Valerie Vogrin

Thank you!

Have you posted about this?

I’ve been marching for LGBTQ+ rights since Pride was considered a protest.

And I’ll continue to march under this administration as a recommitment to the fight for equality today.

No matter who you are or who you love, you have a home here in Illinois.

Incredibly cool news (and not surprising to those of us who regularly read indie books and publish on indie presses)

partial list of Federal Government's list of banned books

Just no.

pen.org/banned-words...

East St. Louis Ekphrasis: A Meditation on the Meaning of "City," "Abandonment," and "Pollution" - Sixty Inches From Center In her final essay for the Midwest Arts Writers Fellowship, Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond penned an eloquent and poetic ode to her community of East Saint Louis, Illinois.

Here's a terrific "performance on paper" by my colleague Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond.
sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/east-st-loui...

Rest in peace, Cecile Richards.

From the NYT today: “I’ve been really fortunate in my life to always be able to do work that had meaning for me and meaning for the people I care for,” she said in an interview with The Times last year. “Luck is a loaded word, but I feel really lucky.”