Our final events of the season!! With @drlmmurillo.bsky.social @wiscobirder.bsky.social :)

we will be closing early at 5pm today because of the weather

we may close earlier than 5pm if it feels necessary to make sure folks get home safe -- if we close before 5pm, we will update here and on our website <3

stay safe friends

we are supposed to get 1 trillion inches of snow this wknd -- please enjoy a 15% off coupon code STAYCOZY at roomofonesown.com to encourage you to stay home and browse our website (and brand new holiday cat-alogggg) from the comfort and safety of home! roomofonesown.com/catalog/2025...

We've got a whole slate of poetry readings coming up! Check out our events calendar to see what is happening at ROOM :)
roomofonesown.com/events/calen...

End your pride month right!

Wednesday 6/25 - 7PM-9PM - Queer & Trans Open Mic Night
Thursday 6/26 - 6PM-8PM - Game Night
Friday 6/27 - 7PM - Screening of Rafiki directed by Wanuri Kahiu
Saturday 6/28 - 6PM-10PM - Scorpio Market: SUCCUBUS SZN
Sunday 6/29 - 3PM-4PM - A Sharp Endless Need by Mac Crane

T4T4T4T4 -> Wilma's Fund! Join us on Thursday June 5th for a benefit show with our favorite queer & trans local Madison Musicians!

Join us June 2nd at 6PM for an author event on The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, with
@emilymbender.bsky.social

@alexhanna.bsky.social
and
@millbot.bsky.social

HAPPY 50th BDAY TO USSS!!!! (Come in and celebrate with us)

⬇️⬇️⬇️ Events next week!

Join us in celebrating @jeannethornton.bsky.social's new novel A/S/L tonight! 7PM-8PM at A Room of One's Own in Madison! Hope to see you there :)

3/26 Wednesday 7-9 PM - Queer & Trans Open Mic - IN-STORE

3/29 Saturday 2-9 PM - Giant Jones: Trans Day of Visibility Market & Resource Fair - GIANT JONES BREWING (931 East Main Street)

3/30 Sunday 2-5 PM - ANDALEEB CARTONERA - IN-STORE

3/12 Wed 6-7PM - At the End of the World There is a Pond - Steven Duong with Mira Braneck - INSTORE

3/13 Thu 6-7PM - The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison - INSTORE

3/18 Tue 7PM - Patrycja Humienik: We Contain Landscapes - with Chessy Normile, Taymour Soomro, and Paul Tran -NORTH STREET CABARET

3/10 Mon 6-7PM - Fragments of Wasted Devotion by Mia Arias Tsang in conversation with Felix Lecoq -INSTORE

3/11 Tue 7-8 PM WBF: Nancy Reddy - The Good Mother Myth -CENTRAL LIBRARY

3/12 Wed 7 PM - Wisconsin Academy Presents: Birds and People with Christian Cooper - Tickets $35 - PLAYHOUSE THEATER

3/4 Tuesday 7-8 PM - WBF: Eve L. Ewing - Original Sins - CENTRAL LIBRARY

3/6 Thursday 6-7 PM - The Hivemind Swarmed: David Wolinsky and Scott Gordon on Gamergate - IN-STORE

3/7 Friday 6-7 PM - The Trans/Queer Ungovernable: Toshio Meronek and Eric Stanley - IN-STORE

Here is our full list of March Events, both in-house and offsite!

We are excited to celebrate three debut collections this month, with Steven Duong, Mia Arias Tsang, and Patrycja Humienik!

Madison, if you can, please join our community for tonight’s candlelight vigil for Sam Nordquist and Tahiry “Tokyo” Broom is at 6pm at Olin Park, hosted by Freedom Action Now, Freedom, Inc., and GSAFE www.instagram.com/p/DGRKap-PUv...

2/19 Weds 6-7PM - The Genre Fluid Book Club discusses Mrs. S by K. Patrick IN-STORE

2/23 Sun 2-5PM - Andaleeb Cartonera: Handcrafting Books on Palestine Workshop IN-STORE

2/26 Weds 7-9PM - Queer & Trans Open Mic Night IN-STORE

2/12 Weds 6PM - Self-Love through Pleasure Art: Artist Talk with Sami Schalk and Sam Waldron - ART LIT LAB

2/14 Fri 6-9PM - Meet Cute At Room! After Hours Browsing (Tix $10 PRE, $15 DAY OF) IN-STORE

Here are our February Events at A Room of One’s Own!

2/10 Monday 6-7PM - Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg in conversation with Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman - For Times Such As These IN-STORE

2/11 Tuesday 6-7PM - The Lit Study Book Club discusses They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib IN-STORE

it's super warm and gay in here