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

Ms. Frizzle is a lesbian happy pride

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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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

We're open today 🦅

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

i love being gay, transgender, childless, and unmarried

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

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?...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

me waiting for our Yesteryear event on May 19th

#BeSeen🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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 https://ow.ly/XXHT50YPfoV

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

@jamesissmiling.bsky.social is so smart and funny and well-dressed

happy almost indie bookstore day u scoundrels

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.

new in the shop!!

gender failure gonzo

Tuesday and Thursday night events this week!

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

we are closing today at 2pm to let staff get home before the severe storms. be safe, friends! we will see you tmo. <3

Tonight in the bookstore... An Evening of Poetry with D.S. Waldman, Alison Thumel, and our very own Anada Werner!! Come listen to some beauty on this bright spring day 🌸🌺🌼🌷 6pm. See you there <3

u ever been like i wish i was reading a book that was like the real housewives of idaho explaining what the panopticon is?? okay well read yesteryear by caro claire burke you're welcome

Room's very own (and beloved!) receiving manager Mira wrote an excellent piece in Shelf Awareness on the London Book Fair! www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Happy Eid! Happy first day of spring! Happy first day of Aries season! Happy Mercury being the fuck out of retrograde!

I AM VERY VERY GLAD THAT IT IS 6:53PM AND THERE IS STILL LIGHT IN THE SKY

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BELOVED UK TRANSSEXUALS, how do we get copies of T-Fags??! We yearn! We require! We NEED IT.

🌱🌷WE ARE OPEN UNTIL 7PM AGAIN STARTING TONIGHT☀️🌸

Madison: save the date! Rebekah Denison Hewitt will launch her new poetry collection, Creature in Bloom, at @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social on March 31, in conversation with @ritamae.bsky.social! Details: roomofonesown.com/event/2026-0...

this is a good point well made, but i regret to report it made the following image appear in my mind: a man in an old-timey nightshirt and cap, laying on the crushed remains of a bed, right next to... [deep sigh] the whale

UMMMM this is SO COOOOOOOOOOL

We have a Very EXPLETIVE Cool event tonight in-store with Marla A. Ramirez + Cindy I-Fen Cheng who will be discussing their work around migration, asylum, the US-Mexico borderlands, and the mirage of legal citizenship. I lit cannot think of a more timely event. 6pm at room. Book signing to follow.