A Space for Everyone I Love’: This Summer Brings the Hudson Valley’s First Black Trans-Owned Bookstore

The Hudson Valley awaits its first Black trans-owned bookstore coming this summer. Born and raised in the Hudson Valley, founder Awa-Moon Barnett is a community educator and organizer based in Newburgh who has been fundraising over the past year to open “home home” — a mobile bookshop and political education center grounded in her belief that education serves as a central site of liberation for Black and queer folks. Radio Catskill’s Julia Kim had the chance to sit down with Barrett on the origin story of home home, the vision she sees for the bookshop and community space and the fight for racial justice and trans liberation within the Hudson Valley.