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Jessica BOOOOlin: Preorder Getting Hairy, out October 31! @olinj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just watched @sbearbergman.bsky.social give a performance of The First Jew in Canada. Beautiful and moving and funny and resonant. I cried by the end.

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The First Jew in Canada - Tickets and Shows - Show - Rochester Fringe Festival

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So uh. I just announced my new book and it’s my first narrative book in 13 years and it turns out that a medium number of people… had no idea I was trans? Anyway, whether or not this is new news to you, you should celebrate my birthday by pre-ordering one: arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-...

Cover of The Fresh End of a Long Thread, a book by S Bear Bergman. The cover is red, blue, and pink with a motif of a string running in and out of doors and windows, connecting them.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pokemon Go has joined in the trolling of Mitch McConnell, I see.

A purple aerodactyl pokemon, mouth open and wings akimbo, bearing a striking resemblance to Senator Mitch McConnell especially around the uh jaws.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are all trying to get over colds here and it’s chilly and raining. I do not feel this should legally be allowed.

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Kiona N. Smith @kionasmith07.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I also desperately want the answer to this question.

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Ant @antporter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This kind of question is why the Internet is still amazing at times. That and the cuneiform tablet.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey, uh, is anybody a paleoecologist? My husband needs to know if Pygmy wooly mammoths might have swum out to eat kelp? Help.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When the cat’s away, the mice order pizza delivery and eat on the couch while watching the Hadestown proshot.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Will anyone acknowledge how revealing it is about the underpinnings of "gender critical" ideology that they're all coming out to bat for the self-described "race realist"?

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every year as people are going back to school I think of this absolutely sensational essay by Tasbeeh Herwees about names. I think every teacher should read it, and also everyone who isn’t a teacher. I cannot recommend it enough. the-toast.net/2014/01/15/t...

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The Names They Gave Me - The Toast

Tasbeeh Herwees on her name.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m right on the edge of writing an essay about what I wish someone had told Harry Jowsey about marriage on Let’s Marry Harry (as I sit here yelling at the screen like straight men yell at sports).

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you start trying to preach the gospel on my flight I will be leading the rest of the passengers in a round of Row, Row, Row Your Boat and I too have been practicing.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Today I learned that Notre Dame Cathedral has held one wedding since the 2019 fire, and it was for the guy who spent 3+ years leading the carpenters fixing the roof, using 800-year-old methods down to cutting the new timbers with an ax, so now I have agreed with the pope twice in a year? Wild times.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nerdily, I think think this is because Mamdani’s team conducted strength-based research - they also asked people what they’d LOVE to see happen, not just what was aggravating. Then a team went and figured out which ones of them could be accomplished within the current budget and: win after win.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My new little hobby is that every time I see someone on social media complaining about their library being closed Sunday or having to buy 14 glue sticks I remind them that this happens when the city/town cuts the school or library budget, again, so they can give more money to police for equipment.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Y'ALL 👀 Register for this NEW training series w/ @prisonculture.bsky.social, @snarkbat.bsky.social, Priya Parker & Graie Hagans, from Life is a Sacred Text co-sponsored by @educateusaction.bsky.social-- to get the tools, skills & vision we all need NOW. More: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/learntodo

Learn, To Do: A training series to meet this moment. Tools and tactics for collective liberation from the grassroots on up! Online for everyone! Mariame Kaba July 8! Elsa Sjunneson August 5! Priya Parker September 2! Graie Hagans October 7! Hosted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg! To see all the trainings and to register go to LifeIsASacredText.com/LearnToDo !

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I think people are getting meaner because life is getting harder and there’s nowhere to put it.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Okay, dads, let’s be better than our fathers again tomorrow. (Even if you had a great dad. Every father wants his kids to do better than he did; that’s the dream, right? And if you didn’t, do it for your kids.)

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So tired of all this “When’s veterans month? When’s mental health month?” THEY ALL EXIST. We just do a better job with ours, and that’s on queer audacity and craft supplies.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ah yes, the ::checks notes:: pro-life party.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I watch this video of Lin Manuel Miranda at the Obama White House (when they had poetry, not cage fighting ::sigh::) on hard days so I can enjoy everyone’s rising excitement and delight as they all see the very fresh damp beginning of something great. youtu.be/WNFf7nMIGnE?...

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam: (8 of 8)

YouTube video by The Obama White House

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I need the internet to know that this morning someone corrected me *incorrectly* and since it doesn’t affect anything I have chosen to let it go; please clap for my maturity, however fleeting it may prove to be.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

If I had some funding to come to people’s homes and tell queer stories for an hour to whoever they invited, would you invite me? If so, where do you live? (I would not stay over; I’d appear and tell stories and maybe eat and then go.) What would you want to know to decide if you could host this?

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Every day until this book is done, if I get 1k words written, I get to post a snippet to sustain the dopamine. Today’s: “I have leaned into the alchemy of just plain storytelling: the frank magic of hosteling my feelings into words on the page and sending them out to seek their fortunes where,”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

As state terror amps up, here's a list of actions you can take now-- a lot of resources and a list of upcoming virtual trainings on a number of topics:

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actions to take as ICE intensifies

ways to support MN and your own community

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Your Thursday reminder that when you meet a baby you DON’T actually have to guess their gender. Just say “And who is this tiny perfect person?” Guaranteed no one will ever, ever object.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Today I read a review of my new show that described it as, among other very nice compliments: “…if Spalding Gray were alive, and happy.” I’ll take that any day. gender-defiant.ghost.io/the-first-je...

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The First Jew in Canada: A Trans Tale

Three lines from this hilarious, tender solo play beamed out to me as the mom of a trans teen

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 28/10/2025

Boston friends, check out Bear's show! I was lucky enough to see it last year, and it was such a great evening of storytelling!

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wendell the sweetbitter unmanageable creature @wendellwrites.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

this is an amazing storytelling experience, i was just talking it up the other day.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Boston! Come see the show @broadwayworld.com called “skillful, deeply affecting, funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true,” and @intermissionmag.bsky.social says is “a solo show with a sense of heart and honesty that'll leave your cheeks wet and your chest warm.” TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394

This is a flyer for a show called “the first Jew in Canada: a trans tale“ written and performed by S. Bear Bergman. The show will be performed on November 2, 2025 at 40 Berkeley St. in Boston at 5 PM. There’s a QR code for more information and notes that it will be interpreted into ASL.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I am having a hot bath because I’m fighting a cold. While soaking, I finished the water in my glass, and then had the thought that I wished I could stay in but I really needed a drink of water. So I would obviously need to get out. Of the bathtub. To get water. (The cold may be winning.)

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

When my children sass me, I just remember that as a child who could not keep my nose out of a book, I got many scoldings about watching what I was doing. Once my mother was particularly aggravated and I said yes, she should go complain to the other mothers about her child that won’t stop READING.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Some years ago, a Jamaican friend introduced me to the phrase “no broughtupsy” and while I don’t use it (feels appropriative; I am a middle aged white Jew from New York) I do find that I think it a whole lot these days.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I recommend you share a few potato chips with a dog if you have the opportunity. A big cozy ding-dong is ideal for this, but really any dog.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Francis, teaching his graduate seminar in coziness. Enrolment opens soon for his summer intensive, rolling on your back in a cool bed of clover.

A very a very dignified looking tan dog with a black muzzle dog is curled into a circle on the couch. His head rests on a mustard coloured yellow cushion, and over his head is a faux fur fuzzy blanket. He looks a bit ridiculous but very cozy - he picked his head up just as I raised my camera, in case it was peanut butter.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I’m a transgender Jewish writer and storyteller; imagine how I feel.

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Sarah Polkinghorne @sarahpolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

"In Clipboards We Trust."

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Once again I beg you to consider my proposal that a rotating committee of librarians and stage managers be put in charge of the US.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Can we not just accept that we need all the different kinds of brains to do all the different kind of human things? Because I am FOR SURE not keeping a 17-volume-and-counting detailed record of my decades of effort in restoring heirloom apple varieties, but I’m very glad someone is. ::crunch::

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Little wins but Troy Kostur looking hot (without additional context) in the Bottega Veneta ad wrapper for the Sunday NYT about the poetry of gesture qualifies I think.

Famous Deaf stage and screen actor Troy Kostur looking hot and broody in a fashion portrait. His hair is long, he’s wearing a black suit, and his famously large and quick hands are stacked under his chin.

Big text reads The Poetry Of Gestures and above there’s some woven leather sleeves.

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Mikaela Kennedy @mikaelak.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Really loved reading Special Topics in Being a Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way by @sbearbergman.bsky.social I cried many times ❤️

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Someone’s going to tell the early modern historians why the students are all talking about the pear of anguish this week, right?

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This feels like a @theradr.bsky.social question: does Judaism already have a bracha that is roughly “Baruch Hashem for letting me live in such comfort that this constitutes an inconvenience? If not, can we write one?

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I wish to announce that today I have cleaned and reassembled the dishwasher and also migrated my email to Google hosting and I feel EXTREMELY accomplished please clap.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Today I, a professional storyteller and author, described something as “the lightiest light” because I was so distracted and overwhelmed I forgot that the word bright exists and if that’s not a metaphor then I don’t even know what (but also, please someone name your band The Lightiest Light).

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Daily(ish) #PrideMonth #SmallPress #books: Special Topics in Being a Parent by @sbearbergman.bsky.social‬, ill. Saul Freedman-Lawson (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social‬) & ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Thunder Song by Sasha Lapointe (Counterpoint @catapultbooks.bsky.social) #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚

Book cover for ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Thunder Song: Essays (Sasha Lapointe, Counterpoint LLC) The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States today. Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue from the miraculous to the mundane, from the spiritual to the physical, as they examine the role of art—in particular music—and community in helping a new generation of indigenous people claim the strength of their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world. https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/thunder-song/

Book cover for Special Topics in Being a Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way by S. Bear Bergman‬, ill. Saul Freedman-Lawson (Arsenal Pulp‬): An illustrated guide of practical parenting advice informed by queer experiences for anyone doing the work of parenting. https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Special-Topics-in-Being-a-Parent

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