Jess Hernandez (she/her)
@jessjhernandez.bsky.social
Writer of #kidlit. Former teacher and librarian. Current kid wrangler. Mutant diabetic and perpetually tired nd. Author of 1st Day of Unicorn School (Capstone) and I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS (Sleeping Bear, 2025) www.jesshernandezwrites.com
We won a thing! It was cool! I suck at self promotion!
HUGE congratulations to @jessjhernandez.bsky.social, Ruymán Hernandez, and @teresamtz.bsky.social for their picture book I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS, which won this honor from the International Latino Book Awards!
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
We won a thing! It was cool! I suck at self promotion!
Please take a minute to register your disapproval of the proposed rollback of carbon emissions regulations by commenting here: www.regulations.gov/document/EPA...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
August 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Please take a minute to register your disapproval of the proposed rollback of carbon emissions regulations by commenting here: www.regulations.gov/document/EPA...
“It’s illegal to use the military as law enforcement.” - Posse Comitatus Act 1878. #SidewalkCivicsLesson
August 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“It’s illegal to use the military as law enforcement.” - Posse Comitatus Act 1878. #SidewalkCivicsLesson
In search of book recommendations. Sci fi/fantasy preferred. Recently enjoyed the Carry On series by Rainbow Rowell, Black Sun and series by Rebecca Roanhorse, and the Scholomance series by Naomi Novak. Suggestions?
August 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
In search of book recommendations. Sci fi/fantasy preferred. Recently enjoyed the Carry On series by Rainbow Rowell, Black Sun and series by Rebecca Roanhorse, and the Scholomance series by Naomi Novak. Suggestions?
I took a year of French, 3 years of Italian, and then lived in Spain for two years. I now speak South European gumbo
If you take two years of French and three years of Spanish, 30 years later your brain will invent a new language called Franchlish.
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I took a year of French, 3 years of Italian, and then lived in Spain for two years. I now speak South European gumbo
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Dear federal workers, if you need a paper from a scientific journal for which RFK Jr. has just cancelled your subscription, I’m happy to send it to you as a professional courtesy. My email is in my bio.
July 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Dear federal workers, if you need a paper from a scientific journal for which RFK Jr. has just cancelled your subscription, I’m happy to send it to you as a professional courtesy. My email is in my bio.
Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with “butthole.”
The Once and Future Butthole
The Once and Future Butthole
Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with “butthole.”
Someday This Butthole Will Be Useful to You
Someday This Butthole Will Be Useful to You
Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with “butthole.”
I Have No Butthole and I Must Scream
I Have No Butthole and I Must Scream
June 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with “butthole.”
The Once and Future Butthole
The Once and Future Butthole
This was so fun! So glad I got to team up with such amazing people!
Closed out my last storytime of Pride month at my fave queer bookstore @charliesqueerbooks with @ajirving.bsky.social @jesshernandezwrites.bsky.social , who read their beautiful books THE BI BOOK and I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS🌈 Jess and AJ both traveled far for our event, and I'm so grateful they did!
June 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This was so fun! So glad I got to team up with such amazing people!
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Pride Storytime this Sunday at @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social! I can’t wait to finally meet @michellejingchan.bsky.social & @jessjhernandez.bsky.social!!! 🥳🌈📚 #kidlit #booksky charliesqueerbooks.com/events/28749...
June 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Pride Storytime this Sunday at @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social! I can’t wait to finally meet @michellejingchan.bsky.social & @jessjhernandez.bsky.social!!! 🥳🌈📚 #kidlit #booksky charliesqueerbooks.com/events/28749...
Happy complicated relationship with male relatives day
June 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Happy complicated relationship with male relatives day
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For people with darker skin injured at protests, and the lawyers representing them:
The difficulty of diagnosing and photographing bruises in victims with darker skin is a consistent factor not only in delayed diagnosis and treatment, but also in smaller settlements in lawsuits.
A 2022 study found that 📸 bruises using blue or purple light led to a 5x improvement in detection.
A 2022 study found that 📸 bruises using blue or purple light led to a 5x improvement in detection.
Improving Bruise Detection with Alternate Light
With support from the National Institute of Justice, Researcher Katherine Scafide, Ph.D. and colleagues investigated whether or not an alternate light source is more useful for detecting and visualizi...
nij.ojp.gov
June 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
For people with darker skin injured at protests, and the lawyers representing them:
Please come. Michelle is bringing crayons and coloring pages! I’ll bring stickers! AJ will bring her amazing self!
Seattle friends! I will be in town for a Pride Storytime event at @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social with two of my favorite #kidlit creators! Spend a super fun Sunday morning with @michellejingchan.bsky.social, @jessjhernandez.bsky.social, & me! charliesqueerbooks.com/events/28749... #pride #booksky
June 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Please come. Michelle is bringing crayons and coloring pages! I’ll bring stickers! AJ will bring her amazing self!
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"An advisory committee of diverse historians helps ensure that the record of America’s history — especially classified and covert actions — remains unbiased, transparent and thorough." You-know-who just fired all of them. wapo.st/3Z37N4G [gift link]
These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all.
An advisory committee of historians helps ensure the record of America’s history remains unbiased, transparent and thorough. Trump just fired the entire panel.
wapo.st
May 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"An advisory committee of diverse historians helps ensure that the record of America’s history — especially classified and covert actions — remains unbiased, transparent and thorough." You-know-who just fired all of them. wapo.st/3Z37N4G [gift link]
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Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.
May 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.
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Do you know how many people in YOUR congressional district are estimated to lose their health insurance and/or nutritional assistance, and/or be at risk of losing their jobs if the GOP’s Big Billionaire Welfare Bill is made law? Look it up. ⬇️ Talk about it.
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The Devastating Harms of House Republicans’ Big, 'Beautiful' Bill by State and Congressional District
Estimates for the increase in number of uninsured people by 2034; how many people could lose some or all SNAP benefits; and the number of jobs at risk due to elimination of clean energy tax credits un...
www.americanprogress.org
May 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Do you know how many people in YOUR congressional district are estimated to lose their health insurance and/or nutritional assistance, and/or be at risk of losing their jobs if the GOP’s Big Billionaire Welfare Bill is made law? Look it up. ⬇️ Talk about it.
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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I sent this email to my Republican Congressman today. Then I modified it for a phone call I made to his local office
If your Representative is a Republican, email or call
them with the same message
If your Representative is a Republican, email or call
them with the same message
May 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I sent this email to my Republican Congressman today. Then I modified it for a phone call I made to his local office
If your Representative is a Republican, email or call
them with the same message
If your Representative is a Republican, email or call
them with the same message
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Texans - we have one more onerous library bill to fight off. HB3225 is a public library bill that sets age restriction on access in public libraries. It creates onerous problems for small rural libraries and large urban ones as well. Please CALL your Tx Senators today as the vote got postponed.☎️
May 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Texans - we have one more onerous library bill to fight off. HB3225 is a public library bill that sets age restriction on access in public libraries. It creates onerous problems for small rural libraries and large urban ones as well. Please CALL your Tx Senators today as the vote got postponed.☎️
For months, I’ve passed a sign near the freeway that reads “Leave tRump alone! The people have spoken!”
As of two days ago, it was painted over.
As of two days ago, it was painted over.
May 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
For months, I’ve passed a sign near the freeway that reads “Leave tRump alone! The people have spoken!”
As of two days ago, it was painted over.
As of two days ago, it was painted over.
"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views."
-Dr. Who
-Dr. Who
May 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views."
-Dr. Who
-Dr. Who
Is STARFISH by Lisa Fipps considered YA or MG?
May 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Is STARFISH by Lisa Fipps considered YA or MG?
Happy Caturday
May 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy Caturday
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Just because you're at the edge of the pan and not in the center doesn't mean you're not getting cooked
“I live in a blue state, I’m fine”
No, you’re not. These are federal cuts. Your state can’t shield you when the funding at the top disappears. They don’t give a FUCK about the rainbow crosswalks.
No, you’re not. These are federal cuts. Your state can’t shield you when the funding at the top disappears. They don’t give a FUCK about the rainbow crosswalks.
May 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Just because you're at the edge of the pan and not in the center doesn't mean you're not getting cooked
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ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her.
It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's ICE Used a Woman's Kids and Grandchild as 'Bait' To Arrest Her
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used a woman's children and grandchild as "bait' to arrest her in Worcester, Massachusetts, last week.
www.rollingstone.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her.
It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...