Jessica 🐝
@seejesswrite.bsky.social
Making my 11 yr old self proud. ❤️🔥 reader, writer, & parent in Tennessee 🌿 my book: Birth & What Came After: poems on mothering 📖 https://jessicabates.substack.com
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Jessica 🐝
@seejesswrite.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Mother Poet
After a reading, baby strapped to mepoems prick beneath my skin. A local professor asks,How does it feel to be a mother poet? I blink. Balk.If she asked today I would say:Mother fucking great. I know ...
literarymama.com
My poem MOTHER POET is in the new issue of @literarymama.bsky.social / so thrilled to be in this lovely publication. 💜
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Snagged something super cool at the library today #dungeoncrawlercarl Goddamit, Donut!
May 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Snagged something super cool at the library today #dungeoncrawlercarl Goddamit, Donut!
I’m officially into Dungeon Crawler Carl. I just read the first book, and honestly wasn’t expecting it to be so funny and fun amidst a dark background. Can’t wait to see where this goes!
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March 7, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I’m officially into Dungeon Crawler Carl. I just read the first book, and honestly wasn’t expecting it to be so funny and fun amidst a dark background. Can’t wait to see where this goes!
Finally started Heated Rivalry after weeks of my friend begging me 🏒
February 2, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Finally started Heated Rivalry after weeks of my friend begging me 🏒
Metaphors upon metaphors
January 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Metaphors upon metaphors
My book club tonight was hilarious and melancholy and soul-feeding. I love this group of women with my whole being
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January 22, 2026 at 4:06 AM
My book club tonight was hilarious and melancholy and soul-feeding. I love this group of women with my whole being
Hardly anything gives me the joy that visiting my local library branch gives me
January 20, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Hardly anything gives me the joy that visiting my local library branch gives me
Called a new doctor to see if they were taking new patients. They said yes, they’re scheduling for 2027. Ma’am, it’s January 2026!
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media.tenor.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Called a new doctor to see if they were taking new patients. They said yes, they’re scheduling for 2027. Ma’am, it’s January 2026!
Books of 2026, running thread!
1) Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
1) Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
January 11, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Books of 2026, running thread!
1) Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
1) Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
I’ve read several amazing Dramione fanfics on AO3, but are there any really great #StrangerThings fanfics out there?? #fanfiction readers — help a gal out!!
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January 4, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I’ve read several amazing Dramione fanfics on AO3, but are there any really great #StrangerThings fanfics out there?? #fanfiction readers — help a gal out!!
When I die please come burn my morning pages
December 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
When I die please come burn my morning pages
Coming back to morning pages today. It’s been a while & it feels good to scratch out words ✍️
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Coming back to morning pages today. It’s been a while & it feels good to scratch out words ✍️
Reposted by Jessica 🐝
Open Table Nashville is in full-on winter mode taking care of vulnerable fellow Nashvillians. With a few clicks, you and I can be part of their efforts! They'll be busy every night this week. Let's make this happen, fam! buff.ly/yCPECcN
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November 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Open Table Nashville is in full-on winter mode taking care of vulnerable fellow Nashvillians. With a few clicks, you and I can be part of their efforts! They'll be busy every night this week. Let's make this happen, fam! buff.ly/yCPECcN
Got to see James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Jamey Johnson, and Vince Gill at the Opry last night with my Dad. Special night. 🎙️
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Got to see James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Jamey Johnson, and Vince Gill at the Opry last night with my Dad. Special night. 🎙️
Will listen to any audiobook narrated by Charlie Thurston 🎧
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Will listen to any audiobook narrated by Charlie Thurston 🎧
Scorpio season 🖤🖤🖤
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November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Scorpio season 🖤🖤🖤
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Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence”
No one should be caged, tortured, detained, or deported by the state — all carceral violence is done wrongfully.
truthout.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
Worked on my #wip at a solo Mexican food dinner. 10/10 highly recommend. #amwriting
October 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Worked on my #wip at a solo Mexican food dinner. 10/10 highly recommend. #amwriting
Community theatre is so sacred & gives me so much faith in humanity. Seeing grown adults take to the stage just for fun gives me all the feels. I tear up every time I see live theatre in any level of professionalism. It’s all so sacred to me.
September 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Community theatre is so sacred & gives me so much faith in humanity. Seeing grown adults take to the stage just for fun gives me all the feels. I tear up every time I see live theatre in any level of professionalism. It’s all so sacred to me.
Just submitted my full length poetry collection to an agent and I’m totally fine totally cool
September 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just submitted my full length poetry collection to an agent and I’m totally fine totally cool
Me waiting for Jesse Welles to read No More Tears by Gardiner Harris and write a J&J tune
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media.tenor.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Me waiting for Jesse Welles to read No More Tears by Gardiner Harris and write a J&J tune
I hope this poem is irrelevant one day, and soon. / published 2023 @variantlit.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I hope this poem is irrelevant one day, and soon. / published 2023 @variantlit.bsky.social
Notes on recent reads, including Paradise Logic (!!), No More Tears (the evils of Johnson & Johnson), Demon Copperhead (& my obsession with narrator Charlie Thurston), Yellowface, & more! #booksky #amreading 📚
Is my compulsive reading habit enabling me to avoid reality?
Well, probably. But I’m not stopping, sorry suckers.
open.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Notes on recent reads, including Paradise Logic (!!), No More Tears (the evils of Johnson & Johnson), Demon Copperhead (& my obsession with narrator Charlie Thurston), Yellowface, & more! #booksky #amreading 📚
Guys, guys. This book is fucking WILD. I mean I knew it was bad, corrupt, etc, but it’s way more evil than I imagined.
August 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Guys, guys. This book is fucking WILD. I mean I knew it was bad, corrupt, etc, but it’s way more evil than I imagined.