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Black History Month is coming and The Feminist Library Bookshop is getting ready with some new books 📚 Come and check them out at our Black History Month exhibition starting in October! Here’s the link with all the info if you’d like to visit ➡️ https://feministlibrary.co.uk/black-history-month-exhibition-we-are-here-throughout-october-and-november/

Join us for our next International queer solidarity event Wed 23rd Sept! 🏳️‍🌈✊🏽🏳️‍🌈 This series of events brings together queer activists from countries affected by the backlash against the LGBT+ community, including Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and beyond, to talk about how we can build successful international solidarity to counter these attacks, and to raise awareness of these issues internationally. Confirmed speakers: Elena Reimeryte - LGBTQ+ journalist, Lithuania/UK Laima Vaige - researcher/academic writing about LGBT+ issues internationally, Sweden With more to be confirmed. Join us! Let's talk about how to build a strong, international movement for mutual support and solidarity. This event follows on from a couple of other international LGBTQ+ solidarity events that we've held before, with Polish, Romanian, Russian and UK activists. You can watch the recordings from these events on our YouTube channel. *Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IA2GYdt6RgSoYhWEkOpAfQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. *The event is free but if you can support the work of the Library by donating it would be much appreciated. The Library is independent and is mainly funded with donations.

The Feminist Library Bookshop is now ONLINE. Order lovely items from the comfort of your home and by feminist magic they will appear. NOW AVAILABLE limited edition artist prints from @pops_comixs As well as being beautiful to hang on your wall or give as a gift, you can feel satisfied about supporting the Library at the same time. Win-win! Link to shop in bio.

Available now via link in bio! An archival quality giclée print of our rebooted dragon logo, on 240gsm paper with a bright white smooth matte finish. Delivered wrapped in tissue paper in a triangular cardboard tube for protection – plastic-free packaging. A4: £15 A3: £18 Including UK postage (delivery time 3-7 days) Worldwide delivery available, click on the shop link for rates. All sales support the Feminist Library 📚🐲

Our next English Language book club is Oct 7th 7pm. This October we are reading Heart of the Race: Black women’s lives in Britain, a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history - and a narrative of women’s experience - from which Black women have long been excluded. Here, Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe reclaim and record Black women’s place in that history, documenting their day-to-day struggles, their experiences of education, work and health care, and the personal and political struggles they have waged to preserve a sense of identity and community. First published in 1985 to address their own experience, which was lacking in texts written by Black men and white women, Heart of the Race is a testimony to the power of radical Black feminist activism and the collective experience of Black women in Britain. It documents their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism. Heart of the Race is available from @newbeaconbooks ❤️ You don’t need to finish the book – or even like it! Just join us on a Zoom call* for some fun, friendly book-chat with like-minded people. *Please register in advance for this meeting - links can be found on our Fb and website event pages. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Tomorrow 9th Sept 7pm UK time The September meeting of our Polish book club will be discussing Sylwia Chutnik's short story 'Dopóki Mieszkasz w Naszym Domu' ('As long as you're living in our house') from the series 'Wierzymy w Wolność' (We believe in freedom) published this year to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Amnesty International in Poland. It's a very timely story, as it talks about the life of a young queer person stuck living with their homophobic parents. The story (and all stories in the series) can be downloaded for free from the @amnesty_international_polska website. *Join us on Zoom. If you're planning to join us, please register in advance. Link on the Fb event. **Feminist Library events tend to be free, but we always need donations. If you can afford it, please support using the link in our bio. ̨żki

Good news! The Library will be reopening this Wed! 😊💗 We will have limited opening hours - Wednesday, 11-5, and Friday, 12-6, only - for the time being, and visits will be by appointment only. Please contact admin@feministlibrary.co.uk if you'd like to book a slot.

In celebration of Women in Translation month over August, the English Language book club will be teaming up with our Spanish 📙club ❤️ & reading Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s The Adventures of China Iron. In a unique reformulation of history and literary tradition, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, with humour and sophistication, re-writes Martín Fierro – an epic Argentinian poem – from a feminist, LGBT, postcolonial point of view. The book charts the adventures of China Iron, Martín Fierros abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas and deep into indigineous territories in a wagon with her new-found friend and lover, Liz. You don’t need to finish the book – or even like it! Just join us on a Zoom call* for some fun, friendly book-chat with like-minded people. *Please register in advance for this meeting. You can find the links on our Fb event page and website. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Feminist Library Book Shop has now gone online! We are currently selling exclusive artist prints of feminist artworks and digital zines. Get your hands on some of our amazing feminist products. Link in bio.

Our online shop launches tomorrow, 1st September! Friends of the Feminist Library get 15% off across the shop, with our launch selection including limited edition prints and digital zines. Become a friend today and donate from £3 a month to support the Library, via the link in our bio. Join today and you will also receive our August offer, an illustrated short fiction piece by Catherine Madden, co-founder of @thegrapevinezine illustrated by Louise Evans @louise_evanssss.

Thank you so much for this beautiful gift for our collections to the organisers of GLF 50 exhibition @platformsouthwark ❤️ Check it out if you're in the area! It's only on until tomorrow! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 🌈

'Careful or you'll end up in my novel-' This is the last week to join Friends of the Feminist Library and receive an exclusive piece of short fiction by Catherine Madden, illustrated by Louise Evans. Join by 31st Aug to receive the beautiful piece by email in two colour schemes, which you can print at home. Louise Evans is a graphic designer, illustrator and book lover based in Bristol. London based writer Catherine Madden writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She is a founding editor at literary zine The Grapevine (@thegrapevinezine) Visit the link in our bio to find out more about being a Friend and join!