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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Might I interest you in some Friday reading on @hrnews.bsky.social & the Marathi romance #CactusPears? www.popmatters.com/heated-rival... (N.B. I see the texts as expressions of queer love & desire but @popmatters.com chose other terminology in some cases). (Screenshots of select sections attached)

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Walked down two blocks in between doing laundry today because I heard this mural has been in my neighborhood for a few years @ny-knicks.bsky.social @jalenbrunson1.bsky.social In my defense, I didn’t know anything about basketball before last week 😅

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

People turned out! The verdict is that it was challenging (especially the music round) and fun. Excited to do more in the future, especially once season 2 of #HeatedRivalry is out @hrnews.bsky.social

Image of a dark-haired woman wearing a face mask and using a clicker while pointing at a screen that shows a slide with a screenshot from the show Heated Rivalry and "I'll set the scene and give you a block of text. You fill in the blanks"

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

ICYMI @hrnews.bsky.social #trivia this Sunday, June 7 for Queens Pride 2026, Queens public library

Flyer for event on Sunday June 7 at 1 pm at the Jackson heights public library

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Going to argue that there is a better romance in #GodzillaMinusOne than in #PastLives. Agree or disagree? Today, Dec 19, at 6 pm EST (zoom or in person). Link to register for this #AAARI lecture series talk is at aaari.info/25-12-19kamb...

A screen shot of the web announcement of the talk with posters of the movies Godzilla Minus One and Past Lives

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

If you vote today, nyc, there’s a special sticker for #Halloween. It’s not a democracy sausage but it’s a New York pigeon sticker! (They allegedly run out of these fast so get on that broomstick!)

Early voting nyc sticker for Halloween featuring a pigeon wearing a pointy black hat and carrying a pumpkin candy cauldron basket. Words “Halloween voter 2025” in circle around

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Apparently it’s the time of “bread and circuses” minus the bread

Screenshot of section of article predicting steep rise in U.S. grocery prices due to comb of tariffs and labor shortages

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The only type of rich protagonist I want to see in romance

Photo of young white person and headline that says Marlene Engelhorn (heir of BASF) giving away 25 million euros

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I am trying to support whoever I can, but this one hit differently #romancelandia because they are a romance reader. The link tree at linktr.ee/Alaydifamily... has links to the purses and to a general donation page

Screenshot of Instagram post that links to https://linktr.ee/Alaydifamily?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=225bf7ed-161b-4812-8f32-389cc287bcfd

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Ending as I always begin, with romance. This time in #GodzillaMinusOne and #PastLives. Thanks to @cuny.bsky.social 's Asian American/Asian Research Institute's CUNYForum aaari.info/cuny-forum-v...

Screenshot of page 20 in https://aaari.info/cuny-forum-volume-111/

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I taught "Nikki-Rosa" in my Intro to Poetry to class this semester and students really got into it and got it. May Nikki Giovanni's work be read and taught widely. What a voice.

First half of Nikki Giovanni's poem "Nikki-Rosa"

Second half of Nikki Giovanni's poem "Nikki-Rosa"

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

As I point out, you can't be a good woman while being physically strong; can't be a good woman if not pretty in a specific way; can't be a good woman if you are of ___ religion, race, ethnicity, class, caste, gender identity, or sexuality that the majority decides to attack.

Screenshot from book Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey from Selfhood to Self-Presentation (2023): "You pay if you're too much of a woman or if you're not woman enough" (18)

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

If you've been meaning to get a copy of my book about how romance heroines reject false binaries, including supremacist national identities, here's your chance. Use code USPRING for 40% off at checkout iupress.org/978025306570...

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Continuing the #RomanceForChange seminar in #Palma #universityofthebalearicislands with #HsuMingTeo on #Bridgerton , @dramyburge.bsky.social on #SofiaKhan , #HeikeMissler on #Queenie and me on #BIPOC romance. Kudos to the students for giving us their ear in the last week of class!

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

This morning, it’s Hsu-Ming Teo on #BridgertonNetflix and intentional anachronism, while I chatted about #BIPOC #romance by #SandraKitt, Barbara Stephens, #AdrianaHerrera #KatrinaJax #TaliaHibbert @alyssacolelit.bsky.social

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Talked romance with #Shondaland and #Shelbipolk www.shondaland.com/inspire/book...

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

in 2.5 hrs (March 20, 7 pm EST). Talking all things #historicalromance

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

From a recent profile by a @CUNY student for the #CUNYVerse magazine, with shoutouts to #katrinajax #IASPR #ShelfLovePod and @smartbitches.bsky.social www1.cuny.edu/mu/cunyverse...

Brown woman with dark hair holding a mic

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

next #IASPR Digital Event on Holiday Romance is Dec 20! Andrea Anne Trinida talks to #romanceclass author Carla De Guzman, author of *Sweet on You*, +a holiday foodie romance, *Love is All Around: an Alta Holiday Anthology* & *Manila Takes Manhattan*17:00 Philippine ST / 09:00 UTC! t.co/gmW1oZKXRd.

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Once more with feeling: my last book talk for #CreatingIdentity this semester is on Friday, Nov. 3, at 3 p.m. EST for the #CUNY Academy. Link to register for the zoom: gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Cover of book Creating Identity shows a figure in silhouette on a beach

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

If you weren't able to attend one of my book events this past weekend (virtually or IRL), here's a link to the recorded talk and Q&A from the one hosted by the #CUNY Asian American/Asian Research Institute: aaari.info/23-09-22kamb...

Cover of book Creating Identity with a silhouette of a woman on a beach

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Today at 5 p.m. at the Brooklyn Ripped Bodice! We'll celebrate the heroism and happiness of romance heroines (even as a storm named after one of Shax's most tragic female characters dissipates over the city). I'll be masked as if we're at a Regency masquerade ball...

Event flyer for launch of book Creating Identity with headshots of writer Jayashree Kamblé and host/editor Maddie Caldwell.

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

A mystery-solving femme, a celibate flirt, a respected pop novelist, a bi-national citizen, a sexually fulfilled anti-racist feminist, a royal epidemiologist, a warrior math nerd, a city cop corporate spouse, a Barbie Buffy in Dublin--how #romance imagines a heroic life for women. Sunday at 5 p.m.

Flyer for book launch event at the Ripped Bodice Brooklyn bookstore on Sept. 24 at 5 P.M. EST. Images of book Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation and two headshots of women: Jayashree Kamblé and Maddie Caldwell

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

What’s heroic in the romance heroine? What does she have in common w/athletes fighting to wear shorts instead of bikinis? Or w/authors who write books that some want to mock? Or w/immigrants who are denied human rights? Or w/activists who risk their lives 4 others? Come find out! (1/2)

Screenshot of this website https://aaari.info/23-09-22kamble/

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

If you listen to this episode & think, "I want to hear more about the heroism of heroines in romance novels!" tune in (or drop in if you're in the NYC area) for my talk on Friday, Sept. 22 at 6 at the #CUNY #AAARI : aaari.info/23-09-22kamb... Sneak preview of one of the slides 😀 (WIP)

Covers of the novels My Beautiful Enemy and The Hidden Blade by Sherry Thomas

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Always love @stegan.bsky.social ’s posts. This one made me LOL both coz (1) I read these as they were published so I think of them as “recent” but forced to admit that was a long time ago & (2) I’m prepping for another book release event aaari.info/23-09-22kamb... (zoom option) & 1 of the slides is

Covers of novels Love in the Valley by Susan Napier and Dark Desires After Dusk by Kreisler Cole

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

We'll talk about heroines in #SherryThomas's My Beautiful Enemy @authormsbev.bsky.social's Indigo #LisaKleypas's Dreaming of You, #JDRobb's In Death series @kresley.bsky.social 's Dark Desires #KarenMarieMoning's Fever series, #JoannaBourne's Spymaster's Lady, #SusanNapier's Love in the Valley

Flyer for event on 9/25 at 5 at the Brooklyn location of the Ripped Bodice Bookstore

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

II'll be at #TheRippedBodiceBK on September 24th at 5pm to chat about Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation with romance reader and book editor Maddie Caldwell. Free with RSVP therippedbodicela.com/brooklyn-eve...

Flyer for the book release event at the Ripped Bodice bookstore, featuring book cover and head shots of the two discussants

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