Jessie Lynn McMains (they/she)

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

News & Updates ch-ch-ch-changes

I haven’t posted here in a hot minute, but I’ve got a lot going on. My newest Substack has all the deets.

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It is 10:06 p.m. on a Sunday night. I stepped outside to look at the stars, and I hear…a tuba, from several streets away. No other instruments, just tuba. Must be a kid practicing but still, what a strange thing to hear at this time of night.

Name Me, River by Jessie Lynn McMains   i. Name me woman and I’ll open up my chest and show you the wind; April wind, its easterly flow. Call me man and I’ll lift my skirt and show you the fly-trap dogbane, its po...

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Name Me, River" by Jessie Lynn McMains (@rustbeltjessie.bsky.social) #TBT

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For the past year, I’ve been putting out 1-3 zines a month, and sending them to my subscribers. I have three more zines (the final batch) in progress, which will be sent out come mid-February. Now is your last chance to get in on it. Details here: ko-fi.com/s/74c3f4d4c8

Public service announcement:

Gay people buying into this TERF bullshit about “gametes” or whatever are the biggest “useful idiots” ever for the right because if you read this argument in even a little bit of detail you can see it’s easily usable to outlaw gay marriage and gay sex too.

My husband does most of the grocery shopping in our household, lol.

if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.

One of my least favorite mental illness things is when I’m experiencing what I have dubbed “depressedlessness,” where I’m all antsy and need! to! do! something! now! but whatever I try to do kinda sucks and isn’t enjoyable for long. And I’m feeling that right now. 😩

Trump Needs Public Cooperation to Enact a Fascist Vision. Here’s How We Refuse. Our resistance to fascistic policies must be grounded in our sense of justice, rather than arguments about what’s legal.

To create as much justice and safety as possible, we have to defy authority and disobey, writes @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

So tomorrow I’m going to show him the Poetry in America episode about that poem. And I am 100% going to cry. 4/4

I’m thinking about this because my oldest kiddo is reading about the second great wave of immigration to the USA c. late 1800s for history class, and there was a bit about the Statue of Liberty and Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus.” 3/4

US history has been one of my special interests since I was a child, and I know a lot of both the good & the bad. Yes, there has always been a very strong presence of colonialism, racism, xenophobia, et. al. But there has also always been a strong current of progressivism and freedom fighters. 2/4

I’ve seen a lot of people in the last few days/months saying something like “if you, as a USAmerican, have ever had any warm feelings about this country or thought of it as anything other than a fascist state, you just don’t know your history.” And I’m sorry, but no. 1/4

Thanks! I’ll check it out!

YouTube video by New Order New Order - Blue Monday (Official Lyric Video)

Apparently today is Blue Monday, so I am using it as an excuse to post this song.

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These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

Fuck The President, by Witchy Poo from the album Public Works

Mood.

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Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms

@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web

Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart

You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.

As Billionaires Consolidate Power, We Need to Recommit to MLK’s Radical Vision MLK was assassinated on the cusp of a strike wave in a time of counterrevolution. We need his “revolution in values.”…

To confront billionaire authoritarians, economic inequality and fascism, we need to build power. In MLK's words "We can all get more together than we can apart; we can get more organized together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power."

A small thing in light of this shitty news, but it would be lovely if today were the day this GoFundMe for TWIN PEAKS actor Carel Struycken and his wife, who lost their home in the Eaton Fire, reached its target www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...

“Everyday, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the Men’s store. A catnap in your office chair. Or two cups of good, hot black coffee.”

So long, David Lynch. May your memory be a blessing. 🖤

So this piece features two different types of Xerox transfer techniques: the packing tape technique, and the gesso technique.

(once I finally get the New Wave anthology out; I am working on it, it’s just slow going cuz I’m Doing It (all) Myself). But the bonus thing is that now I get to do real Xerox art again, at home no less!

My big Xmas/birthday gift from my family was a new copier/printer—the kind that actually uses toner! And can print a much higher volume of stuff faster and better! I’ve got big plans for it, mainly involving zines, and getting Bone & Ink Press back to what I always meant for it to be

the problem of pleasure (this heaven gives me migraine) // Jessie Lynn McMains, January 2025

Acrylic paint, collage, rub-on lettering, and Xerox transfer on paper. Words/title/inspiration from Gang of Four’s “Natural’s Not In It.”

It’s my first completed art piece of 2025!

RBJ’s 2024 Jams - YouTube

I also made a companion playlist. It’s got one song from each artist or release, excepting the two various artists releases.

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RBJ’s 2024 Jams my favorite music of 2024

My list of favorite 2024 releases is done!

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I realized two things while compiling these lists—

1. Holy shit, I heard a lot of new stuff this year. (These lists are long!)

&

2. My musical tastes truly are all over the place. I’ve got everything from hardcore punk to ambient country to indie pop to soul to electronica & so much more.