Jessica Van Meir 🩵

@jessicavanmeir

PhD Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. Socialist feminist. Studying sex work, informal labor, Latin America. ☂️ Cofounder of @mintstars.bsky.social & @bostonswac.bsky.social This is my unprofessional account, profs please ignore lowercase shitposts

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Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· 29d

god, he’s such a dork 🥹

Today
I'll finish intro and go back to trotsky
Can you tell the people on blue sky l meant Asturian and mistyped
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Lol, yes
6m
This makes me insanely happy
I tell you this a lot but I'm just so excited you have no idea
3m
Hahaha for the mining and industry museum?
3m
Yes!! And that you're coming with me
3m
Awww
2m
You make me so happy. I'm so so happy you're here
2m

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· 29d

i’m such a good girlfriend

Signal messages
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Dinosaur museum big joke but my nerdy side would be so insanely excited about this
It's like an hour out of lanes tho
34m
Hahaha we can do the dinosaur museum AND the mining and industry museum if you want babe
11m
And yesterday you were all "I do the bare minimum"
"as if!!!
10m
Hmmmmmmm disonaur museum would only be if I'm super bored but the MUMI like babe I'm already reading up on the Austrian Revolution of 1934 and miners strike of 1962
9m

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Jun 25

KLM decided to warn us about our phones exploding in flight

Image of a tile with a blue cartoon showing a man raising his hand to call the flight attendant because his phone on his tray table is emitting smoke

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Jun 23

And turn up tomorrow at the State House at 11:30am:

PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS
RALLY FOR RENT CONTROL
Join us to launch a daily vigil at the State House!
RENT CONTROL
RSVP
hfama.us/june24
6/24 11:30AM
State House

THE TIME IS NOW!
It's our communities vs corporate real estate. Corporate landlords and out-of-state real estate interests profit as our rents, mortgages and housing costs keep climbing.
It's time to put PEOPLE over their profits.

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Jun 16

my letter to the Cambridge license commission #MakeCambridgeFunAgain

license@cambridgema.gov
From jessicavanmeir@g.harvard.edu
Make Cambridge Fun Again
Dear Cambridge License Commission,
I am writing with concern about your proposed restrictive changes on liquor licensing. I'm not sure whose idea it was to return to the Puritan era, but we really don't need more restrictions on liquor licensing in this already insanely restrictive state. I have considered leaving Cambridge and Massachusetts altogether because it is, really, so boring. Please, if we can't have happy hour and bars open past 11pm, at least let us have a few beers. Harvard students barely know how to have fun, so you needn't worry about us getting rowdy.
Sincerely,
An overworked PhD student
Jessica Van Meir
PhD Candidate in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Ashford Fellow

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Jun 8

You, but as a cartoon

Belle from Beauty and the Beast reading a book

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Jun 1

I am so devastated to learn of the passing of @raulpachecovega.bsky.social, who I just had coffee with a week ago. We met at @repalconference.bsky.social and he was one of the kindest, most genuine people I have ever met in academia. He made me feel like my work mattered.

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Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· May 29

I got my master’s in passing today!

A white girl with long brown hair in a yellow dress and black cap and gown, standing in front of a black gate with trees behind it. She’s smiling and tilting her head while holding the corner of her cap.

A white girl with long brown hair in a yellow dress facing a black gate. She’s wearing a black graduation cap that has a union emblem on it and reads Harvard Works Because We Do.

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· May 5

Anyone want to buy Spirit Airlines with me? letsbuyspiritair.com

SPIRIT
2.0
OWNED BY THE PEOPLE
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
PLEDGE
NOW
WELCOME ABOARD, JESSICA.
Your pledge of $1,000 has been registered. You are now a
Founding Patron of Spirit 2.0 - one of the people who showed up the morning the airline went dark and said: we'll build it back.
You have one vote - equal to every other Founding Patron. Your profit share scales with your pledge. We'll keep you updated as the coalition grows.

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· May 2

I’ve never read a better dog name

Tom and Nick whose support, kindness and stimulating conversations were a source of inspiration throughout the process.
I also need to acknowledge the important contributions of my two miniature dachshunds, Barcus Aurelius and Karl Barx for their many cuddles and amusing antics. You get away with too much, but you are so damn cute. I take consolation in the fact that I know you didn't choose the naughty boy life, it chose you.
The most important person throughout has been my inspirational

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Apr 29

10/10, chef’s kiss 🤌🏻

ATTENTION ALL BATHROOM BUDDIES
•ATTENTION !!
• WE RESPECT WHAT YOU REALLY LOVE TO DO HERE.
• BUT IF YOU WANT TO KEEP DOING HERE WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO, PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE, REFRAIN FROM MAKING AN OVERFLOW.
• THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.
YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD BATHROOM ATTENDANT!!

Along with a picture of a cartoon toilet overflowing

PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE
DO NOT PUT ANYTHING (PAPER TOWELS OR TISSUES)
IN TOLIET.
EVERY CUMSTOMERS SUFFER
DUE TO THE OVERFLOWS
STOP!
Don't flush wipes, paper towels or rags.
THERE IS "A TRASH BIN" NEAR YOU !!
H/MART

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Mar 28

(screenshot creds to @fatstevebuscemi.bsky.social and @hopeeuphemia.bsky.social)

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Mar 28

meanwhile, totally normal things are happening in the other place

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Mar 16

My boyfriend told me he made something for me this morning

DECISION TREE:
BOYFRIEND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
DID HE SAY SOMETHING
STUPID?
Not Yet
Wait AND SEE
Weaponized Competence: kill HIM
YES:
Blissful IGNORANCE
"GOOD POINT, MR BIG BRAN!
GO GET A TREAT FROM THE JAR"
DEFLECTION
"I DON'T KNOW, SWEETIE.
MAYBE GOOGLE THAT OR CONSULT YOUR MANDATED FEMINIST TEXTS”
WEAPONIZED INCOMPETENCE: KILL HIM
NEGATIVELY REINFORCE
"How COuLD you saY
SOMETHING SO DUMB/ EVIL/WRONG? GO STRAIGHT TO JAIL"

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Jan 22

I missed my train and duo is mocking me

A subway ad of Duolingo, reading:
I missed my stop again
Se me pasó mi parada otra vez

A subway ad of Duolingo, reading:
I cry on the train
Yo lloro en el tren

Beneath is an ad that says Select the correct image:
fútbol
Followed by an image of a soccer ball, a football, a foot, and a ball

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Jan 17

how I expect all men to treat me from now on

BTW, you dont have flaws because women are flawless. Even if they were flawed, you would be better than the rest of them because your blood type is A+

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Dec 22

We just noticed that the size of our orange juice carton has shrunk while the price has gone up! Florida’s Natural what the hell??

An orange juice carton in front of a milk carton in the fridge. The orange juice carton is less wide but the same height, revealing the milk carton behind it

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Nov 16

Wrapping up the NWSA conference @theenwsa.bsky.social - it was such a pleasure to present my work on sex worker subjectivities in Argentina & Ecuador, & hear from and meet other sex work scholars like @dozierayanna.bsky.social, @lena-chen.bsky.social , Lauren Levitt, Brit Schulte, Kassandra Sparks…

A white woman with long brown hair, a white blouse and long shiny mauve skirt, standing in front of a blue sign with tropical flowers reading
Welcome to the National Women's Studies Association's
45th Annual Conference!
AN HONOUR SONG:
FEMINIST STRUGGLES, FEMINIST VICTORIES
San Juan, Puerto Rico November 18-16, 2025

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Nov 10

I’m excited to be presenting at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference this week! @theenwsa.bsky.social I’ll be presenting, “‘It’s Not Easy:’ How Sex Workers in Ecuador and Argentina Feel About Selling Sex,” on the panel “Challenging Gender Imperialism in 2025” on Friday at 11:30.

NWSA'S 45™ ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AN HONOUR SONG:
FEMINIST STRUGGLES, FEMINIST VICTORIES
I'm presenting at
NWSA 2025!
San Juan, Puerto Rico
November 13-16, 2025

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Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Oct 30

every time I teach I feel like this

Meme of a man frantically waving his arms in front of a board full of papers with red lines connecting them, he’s holding a cigarette and looking intense

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Aug 22

we need Bubbles to save us from Ron DeSantis

An Instagram post showing a photo of a rainbow crosswalk in front of Pulse nightclub, then a photo of the same crosswalk painted gray.
Caption:

Orlando's LGBTQ+ Community
Rallies After Pulse Memorial Crosswalk Removed
Florida Department of Transportation secretly painted over the rainbow tribute at night, and by morning, locals were protesting and coloring it in.

A tweet:

Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis
We will not allow our state roads to be commandeered for political purposes.

A black and white cartoon mime spreading his hands with an evil frown to turn a colorful VW van with flowers painted on it black and white

Bubbles from the PowerPuff Girls raising her hands up and screaming with broken crayons on the ground, as Buttercup and Blossom lay on the ground in black and white, Blossom with pink crayon scribbled on her and Buttercup with green crayon scribbled on her

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Aug 15

i hope this email finds you

Liam Neeson from Taken meme reading, “I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE BUT
THIS EMAIL WILL FIND YOU AND IT WILL FIND YOU WELL”

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Jul 20

Petro has now doubled down on his statement. An…interesting choice to bring race into the discussion, when he could have simply said no one should discriminate against sex workers. (The original statement in Spanish says “sexual condition” not “sexual orientation.”)

Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo
Translated by Grok Show original
Different Afro organizations have joined the Historic Pact and present Alí Bantú as their presidential candidate.
I must clarify that when I said, no black person should come to exclude anyone based on their sexual orientation, I repeat it again.
Just as no Aryan, anywhere in the world, should exclude anyone based on their ethnic condition, including the ethnicities of Sub-Saharan Africa, no black, white, or any color person should exclude anyone based on their sexual orientation.
I had a bitter day when, for political reasons, I did not uphold my principles. On that bitter day, I accepted, to maintain government unity, the vice president's position, against my will, not to appoint Florian as deputy minister of diversity.
According to the vice president, following the report by Semana and Vicky Dávila about

According to the vice president, following the report by Semana and Vicky Dávila about Florian's pornographic activity, Florian should not be the deputy minister of diversity in the ministry of equality.
Florian led the LGBTI direction of Bogotá Humana and was threatened with death for it, went into exile in Paris, and there had to resort to webcam work to survive. Later, he returned to the country, and I wanted him to take on the deputy minister role; the vice president cited family reasons for not appointing him and told me she would resign if I appointed him.
I regret not having done it, and I affirm that no one, regardless of their skin color, should exclude anyone from public office for reasons other than those established in Article 23 of the American Convention on Human Rights, which is part of our Constitution.
In the democratic country we are building, there is room for everyone.
The struggle for social and economic equality involves accepting all human diversity so that they may be free.

is room for everyone.
The struggle for social and economic equality involves accepting all human diversity so that they may be free.
Freedom and Democracy is our slogan.
Equality comes in all colors.

The text is followed by a photo of two Black men holding up a poster that says Colombia Humana at a podium in front of a room of people.

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Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Apr 17

The Trump administration is canceling funds for human trafficking prevention.

The Harvard Crimson
Noem added that if Harvard fails to comply with the student records request by April 30, "SEVP will automatically withdraw the school's certification.
One of the canceled grants is the $1.9 million
Blue Campaign Program Evaluation and Violence Advisement grant, which supported research on mass violence and human trafficking prevention efforts. The DHS wrote in the press release that the grant "funded Harvard's public health propaganda."

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Mar 13

30 yrs old today

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Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Dec 5

Today I attended an event on sex workers’ rights organized by the newly formed Direction for Women in Paid Sexual Activities in the Ministry of Equality of Colombia. Multiple SWer activists spoke, and officials from multiple ministries affirmed the need to regulate the industry & protect rights.

An event poster from the Ministerio de Igualdad with a photo of a smiling Latina woman with brown hair and brown eyes.

La Dirección para Mujeres en actividades sexuales pagas, le invita a asistir al Conversatorio " Estrategia Mujeres en actividades sexuales pagas, Libres y sin Miedo" que se realizará en conmemoración del 25N

Diciembre 4
de 2024
Hora:
8:00 a.m. a 4:00 p.m.
Lugar:
Auditorio Malagón, Universidad Militar
Nueva Granada,
Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Transversal 3 n.° 49-00,
Bogotá

A panel of 5 women on a stage with the Colombian flag behind them. Four are looking at the woman on the right, who has brown hair and red lipstick and is speaking. A poster behind them says Vivir Sin Miedo with a photo of a Black woman

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Dec 1

Where are the Nordic Model folks calling to End Demand for Coca-Cola?

A New York Times Instagram post showing a photo of three Indian people sitting on the ground under a tree, with the headline, “To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder”
Caption: “In the sugar-rich state of Maharashtra, which supplies companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Unilever, workers in India's cane fields face rampant abuse.”

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Nov 30

yeah, im religious. I believe in the holy trinity

Totally Spies
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Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Nov 30

yeah, im religious. I believe in the holy trinity

The powerpuff girls in front of a red and pink heart background

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir· Nov 28

For example, the US Populist Party of the late 19th century, aka the People’s Party, had some pretty radical and pro-democratic ideals, but was also nativist, opposing immigration and prone to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Any attempt to revive US populism has to avoid this.