🌼 Bluestocking Happenings - April
Fundraiser, book drive, upcoming events, our first community board posting and more!
🚨 Save Bluestockings: Support Radical Spaces
To our queer fam, comrades, conspirators, community, long time supporters and newest of homies, Bluestockings needs you, and our GoFundMe is finally up! Help us sustain our organizing center/bookstore by donating to the link below or becoming a member for as little as $1/month and receive all sorta goodies and revolutionary materials.
Our space means many things to so many folks at MANY intersections, and we refuse to be pushed out after 26 years in a now deeply gentrified Lower East Side.
❗️ Accountability at Bluestockings
If you have been systemically harmed at Bluestockings, please fill out the form below. This form is to hold staffers and volunteers at Bluestockings accountable for racist, transphobic, fat phobic, homophobic, misogynist, and misogynoir behaviors.
This form is not for personal grievances.
We have non-yt, third party reviewer(s) who will look at the submissions and escalate matters as they deem necessary.
📚 Book Drive Updates
The book drive that The Rolling Library + Astoria Food Pantry is holding for us is in full swing, and we’d like to thank those who have already donated!
To reiterate, we are looking for books in the following categories: anarchism, solidarity/economy/leftist critique of economics, abolition/anti-carceral/anti-police, non-white male science fiction, gender and trans studies, queer fiction, diaspora fiction, black studies, dalit studies, indigenous studies, latine/x studies, diaspora studies, african studies, middle-eastern studies, palestinian authors, anti-zionist literature, drug use and harm reduction, fat studies, health and disability justice, activist strategies, radical history, nyc history (and presence), and urban studies and design.
Please drop off books ONLY in the listed genres at Astoria Food Pantry Monday nights, 6-8pm.
☕️ Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events @ BSTOX
Promise of Poppies Zine Reading + Open Mic - 4.27
Come get a copy of Promise of Poppies’ poetry zine and listen to readers + share your own writing during the open mic! They will be raising funds for the Al-Danaf family and they will also be selling items to support us! Stay tuned for more info! Share! Bring your friends! Wear a mask! Free Palestine!
Popup for Gaza - 5.3
✨ Looking to Host an Event with Us?
We host in-person events at our storefront! If you are interested in hosting an event with Bluestockings, fill out both forms below and carefully review the information on them.
📌 BSTOX Community Board
Have a posting for our community board? This board is a place where members of our community can submit postings for any community request to be featured in our newsletter.
✏️ Want your writing featured on the BSTOX newsletter?
We are beginning to take writing submissions from our community to be featured in our biweekly newsletter. We’ll have new writing prompts periodically. Submissions must have a 500 word maximum, each piece will be reviewed, and authors will be notified if their piece is to be featured.
The Prompt: What are you reading, watching, or listening to lately? What does it make you think about?
🌱 If you still haven’t, please consider becoming a member and helping us keep our doors open!
Thanks again for reading and supporting us. ‘Til next time!
Bluestockings Cooperative 💙