Jesse James Rose ✨

COVER REVEAL!!!! 💖✨😭 Pre-order NOW, release date 10.21.25! Huge shoutout to my team at @abramsbooks (esp @_elimock !!) for this concept, cover, and execution it’s better than I could’ve DREAMED!!!! 1. New name cover :) 2. First time holding my ARC 🥹 3. @mobygrapes ’ desk 4. Pre-order indie!!!!! @bookshop_org and @booksaremagicbk links in my bio! IndieBound.org (also 🔗 in bio) can help you find your closest independent bookstore by zip code 💓 5. Sarah whoring my book out in public 6. Edits!!!!!!!! 7. Pam says it’s the “correct color.” Post your pre-order screenshots!!!! They fill me with glee!!!!! Tell me how much you think the cover rocks!!!! 10.21.25!!!!! I love you!!!!!! 💖🥰

OH GOD IT’S HAPPENING IT’S UPDATED WE ARE 6 WEEKS AWAY ASDFGHJKL; IF YOU’RE NEW HERE….I started writing my assavlt the week after it happened through long captions on IG. That was 2018. 2 years ago I sold this book. “SORRY I KEEP CRYING DURING S*X” will be in your hands on OCTOBER 21. 1. Updated name + author headshot!!! 2. Workshopping my book [📷 @vbride ] 3. THE HARDCOVER!!! 4. dragggggg me 5. important literary questions being posed 6. average work day 7. Instructions you will ALSO find in the book 8. work companions 9. word on the street 10. I’d be nowhere without your support. Thank you ❤️ HAVE YOU PRE-ORDERED YOURS FROM YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE???????? Next Stop….tour dates 😏

There is not a day that goes by where I do not think about Gaza. It is impossible to “go back to normal” when watching a gen0cide in 4K on our phones, and as our current government is launching the architecture of gen0cide against undocumented people, disabled people, and trans people in front of our eyes. Fighting fascism in every form IS our new normal. Fighting fascism in every form IS our new normal. Every day I ask myself: • How can I normalize bringing Palestine into every conversation in every room? • How I can I interrupt the power gen0cide-supporters hold in my community? • Are my actions aligned with BDS? • What is my relationship to white saviorism? • How can I continue changing hearts and minds in my community so international solidarity with ALL oppressed people becomes the default? • How can I be a beacon of trans joy? • How can I Make Fascists Afraid Again? @plestia.alaqad made a video naming Palestine As a place of hope — not destruction — illuminating the slant in western perception of the region. This is echoed in every Palestinian text I’ve read (Mourid Barghouti, Tareq Baconi, Isabella Hammad, Rashid Khalidi) and it is up to us to continue unlearning propaganda and act in solidarity. Solidarity is not an arrival point, it is a daily practice. As long as the US is supporting an apartheid state and sponsoring gen0cide there is no “normal.” As long as Palestinians and anti-zionist Jews call on our support this is our “normal.” This IS our new normal. Tr@nnies against gen0cide forever. Solidarity forever. Free Palestine and ALL occupied territories. Photos by @framed.unrest from @actupny die-in + protest Summer ‘24 with @blacktransliberation , @audrelordeproject , @jvpny , @queersforaliberatedpalestine

Author Jesse James Rose (@jamesissmiling ) and her @abramsbooks editor Sarah Robbins will both be on panels during our May 2 NYC personal storytelling summit Open Secrets Live. We are so excited to hear more about how they collaborated on Jesse’s memoir, “sorry I keep crying during sex.” This is a clip from our interview between Jesse and Open Secrets editor-in-chief @rachelkramerbussel . #opensecretsmag #genderidentity #lgbtq #bookstoread

TLDR: it’s @actorsequity Council Election Time! ⚠️VOTE FOR ME and the @wearestageleft slate!!!! ⚠️ JesseJamesRose.com/AEA

We all deserve to find someone to feel safe with.🥹 Follow for 3 new videos every week 🎬 [Visual description: Couple in their thirties sit on vintage couch with floral wallpaper. Jesse (she/they) sits on the left. She is a tall white trans feminine person with long brown hair. They are wearing a yellow and orange pastel sun dress. Cal (he/him) sits on the right. He is white with blue eyes and has a shaved head.] Executive Producer: Beth Haller for @gadimorg Creator and Director: @Kai.Tillman Producers: @snackplease and @sellerton Editor: @elle.deran Social Media Consultants: @elle.deran and @ezramichelmusic PR Consultant: @theavadavis Social Media Manager: @landmarkvirtualassist Colorist: @alkemiccolor Original music: @MelGu érison Director of Photography: @Sarahmakesmovies First AC: @c4mgurl Sound Operator: @niaquinialla_doc Gaffer: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz Grip PA: Jamie Simiele Art: @radight Transcript: Jesse: The first time I saw you I went, “Well, there goes the next 10 years of my life. I hope they’re good.” You know? I remember at the beginning of our relationship, I was the one who was more hesitant to label things and to define things. Cal: I would get percentages of, like, how far along we were. Jesse: I was like, we are 72% there to be (laughing) boyfriend and girlfriend…because you had expressed that you wanted me to be your girlfriend, and I had never been a girlfriend before, and I needed a second to wrap my head around that. I needed to let my body adjust to the fact that you were serious and that I believed you. I think anybody who has survived any sort of trauma can relate to the idea that something that is good actually can feel like it really hurts…at the beginning when you’re used to being guarded. And so, I had to really let myself adjust to the idea that, like, Cal was somebody that I could be safe with. And so, I did. I gave you percentages (laughs). Cal: It was totally understandable…um… Jesse: (laughs) Cal: …why she was not ready, but- I mean, for me, it was very instantaneous.

SUB 2 HOURS BABYYYYY (OT: 1:55:45) 🏃🏻‍♀️😍🏆💖✨ 5 months ago I could barely run a mile, and today I broke the 2 hour wall at the @maybelline Women’s Half Marathon. As trans people are increasingly policed, discriminated against, and barred from participating in sports I am PROUD to be an openly transgender woman running the course with 5,000 other badass women. Shoutout to @amandalealavergne who managed to knock 7 mins off my time in just 4 weeks 🤯. I love this sport, I love being a woman, I love @callahantormey for supporting me in the thick of his final exams, and my middle school bestie @jessicamedley 💖✨ 📷 1: ELATED to cross the finish line 📷 2: with @callahantormey 🥰 📷 3: pre-race where I was so nervous I wanted to 🤮 📷 4: gay people kissing 📷 5: @jessicamedley PR’d by 20 minutes!!! 📷 6: forever a beveling theatre bitch

Eavesdropping after @beachesthemusical ☀️🏖️🐚 tell your friends you love them!!!!!! 🩵 #beachesthemusical #ad

K!ll the John Lithgow inside of you ❤️ Clip from @newyorkermag

🤩‼️APRIL SIKCDS TOUR STOPS!!!! ‼️🤩 Salt Lake City, Portland, Seattle, Ann Arbor, and Madison I AM COMING TO YOU!!!!!! I’m so excited to partner with these queer-owned indie bookstores who are championing trans writers, organizing against ICE, and opposing gen0cide. 4/8 — SLC — @undertheumbrellabookstore 4/9 — PDX — @alwaysherebooks [with @polyamorouswhileasian !] 4/10 — SEATTLE — @charliesqueerbooks [with @corinne.manning !] 4/22 — ANN ARBOR — @literatibookstore [with @raja.in.rehearsal !] 4/23 — MADISON — @roomofonesownbooks Come. Bring a mask 😷. Can’t wait to hug you. ✨jessejamesrose.com/tour✨

Tuesday, March 24 at 7 p.m. ET we’ll be talking to Jesse James Rose (@jamesissmiling ) about her debut memoir sorry I keep crying during sex, out in print, ebook and audio from @abramsbooks ! See our bio for a direct link or find Open Secrets Magazine in the @substack app next Tuesday night to watch live and ask your own questions too. About sorry i keep crying during sex: A powerful, provocative, and genre-bending literary memoir that grapples with victimhood, recovery, and resilience In the before, Jesse James Rose is happy. She has a beautiful boyfriend with melty glacier eyes, she’s on a euphoric journey of gender exploration, and New York City is perfect. In the after, she’s single, making dinner for her grandfather, and wondering if he’s going to forget her name today. Except, in the before, her first-grade music teacher led her into a dark room to show her something he shouldn’t have. And in the after, she’s finding healing and comfort in coming into her own, even as her grandfather declines. In the before, she was fine, more or less. But in the after, she has to reckon with whatever the hell restorative justice really, truly means. Following the aftermath of an assault, and the heartache of caring for a grandfather with Alzheimer’s, sorry i keep crying during sex tells a captivating story of identity, recovery, grief, survivorship, and transness. Through lists, theatrical scripts, flashbacks, and Grindr DMs, Jesse James Rose’s genre-defying memoir is raw and hysterically funny, and takes readers on the wild ride of overcoming the struggles of a trans twentysomething. What people are saying about sorry i keep crying during sex: “As a trans gen-z cusp, this book hit good and hard for me. sorry I keep crying during sex is a masterclass in vulnerability. Jesse answers our questions before we can even ask, and they take the reader places most authors wouldn’t venture to.” —Dylan Mulvaney, New York Times bestselling author of Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer

Every time I read this report I break down. I keep reminding myself that dysregulation is the appropriate response to vi0lence. I grieve every trans person we have lost, will lose, and honor every trans person that came before me that paved the way for me to live my life as I do. I keep asking “why was I born at this time?” and “what is my role in this political moment?” because seeking these answers gives me purpose. Not a single trans person I know is “ok.” We are actively facing a gen0cide. Our quality of life has been immeasurably compromised, especially for those in hostile states, and most especially for Black trans people who face disproportionate vi0lence within our community. For years people have been telling us we are “overreacting”, or “too small a population to worry about,” like we are an endangered species the ecosystem sees as disposable. But that’s not how nature works, and that’s not the reality of the situation. There is no such thing as an “overreaction” to draconian laws stripping people of their rights to bodily autonomy. There are more people publicly identifying as transgender than ever before, and those numbers continue to grow in spite of these attempts to eradicate us. The state could eliminate every one of us today and another trans person would be born tomorrow. We are carved into the culture through every art form imaginable and we continue to demand our place in every facet of society. Our impact is immeasurable, our lives our precious, and every one of us is worthy of protection. The apathy to which cis people regard this gen0cide is astounding, and largely the reason we have escalated to this stage. F*ck every bystander who says “it’s not my problem.” I hope you drown in the blood of every trans person you sacrificed at the altar of your comfort. We will live on. We will continue to save each other. I love being trans. I will fight this gen0cide with every breath, and long after I am gone. 🏳️‍⚧️