Jen 🏳️‍⚧️

Avatar: a woman with long hair wearing a large hat, a cable-knit sweater, and bluejeans casually leaning against a tree.

Out Now https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com/album/ill-be-right-here-too

I am a singer-songwriter, who writes ballads, vignettes, and earnest, multipart circle songs -- occasionally reaching into other vernaculars as the song requires.

Alt account is Jen 🏳️‍⚧️ (npub120e…ty3e)

#FolkMusic #Folk #IndieFolk #SingerSongwriter #TransMusician #Sailor

website: https://jvwfolk.org
bandcamp: https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jennifer-w-912398896
pronouns: she/her

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2026-04-22 19:42:27 UTC

I wish it were possible to buy replacement nibs for TWSBI Eco pens. Has anyone figured out a workaround, another product that fits or can be made to fit?
#fountainpen #fountainpens #twsbi

2026-04-07 14:05:23 UTC

I just DNF'd Dream Hotel. It's wonderfully written and engaging and I'm sure it ends in some lovely hope inspiring way, but the first couple of chapters described a dystopia too easily extrapolated from where we are today.
I need books that will let my insomnia lessen, not worsen.
https://musicians.today/@jvw/116363773822204342

2026-03-23 18:13:03 UTC

Just checking in, everybody's got a plan for an afternoon nap today, right?
#nap #NapGang

2026-02-01 05:42:59 UTC

Been going through the @npub1q0x…ffgx back catalog over the past few months. Man, there are some real gems in there, going back to 2008...
Ostensibly because I have pretty bad restless legs, and the tone is often perfectly engaging to distract from the pain until I can doze off (the host has commented on feedback to this effect).
Many are compelling enough that I go back and listen again when I wake in the morning.
Don't (ahem...) sleep on this archive. It's a cultural treasure.
#SFF

2026-01-12 14:39:35 UTC

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2/2 I guess...
This (above) is what gets me about people calling to arm up and shoot back.
"Peaceful protest accomplishes nothing!" they shout.
Shooting at agents of sate violence can only escalate. More people dying, martial law (or whatever label), and Putin's agenda brought about.
#Minnesota #ICE #politics #USPol

2026-01-12 14:04:09 UTC

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Putin's agenda, as is currently being carried out by the usurper, is to cause civil unrest, suspend elections, and permanently install their proxy in the white house.
Stretch goals would include armed conflict and the breakup of the United States through civil war.
#Minnesota #ICE #politics #USPol

2025-12-19 14:53:46 UTC

A person actually born and raised in a barn would probably be the first person to yell "shut the door!" on a cold day.

2025-11-09 15:37:50 UTC

Pretty much the only thing I miss twitter is SFF book twitter. I followed a bunch of queer and fem authors, I read SO MANY amazing books by brilliant new voices.
I expect there's something like that on BS but I'm not doing centralized socials maybe ever again.
Bookstodon is pretty good, but it's not quite the same.
A bunch of authors joined wandering.shop early days but most left for BS
Anyway if you were a queer SFF tweeter plz like; I follow
#Bookstodon #SFF

2025-10-29 16:27:49 UTC

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What exactly is the alternative you would suggest? Not voting?
Waiting for capitalism to end before seeking reforms is not a realistic option

2025-10-28 13:50:16 UTC

So apparently I can articulate melodies and adornments on the slide guitar now, instead of just whatever I can reach with the slide.
After 35 years or so I'm used to progress coming in long slow climbs and wide plateaus. It's a nice surprise to stumble my way to a new horizon.

2025-10-20 17:42:33 UTC

How old are you in atmospheric CO2?
Today we're at 424.61.
I was born 100ppm earlier, at 325.68ppm
How about you?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1091926/atmospheric-concentration-of-co2-historic/
#Climate #ClimateChange

2025-10-04 14:35:50 UTC

Fediverse musicians, CD baby or something else?
I've only released digitally, to date, but some venues would rather have a hunk of plastic as a demo submission.
Where* do you go to press?
edit to add, I don't need or want any of the digital promotion deals that CDB and DistroKid and the like offer.
* inside the US trade blockade, unfortunately I should probably add
#IndieMusic #Musician

2025-09-12 18:43:49 UTC

A hearty welcome to the folks moving here from #bluesky this week!
Here's a rebroadcast of a recent #introduction post. I look forward to reading your own!
I'm a #folk singer and songwriter. I write mostly #guitar based ballads, vignettes, and earnest, multipart circle songs, occasionally reaching into other vernaculars as the song requires.
I sometimes post about #sailing my 17-foot fiberglass friend on little lakes

2025-09-07 15:15:53 UTC

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At the risk of sounding like I actually know anything about it... the effect is pleasingly painterly.

2025-08-26 01:44:55 UTC

Behold! My newly refinished rudder!
yes, yes... it's got a few drips showing, but I'm running out of sailing season. I'll have to do some light sanding and add a couple of coats this winter anyway.
#Sailing
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2025-08-11 03:07:15 UTC

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Yay! I'm so glad you have a corpo-free pride!
I went to both in my town, first time I've been back to corporate pride in a while, and it left me feeling a little dry. Which is funny, bc I went to that same pride my first year out. But being around low key community is just so fulfilling.

2025-08-01 13:35:38 UTC

I've had a beginner sailboat up on craigslist for a while, and I just got my first scam attempt: "I'll send you a cashier's check and someone will come pick up the boat for you."
There are other obvious scam indicators, so I'm having fun wasting their time, asking "how long you been sailing? what kind of waters you plan on sailing? What boats have you sailed before?"
I'll probably ghost when I'm done eating breakfast tho.

2025-05-31 14:01:09 UTC

With just days remaining in May, I've only just learned that it is National Accordion Awareness Month here in the US.
Does anybody know where I can donate in hopes that one day there will be a cure?
https://nationaltoday.com/national-accordion-awareness-month/
#NationalAccordionAwarenessMonth #accordion

2025-04-25 14:25:48 UTC

I'm struggling to remember the "official" word for those little changes in tempo to articulate a phrase. Halp?

2025-04-15 14:10:08 UTC

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That's such a good idea.
I knew a kid who'd glue bits of ping pong balls under his nails. I was never dedicated enough to try it (plus as a street musician I was thoroughly on team metal, for VOLUME), but acrylic,I could give that a go.

2025-04-14 21:34:57 UTC

Welp. Pushed the wrong button and accidentally released my record a couple of weeks early...
Might as well download it yourself!
For all that, I'm very proud of this record. I hope you enjoy...
I'll Be Right Here, Too!
https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com/album/ill-be-right-here-too
Edit: Weird that the temporary album cover is cached or something. Low-res of cover by [@JennyJaybles](https://mastodon.art/@JennyJaybles ) now attached
#FolkMusic #Folk #IndieFolk #IndieMusic
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2025-04-14 19:53:27 UTC

Finger-picking guitar players!
Do you play...
#FolkMusic #fingerstyleguitar

2025-04-14 16:56:38 UTC

So... I sorta accidentally came up with a new pasta sauce recipe last night. Can't really recommend it tho.
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/musicianstoday/media_attachments/files/114/337/369/110/732/698/original/f7462723f01ea01e.jpg

2025-04-13 17:10:52 UTC

Cleaning out the bookshelf to make room for music stuff.
I couldn't quite bring myself to get rid of "Mastering Regular Expressions." In part because what if (sneeze laughs into coffee ) I need a big regex?
Also because I bought that monkey paw I don't want to inflict it upon an innocent.
If you're in MPLS DM me if you want them and they're yours.
Full list in alt -text
#Minneapolis #StPaul #FreeBooks
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2024-12-22 15:26:55 UTC

A thread making the rounds got me wondering... what about HAM for sailors? Seems like a cheaper option than sat-phones.
And of course there's a detailed article on a niche website about it.
https://www.practical-sailor.com/blog/marine-ssb-ham-radio-or-both
#hamradio #sailing #OldWeb #BestOfTheOldWeb

2024-12-14 02:09:56 UTC

I'm not exactly great at this, but I'm having a lot of fun making up a personal font using this old fashioned technical dipping pen.
#Ink #FountainPen
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2024-12-11 02:45:02 UTC

What if the winter solstice was literally the "shortest day of the year," not because of the Earth's tilt, but because the earth literally spun *faster* in the winter?
And, like, the rotation was really slllooooww on June 21, making it the longest?
:matrix_whoah:
#solstice #science

2024-12-10 00:46:47 UTC

As a machine, my Sunfish is a skateboard on the water: holding a rope and a stick, I am the interface between the elements and the vessel.
My Montgomery 17, sturdy and seaworthy, small though she may be, is a rope-and-pully powered mecha for the sea.
Each, in it's own way, at it's own scale, is poetry in motion.
Can't wait until spring.
#Sailing

2024-12-09 02:26:49 UTC

Awesome practice tonight. Met a fantastic bass player, and, together with the mandolin guy I brought in last time, it's 🔥to hear these songs come to life.
Humbling to play with such amazing humans.
This album is going to be so freaking good!
#Folk #FolkMusic
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2024-11-20 16:32:05 UTC

A short new song, released here first, for #TDOR
"A Charm For Safe Crossing"
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(lyrics in alt text)
Suicide prevention resources:
* trans lifeline: +1-877-565-8860
* https://livethroughthis.org/
#TDoR #Trans #Transgender #LGBTQ #Music #Singing #Hope #Folk #FolkMusic
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/musicianstoday/media_attachments/files/113/516/226/510/469/409/original/ce9be91391368969.mp3

2024-11-16 18:53:40 UTC

Got busy in the workshop yesterday
#washtub #bass #WashtubBass #Folk #FolkMusic
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2024-11-10 16:16:55 UTC

Probably goes without saying, but I wouldn't be driving a Tesla anywhere I didn't want the government to know about. Now or in the future.

2024-10-12 01:38:26 UTC

How does one even do inktober? I draw and paint some things, but they're so personal, it feels so much more vulnerable to share online than, say, a recording.
A drawing happens once (for me), a recording is just one performance of a piece I may sing differently next time.
#inktober

2024-10-11 21:33:47 UTC

Chugging along at hull speed on a beam reach in 10 - 18 kt lake sailing.
Sail therapy is the best therapy.
#Sailing #Montgomery17
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2024-09-30 17:40:09 UTC

This guy gets so much use in our house this time of year.
Ours is called the "King Cutter" but I'm sure there are others.
#VegetableHarvest #Food #Garden #Gardening #KitchenTools
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2024-09-30 13:53:03 UTC

Well, I've only had spoons for two shows this year, but this weekend's was a joy!
Here's a shot of the headlining act, my friends from Bad Posture Club
#Folk #FolkMusic
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2024-09-26 22:13:39 UTC

I somehow feel obligated to post today, or else perhaps my membership will lapse.
Hello! I write folk music. Someone said I sound a bit like Connie Connor; I'm sort of going more for Bill Staines, but I'll take it. And some other kinds of stuff, when inspired. I have some on Bandcamp, and more coming out early 2025.
Most of what I've put out is very lo-fi, generally just me and a guitar.
Maybe I'll see you out on the road some day.
Edit: https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com/
#MusiciansDay

2024-09-25 17:35:55 UTC

Getting ready for #inktober a little early.
#MastoArt #Ink #FountainPen #InkWash
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2024-09-23 02:59:07 UTC

So where are we at with OSS phones these days?
Pinephone seems... weak? Potato camera, no 5G. But otherwise, actually affordable.
Purism seems relatively current, but Pixel premium prices for somewhat underspec'd.
Am I missing something? Is there another one out there to look at?
I miss my N97...
#pine #PinePhone #Purism #Oss #OsPhone #FreePhone

2024-09-22 15:10:19 UTC

"Putting on a voice" when singing:
#FolkMusic #Singing #SingerSongwriter #Vocalist

2024-09-20 13:58:08 UTC

"Kid In Flowers"
Water-pick on printed cotton. 2024
#MastoArt
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2024-09-15 15:43:41 UTC

Blissed out quiet morning sail.
#sailing
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2024-09-14 23:13:35 UTC

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I know right? I almost drove away from it after a test play, but my ever understanding true love said to me, "how many years are you going to regret not buying this guitar" so we turned around and brought her home :-)

2024-09-14 21:01:21 UTC

In the depths of rehearsal for my next show, coming up
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/musicianstoday/media_attachments/files/113/137/892/361/757/561/original/882bd3eeb6a9cde4.jpg

2024-09-04 22:54:39 UTC

So, it's Bandcamp Friday again this week (woop!) and I'm saving up to pay for studio time this coming January.
"Jennifer Wood writes satisfying and insightful lyrics with arrangements deeply rooted in the folk and Americana lexicon."
https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com/
#BandcampFriday #Folk #FolkMusic #Americana #TransMusician #IndieFolk #Tramsmusician

2024-09-03 02:36:09 UTC

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thanks! Document is a little light for my purposes.
I'll check out Graf von Faber Castell Carbon though

2024-09-03 02:11:21 UTC

Trying to pick a waterproof black fountain pen ink. There are so many, so similar...
Right now I'm thinking about Noodler's American Eel or Heart of Darkness.
I like Platinum Carbon Black, but it's a little spendy, and it's recommended to dedicate a pen to it.
Thoughts?
#FountainPen #Ink

2024-09-02 00:47:15 UTC

#bookstodon I have a mystery to solve, a plea to your broad base of knowledge!
I'm trying to identify a book I read years ago, called THE FAMILY.
I don't remember who it was by, but I'm pretty sure it was a woman, and from the prose I'd think it was written between 1940 and 1960.
The book follows generations of an Iowa family as they go from rural IA to the quad cities, to spread out...
There's no real plot per se, but it stuck with me. Kind of an American Midwest THE GOOD EARTH
#Iowa

2024-08-28 20:13:36 UTC

Boost if you block people who (edit: knowingly) post "AI" generated images and call it art.
#Ai #AIArt #NoAi #NoAIArt

2024-08-24 14:04:14 UTC

From my annual birthday sail last weekend. Double rainbow, full moon, bald eagle (not shown), many friends, and coincidentally a potluck thrown by the dock community.
I'll take it.
#Minneapolis #Nokomis #Sailing
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2024-08-11 21:42:14 UTC

Back when I was on the birdsite I bought sooooo many books, because 80% of my follows were spec-fic authors (mostly women, poc, LGBTQIA) writing about their friends' books and sometimes their own.
I've followed many here, but most seem to be active outside the fediverse 😞
If you like to go on about your favorite queer, POC, and feminist spec-fic authors please give me a follow and I'll do the same!
#LGBTQIA #SpecFic #SFF #QueerSFF

2024-07-20 19:12:13 UTC

Loading up for the show!
21 song setlist, gonna use all the strings tonight.
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/musicianstoday/media_attachments/files/112/820/392/722/012/912/original/63a383cc4c4c6b02.jpg

2024-01-28 22:52:17 UTC

Well, here goes nothin I guess. Uploaded my tiny-desk concert contest entry.
https://youtu.be/RtjwKZcijZw
#Folk #FolkMusic #FolkSinger #SingerSongwriter #Trans

2023-12-26 21:06:00 UTC

Well, turns out I made a good-enough-for-folk recording of my new song, "Soft All The Time."
#folk #FolkMusic #SingerSongwriter #Trans #IndieMusic #TuneTuesday
https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com/track/soft-all-the-time

2023-12-17 18:18:19 UTC

Hey, new server, so it's time for another #introduction post!
I'm Jen (she/her). A #folkie from Minneapolis MN. I write singer-songwriter guitar-based stuff, and also "layer songs" (think rounds that went to college).
I sail my little #Montgomery17 on little lakes in the summer. leaving the dock means it's too late to ask me to do something.
I migrated here from musician.social.