waking up from anesthesia as a new person while a family prepared to say their final goodbyes to their loved one."
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Sharing a few more end-of-year mentions of No Offense! First up, this kickass list by @jenstjude.bsky.social, one of the best humans ever.
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Over 100 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
Here are the 2025 debuts by trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming authors you should know about.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I may not be the big, annually anticipated book list, but at least I’m consistent in recommending great creative nonfiction! Here’s my fav CNF reads of 2025.
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My Top 12 CNF Reads of 2025
Happy end of the year! I may not be the big, annually anticipated book list, but at least I’m consistent in recommending great creative nonfiction! It felt especially pertinent to read lots o…
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Ah yes, the three genders: male, female, nonbinary lollipop.
A screenshot of the question “What is your gender?” with the options Male 🙋‍♂️, Female 🙋‍♀️, Non-binary 🍭
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The thing about having a newborn and also having plans on a Saturday night is that I’m more excited to drop him at my parents’ earlier so I can take a nap, than I am for the actual plans.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 13/12/2025
It’s my birthday and all I want is for people to buy subscriptions to my queer sports newsletter. Annual subs are 20% right now too! www.thefrankiedlc.news
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Out of Your League
Dispatches from the intersection of queer sports and pop culture.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Saw the first Paranormal Activity with a row of my high school friends - the entire theatre screamed multiple times. Also seeing The Perks of Being a Wallflower for the first time and feeling Charlie’s breakdown toward the end so viscerally that I couldn’t breathe.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If you’re looking for something literary to listen to, I got to chat with Pete on the @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social! Grateful for a wonderful convo.
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Episode 313 with Jackie Domenus, Author of No Offense: A Memoir in Essays, and Standout Builder of Subtlety and The Macro and Micro, The Societal and the Personal
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Just remember: if someone tells you nobody cares about your Wrapped today, they’re wrong. I care. Deeply.
Spotify Wrapped Top Artists: 1. Turnstile, 2. Spanish Love Songs, 3. PUP, 4. Militarie Gun, 5. Hayley WilliamsSpotify Wrapped Top Albums: 1. Never Enough, 2. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, 3. Brave Faces Everyone, 4. The New Chaos, 5. Not Through Blood
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