You can find our recommended reading lists on our website! Link in the bio :)

Poster describing the 2025 Trans Rights Readathon at the Raven Book Store: Every day of the Readathon (March 21-31), the Raven will donate 5% of ALL our sales to the Trans Lawrence Coalition's Mutual Aid Fund..

A display of books by trans authors and about trans people for the 2025 Trans Rights Readathon. Find a list of the books on our catalog on our website.

It's that time of year again! That's right: TRANS! RIGHTS! READATHON!!!! 💙🩷🤍

This year, we are partnering with @tlclfk.bsky.social. 5% of ALL our proceeds from March 21-31 will go to the Trans Lawrence Coalition's Mutual Aid Fund, helping all of our trans friends and neighbors here in Lawrence.

The Raven Book Store's bestsellers for March 11, 2025 (Sponsored post) "Marian Washington dominated the sales these last two weeks! ... 'On Tyranny' remains a consistent bestseller, with '1984' slowly creeping up the list," the Raven Book Store writes.

"Marian Washington dominated the sales these last two weeks! ... 'On Tyranny' remains a consistent bestseller, with '1984' slowly creeping up the list," the @ravenbookstore.bsky.social writes.
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He loves walkers and strollers! Glad you got a few pets in :)

We are fighting like hell against any privatization efforts or reorganizational mandates. We will do everything in our power to ensure we continue upholding our universal service obligation that Americans depend on through a strong and public Postal Service.

Love, Stan the Mailman & the Raven

Americans should see this reported executive order for what it is: a direct attack on USPS employees, our universal service, and every citizen who relies on the Postal Service.

7. The Constitution, crafted by our nation’s founders, gives Congress, not the president, a key role in setting postal policy. In fact, the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 removed the Post Office Department from the president’s Cabinet and created USPS as the independent agency that exists today.

5. The Postal Service is older than our country and is enshrined in the Constitution. It is a service for the public good funded by postage and stamp sales, not taxpayer dollars.
6. The public consistently ranks the Postal Service as one of the most trusted government agencies.

4. The reported executive order jeopardizes the jobs of 640,000 postal employees, more than 73,000 of whom are veterans, and would affect the 7.9 million people employed in the mailing industry. The potential consequences are deeply alarming, & these proposals are also unconstitutional and illegal.

3. No private shipper guarantees or offers this unmatched universal service. Without our work, 51.5 million households and businesses in rural communities would have no guaranteed deliveries of medications, checks, ballots, and other essential mail and packages.

2. USPS is central to a $1.92 trillion mailing industry. U.S. letter carriers deliver 44 percent of the world’s mail.

Some FACTS about the USPS, from Stan:
1. Every day, 200,000 active city letter carriers uphold the Postal Service’s constitutionally mandated universal service obligation, delivering 376 million pieces of mail and packages to nearly 169 million delivery points nationwide.

Hi, long time, no talk. We're still figuring out this whole Bluesky thing. But we've got a message from Stan, our favorite mailman we want to deliver to you. Please take the time to read, share, & call your senators & representatives. Link to the article & calling info in the bio.

If anyone is curious about how today's Senate and House sessions went today, TLC has you covered! (This one is specifically about the House Committee meeting, check out their page for a rundown on the Senate meeting.)

Also, if you could sign this petition to fight censorship in book bans, we'd greatly appreciate it: action.aclu.org/send-message...

There's a long road ahead of us. Choose to live. (6/6)

"[...] Well you may go on and live until you are 90, but you're just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90! And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit." (5/6)

Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
"And I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren't fit to live. [...] (4/6)

Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
"This is what this text is saying more than anything else. And finally, you must do it because it has gripped you so much that you are willing to die for it if necessary. (3/6)

"Ultimately you must do right because it's right to do right. And you got to say 'But if not.' You must love ultimately because it's lovely to love. You must be just because it's right to be just. You must be honest because it's right to be honest. (2/6)

Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We wanted to share some of the Reverend's words that have centered us today, from his sermon "But If Not," Nov. 5, 1967: (1/6)

"Ultimately you must do right because it's right to do
right. And you got to say 'But if not.' You must love
ultimately because it's lovely to love. You must be just
because it's right to be just. You must be honest
because it's right to be honest. ...

We are back to business as usual today! Which means the Raven will be open from 9am-8pm. Take care and stay safe, y'all, we'll see you soon :)

At long last, our doors will open today! We will be open from 9am to 5pm. If you need something new to read after this snowed-in weekend, stop by. It’s a cold one out there though, so please keep warm and be safe 💖

And yes, Sammy and Dean are well taken care of ❤️🐈

Due to road conditions, we will remain closed today. Stay warm out there, y'all!

Love this!!

We will be closed Sunday as well! Stay safe and bundle up with a good book, eh?

We will be closing at 4pm to ensure our booksellers get home before the storm hits! Stay safe out there y'all <3