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J9
@j9vaughn.bsky.social
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J9 is a #queer #librarian & #author who lives in a town with more dead than living and cats... lots of cats.
Their memoir, My Swan Song for Joy, is available for purchase.
#vegetarian #animaladvocate #artsadvocate #witch
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
The Celebration of Joy Tour continues!
I will be the featured reader for
The Tamale Hut Café Presents
reading series!

My reading will be followed by an Open Mic and I will have copies to sale/sign!
Blue haired j9 holding up their memoir, My Swan Song for Joy: a Sister Memoir, with oranges on a stack of copies of their memoir.
May 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Check out all my upcoming events!

#localauthor #librarylove #HumanLibrary
April 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Hello friends going to Capricon! There will be a reading and an open mic run by the @speclit.bsky.social on 2/7/25, Friday night that you should totally check out!
Flyer from the Speculative Literature Foundation, Capricon Deep Dish Reading and Open Mic! Bridgeport, Friday night 5:30 - 6:30 PM Readers: Mary Anne Mohanraj Shaun Duke Sue Burke Richard Chwedyk KM Herkes Llewella Forgie Moderated by: Angeli Primlani And possibly YOU!
February 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Not so great news... I have a cold.
Pretty good news... even though there's still a bit of swelling, my cyborg knee is healing up well. Check out that fabulous 90º+ bend and fancy scar! Once it's healed more, I'm thinking maybe a lightning bolt tattoo.
Pale bent knee with a long stuttering red scar in the process of healing, leading into a tattoo with branches and the moon.
January 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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On November 3, 2024, Joy's birthday, A Swan Song for Joy: a Sister Memoir, was published!
Green haired & tattooed J9 wearing a bow tie, a black shirt with white designs, holding a copy of the memoir, My Swan Song for Joy, next to a blue banner with waves, a swan, the title and "a Sister Memoir, by J9 Vaughn" Green haired & tattooed J9 wearing a bow tie, a black shirt with white designs, glasses and reading from the memoir.
November 16, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Stewy Bones is ready for his next big adventure!
Pic of Stewy Bones the skeleton, wearing a blue knitted winter hat & black scarf with jack-o-lanterns, sitting the passenger seat of a car that has a rainbow pride flag and a small red octopus toy on the dashboard. A handicap sign hangs from the rear view mirror. Pic of Stewy Bones the skeleton, wearing a top hat, through the passenger window of a cherry red car. A rainbow pride flag can be seen.
November 15, 2024 at 8:54 PM