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Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) 💜☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️🎶📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social

Me today with some of my favorite American writers’ books on display @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Oscar Hijuelos, & Lorraine Hansberry. Visiting the American Writers Museum & these works is like visiting old friends. 🙏🏾 #LaborDay #BookSky ❤️📚✍🏾

Me holding a copy of the book “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks” at The American Writers Museum in Chicago. Me holding a copy of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston at The American Writers Museum in Chicago. Me holding a copy of “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” by Oscar Hijuelos at The American Writers Museum in Chicago. Me holding a copy of “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry at The American Writers Museum in Chicago.
sep 1, 2025, 7:08 pm • 3 0

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) 💜☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️🎶📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social

There are so many interesting displays and so much great information to learn @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago while still being a fun, warm, collegial, interactive space! #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚

sep 1, 2025, 7:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) 💜☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️🎶📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social

I particularly love the Wintrust Chicago Gallery dedicated to famous Chicago writers @americanwritersmuseum.org: Some of my favorite are Lorraine Hansberry, Roger Ebert, Ida B. Wells, and Gwendolyn Brooks 😍 #SweetHomeChicago 🥰 #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾

sep 1, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) 💜☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️🎶📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social

Everywhere you look @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago is colorful, fun, interesting, and aesthetically pleasing to the eye, in addition to being educational. 😍 #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾

sep 1, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) 💜☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️🎶📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social

One of the many things I love about @americanwritersmuseum.org is the diversity represented — diversity of the kinds of American writing showcased (books, but also newspaper articles, speeches, song lyrics, etc.) as well as the diversity of the backgrounds of the writers themselves 😍 #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾

sep 1, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) 💜☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️🎶📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social

That’s all for now! Please come visit & become a member of the @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago (and online!), and please help support this wonderful institution. Our annual OnWord fundraising gala is this coming Monday, Sept 8, 2025, right here in #SweetHomeChicago. 🥰 #ChicagoSky #BookSky ❤️🙏🏾📚✍🏾

sep 1, 2025, 7:29 pm • 2 0 • view