@jbethiejean.bsky.social
community organizer, writer, Kentuckian Forthcoming memoir Song For a Hard-Hit People from Haymarket Books available 4/21/2026 β€οΈβπ₯ Substack: working class love notes IG and everywhere else: @jbethiejean Web: bethhowardky.org
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 β€οΈβπ₯
so freaking proud of @jbethiejean.bsky.social for the cultural + organizing work she gives her whole heart to!
Thank you, @sheainthecatskills.com !Love you so much β€οΈβπ₯
28.09.2025 17:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!! Itβs so amazing to think about students reading it!
23.09.2025 01:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jbethiejean.bsky.social is a lovely and fierce soul and I know her memoir is the same:
22.09.2025 21:56 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you, @whatashrinkthinks.com β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
22.09.2025 22:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you @sheainthecatskills.com ! Love you so much β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯
22.09.2025 21:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0my friend, comrade + conspirator @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book that WE NEED RIGHT NOW
look at this cover! β€οΈβπ₯
pre-orders are open + they are IMPORTANT
hello to my fellow white antiracists: we need this story!
HUZZAH to you, Beth πππ»π€π»
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Should be anywhere you order books! Hereβs bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/like...
22.09.2025 20:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0SURJ's very own @jbethiejean.bsky.social has a book coming out next year β¬οΈ check it out!
22.09.2025 17:11 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1Thank you!! Very excited
22.09.2025 17:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My friend @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book! Iβm so looking forward to reading π€
22.09.2025 16:49 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Minerβs 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. β€οΈβπ₯ Pre-orders are open!
22.09.2025 16:37 β π 167 π 36 π¬ 5 π 5Already pre-ordered my copy! Cannot wait to read my teacher and friend @sheainthecatskills.com βs essay! πβ¨plus an essay by @laetitiacartomancy.bsky.social !
05.09.2025 16:56 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Lora Eli Smithβs βGobsmacked!β in @oxfordamerican.bsky.social is an excellent @longreads.com pick! Itβs the best essay Iβve read this year: ecology, grief, wonder, and goblins β¨ oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...
05.09.2025 16:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks for reading and sharing!
26.06.2025 17:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Some cool queer KY history in @jbethiejean.bsky.social's latest Substack! I really enjoyed this. workingclasslovenotes.substack.com/p/working-cl...
26.06.2025 12:48 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
@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." β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯
I'm a paid subscriberβyou can become one too!
Thank you, @sheainthecatskills.com β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯ loved getting to shout out your work, too! Love you!
19.04.2025 13:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Loved talking about rural organizing and Rednecks for Black Lives on @tvlrfm.bsky.social β€οΈβπ₯
03.03.2025 04:33 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Loved talking about fellow Kentuckian Anne Braden on @mountainlaurels.bsky.social πππ thank you for having me on! open.spotify.com/episode/6QXo...
28.02.2025 00:26 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
βOur right-wing opponents have been serious about investing in organizing rural communities for generations. Itβs time progressives are serious, too.β
@jbethiejean.bsky.social @convergencemag.com
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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.
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...
18.02.2025 19:18 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1Thank you for sharing! β€οΈβπ₯
19.02.2025 03:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you for sharing @chandrarusso.bsky.social β€οΈ
15.02.2025 23:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Our right-wing opponents have been serious about investing in organizing rural communities for generations. Itβs time progressives are serious, too." β€οΈβπ₯
13.02.2025 01:54 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"Attacks on democratic institutions merely scratch the surface of what weβre up against. In most rural places, we are facing a generational crisis."
11.02.2025 14:31 β π 11 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
New article in @convergence about the dignity and power of rural people, places, and organizing which we should all invest in. Proud to be a co-author with my friend Stephen Smith, also one of my fellow co-founders of the Rural Defenders Union. β€οΈβπ₯
11.02.2025 14:57 β π 51 π 17 π¬ 0 π 2
Corporate Coup in Global Context
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies
Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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