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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 9d

Working Class Love Notes #14: Song For a Hard-Hit People

pre-orders are open for this love song to the multiracial working class that is going to get us free ❤️‍🔥

so freaking proud of @jbethiejean.bsky.social for the cultural + organizing work she gives her whole heart to!

Working Class Love Notes #14: Song For a Hard-Hit People

My Memoir Cover Reveal and Pre-Orders Are Open!

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you, @sheainthecatskills.com !Love you so much ❤️‍🔥

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you!! It’s so amazing to think about students reading it!

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15d

@jbethiejean.bsky.social is a lovely and fierce soul and I know her memoir is the same:

Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you, @whatashrinkthinks.com ❤️❤️❤️

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you @sheainthecatskills.com ! Love you so much ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 15d

my friend, comrade + conspirator @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book that WE NEED RIGHT NOW

look at this cover! ❤️‍🔥

pre-orders are open + they are IMPORTANT

hello to my fellow white antiracists: we need this story!

HUZZAH to you, Beth 🎉👏🏻🤌🏻

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Should be anywhere you order books! Here’s bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/like...

Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter

A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter

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Showing Up for Racial Justice @surj.org · 15d

SURJ's very own @jbethiejean.bsky.social has a book coming out next year ⬇️ check it out!

Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you!! Very excited

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 15d

My friend @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book! I’m so looking forward to reading 🤓

Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · Sep 5

Already pre-ordered my copy! Cannot wait to read my teacher and friend @sheainthecatskills.com ‘s essay! 💖✨plus an essay by @laetitiacartomancy.bsky.social !

The Rebis 〰️ Literary Magazine @therebis.com · Sep 5

The Devil anthology is now available for preorder!

120 pages, 38 writers + artists exploring power, rebellion, desire, shadow work & more.

Ships in early Oct.

Profits support social justice orgs.

Get your copy: www.therebis.com/products/devil

A person holds a magazine titled “The Rebis” with a bold red cover. The artwork features a surreal illustration of a human figure entwined with a goat, dragon wings, and botanical elements like grapes and leaves. At the bottom, the words “Tarot Creative Writing Art” are printed. The magazine rests on a light gray surface with crystals and a smoky quartz obelisk in the background.

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · Sep 5

Lora Eli Smith’s “Gobsmacked!” in @oxfordamerican.bsky.social is an excellent @longreads.com pick! It’s the best essay I’ve read this year: ecology, grief, wonder, and goblins ✨ oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

Gobsmacked! Supernatural Sightings After a Flood

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thanks for reading and sharing!

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Erin Riedel @erinriedel.com · Jun 26

Some cool queer KY history in @jbethiejean.bsky.social's latest Substack! I really enjoyed this. workingclasslovenotes.substack.com/p/working-cl...

Working Class Love Notes #11: Pride

Celebrating Pride and all the Country Queers

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · Apr 19

@jbethiejean.bsky.social with a Love Note for us: "Through mending circle, we are learning how to change and reimagine the broken system we live in so we can work towards a new way of living and being together, like dreaming up worker cooperatives." ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I'm a paid subscriber—you can become one too!

Working Class Love Notes #10: Community

Some notes on finding your people and mending our hearts, plus so many things I love

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · Apr 19

Thank you, @sheainthecatskills.com ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 loved getting to shout out your work, too! Love you!

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · Mar 3

Loved talking about rural organizing and Rednecks for Black Lives on @tvlrfm.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

Just Mason [he/they/comrade] @justinmason.bsky.social · Mar 1

Chris Dols and @jbethiejean.bsky.social on @tvlrfm.bsky.social
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Why Attacks on Federal Workers are an Attack on the American Working Class - TVLR 3/1/25

YouTube video by The Valley Labor Report

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · Feb 28

Loved talking about fellow Kentuckian Anne Braden on @mountainlaurels.bsky.social 💖💖💖 thank you for having me on! open.spotify.com/episode/6QXo...

My Kind of Southern Woman

Mountain Laurels: Women of Appalachia · Episode

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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · Feb 20

“Our right-wing opponents have been serious about investing in organizing rural communities for generations. It’s time progressives are serious, too.”

@jbethiejean.bsky.social @convergencemag.com

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From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery

Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is a good piece that talks about solidarity and coalition building in left-behind areas where people's needs aren't being met.

It's really heartening, and heartbreaking, to recognize our lived experiences and frustrations reflected elsewhere.

From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery

Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.

convergencemag.com

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Convergence Magazine @convergencemag.com · Feb 18

We'll be talking with @jbethiejean.bsky.social and Stephen Smith on Friday on Block & Build. Join us on Friday at 2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxnV...

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · Feb 19

Thank you for sharing! ❤️‍🔥