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jennberney.bsky.social
Author of The Other Mothers: a memoir of queer family-building Writing coach and developmental editor: https://www.jenniferberney.com/ https://scrapheap.substack.com/ Learning about CPTSD and neurodivergence Devoted to the animals
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New story up at @craftsmanshipmag.bsky.social! Talking to sign painter Ira Coyne totally changed the way I experience my city.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 11 days ago • 2821 comments

After calling my reps today, I tried to call the White House to leave a 'comment.' Apparently the business hours of the comment line are Tuesday-Thursday 11-3. Not sure what other business runs with those hours but OK. If you want to let off some steam around midday tomorrow, call 202-456-1111.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

submitted 33 days ago • 1268 comments

I borrowed the wordless picture book A Ball for Daisy from the library. Every page had a blue post-it note where an adult had transcribed what a child saw in the picture. I was annoyed until I got to this charming annotation: "The other girl gived the puppy a new ball that wasn't popped"

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

sound on

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

For The Scrap Heap, I wrote about Tahlequah, and the burdens we impose on the animals we love.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Monday morning we are entering a new chapter in this country's history and we are entering it together, with our friends and principles held close and our eyes wide open.

submitted 40 days ago • 47 comments

May we all age into our hairstyles this gracefully

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

submitted 48 days ago • 46 comments

Book Giveaway! 📚🎉 Help me test out @laiew.bsky.social's RaffleBlue tool & you may win a paperback copy of I'M BORED by @michaelianblack.bsky.social and me. TO ENTER: pls Like and re-post. US/Canada only. Winner picked Mon. Hoping to use RaffleBlue as my go-to Bluesky giveaway tool. #BookGiveaway

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

Coming to you on 9 Fridays in February-April (2.7-4.11.25)— WRITING TO WITNESS, GRIEVE, AND HEAL: Cultivating Hope and Resilience Through Storytelling and Community. 10 am - 12 pm Pacific on zoom. Scholarship applications due 1.20. Payment plans. To learn more: www.anneliukellor.com/work-with-me...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

What if you lay down on the ground and start screaming and call that writing for the day?

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments

I am still haunted and amazed by this video David Bowie released just three days before his death.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

🕯️🌹Nikki Giovanni🌹🕯️

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I could write forever and ever about the magic of Kim Deal, but I managed to keep this under 1,000 words.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

submitted 87 days ago • 372 comments

People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science.

submitted 87 days ago • 2990 comments

Earlier this year, I wrote this article on low-demand parenting for Romper. The more I learn about autism and neurodivergence, the the more convinced I am that we need to overhaul our collective definitions of what "good parenting" looks like.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

It's been a minute since I laughed this hard

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!

submitted 93 days ago • 253 comments