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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 13m

Saw “Sweet Magnolia” #Barbie posted in one of my FB #doll collector groups and knew she’d be a great addition to the shelf of vintage #dolls in my collection, including Avon, Spring, Easter, and similar dolls, several wearing pink 💖🌸💐💝 #DollSky 💕

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Saturday Strides. This morning amongst the autumn colors in Chicago.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Friday Light Lights. This morning at Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. SaveTheLighthouse.org

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 5h

As both a member of the board of Girls Inc. of Chicago & as co-chair of our annual “Strong Smart Bold” Awards Gala for the last 3 years, I am honored, humbled, & grateful to have had the opportunity to announce at this year’s Gala on 8 Oct 2026 our new Rhonda Smith Ferguson Scholarship Fund ❤️🙏🏾💃🏾

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Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 9h

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme is a great pick from @/lizziecanttweet! - FAVOURITE LINES & MOMENTS

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jayneband.bsky.social @jayneband.bsky.social · 10h

#shakespearesunday "If music be the food of love, play on.." Twelfth Night 1.2 #theladyandthetramp

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 6h

“Why, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” #TwelfthNight #ShakespeareSunday *photos are of me as Feste in Twelfth Night my junior year of undergraduate studies in 1993 @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social #LuxEsto #MoreInFour #HornetPride #GoHornets 🐝🧡🖤

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Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme is a great pick from @/lizziecanttweet! - FAVOURITE LINES & MOMENTS

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Melody Peng Asks: What's Your Favorite?

ALT: Melody Peng Asks: What's Your Favorite?

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Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Have fun linking favourite lines to your favourite clips/ pictures/ gifs! #ShakespeareSunday #FortheloveofShakespeare

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Harold Perrineau's Grand Ball Dance in Romeo + Juliet

ALT: Harold Perrineau's Grand Ball Dance in Romeo + Juliet

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some Might Say, We Will Find a Brighter Day. Friday's golden sunrise light across the Chicago skyline.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hey, #DollSky! 👋🏾 💕 I know it’s been a minute since I posted. 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) is the busiest time of year for me at work, w/almost non-stop confedences, galas, travel, & other events. Sadly, I’ve little time to buy & post #dolls 😩 Here’s another “One Of A Kind” #doll for my #OOAK collection 🙏🏾

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 30/09/2026

10 years ago today, Solange released ‘A Seat At The Table.’

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 01/10/2026

October has begun.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 07/10/2026

‘Abbott Elementary’ Season 6 will feature an episode set at Disneyland. It will serve as the series’ 100th episode and the season finale.

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paisleysparks44.bsky.social @paisleysparks44.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I wrote about Prince’s first moment in the sunshine.

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Albumism @albumism.com · 06/10/2026

How would you rate this album on a scale of 1 (unlistenable) to 10 (indispensable)? | Listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/Prince1979

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neverenoughguitar.bsky.social @neverenoughguitar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

U can never have enough #Prince books! 💜☮️‼️ As this collection by @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social highlights 💜 #80smusic #Princeinprint #PrinceBooks #readingcommunity #books

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Following last night’s gala, my friend attorney/writer Helen Wan from NYC (“The Partner Track” book and Netflix series) enjoyed visiting @americanwritersmuseum.org & getting a private tour of the closed museum from President Carey Cranston! #Chicago #BookSky #LawSky @ladylawyerdiary.bsky.social

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So glad I got to introduce my mom to attorney/writer Walter Pryor @americanwritersmuseum.org today while the museum was closed to the public! She really loves his memoir “This Leaves Me Okay.” And shoutout to our President Carey Cranston for giving a private tour of the museum #Chicago #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As an English major & lawyer who worked my way through college & law school at Borders Bookstores during breaks, I’m a “book cheerleader” & proud member of the board of @americanwritersmuseum.org! I get so excited meeting writers I love like OnWord honoree Jesmyn Ward @jesmimi.bsky.social #BookSky

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love how @americanwritersmuseum.org celebrates all kinds of American writers/writing - including (especially) #Prince - and has fun with it, from the OnWord gift bags to the free books on the tables to the writers onsite at the gala writing poems for us in real time! #BookSky 📚📝 #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delighted my friend attorney/writer Walter Pryor was able to fly in to join my table @americanwritersmuseum.org OnWord gala on 9/29 in #Chicago! Walter’s day job is #GeneralCounsel but his book about his grandmother “This Leaves Me Okay” is one of the most moving memoirs I’ve read #BookSky #LawSky

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shoutout to my friend @lorawhitticker.bsky.social for once again doing a fantastic job on my makeup for, as well as being a delightful table guest at, @americanwritersmuseum.org annual OnWord gala 9/29 in #Chicago! Check Lora out on Instagram @TheLawyerMua ❤️🙏🏾💋💄 #BookSky #LawSky

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So glad my friend attorney/author of “The Partner Track: A Novel” (also a Netflix series!) Helen Wan was able to come from NYC to join my table at the @americanwritersmuseum.org OnWord Gala 9/29 in #Chicago! And I finally got to meet honoree the amazing @pronounced-ing.bsky.social! #BookSky #LawSky

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another great @americanwritersmuseum.org OnWord Gala 9/29 in #Chicago! As a member of the board of trustees, I’m grateful to all involved in this joyous celebration & defense of the written word/writers, incl. AWM leadership, & my table guests, like @angelanissel.bsky.social 🧵👇🏾 #BookSky ❤️📚🙏🏾📝✍🏾📓👩🏾‍💻

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

That’s all for now! Please come visit & become a member of the @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago (and online!), and please help support this wonderful institution. Our annual OnWord fundraising gala is this coming Monday, Sept 8, 2025, right here in #SweetHomeChicago. 🥰 #ChicagoSky #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

#ThrowbackThursday: Reflecting on what a great time I had at the @americanwritersmuseum.org OnWord gala last year and looking forward to this year’s gala, coming up on Monday, September 8! As a member of the board of trustees, this is one of my favorite events. Join us! #ChicagoSky #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾📑🧑🏾‍💻📝

Collage of photos from my phone from the American Writers Museum annual OnWord Gala last year on 9 September 2024

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Another wonderful @americanwritersmuseum.org annual OnWord Gala is in the books! As a member of the board of trustees, I am grateful to all involved in this joyous celebration & defense of the written word & writers, including AWM leadership, & the guests who joined me at my table. #BookSky ❤️📚🙏🏾📝✍🏾📓👩🏾‍💻

Collage of photos I took at the American Writers Museum’s annual OnWord Gala on the evening of 8 September 2025 at the Four Seasons Hotel in my Sweet Home Chicago

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Gala #1 of 6 from Fall 2025: @americanwritersmuseum.org OnWord Gala in September in Chicago (I am a member of the board of trustees). #BookSky ❤️📚

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

As a member of the board of trustees of the American Writers Museum, I encourage you to please join us at our OnWord Annual Benefit on the evening of 29 September 2026 in #Chicago 💃🏾✍🏾 cc: @pronounced-ing.bsky.social 👋🏾 Your support of @americanwritersmuseum.org means so much! #AWFest2026 #BookSky

Linda Dunlavy, Director of Development at the American Writers Museum, and me (a board member) at this year’s American Writers Festival

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

My podcast is only a year old. I'm so geeked to be nominated for this particular episode because it's an episode ERRRRYBODY needs to listen to.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

I got nominated for a Signal Award for B*tch, Listen! My interview w/ Elie Mystal—The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men—has been nominated for best individual episode in the Activism, Public Service, and Social Impact category! But now I need YOUR help. 1/2

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The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men

YouTube video by Rewire News Group

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Please vote for B*tch, Listen to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award for the episode in which @elienyc.bsky.social and I talk about how the Constitution is trash but it's working exactly the way the white slaver founders intended. You can vote here. You have to sign up. Do it! Do it now! Please?

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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a Michigan fan, I guess I can empathize with Eric Schmitt. The Iowa Hawkeyes are exposing a lot of people as gigantic frauds these days.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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3 DAYS 'TIL ULTRON'S BYKE @rochardscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are not many albums I'd call "perfect." But this is one of them. And it has arguably the greatest opening track in music history.

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Albumism @albumism.com · 29/09/2026

Stevie Wonder released ‘Hotter Than July’ 46 years ago on September 29, 1980 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/SWonderHTJ

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Albumism @albumism.com · 29/09/2026

Billy Joel released 'The Stranger' 49 years ago on September 29, 1977 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/BillyJoelTS

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Albumism @albumism.com · 29/09/2026

Do you remember hearing this album for the first time? album.ink/Bjork-Post

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

Rewind your mind back to the 1970s and rediscover this classic album | Explore our retrospective tribute here: album.ink/CKchaka

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" from 'Fever' hit #1 on the UK singles chart 25 years ago on September 29, 2001 album.ink/KMFever

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

What are your favorite songs from Solange’s third studio album ‘A Seat At The Table’ (2016), originally released 10 years ago this week? Listen to the album + read our tribute by @beyondtheencore.bsky.social here: album.ink/solangeASATT

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

Madonna released "True Blue" as the third single from her third studio album of the same name 40 years ago on September 29, 1986 album.ink/MadonnaTB

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Albumism @albumism.com · 30/09/2026

The Cranberries released "Dreams" as the first single from their debut album 'Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?' 34 years ago on September 29, 1992 album.ink/CranberriesEE

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