No one owns you

10/09/2022

We can't love our hometown hero more. Proud and motivated to do our part to make Morgantown an inclusive and welcoming town.

Sometimes people on Instagram mean to message my stories to a friend but *accidentally* send them to me instead. 😅

Did I have an agenda?
Imagine being an LGBTQ student (or a parent/ guardian of one) in a town that just banned pride flags. Imagine not knowing which spaces will be safe for your child.

So ya, I had an agenda. In a town where LGBTQ+ folk are being discriminated against, in a town where LGBTQ+ folk are told their “identity” is inappropriate for school, at an event where hundreds of kids and families from town would be in attendance - I wanted to be loud. Your identity is something to be celebrated. Hate has no space at any event I’m hosting.

I encourage you to be intentional about the spaces you occupy too.

In other words, have an agenda 👏🏻

10/09/2022

10/09/2022

Image: On a starry background, in pastel pink, yellow & mint:

"I Wanna Read Indigenous Writers

"I like to read
fiction

"Ceremony
There, There
Crooked Hallelujah
Louise Erdrich
The Seed Keeper
The Removed
Noopiming
Split Tooth
Two Old Women
Two Feathers Fells From the Sky
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Windigo Moon

"nonfiction

"Anton Treuer
Red Nation Rising
Gichigami Hearts
Northern Light by Ali
Genocide of the Mind
Reclaiming Two-Spirits
As We Have Always Done
Our History is the Future
Decolonizing Trauma Work
An Indigenous Peoples History of the US

"poetry

"Joy Harjo
Tommy Pico
Natalie Diaz
Jake Skeets
Arielle Twist
Jaye Simpson
Heid E. Erdrich
Layli Long Soldier
Joshua Whitehead
Rosanna Deerchild
When the Light of The World was Subdued

"children's picture books

"Johnny's Pheasant
A Kunwinjku Counting Book
We are Still Here by Sorell
Keepunumuk
We Are Water Protectors
Ispik Kaki Péyakoyak
Sweetest Kulu
We All Play
Little You
Fry Bread
The Whale Child
The First Blade of Sweetgrass
I Sang You Down From the Stars"

Compiled by: A Room Of Ones Own Books

10/08/2022

tons of fun downtown today! it's sunny, still time to get here.

10/05/2022

where it all started

10/05/2022

librarians are our heroes. thank you for your service.

10/04/2022

bros

October - Ginsberg on Kerouac - "He was always writing about October..October was his favorite month for moody description of Lowell, Massachusetts and autumnal sadness and melancholy and the disappearance of the great balloon of life" - https://allenginsberg.org/2022/10/m-o-3/

10/03/2022

Winter is Coming! Don't be caught without a healthy stash of stories.

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10/03/2022

welcome, fellow weirdos! you're home here.

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”
Frida Kahlo and Chavela Vargas, 1945.