Justine O-S 🪞

@justineodashs

writer (mostly with Lilith magazine). MA. folklorist, hobby baker, באָבעלע. repro worker, covered in cat hair. AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY out now from University Press of Mississippi 📕

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Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· 1d

the good ship lime 🍋‍🟩

A bright pink jungle bird cocktail in the sun, with a “lime ship” garnish

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· 5d

plum torte (for a friend) and a book I’ve had on my list forever

A plum torte cooling in a cake pan (with plums caramelized and sunk in to the cake)

A copy of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin on a green velvet couch

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· 9d

blueberry cornmeal tart for shabbos

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· 22d

📍Newport Folk Festival

A womb house books tote with a vintage “Where’s Boston? I know” pin in the corner

The wooden FOLK sign at the Newport folk festival, with the harbor in the background

A boat and a house at sunset in Rhode Island

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· 27d

World Cup over, nothing left but my Toll House Soccer Ball Morsel™️ cookies and a book on women during the Scottish Wars of Independence (1296-1357)

A toll house cookie with “soccer ball morsels” (white chocolate candy melts with a faint football pattern)

A copy of the book “Women in the Scottish Wars of Independence” by Beth Reid

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jul 17

calling this Manhattan variation “Can’t-See-The-Manhattan-Skyline” (plus bonus Fritz) ❣️shabbat shalom!

A Manhattan-variation in a coupe glass, illuminated by an eerie yellowish smoke-related light

My beloved orange cat, reaching for the camera

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jul 16

AQI tracker showing current air in my location is “very unhealthy” and over 200

Kirby, technically sucking in, but looking like he is yelling

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jul 15

imagine being so completely relaxed

A calico cat sleeping on her back, completely relaxed, on a green velvet couch

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jul 10

homemade peach ice cream sandwiched between brown butter/brown sugar/rye cookies (shabbat shalom!) 🍑

a peach ice cream/brown sugar cookie chipwich-variation on a white plate, catching really good late summer evening light

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jul 5

a weekend of eating in the first few days of July 🎆

Polar’s “Boston Iced Tea Party” flavor; supposedly tea w/ lemon

An ice cream cone with red and blue star shaped sprinkles and red nails

A homemade s’more tart (ganache, Graham cracker crust, toasted marshmallow topping)

A cherry and peach clafoutis in a cast iron skillet

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jun 30

cape cod summer 🦞

A lobster roll from the Lobster Pot in Provincetown

Houses on Cape Cod with pride + trans flags visible

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jun 23

now hold on

A NYT graphic outlining group chances for World Cup matchups with the Scottish flag given to Paraguay, Australia with Turkiye’s flag, and Scotland with Morocco’s

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jun 14

it’s not a competition but last night I saw oh mary with taylor swift AND the knicks won (and so did scotland). not sure I’ll ever experience a better six-hour sustained vibe. need to go buy a lottery ticket

my playbill for Oh, Mary in the Lyceum theatre, in front of the purple and red curtain. Taylor Swift ultimately watched the show to my left and on the lower level

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jun 13

through July 26th you can see Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus at the Jewish Museum in NYC (free on Saturdays!) and completely change your life

Angelus Novus, recessed in white inside a bright red gallery wall

Information about Walter Benjamin’s conception of the print as the “Angel of history”

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jun 9

working hard over here

A calico cat mid paw-lick, sitting on a woven blanket on a green velvet couch. She’s propped up on a copy of THE LAND IN WINTER

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jun 3

thrilled to be (virtually!) sharing space with Katie Kitamura tonight via Womb House Books (my eternal bookstore crush) ❣️

My computer screen showing Katie Kitamura in conversation with Jessica Ferri, the owner of Womb House Books

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Jun 1

snap 🫛 gimlets

bright green cocktails in nick and Nora glasses, in front of an open window

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· May 29

shabbat shalom from our amaro sours and a thick stack of mystery novels

Two amaro sour cocktails with grapefruit wedges in rocks glasses, sitting on a windowsill and catching the late afternoon sun

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· May 23

happy shavuos/blintzes appreciation weekend

Beautiful golden blueberry blintzes on a white plate

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· May 18

when you’re thirty you can run a marathon or become a parent OR read the Magic Mountain and make an enormous karpatka in celebration

a powdered-sugar dusted karpatka (Polish mountain cake) on a yellow vintage cake stand, in front of green tree branches. You can see the addition of raspberry jam dotting the inside cream layer

Cut of the Karpatka—you can see the curled choux pastry top + bright red raspberry jam blobs ensconced in cream

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· May 12

Our audiobook is available TODAY wherever you get your listening media ♥️♥️♥️

A dark salmon background with light pink text that says “today” and half of an AG doll face, wearing headphones

Our book cover, and the text “available wherever you get your audiobooks!”, with a gold star underneath

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· May 7

princeton again 🐅

A plate of chocolate chip pancakes at a diner

A big stone wall with a carved stone inscription that says “Thomas Mann Lived Here 1938 - 1941”

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· May 6

first week of May ☔️

Three tiki mugs and three limes (filled with mai tais)

“A Theory On the Origin of Language” poem in the New Yorker by Tishani Doshi

“
A THEORY ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
Last night, after months away from home, a lapwing piercing the still dark still with its warnings. Language, perhaps, began like this. A campfire. One person to keep watch, who would have needed something to sound danger. A word like Tiger!
Air strike!
And once the words entered
thev were unstoppable, dragging dirt into the hallways of our brains, pitching tents to watch sunsets over the graying swamp. We had learned by then to make cleavers and picks, tools to carve the scavenged flesh off bison and mammoths.
Language and violence proceeding together. It was only later, in the flowering, armed with lorgnettes in the garden, that we could say things like Go and give the ass a drink of wine to wash down the figs. Or Will spend time preening after copulation. When we lie down, you and 1, our backs against the scrape of ground in this rain-fed open country, all the shrapnel-burst horrors of the year unable to be named and so unable to pass from plowed fields of heart to limb, to throat. We let go. Lift our legs to the sky as though they could hold up the heavens. Meaning recedes. In Armenian, a way to say I love you is 1 want to eat your liver. In Arabic, I want you to bury me.
I want you to walk on my eyelashes. Feel the retreat of thick sea ice collapse across our bodies. The ancestors of lapwings—they had feathers for a million years before ever using them to fly. Our tongues.
Monarchs in the cradles of our mouths.
Now scream. Now sing.
-Tishani Doshi

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· May 3

a very beautiful cardamom + blueberry skillet pancake

A thick wedge of a skillet pancake studded with blueberries and covered in maple syrup

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· May 1

May Day shabbos

A bright red cocktail (“Love and Murder”-Campari, green chartreuse, rich simple, and lemon juice) in a fancy coupe glass and a copy of “Standing Again At Sinai” by Judith Plaskow

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· May 1

everyone please look at my cats

A calico cat and an orange cat snuggled up very deeply together on a green velvet couch. The calico is resting her head under the orange cat’s head

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Apr 25

happy birthday Fritz and Miró 💘

The trunk and legs of a calico cat in focus at the front of a cat toy-tunnel on hardwood floors, with an orange and white cat coming through the other side of the tunnel, slightly out of focus

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Apr 17

not really confident I’ll peak higher than seeing our book next to I Who Have Never Known Men and three down from Slow Days, Fast Company 📍Green Apple Books, San Francisco

Large bookshelf in a bookstore, featuring staff picks. An American Girl Anthology is next to I Who Have Never Known Men and three down from Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Apr 12

just a nice Sunday morning, really

a beautiful bright red tulip flower, wide-open in the sun

A really tall, layered cranberry-orange scone on a white plate, catching the sun

Justine O-S 🪞@justineodashs· Apr 8

Really excited to share that AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY has won the 2026 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture 💘 @kchysmith.bsky.social and I are over the 🌙