Jai Wordz

Jai Wordz Passionate about storytelling, creativity, and culture. A new show is on the way! Exploring speculative fiction, digital media, and creative solutions.

Founder of Urban Matrix Mag & host of Boss Chronicles. Hey y’all — I’m Janean L. Watkins (aka Jai or Jae) — writer, producer, and all-around creative soul telling stories that hit different. From my speculative fiction trilogy Awaken the Anomalies to my upcoming series High Off This Dialect Drug, I’m sharing stories that move through memory, music, and survival. Here’s what you’ll find in my creat

ive world:
✔️ Deep-dive storytelling
✔️ Behind-the-scenes on my writing process
✔️ Soundtrack pairings & lyric breakdowns
✔️ Clips and commentary from original series
✔️ Reflections on culture, justice & imagination

I also founded Urban Matrix, the team behind Boss Chronicles, a web series that highlighted Chicago's dope creators and entrepreneurs. If you’re into speculative fiction, music, cultural storytelling, or just want to see what I’m building — stick around. I’ve got more coming.

📌 Let’s stay connected:
🔗 https://linktr.ee/jai.wordz
📧 [email protected]

11/09/2025

Inspired by and ’s call to be the resource, we’re reminding our communities that food stability starts with us. 🥘💛
Enter your zip code to instantly see three nearby food pantries ready to support you or someone you love.
Together, we keep the table full — and hope within reach. 🍞✨

11/07/2025

The magic didn’t end on my birthday — it’s just beginning. ✨
The Day My Lips Went on Strike is out now!
Meet August James — a talker who learns the power of listening (with a little fairy interference).
8 stories. 8 lessons. One growing heart. 💗
👉 Read Book 1 today! bit.ly/livelearnb1

11/07/2025

What if every time you interrupted someone… your lips refused to move? 👀

On the colorful island of Santa Lúa, August James learns the hard way that listening can be its own kind of magic.

✨ The Day My Lips Went on Strike — Book One of the Live & Learn Series — is a fun, heartfelt story about communication, culture, and the power of slowing down long enough to really hear each other.

8 books. 8 lessons. One growing heart. 💗

🌴 Available now → bit.ly/livelearnb1
Coming soon to Amazon, Apple Books, and other major retailers.

Follow the full series journey at janeanlwatkins.com

11/07/2025

✨ The Day My Lips Went on Strike is out now!
Meet August James — a talker who learns the power of listening (with a little fairy interference). 8 stories. 8 lessons. One growing heart. 💗
👉 Read Book 1 today! bit.ly/livelearnb1

10/09/2025

It’s here! 😭✨My first proof copy of The Day My Lips Went on Strike!
Book One of the 💬
Pre-launch sale starts Oct 27 → janeanlwatkins.com

10/09/2025

With gratitude, I walk into a new chapter! ✨

Doechii didn’t just drop a track - she opened a door. Her new site, anxietyiswatchingme.com, is a bold offering in the n...
04/19/2025

Doechii didn’t just drop a track - she opened a door. Her new site, anxietyiswatchingme.com, is a bold offering in the name of healing.

In my latest essay, I reflect on why Anxiety hit me so deeply and how it's fueling my own project, High Off This Dialect Drug.

If you’ve ever tried to create while carrying fear, grief, or pressure to perform, this one’s for you. Read now: 🔗🌳 in Bio |
https://open.substack.com/pub/jaiwordz/p/doechii-is-doing-the-work-and-its?r=qfm4a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Reproductive Justice (RJ) means the human right to control our sexuality, our gender, our work, and our reproduction. Th...
04/19/2025

Reproductive Justice (RJ) means the human right to control our sexuality, our gender, our work, and our reproduction. That right can only be achieved when all women and girls have the complete economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies, our families, and our communities in all areas of our lives.

At the core of Reproductive Justice is the belief that all women have

the right to have children;
the right to not have children and;
the right to nurture the children we have in a safe and healthy environment.

(blackrj.org)

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Black birthing bodies deserve this and nothing less.


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