So, yeah. Support queer and radical indie bookshops! If you don't have one local to you, all are happy to send books out: I recommend @lighthousebks.bsky.social@panedoge.bsky.social, Shelf Life Books, Gay's the Word. Tomorrow is Bookshop Day, so there's no better time! 📚 [5/5]
or that it makes marginalised customers feel unsafe and unwelcome, or that their own employees feel degraded and unsupported. They boast of being "cultural tastemakers" when it suits them, and claim to be perfectly apolitical and powerless when it doesn't. They care about profit, not people. [4/5]
The company then turns around and says, "See, they're selling; there's demand for these books! Taking them off the display would be telling our customers what to think" and their circular argument begins again. They don't care that it empowers bigoted customers to spout their hatred in public [3/5]
...largely after our shop was swallowed up by the W monopoly, and in reference to books not only being stocked but actively *promoted*. Face out, front of store. It's a huge problem with outright racist and anti-immigrant books as well. [2/5]
"Publishing in Britain has a serious transphobia problem" – this article is an excellent read. vashtimedia.com/books-transp... I encountered the “we don’t like it, but it would be censorship not to stock it” line in my own time as a bookseller... [1/5]
A case against the publishing industry's apolitical facade.
Thank you!
This is really nice. Thank you!
This is great. Thank you!
I just found out that cohost is shutting down?! I've been away a little while and I have no idea what happened. Since it's already gone read-only, I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to anyone, but I'll be trying to find people on here. And I guess I'll be finding a new home for my long-form posts.