Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 10hI 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. 0122
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Accidentally 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...substack.comThe Sound of an Empty NestOn a sound I didn’t know rabbits could make 0100
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We put on big people clothes and left the house looking cute. Clap for us 🥰👏🏼♥️ Night out with @pjpicklejuice.bsky.social 0240
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It’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...bothsidesofthebooth.substack.comMutually BeneficialA boundaries book for clergy, read by a sex worker 1181
Reposted by Jessie Sage𝓨𝓸𝓾 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...bostonglobe.comBurnt out on publishing, Alice Hoffman finds new magic at Harvard - The Boston GlobeThe "Practical Magic" author's work at the Divinity School led her back to the art she loved. 131
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Because I’m incapable of sitting still at a desk all day. 📷: Dawn Hartman 0181
Reposted by Jessie SageViolet "Vi" Rollergirl • NYC🗽touring✈️ CHI 10/13-17, EXXXOTICA NJ @violetrollergirl.com · 03/09/2026This 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! 0102
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A 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...pghcitypaper.comFun Pittsburgh date ideas from local kinksters, free spirits, and nonconformistsUnexpected Pittsburgh date recommendations that fall outside the norm. 0162
Reposted by Jessie Sagejay (they) @queeriously.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Jessie‘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! 172
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Some 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-...bothsidesofthebooth.substack.comA God Who Loves the JellyfishWhy I Can’t Believe that Everything Happens for a Reason 0161
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Those 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...meadville.edu LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School 0133
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Sitting 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…” 0230
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I walked into a Fluevog store yesterday in Chicago and I didn’t buy anything. Clap for me. 3110
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Polyamory 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...pghcitypaper.comThis spicy yoga class for polyamorous couples opens up more than chakrasJavi Vason’s sexy yoga class in Pittsburgh helps non-monogamous couples heal through the hurt polyamory can trigger. 2140
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Seminary 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. 0111
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 08/08/2026August 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...pghcitypaper.comNight Shift: The power of fat liberationThe fat liberation movement offers resistance in the face of thinfluencers and Ozempic. 0144
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 0141
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Lit without asking. Named anyway. 📷: @pjpicklejuice.bsky.social 092
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Playing in Ithaca with @pjpicklejuice.bsky.social ♥️ 0112
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Back 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 3251
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I 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. 2100
Reposted by Jessie SageJessie 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...zonamotel.substack.comDISPATCH: 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. 0285
Reposted by Jessie SageAdam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Having 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... 022
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Yes, 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. 0200
Reposted by Jessie SageAdam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026In 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... 1125
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I 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! 062
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 14/07/2026My 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 🩷 071
Reposted by Jessie SageBishop Matthew Cowden @matthewcowden.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Blessed Pride Month, Friends. The Episcopal Church Welcomes You. #episcopal #almostheaven #pridemonth #prideparade 053
Reposted by Jessie SageAdam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 03/07/2026If 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...meadville.edu LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School 022
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Joy 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...pghcitypaper.comPittsburgh’s booming sapphic scene isn’t an accident — it’s a responseThe world outside tightened, and these spaces expanded to hold what it could no longer contain. 0173
Reposted by Jessie SageBrute Scandal @brutescandal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Great article from @sapiotextual.bsky.social in @pghcitypaper.com this week www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/lgbtq...pghcitypaper.comPittsburgh’s booming sapphic scene isn’t an accident — it’s a responseThe world outside tightened, and these spaces expanded to hold what it could no longer contain. 151
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Coffee culture has lost the plot. This is an abomination. 2110
Reposted by Jessie SageCOVEN 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 1319
Reposted by Jessie SagePaige Bryony @paigebryony.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Yo, lots of us should check their website out, they got an open call for submissions from working girls and it looks legit as hell 131
Reposted by Jessie SageWorking Girls Press @workinggirlspress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Thank 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. 💕 1182
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I have a deadline this week. This means that I will most certainly cull my kid’s winter wardrobe. 😬 070
Reposted by Jessie SageMia Grey ⚡ Indianapolis @hottiemiagrey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Ah, 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! 0102
Reposted by Jessie SageJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026My 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. 20490932050
Reposted by Jessie SageAWaltzCP @awaltzcp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Just try to stop us from writing about smut. You'll have to tear our horny content from our cold, dead hands. @davidrotenstein.bsky.socialpghcitypaper.comFrom undressed to dressed up: Pittsburgh’s porn palaces are now cultural assetsTheaters once raided on obscenity charges have become keystone pieces of neighborhood redevelopment in Pittsburgh. 1154
Reposted by Jessie SageZack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026@sapiotextual.bsky.social I believe in multiple streams of revenue and multiple streams of joy 131
Reposted by Jessie SageKendra Holliday @kendraholliday.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I have my copy of the book! 💃 161
Reposted by Jessie SagePittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com · 27/05/2026Check out all the live music, festivals, drag shows, and other Pittsburgh events to fill your June full of Pride. 🏳️🌈pghcitypaper.comThe Big Pittsburgh Pride GuideAll the live music, festivals, drag shows, and other Pittsburgh events to fill your June full of Pride. 0298
Reposted by Jessie SagePittsburgh 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...pghcitypaper.comPittsburgh 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… 0186
Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Stoked to see my @pghcitypaper.com column back in print! 2242
Reposted by Jessie SageDanielle Maggio, PhD @daniellemaggio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Fab 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.pghcitypaper.comPittsburgh 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... 1219
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...pghcitypaper.comPittsburgh 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... 13712