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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This self-portrait, titled Aura Flora, was soooo satisfying to piece together! I painted watercolor flowers and then placed them in a Frida-inspired frame around my portrait. Wait til you see the finished piece for one last exciting detail! #artist #selfportrait #mixedmedia #watercolor #aura

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Bombshells ATL @bombshellsatl.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

24 interpretations of the assignment. By this time tomorrow, they’ll all belong to someone else. #bombshellsatl @yoonhwa.bsky.social @iamvictoria-af.bsky.social @scottcutspaper.bsky.social Fisbn.Bsky.social @veganikki.bsky.social @imperezident.bsky.social @dearelephant.bsky.social

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My egg for this year’s Bombshells ATL! She’s EggSSStra Fine! @bombshellsatl.bsky.social

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Let’s give her the flowers she deserves

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Don’t forget. Pleasure is play and play is pleasure.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Pleasure is not evil. You are not evil for wanting it. No matter who you are, how much you make, who your family is, what you’ve done or haven’t, you are worthy and deserving of all the pleasure. Gatekeeping pleasure is the stuff of power hungry patriarchy. Don’t let them tell you what you deserve.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I’m coming back for my typewriter. 🫤

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Bombshells ATL @bombshellsatl.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🕵🏻 Pick me up gently and take care of my heart - I can be found at the local flower mart. #bombshellsatl

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I mean 🌶️ time is cool too. 😏

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Come find this Flower Child and other artist-made eggs at Bombshells ATL hunt on Friday April 18th! Follow @bombshellsatl.bsky.social for details!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Just dropped off this spring chick for @bombshellsatl.bsky.social ! This is “Flower Child”. She carries a line from my poem, “Born Again” from my book, Becoming Good and is adorned with confetti made from flowers I foraged and dried. 🌼🌸🌻🌺 follow their account for details on the hunt this year!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My name is Kate and I am overcoming my fear of being seen. I am a poet, an artist, and a pleasure guide. I hope you’ll join me in taking self-portraits every day in April to build confidence and to practice being seen and known. Tag yours with #pleasuretoseeyou so I can follow along!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Join me in taking self-portraits every day in April to build confidence and remind myself it’s safe and good to be seen. 😘✨

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

So happy to have had A Snake All Along showing at South River Arts this month!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

So proud of this piece, A Snake All Along. It’s been hanging at South River Art Studios for their group show this month!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My story is a string of permission slips I wrote myself to get out of the boxes in which I had been carefully kept. My new Substack on grief and pleasure is up! open.substack.com/pub/permissi...

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Grief and pleasure: strange bedfellows or perfect soul mates?

Reflections on how I got here.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Pleasure is an act of resilience✨ Pleasure Practice is the most accessible way to take advantage of the guidance, tools, and encouragement I can offer — all of that for less than the cost of one lavender oat milk latte per month! Only $6 a month! Subscribe today- links in bio!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Everything I learned about pleasure, I learned from black women — check out my new Substack post permissionalchemy.substack.com/p/everything...

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Everything I learned about pleasure, I learned from black women

And you should, too.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Woke up to a thunderstorm that sounded like a car wash, then tornado siren(?) that made me grab my dog and run in the bathroom. The universe was really like “we gonna make sure this girl is grateful for her bday this year.”😬😆😅 Happy 42 to me!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In yet another edition of Things Baby Teenage Kate Would Be Appalled At… Happy Valentine’s (and Venus) Day! 💕😘 Is your Vday gift to me subscribing to my Substack?? Oh, you shouldn’t have! 🥰 open.substack.com/pub/permissi... #permissionalchemy #permission #pleasure #exvangelical #cupid #valentines

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My friend pitched me at a queer cupid event!

And other adventures in rejection exposure therapy

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A sampling of poems from this weekend. Thank you for sharing your lives & your stories with me! Remember, if you don’t live nearby, I also mail poems - link in bio (US only). So full of love and words! #permissionalchemy #pleasure #poet #typewriterpoetry #typewriterpoet #poetryinpublic

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Last night’s public poetry was so sweet. Had a couple teenage buddies who wanted poems about mental health and their friend communities, and this budding poet, with whom I gladly exchanged Substack subscriptions.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

When I was 15, I was interviewed on the big Christian radio station in Tampa, FL, The JoyFM, as an expert on purity culture and courtship. At FIFTEEN. open.substack.com/pub/permissi...

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I was the poster child for purity culture, now I'm all about pleasure

It only took me about three decades...

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Baby teen Kate would never post this 😳 so you should subscribe to my Substack in her honor.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

New elevator poem, new community reactions! I’m loving this new experiment of posting poetry in public places! #poetry #publicpoetry #poet

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Forget the groundhog. Be the Persephone you wish to see in the world. Rule the underworld and bring spring. You can do both.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

When the poem you posted in the apartment elevator becomes a community project. 😊💕✨

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Happy Groundhog Day! When men dress in tuxes and top hats and consult a groundhog about the weather, it’s a national holiday. When women consult nature to heal their sick family or find guidance, it’s witchcraft! To Punxsutawney Phils and patriarchal double standards!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Want a custom poem but don’t live near me? I have the answer! Snail mail! 📪 Fill out the google form in my Linktree and I will send you a custom typed poem 📝 of your own, or send one to someone special 💕 on your behalf! #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #permissionalchemy #poet

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Pleasure is key to living in times like these. How are you practicing pleasure in ways that build your community and your resilience?

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In the past 2 weeks, I’ve felt a stronger drive to create & experiment. Some prototypes: •applied for an art show 🖼️? I’m an artist now? why not? •started my Substack for poetry & writing about pleasure 🔗 in bio •leaving my poems around my community for people to find 📝 What are you trying?

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A Snake All Along appears in my second book, Becoming Good. It carries the themes of indoctrination, feminine knowing and intuition, and shedding my own skin again and again. open.substack.com/pub/permissi...

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A Snake All Along

Happy lunar new year!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It’s the lunar new year and a new moon in Aquarius (my sun sign ♒️). Here’s to the year of the snake and getting weirder and weirder!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Started leaving copies of my poetry around town for people to find and take home. Surprise and delight is always my favorite strategy. How are you surprising and/or delighting people in your world?

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I want to counter cruelty with creativity. I want to make new things instead of making myself anxious with media consumption. I want to strengthen my body, mind, & inner life so I can be resilient, for myself & my community. Not bypassing. Not downplaying. Just a different approach to chaos.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Now is the time for innovators, creatives, and storytellers. "Stories are the way we encode our values and our beliefs, our hopes and our dreams. They are the creative force that shapes our reality." - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass What story are you telling?

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

While I will fight to the death about pleasure being so much more than sex, y’all I had some great orgasms today and that is an act of resistance. 🫠 ← me, about to get some great sleep.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Permission & pleasure are for everyone, every day, & every part of life (not just schmexy times😉). These things are not just self care. They are ways to build resilience & community. If our practice isn’t liberating, I don’t want it. I won’t always do this perfectly, but I’m trying & learning.

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This account is for: •purity culture dropouts 😇 •dopamine seekers who want more depth •recovering people pleasers •anyone w/a lot of Venus 🫶 in their birth chart (we’re just hot and talking) •women and femmes who want to connect with pleasure everyday in all parts of life Get in here! Let’s dance!

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Kate Hilderbrandt @katehilderbrandt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Let’s create a community of permission and pleasure! Head over to my Substack at the links in bio to read my first post! More to come!

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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

TikTok is back but like, in the way your long lost son appears on your doorstep after a mysterious disappearance & he looks & sounds the same but he’s harboring a dark secret and ok lemme turn off Lifetime

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