@jeannakadlec
queer ex-evangelical author & astrologer; HERETIC: A QUEER REVOLT AGAINST EVANGELICALISM, EMPIRE, AND THE LIES WE ARE SOLD (Harper) & ASTROLOGY FOR ARTISTS (forthcoming 2027, Hachette); NYC, she/her https://linktr.ee/jeannakadlec
extremely behind on both word count AND inbox because i had a bad fall, hurt my hand, and am now dealing with an infection lolsob anyway typing/writing has become extremely difficult this is a writers' nightmare
i need establishment democrats to stop sending fundraising emails and try actually doing shit
What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
THIS
I had a daydream that Mackenzie Scott started a media company and opened 30 local newspapers in midsized cities and 10,000 people got jobs and it cost exactly the amount Bezos should have paid in taxes on purpose.
I know journalism is a rapidly deteriorating industry, but it also feels like fighting a losing battle when folks on here are mostly sharing articles to dunk on them, rather than solid pieces from journos and critics out here trying our best every day to stay working and writing
losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now
Before anyone jumps in, yes, I know AI can write better than YOU can.
And I am saying it's shit.
Get it?
AI is good for coding and still can't write for shit. Makes you think about who the most highly skilled workers in the economy really were, doesn't it?
In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out.
Every day this man is like, “We turned off the Make People Suffer Machine. It took like 2 minutes to shut it down, there was a big red button labeled ‘off.’ Anyway here’s free childcare!”
i'm sure that church was plenty fucked in other ways!!!!!!
Raise your hand if you've had this conversation with a family member
this evangelical end times fanaticism is also, perversely, why so many christians are very supportive of having donald trump as the president — even if they don't personally believe he's a man of faith (which: LOL), they DO believe he's being used by god for ~these purposes~
not to say that it's NOT irrational, but just that if you personally are questioning how on earth they could think something that seems inconsistent with their lives/other politics... the answer is probably trying to bring about armageddon
wrote about this in my memoir HERETIC: A QUEER REVOLT AGAINST EVANGELICALISM, EMPIRE, AND THE LIES WE ARE SOLD — the way that so many seemingly irrational right wing policy positions are explicitly rooted in trying to bring about the prophecies in the book of revelation
“Projects come and go, but our relationship with Creativity is lifelong.”
happy eclipse day!
jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/on-the-lun...
This has been around for a very long time. Wrote about it in HERETIC, the way that right wing politics are actively trying to bring about the end times as imagined in the book of revelation.
Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.
having the very strange experience of seeing promotion for a panel i was invited to be on... and AGREED to be on... but am not on, apparently? lol. stay weird, nyc lit world.
oh man
today’s guy is the one who died from injuries sustained from falling off a roof while fleeing a massive ICE raid on a cannabis farm in California that detained 300 other people. I remember reading about this. he’d been working in the US for like 30 years to help support his family in Mexico
for the evening crowd: the eclipse arrives in less than 12 hours — and this is what to do with it
jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/on-the-lun...
What would it look like to release a specific project and expectations toward disciplined, factory-like production and move instead in the direction of your curiosity and “unproductive” joy?
jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/on-the-lun...
For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!
A sign reads, "Your new enemy! Palantir ... Surveillance against you"
A sign reads, "ICE Out for Good"
A sign containing instructions on what to do if you encounter ICE.
Someone is papering my neighborhood in Brooklyn with anti-ICE and anti-Palantir material.
Veneration of the military is a cultic practice used to insulate the state from the banal reality that the primary purpose of the army is murdering brown people and smashing leftist political movements.
I like to look through the index of Solange's online community library to see the books circulating. They are always checked out which is so encouraging. library.saintheron.com
when you see a rich person do this it reminds you that rich people could be doing shit like this every day but choose not to
