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Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · 20h

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · 2d

Guess what came in time for yesterday’s reading!!

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · 10d

Please use this link to RSVP. There will be free food: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation

To achieve transformation, we must first imagine it. Four authors share visions of life, death, and sublime and horrific moments in between.

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Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · 19d

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · 28d

Today, 9/14/25 3-4 pm PST, on kqbhla.com, we are Coming Full Circle Through the Art of Play. We chat about dreams, the importance of playing with friends as children and adults, techniques to exercise our creative muscles, and more with singer songwriter, musician, artist, teacher,—Tara Tavi.

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · Sep 11

HARRIET TUBMAN, FORCE OF NATURE from @whatonearth.bsky.social “is told via wrenching, earthy poems...complemented by eye-catching collage illustrations in which people are clothed in newsprint ‘to show that that they…were always and still are, important news’” www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/harr...

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Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’m so looking forward to this! I’ll be reading an excerpt from my Introduction for The White Picket Fence.

BookSwell @bookswellclub.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're excited to welcome featured author Gina Rae Duran at WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation on Oct. 8 at the West Hollywood Library.

www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

@ginaraeduran.bsky.social

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Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now on Substack!
I really enjoyed the opportunity to interview artist Stan Hunter, as we discuss the importance of exploration and perspective in play.

open.substack.com/pub/byginadu...

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Cody Sisco @codysiscowrites.bsky.social · Sep 3

WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation
Wed., Oct. 8 | 6:30–8 pm
In Person: West Hollywood Library Community Room

Free, RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

@ginaraeduran.bsky.social @damnedpoet.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @booksoupofficial.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social

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Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Aug 31

This episode has been moved to Monday at 12pm PST, 9/1/25.

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Aug 31

Today on kqbhla.com, from 3-4pm PAT!
For our first episode of season 5: professor, ceramic artist, and author Stanton Hunter chats on The Collective about exploration and perspective in play, and how it connects to art and life. Airing this Sunday, 8/31/25, 3-4pm PST, on kqbhla.com

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Aug 31

Something got screwed up. My episode didn’t play but I will still be airing it on the podcast. I will update everyone about the live version today.

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Aug 31

Today on kqbhla.com, from 3-4pm PAT!
For our first episode of season 5: professor, ceramic artist, and author Stanton Hunter chats on The Collective about exploration and perspective in play, and how it connects to art and life. Airing this Sunday, 8/31/25, 3-4pm PST, on kqbhla.com

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Aug 13

Coming Soon! The Collective: Season 5, Collective Play. #TheCollective on 101.5 fm and kqbhla.com.

Do you know the quickest way to learn, & when the highest levels of conscious learning and connections are? Tune into The Collective for our series on #CollectivePlay, Season 5!

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Aug 13

Flower bag explosion! Guess who was right under me—as usual. At least he was entertained. But that’s what makes him Dandy Dandelion:

There’s no deny’n
He’s Dandy
The Dandelion

Trust that he has a song and that’s only a verse. They all have songs.

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Aug 8

An invitation to embrace childlike wonder and create through the artistic practice of play, @inlandia_institute.

Play as Practice: Or How to Celebrate the Mess with Gina Rae Duran
(For all adults of all abilities, ages, and writing levels. All genres.)
On ZOOM. Info at InlandiaInstitute.org.

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jul 29

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jul 13

Dandelion helping with my mandated reporter training, learning how to catch a frisbee (he caught it twice), and sitting patiently while I got ready to take him for a walk.

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jul 13

I’m trying to understand why it’s only a temporary restraining order. It should be against the law.

Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · Jul 12

What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jul 9

The recording of my reading from my not yet published poetry book "Ballad of My Body," at the Poetry Performance Workshop.
YouTube link (also in my bio):
youtu.be/ofYfGTh735s?...

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jul 8

Yes, I guess several people did. The preorder has been up since February. I think. I definitely sent an email. So strange, I’ll send out another.

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Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jul 8

Juanita and I will be doing a reading at Ugly Mug for the forthcoming anthology The White Picket Fence: Stories of Individuality as Rebelliousness on September 24th at 8pm. Mark your calendars! 💗

Preorder your copy now.

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Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jun 22

lease tune in for this super powerful collaborative episode of hope, truth, courage, light, and love between four Super Mujeres Bridging the Gap, on The Collective and CMTY Linve and Bridge the Gap.
3-4pm PST, on 101.5fm
Kqbhla.com

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Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jun 22

Please tune in for this super powerful collaborative episode of hope, truth, courage, light, and love between four Super Mujeres Bridging the Gap, on The Collective and CMTY Linve and Bridge the Gap.
3-4pm PST, on 101.5fm
Kqbhla.com

kqbhla.com

Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jun 22

I love you all. Every. Single. Fucking. One. Of. You.
May we know peace and abundant love and joy.

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Gina Rae Duran 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚 @ginaraeduran.bsky.social · Jun 11

That would be correct. I already called him an insane dictator. I want to know why we don’t have a loophole or law in the constitution to immediately protect citizens.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jun 10

I suspect in the days ahead we will hear a large number of people saying publicly what no one has been saying publicly.

I suspect everyone reading this knows what I am referring to.

A POTUS who falsely accuses Democratic leaders of paying for a military invasion of the United States is a madman.