Jackie Domenus

My first book, NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS, will be published with ELJ Editions (@EmergeJournal) in 2025! It blends personal essay and cultural critique to explore the impact of microaggressions against queer and trans folks and I can’t wait to share it with the world!

In an Ep313 clip, ⁦@jackiedwrites⁩ discusses transformative & chill-inducing writers, like Melissa Febos, Kiese Laymon, and Zoë Bossiere. Buy the resonant, reflection-inducing No Offense from ⁦@EmergeJournal⁩: elj-editions.com/no-offense-a-m… Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

Yesterday I was crying watching my dog sleep cause I love him so much. My wife is giving birth to a literal human being tomorrow. Wtf?? How will I live???

Very excited to have an essay published in The Queer Love Project! It’s about found family, the hypocrisy of Christianity, and…the beach? If you aren’t subscribed to the QLP substack, you’re missing out! queerloveproject.substack.com/p/jackie-domen…

For quite some time, it’s been a writing goal of mine to have a piece in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things. Proud to have made it in with this little essay about my mom, who’s still my best friend. riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-thin…

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I’ve got an author questionnaire in the wonderful Memoir Land today! If you’re a CNF writer and you’re not subscribed, you should be. memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir-l…

Endless gratitude to @iambrianwatson for this lovely review of NO OFFENSE in @hippocampusmag! hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review…

Lesbians packing for vacation

Really not grasping the bad reviews and complaints about lack of plot for the new season of The Bear. When the acting is this good and the characters are this endearing, I will watch 900 hours of character development and dialogue and never get bored.

"I am lucky in that the people in my life understand that writing is how I process things and that sometimes, my experience of a moment might be different than theirs, but it’s okay for me to write from my perspective." —@jackiedwrites in therumpus.net/2025/02/17/jac…

@EmergeJournal Thank you!

@jackiedwrites Happy Birthday!

Hey hey it’s my birthday! It would be a lovely treat if you’d buy my book!

Happy birthday to everyone for the rest of your lives. I can’t do this anymore

So thankful to J Brooke for this review of No Offense in The Rumpus! 🙌🙌 therumpus.net/2025/06/03/dom…

I’ll be at WorldPride(!!) in DC this weekend talking all things books, gender, and queerness with Jean Grae and Miriam Zoila Pérez! Come hang out littledistrictbooks.com/products/world…

I bumped into a sweet neighbor, a Palestinian American guy I have come to have a chatting-on-the block relationship with, and he told me about an elderly aunt in Gaza and I asked if there was a fund for her I could donate to and he looked at me and said: there's nothing to buy.

Since next year’s AWP panel proposals are due soon, just putting it out there that I’d love to be on one about memoir in essays, queer & trans CNF, hermit crab essays, experimental CNF, small press authors, etc. Hit me up!

Listen, I know it’s had its many weaknesses, but this final season of The Handmaid’s Tale is fucking phenomenal.

people in their 20s be like "this is my emotional support master’s degree"

The 3 sexual orientations: