Thank you for coming! 🍦🍦

Hi everyone,

What a fantastic day! Thank you so much to everyone who came to our 🍦🍦 Ice Cream Social 🍦🍦yesterday! Our campaign team Maria Guarino, Olivia Marshall, and I would like to extend a special thank you to all of our volunteers who scooped ice cream, helped set everything up, and made the event so magical.

A very special thank you to Chris Goudreau and Quaverly Rothenerg for providing such enchanting music🎵🎵. It was such an exciting and moving experience to spend time chatting with so many of you about the issues that affect all of us. Your love and support means the world to me. Thank you so much for coming, and beginning to reimagine the wheel with me.

[image description: This is a photo of Chris Godreau and Quaverly Rothenburg playing their instruments on bright blue benches while other people watch and enjoy.]

For anyone who could not attend in-person yesterday, don't worry!

✨ Click here for a copy of the speech I gave, which begins to explore the issues that matter to me.

✨Click here to watch and listen to the speech!

[image description: This is a photo of Jeremy, a white man with orange hair and glasses, wearing a green shirt and jeans. He is sitting with his legs crossed in his wheelchair, speaking passionately into a microphone.]

✨ Click here for an updated and ongoing list of resources about disability, access, and other ways to stay informed and involved.

[image description: this is a photo of art supplies spread out beautifully on a table at Jeremy's Ice Cream Social. There is yarn, fabric, wool, magazines, handmade paper, and stickers. There are photos of disabled people doing joyful things and there are are petunias. In the midst of it all is a question written in purple letters: What does an accessible Northampton look and feel like to you?]

✨Click here to learn about the voting process in Northampton- how to register, which Ward you are a part of, and how to request a mail-in ballot.

[image description: This is a picture of Cora, a tall-ish friend and volunteer with many tattoos, glasses, and curly hair in a braid, standing at a colorful table at Jeremy's Ice Cream Social, hoping to distribute informational handouts.]

✨Click here to donate to my campaign!

In addition to thanking Chris and Quaverly, I want to express my deepest thank you to my friends who volunteered to help with our very first meet and greet, both officially and non-officially. This is a very exciting journey, campaigning for City Council, and I knew from the start that it would be impossible without community.

Anywho who is vulnerable in any way knows that stuff just works better when we work together. It is my hope that we can rely on this lived knowledge that we all carry with us to reimagine access together.

Yours,

Jeremy

[image description: This is a photo of Chris Goudreau, a white person with swooshy dark hair and a red t-shirt, playing their guitar on a bright blue bench.]

[image description: This is a photo of Quaverly Rothenburg, a person dressed in lovely pinks and purples, playing a cello on a bright blue bench.]

[image description: This is a photo of Jessie, friend and volunteer, a short person with a very cute, flowered shirt, sunglasses, and mask, facilitating what is perhaps the most important job of Jeremy's Ice Cream Social: The Ice Cream Scooping. There are cones, towels, hand sanitizers, cups, spoons, and posters that say Vote 4 Jeremy Dubs]

[This is a photo of Rebecca, a tall white woman with shiny black hair, holding a vintage Friendly's ice cream scoop. She scoops ice cream for her mom into a Herrell's cup. They both laugh and smile.]

[This is a photo of Jeremy holding court in in the middle of the courtyard with three residents of Ward 4.]

[This is a photo of Jeremy sitting with several neighbors who all live on the same floor. They all smile. Jeremy is seated in the middle in his wheelchair, and others are seated around him, leaning in towards him. It is cute.]

[This a photo of Maria, Jeremy's campaign liaison and best friend, and Virginia, Maria's best friend. They are two white women with dark hair and dark lipstick. They wear flowers and smile big.]

[This is a photo of Cora and Avery, two friends and volunteers. They are charging with each other between the ice cream table and the hand out table.They look very cool. Avery has a bright pink shirt on and Cora is munching on ice cream.]