Lisa Kelly- storyteller, story listener

The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia Kendra Sullivan's one-woman stand received an outpouring of support from people in other conservative areas who "feel like a tiny blue speck in a red state."

If democracy survives, this will be the reason...though collectivism is important, the essential ingredient is individual courage and action against tyranny and authoritarianism.

19thnews.org/2025/10/kend...

We stand on stolen land.
I honor the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho nations as the original peoples here.

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car.

BIG crowd of people shouting at police.

"Fuck you!"

"What is wrong with you!"

"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

Know Your Rights, Share Your Rights

First know your rights, then share your rights.

Download our Know Your Rights graphic and use it as your phone screen when going to protests.

Somewhere,
over the rainbow is
here

Quote for all social justice warriors out there today— “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. “ Audre Lorde

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Day 30: The Book I am Reading Now

This Other Eden
By
Paul Harding

Louisiana sent kids to adult jail that violated scores of regulations, reports say • Louisiana Illuminator The state moved young people to the Jackson Parish Jail who has been sent to a temporary center at Angola that a judge ordered closed.

NEW from @theappeal.org: Louisiana sent kids to an adult jail that violated scores of regulations, reports say lailluminator.com/2025/04/30/j...

Got busy with my GoFundMe and got behind. Back to #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge

Day 29: Favorite Book Cover

City Summer, Country Summer
By
Kiese Laymon

A group of animals reading with text: I tried to form a gang but it turned into a book club

#booksky 📚 💙 #bookclub #bookmeme

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Day 28: A classic book I intend to read

Moby Dick
By
Herman Melville

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Day 27: A book I read every year

Pocket Pema Chodron
By
Pema Chodron

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Day 26: A biography everyone should read

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
As told to
Alex Haley

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Donate to Help Harvey Furnish His New Home, organized by Lisa Kelly Those of you who know me well know that I have been working on a memoir in two voices with… Lisa Kelly needs your support for Help Harvey Furnish His New Home

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Harvey is my co-author on our memoir in 2 voices, Cruel & Unusual about our work in the 80s challenging Arkansas’ brutal prisons. He has been out of prison for 2 years now and finally has stable housing. But no furniture! Please help if you can.

gofund.me/116785c6

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Day 25: A book with a villain I loved

The Lost Memory of Skin
By
Russell Banks

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Day 24: A collaboration between 2 or more authors

Picking Cotton:Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
By
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino
Ronald Cotton
With Erin Torneo

Wouldn't it be nice if every news outlet that covered the Bukele Oval Office meeting noted:

District court wrote: Abrego Garcia "has never been charged with or convicted of any crime."⤵️

Fourth Circuit: The government presented "NO EVIDENCE" of MS-13 affiliation. Abandoned argument before court. ⤵️

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Days 23: A passage from a book I can recite

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By
T.S. Eliot

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Days 22: An LGBTQ + Love story

Giovanni’s Room
By
James Baldwin

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Some Things I Like A poem by Lemn Sissay.

Oh so many but one by a poet I never heard of before resonated with me pretty strongly , was this one: onbeing.org/poetry/some-...

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Missed yesterday!

Days 20 and21: A book with an unreliable narrator and a favorite anthology

The Girl on the Train
By
Paula Hawkins
&
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By
Padraig O Tuama

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Day 19: An audiobook I liked because of the narrator’s voice.

So many wonderful voices! I know I have featured this book before but honestly it is the best audiobook I have ever heard.

A Swim in the Pond in the Rain
By
George Saunders

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Day 18: A book I like written by someone who is no longer alive

Maurice
By
E.M. Forster

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

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Day 16: A book with a name in the title

Siddhartha
By
Herman Hesse

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador The government said Judge Paula Xinis, who ordered that the administration return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, by Monday, had engaged in “district-court diplomacy.”

Breaking News: Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked a judge’s order directing the U.S. to return a Salvadoran immigrant it had wrongly deported.