💙📚July At Bluestockings! Events & Updates
Plus Disability Pride Month Reading Recs and Pre-order Discounts
✨Author Events
Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood 7/10
Breaking the Curse: A Memoir about Trauma, Healing, And Italian Witchcraft 7/11
Organizing Occupy Wall Street Launch Event 7/12
How to Abolish Prisons 7/13
TIME AND TIME AGAIN Launch 7/23
Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement 7/24
A Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free (virtual) 7/31
✨Community Events
Mindful Mosaic: Sober Movement and Craft Night! 7/09 at 8pm
Open Mic returns to Bluestockings! Hosted again by @3ls3wh3r Collective! 7/19 at 8pm
Power Point Party Night! Present on your special interest, hyperfixation, or research obsession. Silly or serious! 7/26 at 7pm
✨Book Clubs
The Nonbinarian Book Club: is a monthly, virtual, queer and trans-focused book club in partnership with Bluestockings Cooperative. You can order books for this club from Bluestockings.com and get 15% off instore and online with the code “BOOKBIKE” Contact @nonbinarianbike or via email.
The Butch Nook: A book club for Butch, Stud, and masc-identifying folks to gather and build community through our shared identities and love of reading. You can order books for this club from Bluestockings.com and get 15% off instore and online with the code “BSTOXCLUB”. Follow them on instagram to learn how to join @thebutchnook
Queer Book Club NYC: is another monthly queer book club that meets online and in person! Email queerbookclubnyc@gmail.com to get involved. You can order books for this club from Bluestockings.com and get 15% off instore and online with the code “BSTOXCLUB”.
💙Do you want to host an event with us? Email events@bluestockings.com! We’ve updated our booking system to make using our space easier and faster for our community!
💙📚 We are still taking used books! All books in good condition accepted, books will be split between Bluestockings, @brooklynbookbodega , and various local books to prison programs. Books can be dropped off any time we are open! Please share 💙
Disability Pride Month Reading Recs
Pre-order Corner! Discounts on Books We Can’t Wait For
As you might know, pre-orders are more important than ever, because they tell publishers that not only is there an audience for THIS book, but there are audiences for queer, feminist, abolitionist books. So here’s a few we’re excited for:
25th Anniversary Membership Drive
We're excited to announce a Bluestockings Members ONLY Queer history walking tour led by @closefriendscollective ! Learn about the queer history of the neighborhood and meet other members of the Bluestockings Community, July 19th from 5:30 to 7:30
If you aren't a member yet there's still time to sign up! Join at any level to gain access to this exclusive tour, and help keep our historic queer community space open and accessible to all. To sign up head to our withfriends page here.
If you're already a member you can RSVP for the tour by DMing us or emailing members@bluestockings.com
Volunteer With Us
Want to get more involved? You can volunteer with our Free Store or learn to become a Narcan dispensar
Sign up Here or follow @bluestockingscares for more info. You can also make a tax deductible donation to the free store! This helps us make sure we can buy much needed supplies like soap, socks, and snacks for our most vulnerable neighbors.
If you still haven’t, please consider becoming a member and helping us keep our doors open for our 25th year
Membership starts at just $2/Month
Thanks again for reading,
Bluestockings Cooperative