Jess St. LouisThe Yeses that Surprise You: Organizing Across the Lines of Cis and Trans16 min read·Nov 16, 2023----
Jess St. LouisAn Exhilaration Beyond the WhirlwindBeing brave enough to risk leading in multi-racial organizing projects is a practice of believing we are collectively transformable.25 min read·Apr 14, 2021----
Jess St. LouisFellow White Folks: Can We Ask More of Ourselves?We owe our love and rage and longing the dignity of getting us closer to and possibly realizing an anti-racist world.4 min read·May 30, 2020----
Jess St. LouisTwo or Three Things I Know For Sure About Grief & Organizing*hat tip to Dorothy Allison.4 min read·Apr 3, 2020----
Jess St. LouisWe Are Worth the Risk That Our Longing Calls Us TowardsIt feels important, that on Trans Day of Visibility in the midst of global pandemic, to celebrate survival and healing.4 min read·Apr 1, 2020----
Jess St. LouisinA Life We Braid: on femme/butch legacies, politics, herstories, and futuresLeaving No Stone Unturned: an interview with queer country musician Karen PittelmanSomething felt right about that to me, leaning into our mutual love for butch/femme inside of our queer femme friendship, for a country…8 min read·Dec 5, 2019----
Jess St. LouisFeeling Fear, Grief, and the Political ImaginationI saw a tweet that said something along the lines of how heartbreaking it was for them to realize how desensitized to mass shootings they…3 min read·Aug 5, 2019----
Jess St. LouisTo Underwrite It With Our Lives: An Imagined Conversation on Queerness, Femmeness, & White…When I peruse the books on my shelf, I imagine myself in a house surrounded by conversations.10 min read·May 12, 2019----
Jess St. LouisI Will Not Cede Lesbian Feminism to the TERFs: A Short Reflection for Lesbian Visibility Day 2019In my writing, I find myself often trying to tell a story about lesbians, butches and femmes, and trans women that centers solidarity &…3 min read·Apr 26, 2019----
Jess St. LouisinA Life We Braid: on femme/butch legacies, politics, herstories, and futuresLesbian Feminists and A Young Trans Woman, Too: A Reflection on Donna Gottshalk’s Brave, Beautiful…by Jess St. Louis5 min read·Oct 19, 2018----
