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red hook’s 1st used and new bookshop using the honor system, run by locals ❤️🪝📚🏴🏳️‍🌈
open 7 days a week in @strongropebrewery 🍻

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happy birthday @gotaylor50 🖤 another year watching you grow on this insane planet. I hope your 35th brings you more reading, more building, more laughing. my family, my poet, thank you for being here, I love you.

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Gorgeous, gorgeous girls go to Red Hook. And gorgeous, gorgeous boys go to Red Hook. And gorgeous, gorgeous nonbinary people go to Red Hook. And average, average people go to Red Hook. And even people with a lot of room to grow go to Red Hook. I think we covered everybody. Everybody goes to Red Hook!!!!!

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That’s a wrap! What a day it was, full of incredible BBQ, books, steinholding, and live music! 🌞

Thank you all for coming out and making this one for the books. And congrats to Sandi and Jesse for winning the @ussteinholding qualifying competition 🍻 We can’t wait to follow your journey to Buffalo!

Tag us in your best sunset pics from today 🍺

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Happy Freedom Day! Lots of joyful events this weekend to celebrate freedom, including early voting!

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Summer Solstice is THIS FRIDAY! ☀️ We have a day full of fun activities, food, live music, and MORE. No tickets needed 🍻

@hometownbarbque will be roasting TWO whole pigs out back on our patio, and will also be selling other delish sides!

@butchershopband will be performing from 6-9pm, and we will be hosting an official Steinholding competition around 7pm!

Vendors who will be poppin' up include @360recordshop, @backroom_books, @zippypetsaccessories!

Let's celebrate the sun as it sets behind the Statue of Liberty, and embrace the longest day of the year together. ✨

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Today is #independentbookstoreday ! Visit your local bookshop and support #smallbusiness #shoplocal #brooklyn #nyc

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ides in the empire 🥴 // shadow banned by suckerberg

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July left me deflated and discouraged. It’s a month-long story full of excitement and a let down that I’m having trouble writing about in a condensed manner. I feel disillusioned and naive for discovering yet another way our system is meant to gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss you into 1) feeling powerless and 2) going into debt, and I can tell you the full story over a drink but basically, I applied for a brick and mortar spot in red hook for @backroom_books just after July 4th. We’d been running the pop up at the brewery for over five months, we’d been interviewed by time out magazine and local news channels, and I wanted to make it real. I wanted my own space to offer affordable books, and to offer a community space for readings, small classes, and events. The plan was to treat it as a two year project that would likely not be profitable, but to offer reading material as knowledge, as exploration, as escape, and as empowerment– as the first general bookstore in my neighborhood of red hook.

A tiny spot was available just off the main drag and in the next few weeks while I dealt with an imo unprofessional and unhelpful realtor, I paid for a lawyer and filed for an LLC. I opened a business bank account and put the 20k I’d saved up for the store in it. The bookstore consumed all my thoughts for the entire month; I was trying to imagine life working two jobs again, planning how to best utilize the small space, researching what other tiny bookstores do to make rent, waking up from dreams about it being real, running ideas past my friends, and wondering every day if the whole thing was a reckless and stupid thing to do. I was excited and scared and hopeful.

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marching on with back pain and eyes to the sun 🥁🌅

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first and last are really my two modes for the year thus far

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“Real politics is to engage to resolve problems within a collective with enthusiasm. It’s not simply to delegate problems to the professionals. Love is like politics in that it’s not a professional affair. There are no professionals in love, and none in real politics.”
– Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love person with green hair and green plaid sweater holding their hand up to the light so that one eye is in shadow

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