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Glasgow's Independent Queer Bookshop 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Thurs-Sun 11-5 📚 ⚧️ TRANS HEALTHCARE NOW 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE 💖 email, phone, pop in! no DMs

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⚧️ TRANS HISTORY FESTIVAL! ⚧️ 22nd- 30th October. ❤️‍🔥 multiple events, multiple venues, multiple EXCELLENT TRANS PEOPLE ❤️‍🔥 🌟 all free! 🌟

All info and tickets 🎟 linktr.ee/transhistfest

🖤🖤🖤 by @categoryisbooks

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🎃 OCTOBER EVENTS!🎃 in the bookshop! 📚
everything is free ! 🌟full access info on website ❤️‍🔥

♠️ASEXUAL DISCUSSION GROUP 1ST OCTOBER 7PM
🌿un:nature QUEER ECOLOGY READING GROUP 4TH OCTOBER 7PM
⚧️TRANS LITERATURE BOOK CLUB 7TH OCTOBER 7PM Reading Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
💜QUEER CLASSICS BOOK CLUB 8TH OCTOBER 7PM Reading Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
👅TRANS VOICE Peer Support Group 11TH OCTOBER 7PM

🍂 BOOKSHOP ON AUTUMN HOLIDAY 12th - 21st OCTOBER 🍂

💖LITERARY QUEERY BOOK CLUB 18th OCTOBER 7PM Reading WITCH by Michelle Tea

✨ TRANS HISTORY FESTIVAL 22nd OCTOBER - 30th OCTOBER ✨ linktr.ee/transhistfest for all events. Susan Stryker! Roz Kaveney! TGirlsonFilm! Nat Raha! Ruth Pearce!

✏️QUEER WRITING WORKSHOP 28TH OCTOBER 6PM
💀QUEER HORROR CLUB 29TH OCTOBER 7PM Reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley by @categoryisbooks

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13 days ago

🍂 BOOKSHOP HOLIDAY 🍂 off to read and rest for a week ❤️

Back and open! 11AM on Thursday 22nd, and the start of TRANS HISTORY FESTIVAL ! ⚧️🗃

Thank you everyone as always for a brilliant summer, massive queer love to you all.

The day to day neighbourhood support in recent weeks has been honestly overwhelming and humbling. Love love love to Glasgow ❤️

More excellent local bookshops and queer spaces to check out include! @scotsqueerfilm @burninghousebooks @_mfbooks @good_press @plutoqcommunityreadingroom @glasgowzinelib @glasgowcommunitysauna @adriansbarglasgow @rumpusroom_ @womenslibrary @radicalglasgowtours (and dozens more we can't think of rn) ❤️❤️❤️ by @categoryisbooks

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6 days ago

❤️‍🔥new in this week!❤️‍🔥

⚧️The Transfeminine Guide to Physical Transition : For Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Feminine Folks by Amelia Simone Hanrahan - we love the trans masc version of this support book, full of useful, practical information - and are delighted now there is an edition for transfeminine people!

🍉Falastiniyyat : A Century of Palestinian Feminisms by Nada Elia - recovering the long-suppressed story of Palestinian women's organizing from 1929 to the present.

⚡️The Rush - new from Dykehouse Press! An anthology of queer poems on poppers!

🍛A Plate is a Homeland by Luna Issa - a beautiful Iraqi-Scottish cookbook by a beautiful (local) queer! We've been cooking from a copy of this alot recently and it is brilliant.

🦉Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver - beautiful new edition of these poems about the birds that played such an important role in Mary Olivers' life

💜The Man in 119 by Kazim Ali - latest collection! exploring loss and absence alongside the human body and the natural world.

💌Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls by Cookie Mueller - we love these tiny little books by Hanuman Editions. A Cookie Mueller delight!

❤️Bastards by Nate Lippens - much awaited! The conclusion to Nate Lippens' Wisconsin, book of losses, memories, and survival.

🐯Up//Roar Anthology edited by Cherry Potts - poems of queer resistance

🧠From the Clinic to the Streets by Lara Sheehi - on how seizing the means of psychoanalysis can transform it into one of many tools in service of revolution. Everyone who has picked up a copy of this so far has returned with GLOWING reviews and general excitement.

📽The Living End by Glyn Davis - thirty years after its release, an alaysis of Gregg Araki’s The Living End (1992)

🎬Trans Cinema by Laura Horak - on making communities, identities and worlds through film.

👑Queen of Faces by Petra Lord - now in paperback! epic YA trans fantasy adventure with lots of magic. by @categoryisbooks

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7 days ago

🍂🍄☀️ autumn is here, books are queer! open 11-5pm all weekend! 🍂 ☀️🍄 by @categoryisbooks

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🌟new in this week! 🌟

✏️June Jordan's Poetry for the People : A Revolutionary Blueprint. - A thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook (!!!) There is a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.
🌊Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch - memoir on creativity and healing
🍂Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair by Ashley Herring Blake - super sapphic autumnal romance!
🌙Queer and Muslim edited by Rahim Thawer and Maryam Khan - a collection navigating layered identities across lines of faith, family, culture, and community
💜Fag End by Spike Munro - collection of poems covering gay life from teen years to Queer Elderhood. Written in Scots!
🐿We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower - post-apocalyptic sapphic romance with witches and folkore!
✨️Voices, Powers and Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin - new editions!
🌿What Stalks The Deep by T. Kingfisher - third part of the Sworn Soldier series, full of fantasy-horror funghi vibes. now in paperback!
💕I Love This Part by Tillie Walden - new edition of the graphic novel! On two girls in a small town in the US, killing time together as they try to get through their days at school. by @categoryisbooks

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✨️new in this week! ✨️

🏗Anarchitecture After Everything : A Trans Manifesto by Jack Halberstam - queer theory on transness through architecture! A revolutionary way of seeing bodies and built environment that unites radical politics and trans aesthetics.
💕A Way of Love by James Courage - fiction about a 1950's gay love connection in London
🌿The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri - now in paperback! sapphic longing and medieval folklore romantasy.
🧟‍♂️Adam, Mine.by K. Ancrum - queer romantic YA horror thriller that is a love letter to Frankenstein
💎When They Burned The Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee - now in paperback! glamerous sapphic historical fantasy set in postcolonial Singapore
🍉Out Cut of Salt by Deena Helm - a family driven Palestinian haunted house horror novel (we can't wait to read!)
🐈‍⬛️Hag Anthology - an anthology of witchy folktales retold, now in paperback!
🎬Curating Defiance by Marc Francis - Film thoery on programming the queer film canon
⚡️Vagabond by Tim Curry - remarkable life in his own words! now in paperback too
🥬The Queer Guide to Nutrition and Lifestyle by Daniel O'Shaughnessy - informative guide to taking care of your body. Has a super useful trans section too. by @categoryisbooks

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20 days ago

✨️ new ✨️ bumper stickers! 🚗 🤩 art by the incredible Clay AD 💖

bookshop open 12-4pm today, back to 11-5 next week 📚 by @categoryisbooks

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✨️ good morning! ✨️fun fact! The words on the bookshop window are from a song called GET OFF THE INTERNET by LE TIGRE @letigreworld in 2001 💿🎵 ... its a banger, give it a listen 🎧 💖

Crowdfunder open again to cover the window smashing, link as before and in stories. 💥🤩

Big queer love to everyone as always 💕 by @categoryisbooks

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22 days ago

... there was another window smash on the bookshop last night. It is pretty bad. We've taped it up and contacting insurance etc as before.✌️ everyone is OK.

Likely to re-open the crowdfunder tomorrow morning once we know what can actually be covered. 💥 update! open again now , link as before 💥

Bring on the shutters! Being made as we speak ❤️ by @categoryisbooks

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🍂new in this week! 🍂 open 11-5pm all weekend 😎

💜The Way Disabled People Love Each Other by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - brilliant, wonderful, heart swelling poetry, focussing on the mass of grief and possibility of disabled QTBIPOC people.
❤️No Is Not a Lonely Utterance by Sara Ahmed - the activism and art of complaining. now out in paperback!
🙃End Times Fascism : And the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein - exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance, and how to resist it
🏳️‍🌈Making Gay History by John D'Emilio - memoir of the public historian, activist, and academic who helped to develop the field of LGBTQ studies.
⚧️Again, Harder by Alice Stoehr - short fiction on the messy intersecting lives of Midwestern trans women
🎥This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper - queer horror! on 90s cursed film subgenre
🌿Thoughts Be Bloody by Auden Patrick - queer and trans dark academia retelling of Hamlet
✨️Your Dick Made me Believe in Magic by River Huckleberry Kero - T4T Gay Trans Witches destroy Transphobia
🦇Be Still My Unbeating Heart by Josh Winning - queer vampire romantasy!
🗡Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon - now in paperback!
👑The Revenant of Surolifia by Florence Chien - epic sci fi fantasy
💕I Love My Queer Kid by Marc Campbell - workbook for parents and caregivers to support queer youth. Honestly got this in because we are (blessed) to be visited by MANY supportive parents and caregivers of young people at the moment. by @categoryisbooks

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💕💜💙 ... its BISEXUAL WEEK! 💙💜💕 love from Glasgow, bisexual capital of the universe 🤩

Pin! From @radicalglasgowtours referencing an interview with the poet Edwin Morgan. by @categoryisbooks

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