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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It’s a memoir of growing up working class in Kentucky’s Eastern Coal Fields region and becoming a progressive organizer. It’s the kind of first-hand knowledge that can help campaigns build authentic bridges and coalitions way better than some consultant dork who lacks the lived experience could.

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thank you @erinkeane.bsky.social so much! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥📕📕📕

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JK ✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Mailday ✨ @jbethiejean.bsky.social 's book is here!

Copy of the book, Song for a Hard-hit People: A memoir of antiracist solidarity from a coal minter's daughter, by Beth Howard. A promotional kerchief sits next to it.

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is what friendship looks like @sheainthecatskills.com ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 love you so much

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 21/03/2026

the online launch for 36 Portals to Aliveness went so well—we had a blast! 🤠 learn about how we made it + how to use it ⤵️ thank you to @jbethiejean.bsky.social for hosting us so superlatively, + to my collaborators @feelingndealing.bsky.social + Cory Nakasue ❤️‍🔥 may this season bring you to LIFE

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36 Portals Launch

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Cannot wait to be part of this magic 💖✨

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

An invitation to join me, Cory & @sheainthecatskills.com on March 20th to celebrate the launch of 36 Portals to Aliveness! The brilliant @jbethiejean.bsky.social will be hosting the conversation ❤️‍🔥 Order the planner: sheainthecatskills.com/2026-planner/ RSVP here: tally.so/r/2EkkPe

You’re invited: join us on the spring equinox!

36 Portals is a 2026 planner that begins on the spring equinox + Cory, Elena + shea want to begin with you…

We'll gather via zoom with host @jbethiejean
on Friday, March 20, 5pm est to:
* talk about how the planner came to be + our intentions for it ❤️‍🔥
* do a practice together with it 🤓
* hear about how you plan to work with it + how you're entering this season of life bursting forth 🌸 amidst so much death-making 💔

the RAFFLE

One lucky person will receive a free Natal Chart Correspondence tarot + astrology reading from
Cory + shea (a $288 value) AND an original artwork by Elena!

To enter: email a screenshot of your receipt from purchasing the 36 Portals planner between now + the launch on March 20 to shea@sheainthecatskills.com. We'll draw the winner's name during the launch!

If you'd like to join us, please RSVP to receive the zoom link. If you can't attend live, we will send a recording to everyone who RSVPs:

tally.so/r/2EkkPe

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I could not order this fast enough! I encourage you to do the same 💖

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Excited to join this call tomorrow. Highly recommend ❤️

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In times like these, working-class art and stories are essential. I’m proud to have a #BuzzBooksOfficial 2026 book ❤️‍🔥 @haymarketbooks.org @buzzbooksofficial.bsky.social

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

So excited ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Song For a Hard-Hit People is out April 21st!

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The first round of blurbs for my memoir Song For a Hard-Hit People are coming in and my heart is full. ❤️‍🔥 Thanks Chicago Review of Books for choosing me as a 2026 Most Anticipated release and @avashianeema.bsky.social , Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, and Robert Gipe for your support.

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Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @butwait.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Pre-orders are so important to the life of a book... who in your circle can you make a "pre-ordered for you!" gift certificate for?

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

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Teen Vogue's Closure and the Quiet Defunding of Worker Consciousness

Teen Vogue’s shutdown marks more than a media loss. This is a warning about how profit-driven consolidation quietly dismantles worker awareness and voice.

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 28/09/2025

Working Class Love Notes #14: Song For a Hard-Hit People pre-orders are open for this love song to the multiracial working class that is going to get us free ❤️‍🔥 so freaking proud of @jbethiejean.bsky.social for the cultural + organizing work she gives her whole heart to!

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Working Class Love Notes #14: Song For a Hard-Hit People

My Memoir Cover Reveal and Pre-Orders Are Open!

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 22/09/2025

@jbethiejean.bsky.social is a lovely and fierce soul and I know her memoir is the same:

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 22/09/2025

my friend, comrade + conspirator @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book that WE NEED RIGHT NOW look at this cover! ❤️‍🔥 pre-orders are open + they are IMPORTANT hello to my fellow white antiracists: we need this story! HUZZAH to you, Beth 🎉👏🏻🤌🏻 bookshop.org/p/books/like...

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Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter

A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter

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Showing Up for Racial Justice @surj.org · 22/09/2025

SURJ's very own @jbethiejean.bsky.social has a book coming out next year ⬇️ check it out!

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

My friend @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book! I’m so looking forward to reading 🤓

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Already pre-ordered my copy! Cannot wait to read my teacher and friend @sheainthecatskills.com ‘s essay! 💖✨plus an essay by @laetitiacartomancy.bsky.social !

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Lora Eli Smith’s “Gobsmacked!” in @oxfordamerican.bsky.social is an excellent @longreads.com pick! It’s the best essay I’ve read this year: ecology, grief, wonder, and goblins ✨ oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

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Gobsmacked! Supernatural Sightings After a Flood

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Erin Riedel @erinriedel.com · 26/06/2025

Some cool queer KY history in @jbethiejean.bsky.social's latest Substack! I really enjoyed this. workingclasslovenotes.substack.com/p/working-cl...

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Working Class Love Notes #11: Pride

Celebrating Pride and all the Country Queers

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 19/04/2025

@jbethiejean.bsky.social with a Love Note for us: "Through mending circle, we are learning how to change and reimagine the broken system we live in so we can work towards a new way of living and being together, like dreaming up worker cooperatives." ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 I'm a paid subscriber—you can become one too!

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Working Class Love Notes #10: Community

Some notes on finding your people and mending our hearts, plus so many things I love

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Loved talking about rural organizing and Rednecks for Black Lives on @tvlrfm.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Loved talking about fellow Kentuckian Anne Braden on @mountainlaurels.bsky.social 💖💖💖 thank you for having me on! open.spotify.com/episode/6QXo...

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My Kind of Southern Woman

Mountain Laurels: Women of Appalachia · Episode

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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 20/02/2025

“Our right-wing opponents have been serious about investing in organizing rural communities for generations. It’s time progressives are serious, too.” @jbethiejean.bsky.social @convergencemag.com convergencemag.com/articles/fro...

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From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery

Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is a good piece that talks about solidarity and coalition building in left-behind areas where people's needs aren't being met. It's really heartening, and heartbreaking, to recognize our lived experiences and frustrations reflected elsewhere.

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From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery

Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.

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Convergence Magazine @convergencemag.com · 18/02/2025

We'll be talking with @jbethiejean.bsky.social and Stephen Smith on Friday on Block & Build. Join us on Friday at 2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxnV...

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Rural America is Ready to Organize and Fight

YouTube video by Convergence Magazine

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 13/02/2025

"Our right-wing opponents have been serious about investing in organizing rural communities for generations. It’s time progressives are serious, too." ❤️‍🔥

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

New article in @convergence about the dignity and power of rural people, places, and organizing which we should all invest in. Proud to be a co-author with my friend Stephen Smith, also one of my fellow co-founders of the Rural Defenders Union. ❤️‍🔥

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From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery

Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 08/02/2025

Corporate Coup in Global Context Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Today’s art project — with a quote from @margaret.bsky.social “Deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy.” 🌸

A photo of a block of cold pressed watercolor paper — a blue, yellow & pink sky is painted onto the paper. Two flowers with stems and leaves are collaged/glued onto the paper. In the middle of the page, words read: deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy ~ by Margaret Killjoy

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Yes, @sheainthecatskills.com we all gotta build that muscle of refusal and breaking rules ❤️‍🔥

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Let’s go @surj.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 31/01/2025

SO PROUD OF MY POLITICAL HOME SURJ ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 30/01/2025

my dear friend + comrade @jbethiejean.bsky.social's Working Class Love Notes is about her interview with THEE Dr. Angela Davis...includes a link to the webinar interview + Beth's ferocious encouragement ❤️‍🔥

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Working Class Love Notes #8: Never Stop Resisting

A conversation with Dr. Angela Y. Davis for the road ahead

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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

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Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.

Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This week's must-read roundup has arrived early (and was still tough to narrow down). Here are some articles you won't want to miss, along with ways to support Native people this weekend and my final thoughts for the week.

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Must-Reads and Some Ways to Support Native People This Weekend

"Colonialism has been destroying worlds for hundreds of years."

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