Join us at Berkshire Booked and Queer!

This Sunday is our first gathering for Berkshire Booked and Queer, online at 7 pm. Come join us online to talk about Emily Dickinson’s poetry this month, and to meet & make new friends! Check out more information and sign up for the mailing list here.

Participate to your enjoyment. Is that taking notes? Reading a few poems? lots of them? Marathoning everything? Do you just want to drop in at first and spectate people talking? Be our guest.


A BOOK.


He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings! 


VII.

Wild nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile the winds
To a heart in port, —
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart.

Rowing in Eden!
Ah! the sea!
Might I but moor
To-night in thee!

Resources for Trans Texan Youth

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – MLK, Jr.
Stonewall Family, there is trouble brewing in Texas for transgender youth and their families. We are urging people to offer aid. There are local organizations such as Equality Texas, Transgender Education Network of Texas, and ACLU of Texas who are doing the work and connecting people with resources.
Jorgeson Pittman LLP is providing legal services who are affected by Gov. Greg Abbott’s child endangering actions.
Black Transwomen, Inc is a Texas-based organization uplifting Black Transwomen.
Further Resources for Trans Youth:
https://www.txtranskids.org/additional_resources
https://www.transtexas.org/resources
https://www.transfam.net/
https://www.equalitytexas.org/community-resources/
https://blacktranswomen.org/emergency-aid/
Please help, if you can.

-From JV Hampton-Van Sant, vice-president Berkshire Stonewall