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Jenna DeWitt (she/her)

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Baylor journalism alum, copy editor, New Texican, sapphic-oriented aro ace queer, Side A, the progressive Methodist your pastor warned you about invisiblecakesociety.com

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Aromanticism and asexuality resources, queer Christian resources (including church finders), affirming theology resources, music by affirming artists, poetry, essays, and podcast guest episodes:

invisiblecakesociety.com

#QueerChristian #FaithfullyLGBTQ #Aromantic #Asexual

Invisible Cake Society

We all feel a little hidden sometimes.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 3h

YESSSS PREACH

Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
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Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 4d

Deconstruction not as in Derrida
But baseboards pulled gently,
Carefully, finished by small hands
Decades long past

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The Remodel

Deconstruction not as in Derrida / But baseboards pulled gently

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 18h

A fourth is valid but nuanced. Interjection: I know where you're going with this and, with your permission, can I clarify a point that is going to change the conversation significantly, I have information that I know you don't know yet (conciseness and body language help). Ask them to continue.

Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 18h

Imo we have three concepts going on here:

1. Overlap: we are on the same page and collaborating in conversation, often a form of play.
2. Urgency and priorities: "a kid is crying so I need to hop off the book club Zoom etc."
3. Interrupting: changing the topic, talking OVER, refusing to listen

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 1d

Yep

Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 1d

Subtypes of 2 include my town's extremely small Christian school which used to be both academically failing rich kids who were kicked out of public school for entitlement-related behavioral issues and a cover school for the fringe conservative homeschoolers, but is now a big school for MAGA Youth.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 2d

four types of private schools in america:

1) catholic schools for racists
2) nondenom schools that dont teach you science
3) hippie schools that dont teach you to read, inexplicably 87% matriculation @ top 20 colleges
4) hogwarts, costs 55k/yr, explicably 99% matriculation @ top 20 colleges

Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 2d

Having gone to a really shitty private school is so funny. People hear “private school” and rightly think my parents were well off but instead of playing lacrosse or whatever I was learning young earth creationism from a Russian antisemite in portables outside a church

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 2d

This guy literally did what Jesus would've done (call them to repentance and offer salvation) and they fucking shot him and laughed about it. I don't want to hear one Evangelical whining about being persecuted when shit like this is happening

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 2d

It's a tough competition for sure 🫠🫠🫠

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 2d

Also an argument against identity politics: just because someone is living an openly queer life does not make them a good person or a reliable educator or voice of the community

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Jordan Emmons @joremmons.bsky.social · 3d

The venn diagram of people who think Bari Weiss is a fair/balanced journalist and people who think Charlie Kirk was a fair/skilled debater is a circle.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

BTW James Dobson started the Alliance Defending Freedom legal organization, which is set to undo Colorado's ban on gay conversion therapy. Dobson really, really loved conversion therapy of all types (for autistic kids AND queer kids).

Jonathan R-E (He/Him) @elyeasbane.bsky.social · 2d

Learning about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child from @rlstollar.bsky.social and @dlmayfield.bsky.social and dreaming of an America not run by religious nuts who consider child abuse a sacrament.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Athena Hollins @athenahollins.bsky.social · 2d

I was the chief author who passed the conversion therapy ban in MN and while doing that, I met many people who experienced the so-called therapy. And I need to be clear, conversion therapy is TORTURE. It is ineffectual torture that we sanction for children. And it's WRONG.

National Center for LGBTQ Rights @nclrights.bsky.social · 3d

We urge the Court to side with the majority of Americans who want to protect young people from conversion therapy!

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Celeste Irwin 🏳️‍⚧️ @celestefinally.bsky.social · 2d

Read this as many times as you need to!

Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 2d

If you can do nothing else, you must survive as your full, gorgeous, authentic, God-given queer self.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 2d

If you can do nothing else, you must survive as your full, gorgeous, authentic, God-given queer self.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 2d

When you'd rather have a dead kid than a queer one, allowing conversion therapy practices makes total sense. They don't want to deal with a living queer kid; they want to mourn the imaginary one they don't have.

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Dr. Kalen Zeiger (they/them) @drkalenzeiger.bsky.social · 2d

This is unbelievable.

Conversion therapy increases fatalities. It does the opposite of what treatments are supposed to do. We ban medical treatments that claim to heal while actually harming. That's not a free speech issue, it's a malpractice issue.

We are in such an upside-down world.

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Julie Sondra Decker @juliesondra.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes people say I do asexuality awareness to compensate for having an empty or rejection-filled life. (LOL.) But once, some dude saw all my various interests and projects and said THAT was an attempted compensation for a void in my life. Wow! No matter what I do, it's proof that I'm messed up?

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 3d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 3d

Strong-female-main-character-led, humorous, "cheesy" "cringe" "flop" that made more money than pretty much anything else in its category? You know I'm in and have already developed a hyperfixation. lol

a woman in a military uniform has a patch on her jacket that says ' us air force '

Alt: a woman in a military uniform has a patch on her jacket that says ' us air force '

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 3d

I am so glad I did not fulfill my career dream of being an entertainment editor after college because I learned that I always fanatically love the most "basic" massive media empires that are simultaneously widely disdained and the butt of the joke online.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 4d

Deconstruction not as in Derrida
But baseboards pulled gently,
Carefully, finished by small hands
Decades long past

open.substack.com/pub/invisibl...

The Remodel

Deconstruction not as in Derrida / But baseboards pulled gently

open.substack.com

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