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kaysworld1
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🥳🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth
Todays books is Outlaw Marriages by Roger Streitmatter

#pridebooks #queerbooks #lgbtq #librarybook #readingthelibrary #readyforthefuture #readathon #reading #readingmyownbooks #loveislove #reading #read #booknerd #bookworm 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

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PlantyLibrarian
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Calling all kids! You can save the planet! This book shows kids around the world doing what they can to save the earth. Get inspired and get moving on being the change we need!

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bnp
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Pauli Murray: Trained as a lawyer her research and paper for a class her senior year provided a springboard for Thurgood Marshall‘s and the NAACP‘s civil rights litigation. A paper she co-wrote in the 1960s provided one leg of Ruth Bader Ginsberg‘s litigation on behalf of women‘s rights. She served on JFKs Presidential Commission on the Status of women and also helped found NOW. First black Episcopal priest in the U.S.

bnp See also Song in a West throat by Murray, her autobiography. 4y
bnp Weary throat, not West. 4y
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akaGingerK
Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir | Joshua Lyon, Edie Windsor
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Spent my day off home sick, again. But I used the time to finish this book! Intended to be a coauthored memoir, Edie Windsor died before completion, leaving Joshua Lyon to figure out how to finish when her voice was so specific. His solution: to wrap up chapters in his own voice & with interviews with those who knew her. An interesting way of giving context to a fascinating woman‘s life.
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akaGingerK Windsor is famous as the widow whose court case opened the doors to marriage equality- but the stories of her wild-but-discreet youth and her relationship with Thea are by far the most engaging parts of the book. 5y
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WanderingBookaneer
Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir | Joshua Lyon, Edie Windsor
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1. How am I the only one who has posted about this book on Litsy?

2. I find myself crying, thankful that this account exist so that I could bear witness to such a lovely, long-lasting relationship.

I had never heard of Edie Windsor before her landmark Supreme Court case. A case that was being argued on March 27, 2013 as @BookishMarginalia and I were getting married in New York City‘s Carl Schurz Park. ⬇️

WanderingBookaneer Gloria and I—as well as countless other LGBTQ+ couples—owe a debt of gratitude to Edie‘s grit and determination and I wish more people would read this book so that they might not just understand that we are all just humans or that love is love, but also that this brave woman is a pioneer and a hero who deserves acclaim and recognition across the USA. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (edited) 5y
Come-read-with-me @WanderingBookaneer Thank you for posting this amazing review. Consider it stacked! 5y
MicheleinPhilly Stacked! Edie is my hero. She has changed my life immeasurably. 5y
marleed Awesome review - stacked! 5y
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WanderingBookaneer
Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir | Joshua Lyon, Edie Windsor
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Lindy Stacked! 🏳️‍🌈 5y
JamieArc This is my life, and I‘ve got no complaints! 😁 5y
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WanderingBookaneer
Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir | Joshua Lyon, Edie Windsor
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andrew61
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I really like eva dolan and her police procedural novels repeatedly touch on current issues such as migrant workers + far right politics so a stand alone was intriguing and didn't disappoint. Here 2 v different women at the heart of a protest against gentrification of a high rise London block of flats confront a dead body. The book then seperates with their tales taking different time lines to a satisfying end. Role on her next book.

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BookishMarginalia
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This gorgeous picture book is a wonderful introduction to the life and work of Gloria Steinem.

sammisho Also on the list for neices! 6y
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