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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🍁Oooooh spooky season is starting!🖤👻🍂 We have some amazing events happening. Costumes are always appropriate. 😉🧙‍♀️

📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A special congratulations to my Mom and Dad! They made the difficult and wonderful decision to entrust our 1867 family farm to a new family for generations to come.🖤🏡 CONGRATULATIONS!!! ❤️📹 Jordan Acreage video vimeo.com/1103008333?f...

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

❣️📣YOUR SUPPORT just did something incredible for a small community here in AK. I drove the almost 5hrs Saturday after close with a small car STUFFED with boxes of books, coffee, and office supplies. This is a space built for the changing needs of this small town and reflects the needs of the many.🖤

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🎉We are so excited for the Drag Storytime on the 20th! Thank you Drag For A Cause for connecting us with the right literary marvels for our event!🎉 We have American Sign Language interpreters for the event.🤟

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

♥️Thanks to Alaska Business Magazine for coming to interview me! I love what I do and they did a great job showcasing it! ❣️ youtu.be/nDLg2j7n11Q?...

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This Alaska Business: Black Birch Books

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

✨🏳️‍🌈What a great end to the week! Dandy Lyin, the 25 Crown Princess AK 29, presented me with the Cross-Pollinator Award! It honors a business that connects people and groups, spreading support, and creativity to help the queer community blossom.💐 I’m honored to be trusted with supporting you. 😊

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🥰This is one of the very highest level complements I’ve felt as an independent bookstore owner! “Your store was nominated particularly for your programming around intellectual freedom, LGBTQ rights, black history, and much more.” Thank you, Alaska Center for the Book! I am honored.

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

✨Coffee With A Vet started off the day with bagels from Cold Snap. 🥹One of my bookstore kids visited.💪🛼 BBB sponsored the penalty box for Rage City Roller Derby. I got to see Hank from Mad Myrna's! Lastly, our friends at Choosing Our Roots had a booth at the event too! I love my humans. 😊

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We love our friends over at the My House program! Thanks for supporting me as I support you! youtu.be/ZMZ1qU92L_o

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MY House x Black Birch Books Job Training Program!

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🇺🇸Today is the nationwide strike to protest the abuse of power and lack of accountability of ICE. We’re proud to be open today as a small business and community space where people gather, talk, find new support systems, and attend events with their fellow humans.

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

My lovely friend from 🇰🇷 visited, friends from Kodiak came back, and we had 5 (or 6?) events! 🖤 I’m sure at some point capitalism will matter but, in the meantime, I’m so glad to have so many lovely people who frequent the space. Thank you! - Taylor

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

🎄🎅Merry Christmas to my amazing, nerdy, odd and diverse Bookstore Family!🥹🎄

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

TODAY: 12-2pm - BBB is honored to host another Blue Christmas and Potluck. Thank you, St. Bartholomew's Church of Palmer for hosting this event with us. Please bring a dish to share in support. "Blue Christmas" refers to feelings of loneliness, sadness, and grief during the holiday season.

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🖤This makes my heart sing!! I’m so happy to see people coming together to help others in this way. Heroes. All of them. Everyone matters or no one matters. Anchorage tiny village to house people experiencing homelessness👇 m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🎂🥳My birthday was RAD! The rowing machine and I had a great date at the gym, I showed up to a full bookstore, Chloé made me a crazy mathematically accurate birth chart table, Derek gave me a medical kit, the book club gave me hugs, and then I closed it out at Carinas where I had a terrific meal.🖤

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🦃🥧History isn’t always pretty but we need it to learn. I think it’s relevant to have that discussion so we don’t glaze over our (very recent for Alaska) history without trying to make the future better. www.facebook.com/share/v/1ByF...

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🌟This week is the right amount of busy!👇 Wed - 🧶 Stitch & Bitçh - 5pm-7pm Thurs - 🏳️‍🌈 Adult Queer Coffee - 5pm-7pm Fri - 🍗🍰🥫 Friendsgiving Potluck & Food Drive 5pm-6:30pm Sat - 🇺🇸Coffee With A Veteran - 10am-Whenever Sat - 🏳️‍🌈 Youth Queer Coffee - 2pm-4pm

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Thank you, St. Bartholomew Episcopal for asking me to be your guest. I came to speak about the programs I’m involved with through My House and also about the Blue Christmas event I’m cohosting with the church in December. 🖤Thank for your love and support as I try to be everywhere at once!💪😊

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

🎃It was a spooktacular event at the maplespringsofpalmer tonight! 🔮I was the resident fortune teller and candy distributor!🍬 I was able to participate at this event because of the amazing friends I have in the community who requested it and bookstore friends to cover the space for me.

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

👏Thank you, Hannah Green, for traveling all the way to Wasilla from Chicago to write this article. This is a deeply human piece — it captures both the desperation and resilience within Alaska’s overlapping crises of addiction, homelessness, and community care. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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In Alaska, where overdose deaths are rising again, Narcan and community are a lifeline

Overdoses have been declining nationally since August 2023, but Alaska is far behind in that progress

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🏳️‍🌈☕️What a FANTASTIC Queer Adult Coffee event! It was a full house, lots of food, a few of my favorite community clergy came, and everyone was an absolute delight. Thanks for your love and support of our community! 🖤I’m proud to host all community events by request. - Taylor

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

See you this Friday from 3pm-7pm for a FREE banned book! Read it, share it, repeat. 🇺🇸Read like your freedom depends on it.🇺🇸 facebook.com/events/s/ban...

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

✈️Last week my dear friend Chloé babysat the bookstore for me so I could attend the Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh, PA. 👉Over 1,000 people attended to hear 200 guest speakers and learn at more then 60 breakout sessions and presentations.

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I will soon be traveling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a conference. (More to come) 👉Where should I go? 👉Where should I eat? 👉Do you have friends that also need to be my friends?

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

👉It’s time to vote for the Best Of The Valley! Thanks for trusting us to be your Wasilla bookstore!😊🖤Share, share, share! frontiersman.secondstreetapp.com/og/0e9636ca-...

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

🍦 WooHoo Ice Cream is back at the Café! Vanilla, Silky Chocolate, and Cookies & Cream pair perfectly with an espresso pour over. 4oz cups are $5. 🤌Low Lactose - No Egg - Sweetened With Honey🤌 📍Find WooHoo in Anchorage, Alaska! 5881 Arctic Boulevard 907-351-3087

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🎣 Saturday I was closed so I could go fishing for the first time since I was ten! Thank you to my Coastie buddy, Gabe for taking my husband, Max and I out on an adventure. 🌊🛥️ Dinner at The Highliner Seward was the perfect recharge before heading 170 miles back to Wasilla. ✨See you at the bookstore!✨

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

🥼🌎It’s always inspiring to see Bookstore Family when attending events! Last month I saw Neil Degrasse Tyson and last night it was Bill Nye The Science Guy! I brought a friend for the fantastic talk then had a late dinner at Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse. I saw 8 other people of the bookstore. 👨‍🔬🔭

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

👉 👉ANNOUNCEMENT 🙌🍾We made the list for the Best Of Alaska Business Award! We love our #1 winning friends, Title Wave Books and are so grateful to be held together in the same category as the TOP TWO independent bookstores in the state!🥳Thank you for trusting me with caring for our amazing community!

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

📚Meet your new favorite item: The Anti-Anxiety Bookshelf Fidget! This artful $15 box has tiny books for you to stock over and over. 🧘 We also have ballpoint feather pens, quill sets, edge painted memo notebooks, a fresh resupply of morale stickers and a TON of locally made items. Books… and stuff. 🤌

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

**FREE Concert, Donations Appreciated** Tuesday, August 26th | 5:30pm Hemlock and Chaepter are cruising in from Louisiana and Chicago, ready to share their musical magic! Armed with a guitar, a cello, and a treasure chest of merch, they're set to serenade the folks of the North!

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Here’s our month at a glance! See you here!

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

🏕️We have the site spaces for camping Saturday! See the pictures below. 🟡The yellow dots are the three spaces.🟡 (Info 👇) South Rolly Lake at Nancy Lake State Recreational Area! Sat Aug 2nd overnight from noon FREE - All Ages - SOBER Please Bring: Tent, Sleeping equipment, food, chair, firewood

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

✨My, what fantastic swag thou has! ✨ No adventure is complete without your Bookstore tumbler, tote, and stainless steel water bottle! 👕We still have our inventory sale on our $10 tee shirts!

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🏡We’re excited to host this informational event for being a Host Home for queer youth! Bring your family, ask questions, and see if opening your hearts to a queer child or youth is something you can do. 💝

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

vimeo.com/1103008333 My parents just sent me this video of our family farm in Iowa. I’m so proud to pass this along! 😍 These are my parents, Kim and Jon, and my dad is narrating. They just had their 50th wedding anniversary and retired in January!

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This is "Jordan Acreage" by Kennedy Freund on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I just finished “Never flinch” by Stephen King. Whatcha readin’?

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🏳️‍🌈 Underground Pride with The Queen's Guard was a delight! The DJ, performers, food trucks, vendors, non-profits, churches, security, volunteers…. All 10 for 10! 💝Thank you for making me smile so much that my face still hurts. 🥹 Love and kindness was the name of the game for this event. 🎉

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

See you tomorrow for Pride!🏳️‍🌈 My America is for everyone.🇺🇸

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

☕️🥯Coffee with a Veteran is being sponsored by Cold Snap Coffee LLC! They are the new owners at the bakery on P-W Hwy. 👉👉Side note: If you’re hungry, we will feed you if we can. Our America feeds the hungry.🇺🇸

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🇺🇸We will be open on the Fourth of July until 5pm. 👉Some people can’t do parades and picnics because of accessibility or surroundings. We’ve got you! Pop by for some coffee and hang out.🇺🇸 My American is ALL of us.

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

🖤Thanks to everyone who came to Mick’s Memorial Open Mic last night. We had over 60 people!🖤 Mick was the MC for our Open Mic’s for almost 7 years, did the sound and equipment for Drag Storytime for 3 years, and came to the bookstore weekly. ✨The world lost a little magic when it lost Mick.✨

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🏳️‍🌈It was a FULL HOUSE! We had 40 individuals and families attend our 3rd Annual Drag Storytime! We are so honored to have been trusted to host! ✨Thank you Penny, DandyLyin and Lovebug for being our readers and a special thank you to our two ASL interpreters for helping keep the event accessible.

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

💝✨We're excited about the storytime this Saturday! Thank you to our readers Lovebug, Dandylyin and Penny! We have interpreters on site so the event is more accessible!

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📚Black Birch Books @blackbirchbooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

3 little punk-goth lookin teenagers just left the bookstore. THESE KIDS were polite, respectful, pushed in their chairs, volunteered to help me put little pride flags on sticks, then said “thank you” AGAIN when they left……….. parents… you’re doin it right.🖤 Way to build some kiddos with character.

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