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Jessie Sage

@sapiotextual.bsky.social
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Spicy worker, seminarian, columnist. Same beat from three angles. 📝 jessiesage.com

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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 10h
I don’t believe in hell, and I think everyone had a right to a fair defense, but I hope that the defense attorneys for the Cornell rapists burn in hell.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Accidentally wrecked a bunny nest while gardening and now I'm writing about parenthood, failure, and the Voyager Golden Record. As one does. substack.com/@sapiotextua...
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The Sound of an Empty Nest
On a sound I didn’t know rabbits could make
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We put on big people clothes and left the house looking cute. Clap for us 🥰👏🏼♥️ Night out with @pjpicklejuice.bsky.social
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s interesting to read about boundaries in seminary after years of trying to hold them with sex work clients. I wrote some thoughts on where these professions overlap and where things get messy. bothsidesofthebooth.substack.com/p/mutually-b...
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Mutually Beneficial
A boundaries book for clergy, read by a sex worker
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𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓴 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓢𝓶𝓲𝓽𝓱 @ywforsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@sapiotextual.bsky.social Thought you might like this, given your new venture! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/04/a...
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Burnt out on publishing, Alice Hoffman finds new magic at Harvard - The Boston Globe
The "Practical Magic" author's work at the Divinity School led her back to the art she loved.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Because I’m incapable of sitting still at a desk all day. 📷: Dawn Hartman
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Violet "Vi" Rollergirl • NYC🗽touring✈️ CHI 10/13-17, EXXXOTICA NJ @violetrollergirl.com · 03/09/2026
This is a fantastic article. My favorite dates are little adventures. It's why I love pool tables (radically social), skating (physically exciting), and especially unconventional museums (intellectually stimulating) so much. I love clients willing to try newness and some safer uncertainty with me!
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A date is how you find out who’s actually in the room with you. I asked Pittsburgh’s kinksters, sex workers, and nonconformists where they go to find out. www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-enterta...
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Fun Pittsburgh date ideas from local kinksters, free spirits, and nonconformists
Unexpected Pittsburgh date recommendations that fall outside the norm.
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jay (they) @queeriously.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Jessie‘s writing is fantastic (she’s profesh and everything!) & you should subscribe to her newsletter. I’m looking forward to reading more. helpfully, her thinking and feeling also rate!
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Some reflections about god, justice, and meaning making. Also, I have a substack now if you have any interest in following my seminary journey. 🩷 bothsidesofthebooth.substack.com/p/a-god-who-...
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A God Who Loves the Jellyfish
Why I Can’t Believe that Everything Happens for a Reason
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Those working at the intersection of intimacy & public leadership (clergy, sex workers, politicians, activists, dancers) may be interested in this 9 month cohort starting now. I did it last year and found it to be personally and professionally enriching & meaningful. meadville.edu/light/public...
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LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s official!
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sitting in class listening to non-sex workers talking about their concerns about having class zooms recorded and transcribed and the surveillance it implies and trying hard not to say, “Sex workers have been saying this is a problem but no one listened to us…”
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I walked into a Fluevog store yesterday in Chicago and I didn’t buy anything. Clap for me.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Polyamory is a nervous system workout. Most of us come to it with a reading list and no somatic tools at all. My new piece on Javi Vason, spicy yoga, and what the body knows that the books can’t teach. @pghcitypaper.com www.pghcitypaper.com/columns/spic...
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This spicy yoga class for polyamorous couples opens up more than chakras
Javi Vason’s sexy yoga class in Pittsburgh helps non-monogamous couples heal through the hurt polyamory can trigger.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Seminary starts for me today and I started my day at yoga where the first and last song that played was “God is a woman.” I take that as a sign.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
August is fat liberation month and for August’s issue of @pghcitypaper.com I wrote about the folks making space for fat liberation and joy in Pittsburgh. www.pghcitypaper.com/columns/pill...
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Night Shift: The power of fat liberation
The fat liberation movement offers resistance in the face of thinfluencers and Ozempic.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
No caption needed 😍
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“If there’s anything worth calling theology, it’s listening to people’s stories, listening to them and cherishing them.” Mary Pellauer
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Lit without asking. Named anyway. 📷: @pjpicklejuice.bsky.social
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Playing in Ithaca with @pjpicklejuice.bsky.social ♥️
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Back to the scene of the crime, 10 years later! Happy 10 year wedding anniversary (a day late) to the most kind human I could imagine hitching myself to. Whew, what a 10 years it’s been, can’t imagine doing it with anyone else ♥️ @pjpicklejuice.bsky.social
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I keep forgetting this app exists and when I come back and check out the timeline I realize that I have no idea what half of the posts mean. I’m either getting old, am less online than I used to be, or both.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"The audience knows that when [Jessie] Sage says 'I learned to be a successful escort by first being a wife' that she’s inviting us to laugh with her." An excellent write-up of our @workinggirlspress.bsky.social launch of I Hate My Job! zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-i...
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DISPATCH: I Hate My Job Anthology Launch (KGB Bar, New York City)
"This is by whores, for whores." On the importance of Working Girls, a press where sex-worker writers don't have to package themselves as ambassadors.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Love me a summer pool day ☀️
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Having a public job can be wonderful, challenging, & exhausting, no matter how much you love it! #PublicIntimacy is complicated by identity & social location. If you'd like to learn more about how to be in public well & with well-being, join us this September! meadville.edu/light/public...
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Yes, I did just behave like a mom and put the toilet paper roll on the holder in my 20-something client’s apartment. Sometimes I can’t help myself.
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In an interview with Julica from @uuministers.bsky.social, we talked about #PublicIntimacy, the idea of Intimacy as labor, and what you might learn about in our 26-27 cohort on Leadership & Public Intimacy from LIGHT through @meadvillelombard.bsky.social meadville.edu/light/public...
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was in last years cohort and it was an amazing experience. I highly recommend that more sex workers who are interested in the intersection of our labor and other forms of care work take this class!
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My besties and I are going on a roadtrip to see Ocean Vuong this weekend and I can’t remember the last time I was this excited 🩷
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Bishop Matthew Cowden @matthewcowden.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Blessed Pride Month, Friends. The Episcopal Church Welcomes You. #episcopal #almostheaven #pridemonth #prideparade
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you'd like to know more about how we humans do this work -- the work of #PublicIntimacy -- well and with well-being, I'd love to talk with you about it. Join our 26-27 cohort group on Leadership and Public Intimacy at Meadville Lombard Theological School! meadville.edu/light/public...
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LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ran myself a baptism.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Joy is a strategy. My new feature for Pgh City Paper on Pittsburgh’s booming sapphic scene — and why it’s no accident — is out now.🖤 #pittsburgh #sapphic #lgbtqpgh #pghcitypaper www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/lgbtq...
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Pittsburgh’s booming sapphic scene isn’t an accident — it’s a response
The world outside tightened, and these spaces expanded to hold what it could no longer contain.
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Brute Scandal @brutescandal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Great article from @sapiotextual.bsky.social in @pghcitypaper.com this week www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/lgbtq...
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Pittsburgh’s booming sapphic scene isn’t an accident — it’s a response
The world outside tightened, and these spaces expanded to hold what it could no longer contain.
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Coffee culture has lost the plot. This is an abomination.
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COVEN Magazine @covenzine.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
📣 INFO FOR SEX WORKERS INTERESTED IN GETTING INVOLVED Here is a bit more info about how I’m envisioning this will work, and what I’m looking for at the moment ❤️ Your involvement is what will make this work ❤️ #nsfwsky #coop #spicysky #contentcreators #sexworkers #nsfwartists #eroticart
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Paige Bryony @paigebryony.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Yo, lots of us should check their website out, they got an open call for submissions from working girls and it looks legit as hell
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Working Girls Press @workinggirlspress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Thank you @sapiotextual.bsky.social for sending us a physical copy of the City Paper article that came out about I Hate My Job! We love ephemera, and this is going straight in the Working Girls Press archive. 💕
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I have a deadline this week. This means that I will most certainly cull my kid’s winter wardrobe. 😬
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Mia Grey ⚡ Indianapolis @hottiemiagrey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Ah, what better way to usher in Pride then with a number of steamy duos, soon to be underway with @datesonya.bsky.social. Look out, Indy!
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.
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AWaltzCP @awaltzcp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Just try to stop us from writing about smut. You'll have to tear our horny content from our cold, dead hands. @davidrotenstein.bsky.social
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From undressed to dressed up: Pittsburgh’s porn palaces are now cultural assets
Theaters once raided on obscenity charges have become keystone pieces of neighborhood redevelopment in Pittsburgh.
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
@sapiotextual.bsky.social I believe in multiple streams of revenue and multiple streams of joy
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Kendra Holliday @kendraholliday.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I have my copy of the book! 💃
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Pittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com · 27/05/2026
Check out all the live music, festivals, drag shows, and other Pittsburgh events to fill your June full of Pride. 🏳️‍🌈
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The Big Pittsburgh Pride Guide
All the live music, festivals, drag shows, and other Pittsburgh events to fill your June full of Pride.
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Pittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com · 30/05/2026
'I Hate My Job' is neither a glossy defense of the sex work industry nor a voyeuristic primer for outsiders. Instead, it gathers essays from eight former and current sex workers...
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Pittsburgh is a fitting home base for a new book tying sex work and labor
“I feel like your stories are always doing double duty,” a friend texted me after reading one of my recent articles about the sex industry, “covering the subject matter and reinforcing what you want…
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Stoked to see my @pghcitypaper.com column back in print!
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Danielle Maggio, PhD @daniellemaggio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fab article by @sapiotextual.bsky.social about @workinggirlspress.bsky.social book I HATE MY JOB: THOTS ON LABOR, SEX WORK, AND CAPITALISM. I DJ'd for the Pittsburgh book launch and got to discuss Betty Davis as a local foremother of erotic labor and how gender, performance, and survival overlap.
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Pittsburgh is a fitting home base for a new book tying sex work and labor
“I feel like your stories are always doing double duty,” a friend texted me after reading one of my recent articles about the sex industry, “covering the subject matter and reinforcing what you want p...
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"In Western Pennsylvania, you don’t need a degree in Marxist theory to understand exploitation; working-class analysis is passed down like a family heirloom." I wrote about sex work, class, Pittsburgh grit, and @adrierising.bsky.social's new anthology. www.pghcitypaper.com/columns/pitt...
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Pittsburgh is a fitting home base for a new book tying sex work and labor
“I feel like your stories are always doing double duty,” a friend texted me after reading one of my recent articles about the sex industry, “covering the subject matter and reinforcing what you want p...
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