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If you are looking for a way to help your feminist community and enrich yourself all while keeping pace with the latest literature and non-fiction, I have an idea for you. Buy one book off of our bestsellers list every month.
You'll help the store and yourself all at the same time.
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Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism
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Willis Aronowitz, Nona,
Bernstein, Emma Bee
What do young women care about? What are their hopes, worries, and ambitions? Have they heard of feminism, and do they relate to it? These are just a few of the questions journalist Nona Willis Aronowitz and photographer Emma Bee Bernstein set out to answer in "Girldrive." In October 2007, Aronowitz and Bernstein took a cross-country road trip to meet with the 127 women profiled in this book, ranging from well-known feminists like Kathleen Hanna, Laura Kipnis, Erica Jong, and Michele Wallace, to women who don't relate to feminism at all. The result of these interviews, "Girldrive" is a regional chronicle of the struggles, concerns, successes, and insights of young women who are grappling--just as hard as their mothers and grandmothers did--to find, define, and fight for gender equity.
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Ah, the smell of books! The look! The
taste! Here are a few of the delicacies
we are eating up.
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Stone Butch Blues
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Feinberg, Leslie
Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950's, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence. Leslie Feinberg is also the author of "Trans Liberation," "Trans Gender Warriors "and "Transgender Liberation," and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues. |
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*As you know In Other Words is a non-profit bookstore. In fact, we are the only surviving non-profit women's bookstore in the country. In an effort to become more sustainable we are now asking for a minimal donation for community events held at the store. Guests will be asked to donate $5 to store events, unless otherwise noted, however, no one will be turned away.Title of Event: OLIN Study Group
When: Monday, February 8, 2010 6:00 PM Location: In Other Words Women's Books and Resources Description: Join us as we will discuss such issues as the current uprising in Oaxaca, the Zapatistas and la otra campana, neoliberalism, social movements in Mexico, and border issues. This study group is brought to you by Olin, a collective focusing on Oaxaca. Olin is a working group of Portland Sin Fronteras whose focus as a group lies in building and understanding the border and in fighting white supremacy. Their aim is to combat capitalism as a system of domination and to link the anti-capitalist struggles of Latin America to our own struggles here at home.
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Homorobics-Sun 11am
Yoga-Tue & Thur 9-10am
Women Writing for (a) Change-One Wed/Mo. 7-8:30pm
Dirty Queer-2nd Fri 6:30pm
Femst Film Society-3rd Fri 6:30pm
Luna Music Series-Last Fri 7pm
Open Mic: The Goddess Returns 1st Fri 6:00pm
OLIN Study Grp-2nd Mon 6pm
Femst Book GrpOn Hold
Queer Poly Discuss Grp-1st Thurs 6:30pm
Feminism Discussion Grp-1st Sun 6:30pm
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In Other Words Women's Books and Resources is the last surviving non-profit feminist bookstore in the United States. We offer a comprehensive and diverse collection of books by and about women including non-sexist children's books, and with a focus on feminist, queer, and trans studies. In addition to our books, we sell eco-friendly menstrual products, cards, stickers, buttons, and a variety of locally made crafts for your activist and gifting needs!
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