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Jennifer C. Martin

@notreallyjcm.bsky.social

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Dirtbag Christian, writer, editor, and speaker

Polyamorous, bi, mom, communist, theology nerd, foodie, southerner, gamer, reader, and lover of both low art and high art. Calvinists DNI

Located in RVA. She/her.

https://linktr.ee/jennifercmartin

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@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:42 PM

I’ll be making a series of post about all this on Substack, but it will have to wait for me to not have a headache!

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:42 PM

Btw I’m 21 weeks pregnant with an IVF poly baby. Anatomy scan went well today so I feel safer to announce. A little girl 🩷 my older boys and two (!) dads are so excited. Over a year is the longest I’ve ever kept such an overwhelmingly life-encompassing secret from the internet!

Woman with messy green hair and a long sleeve green shirt and black cozt overalls smiling at the camera and holding a small baby bump
@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:51 PM

The most common comparison is Doctor Strangelove and I think that fits

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:50 PM

Apocalyptic times, but satirically

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:30 PM

Richmond has it in September and I never understood why. It was that way before I moved here over 10 years ago. Maybe something about the heat but now September is just as hot as June.

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:28 PM

I’m gonna become a Digger apologist

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:01 PM

I was scream laughing, I wanted to tell everyone else in the audience I was raised Pentecostal and this is how it is

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:00 PM

Well, I thought Digger was great. I could see B+ with mild criticisms but I do not get the widespread critical hatred. I liked it more than Birdman lol

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:19 PM

One of their partner’s names is TYLER!!!!! like me!!!!!

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:08 PM

i mean, i'll be honest, i fucking love babies and baking bread and rustic shit and organic decor and from-scratch food but then i'd learn about the beliefs of the creators and feel dirty

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:47 PM

I've seen articles that seem to back this up as well, but Nara Smith hawking infant formula brands + announcing she's getting her tubes tied seems like a pretty big death knell for the tradwife movement. It's one of the biggest advertising lies ever sold to women, lol

@sky.skymarchini.netOct 9, 2026, 3:11 AMReposted by @notreallyjcm.bsky.social

GOP: 😡 TRANS GIRLS SPORTS BAD Dems: 😤 ur corrupt!!! Libertarian subplot:

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Breaking - From campaign of Libertarian gov. candidate, Don Kissick. His campaign Mgr, Steve Perkins, says Kissick was shooting a campaign commercial on the Maumee in Toledo this morning and, along w/ others, discovered a dead body there.
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@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:52 PM

“Dove (née Love)”

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:45 PM

Awww hell yeah we are bringing back Puritan naming traditions at this Christian cult in NZ “Dove Stedfast… her 28-year-old husband Watchful Stedfast.” “Thoughtful, 10, daughter Gracious, nine, Endure, seven, Considerate, five, Fortitude, three, Thankful, two, and newborn Eliezer”

@viothevvitch.myatproto.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:30 AMReposted by @notreallyjcm.bsky.social

this is so fucking sad

Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
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@museum-of-twitter.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 4:48 PMReposted by @notreallyjcm.bsky.social

@hudlion

sometimes, I think it would be worse to be an insect and wake up one morning and find you had been transformed into a guy with a job
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@thedeathsiren.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:02 PMReposted by @notreallyjcm.bsky.social

Today @notreallyjcm.bsky.social and I talk to "Radical Ambient" musician and @trippnasty.bsky.social's buddy, Trond Jervell. In addition to his theories on music, he also tells us about life on a remote Norwegian island that is often light or dark for 24 hours/day.
open.spotify.com/episode/5y3o...

@notreallyjcm.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:00 PM

There’s zero benefit for our enemies in bombing San Diego or Los Angeles, lol. Those of us on the east coast know that we are the real targets. I’m two hours south of DC and surrounded by military complexes in Virginia. RIP me

@bookshop.orgOct 6, 2026, 1:59 PMReposted by @notreallyjcm.bsky.social

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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@ari4ohio.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 9:34 PMReposted by @notreallyjcm.bsky.social

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.
Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey
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