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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICYMI, Spooky boxes are back! This year, it's the Robert Eggers edition! Hie thee to thine order forme! roomofonesown.com/spooky-boxes...

Square design that says 'Spooky Boxes' in medieval black and white, creepy misty trees in the background, with illustrated first letters, and 'Hark Triton! Hark!', as well as floating heads of the director Robert Eggers surrounded by wheat sheaves. There's a banner that says 'inspired by the films of Robert Eggers'.

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

hello!! it is officially confirmed that i will be getting top surgery November 5th!! i have created a fundraiser to help cover the costs, which are due by Oct 15th ❣️ thank you for sharing and checking it out 🥹🏳️‍⚧️ ko-fi.com/sweatermuppe...

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Poetry Reading TONIGHT! On the back patio, with Nick Martino's Scrap Book, in conversation with Patrycja Humienik!

A Room of One's Own Bookstore July Author Event Tuesday 7/28 Scrap Book by Nick Martino in conversation, and with a reading by Patrycja Humienik 6:00PM-7:00PM 2717 Atwood Ave Madison WI 53704

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Rest in Power Corey Durell Ruiz. You were taken before your time to murder by the state. We are grieving as a community, and showing up to support those most affected. An ongoing vigil is holding the intersection of Baldwin and Willy, with a large gathering at 5PM. We keep us safe.

Candlelight Vigil Holding Space for the community after a police shooting Thursday July 23rd 5:00PM The Corner of Willy St and Baldwin St in Madison WI

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

August Book Launch for Isabelle Spotts' debut novel! Saint Delilah - Out 8/11 - Now available for preorder!

Book Launch - Saint Delilah: A Novel by Isabelle Spotts. Available 8/11, Pre-Order Now! Delilah is dead, but her death was just the beginning...

Book Launch - Saint Delilah by Isabelle Spotts in conversation with Amy Pease - Tuesday August 11th 6PM / RSVP Requested 2717 Atwood Ave. A Room of One's Own

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A Room of One’s Own Bookstore is thrilled to bring Patti Smith to Madison, in celebration of the paperback release of her newest memoir, Bread of Angels. Join Patti Smith for an intimate evening of Songs & Stories at The Orpheum Theater in the heart of Madison.

Patti Smith: Songs and Stories a book bundled event by A Room of One's Own Bookstore. Tickets go on sale August 1 at 10AM. A paperback copy of Bread of Angels included with every ticket. The Orpheum Theater, Madison WI.

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Join us for a poetry reading on Saturday! We are celebrating John Paul Martinez's collection, "Alternatives to Succulents"! They will be joined in reading by juj e. lepe!

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

who are your favorite trans artists who draw or tattoo bugs?? can be based anywhere. ty for any recommendations!

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

favorite interaction in awhile: customer: I play a lot of D&D and one of my players is a bisexual and I wanted to get her a set of dice with the bisexual flag colors, do you have any? me: *continues to go through every set of dice and set them aside in order from most bisexual to least bisexual*

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As a queer person ever-searching for more kin and elders in history, I know how incredibly, filthy lucky we are for the historians and the archivists. Those that sit in rooms alone searching, who spend years and decades answering questions they alone are consumed by. The work is deeply meaningful.

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Event tonight with Donna Barba Higuera for Firesnake, The Last Cuentista Book 3. Event is at 6PM, Author signing is at 7PM! This is a middle grade series, and is a suitable event for young readers!

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Want smth to do tonight, gays? We have a pop-up smut shop at the Orpheum tonight for the free pride event LIVE ON QUEEN. Doors open at 5! SEE U SWOON

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Poetry Reading on the patio! Tomorrow, June 16th @ 6PM with: Léon Pradeau Steve Timm Lewis Freedman and Kai Ihns It's going to be beautiful out, come join us for some poetry! Love, Room

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We will be closing today at 1:30 PM due to inclement weather. Tonight's event will be postponed, and rescheduled to a later date!

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Nicole at home @nicoledubin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Was in my local queer bookstore and found a copy of @picnic-mag.bsky.social and had to grab it

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

quite saddened to learn that Iranian artist and writer Marjane Satrapi has passed. 🕯️🕊️

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Two events at the bookstore this week! 6/4 6PM-7PM More Than What Eyes See by Miso Kwak 6/7 6PM-7PM Again, Harder by Slice Stoehr

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Pick Up Picnic Mag, and start your Pride out right ;) In-store or over the phone only (608-257-7888) @picnic-mag.bsky.social

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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

this looks like a perfect day to go grab one :-)

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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

ATTN MIDWEST: picnic spring 2026 is now in stock at A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN in beautiful MADISON, WISCONSIN!

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Local legend Sasha Debevec-McKenney has won the prestigious Dylan Thomas prize for her debut poetry book JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME. We are over the moon for this brilliant human and are celebrating with 15% off her book! Online only, we ship anywhere in the us, no code needed. tinyurl.com/4eedcns8

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

i love being gay, transgender, childless, and unmarried

a black and white edit that reads "i am an enemy of the nuclear family". in the middle of the image is a cat curled up in front of a house. behind the cat and house are white stars with many points. there is a border around the image made of small white dots. the image is textured to look grainy.

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Hey Madison! Our Friends at Freedom Inc. wanted us to push this event tonight about the Police Civilian Oversight Board, and how the City of Madison wants to make the board weaker, with less control. Everyone is welcome! Food Provided, Child Care Offered! Tonight: Wednesday May 13, 2026 5PM-7PM

Community Control Over Police and the PCOB We want Power and control over the police! The Police Civilian Oversight Board (PCOB) is where we can go to complain about police abuse. But instead of making it stronger, the city of Madison wants to make it weaker and give us less control. Come and Learn more about Community Control and why we must either make the PCOB more powerful, or get rid of it! Wednesday, May 13, 2026 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Freedom, Inc. 2110 Luann Ln. Madison WI All Ages Welcome, Light Refreshments Provided

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were-duck @were-duck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Last year I got interviewed for a student’s short documentary project about Room, and she emailed to tell us that her doc just won an award!!! Awww if only I didn’t hate seeing myself talk! I’m pretty sure I shared this last year when it was posted but here it is again: youtu.be/Kl9Jw7PQRAc?...

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surviving covid and trump 2.0 as a queer bookstore 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ (ft. Gretchen Treu)

YouTube video by Ashley Reads Books by People

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We have two book launches this week! At both events we will be passing the hat for The WI Abortion Fund! Tomorrow: We Dance Upon Demons by Vaishnavi Patel Wednesday: A Womb of One's Own by Tara Mulder We hope to see you there! Love, Room

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

ICYMI ✨️ Happy mother's day ✨️ enjoy 15% off Yesteryear by @caroclaireburke.bsky.social 💻 online only 🗓 starting NOW ⏰️ ends at midnight Monday 5/11 Shop link in bio and story

15% OFF #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GMA BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. ONLINE ONLY. USA SHIPPING. DISCOUNT AUTOMATICALLY APPLIED AT CHECKOUT. ENDS MONDAY 5/11 AT MIDNIGHT

UPCOMING MADISON EVENT: CARO CLAIRE BURKE, CENTRAL MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY, DOWNTOWN MADISON, WI. TUESDAY, MAY 19TH 7 PM

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

okay, where would you shelve Fanon's The Wretched of The Earth? Because it could go in abolition, theory, sociology, psychology, world history?! Realizing we need a Decolonization section.

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

THE TOTAL RAISED FOR LGBT BOOKS TO PRISONERS AND WISCONSIN BOOKS TO PRISONERS (THANKS TO YA'LL AND THE MATCHING GRANT) IS $13,980 FUCK PRISONS YAY BOOKS YAY COMMUNITY

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Very excited to be hosting Wisconsin's own Susan Simensky Bietila, author of Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance TONIGHT from 6-7pm. 🌊✊♾️

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Picnic Magazine @picnic-mag.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

MEGATHREAD: Where to buy Picnic’s Spring 2026 Issue :) Tag a bookstore you want to stock our magazine, we’ll update here as we go

stacks of Picnic Magazine wrapped in twine

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

You may have heard that we're partnering with The WI Book Fest on May 19th to host Caro Claire Burke for her splash hit novel Yesteryear! But have you heard about our other May Events? Susan Simensky Bietila - May 7 Vaishnavi Patel - May 12 Sahar Mustafah - May 17 Katherine Packert Burke - May 31

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

We are in the last 7 hours! Whatever you send will be automatically and MAGICALLY * DOUBLED * by the grant. Help us get one billion dollars for these fantastic volunteer run initiatives that help give dignity, care, entertainment, resources, and small windows of freedom to comrades on the inside.

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

we will be closed tomorrow friday may 1st in solidarity with workers everywhere. abolish ice. abolish police.

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

me waiting for our Yesteryear event on May 19th

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ARC – Artists at Risk Connection @atriskartists.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This National Poetry Month, hear James Broadnax read his poem, Cloud View, recorded while incarcerated. Texas plans to execute him on April 30 for a crime he did not commit. Art is not a crime. Sign the petition, share his story, and help us #SaveJames #NationalPoetryMonth ow.ly/XXHT50YPfoV

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

do u hate prisons? do u love books??? wild, us too. we are in a matching grant fundraiser atm for lgbt books to prisoners and wi books to prisoners. whatever you donate will be MAGICALLY DOUBLED and all the money goes to getting books inside prisons. why? cause fuck prisons. ven/mo @roomofonesown

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

happy almost indie bookstore day u scoundrels

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

NEW RELEASE! Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell. Our narrator Dan Moran returns to his home for the first time since his brother's suicide and since he transitioned. Dan acts as detective, almost haunting his hometown of Milwaukee in his brothers place. Pithy and darkly comical.

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A damn fine book to read! (Read in my head with David Lynch's voice)

Pithy and darkly comical, I read Patrick Cottrell's new book Afternoon Hours of a Hermit in one fell swoop. Our narrator Dan Moran returns to his home for the first time post his brother's suicide and funeral service, and for the first time since Dan transitioned. He's met with a transphobic family filled with vitriol for being fictionalized in the narrator's first book, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. So, Dan takes it upon himself to act as detective, following threadbare clues around his youngest brother's secret life. Cottrell has fictional structure honed down to it's bones, this is a damn fine novel running at almost exactly 200 pages. i loved it.

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

new in the shop!!

a black and white sticker propped up on a blanket. the sticker reads "every future i dream of includes trans people".

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

gender failure gonzo

gonzo the muppet wearing a suit. he is inside an ornate floral frame. below the frame is text that reads "gender failure". the image is textured to look grainy and printed.

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Tuesday and Thursday night events this week!

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 19/04/2026

Enjoy the opening lines—and listen to readings!—of our latest #PageOne books: Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla, Surety by Anna Zumbahlen, The Memory Museum by M Lin, and The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming by Angela Pelster. Delve in: at.pw.org/PageOne2026x3

A collage of all twelve Page One featured titles

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