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Women & Children First Bookstore

Feminists Rock!

About Me

I am a 27-year old feminist bookstore located in Chicago's cool Andersonville neighborhood. I like long nights with good books, heart-to-heart chats, walks in the rain, igniting revolution and overthrowing patriarchal oppression. You can see me on the web at www.womenandchildrenfirst.com, visit me at 5233 N. Clark St. in Chicago, or phone me at 773/769-9299.

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My Interests

Feminism, good books, global politics, poetry, health and wellness, children and childcare, being crafty, living consciously, cooking, gender studies, rocking out, women's histories, multi-cultural studies, friendship, pets, and everything else in the world.

I'd like to meet:

Feminists, book worms, homos, nerds, go-go-dancers, social reformers, vegetarians, lefty pinko liberals, big beautiful women, teens with moxy, people of color, Outrageous Older Women, Fierce Femmes, trannies, gym teachers, punx, travellers, curious-types, braniacs, poets, mujeres, straight-but-not-narrows, babies with attitude, cat-lovers, pleasure-seekers, social workers, bold butches, sensitive artists, Wonder Women, agitators, day dreamers, sex workers, care-givers, comedians, queerbos, students and other academic types, students of life, free thinkers, expansive people, Green Party Candidates, moms, folksingers, knitters, the L-Word cast, lovers, goalies, flower children, power dykes, happy husbands, chefs, OWLS (older, wiser lesbians), teachers, activists, cool uncles and aunties, the gays, and, of course, you!

Music:

Ani Difranco, God-des and She, Nedra Johnson, Julie Loyd, Le Tigre, Melissa Ferrick, Toshi Reagan, 8-inch Betsy, Ditty Bops, the Gossip, Doria Roberts, Erin McKeown, The Butchies, Peaches, Natalia Zukerman, Bitch, Team Dresch, kd lang, Sweet Honey in the Rock, June Millington, Sleater-Kinney, Patricia Barber, Ripley Caine, Three Dollar Bill, Ellen Rosner, Ember Swift, The Be Good Tanyas, Scream Club, Chris Pureka, BETTY, Carrie Lydon, Pamela Means, Indigo Girls, Kinnie Starr, Holly, Cris, Ferron, Meg, Margie, and so many more!

Movies:

High Art, Bound, Amelie, Incredible True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, Watermelon Woman, All Over Me, TransAmerica, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 8 Women, Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Baise-Moi, The Children's Hour, Orlando, Fire, Show Me Love, Blue Angel, My Summer of Love, Heavenly Creatures, The Color Purple, But I'm A Cheerleader, Aimee and Jaguar, Monster, Boys Don't Cry, Go Fish, The Hunger, Desert Hearts

Television:

BUFFY!!!!, Firefly, The L Word, Xena, Weeds, Bad Girls

Books:

Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Allison, Sanda Cisneros, Cornell West, Isabelle Allende, Michelle Tea, bell hooks, Judith Butler, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Arundati Roy, David Sedaris, Jamaica Kincaid, Sharon Olds, Kathie Bergquist, Virginia Woolf, Gloria Steinem, Leslie Feinberg, Jeannette Winterson, Rebecca Brown, Ali Smith, Angela Carter, Carole Maso, Jac Jemc, Gertrude Stein, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Kate Bornstein, Joan Nestle, Sarah Waters, Toni Cade Bambara, Flannery O'Connor, Julia Alvarez, Chelsey Clammer, Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Cunningham, Mary Gaitskill, Dr. Suess, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sara Paretsky, Octavia Butler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maya Angelou, Inga Muscio, Shirley Jackson, Augusten Burroughs, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Lorrie Moore, Amy Tan, Starhawk, Adrienne Rich, Edith Wharton, Audre Lorde, Alice Munro, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sarah Vowell, Patricia Highsmith, Katherine Anne Porter, Ayun Halliday, Angela Davis, Radclyffe, Jane Rule, Gerda Lerner, Marjane Satrapi, Dana Clark, Alison Bechdel, Achy Obejas, Rita Mae Brown -- You get the point.

Heroes:

Any person who speaks their mind about women's rights, politics, justice and love.

My Blog

We want you AND your old books!

It's time to clear out your stacks (and make room for more treasures!)               Mark your calendar  our third annual used book sale, be...
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:35:00 PST

Volunteers Needed!

Inventory Volunteers needed! Monday, August 4th Store closed for inventory..... Volunteers needed!....              It's that time of year when w...
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:34:00 PST

July Org. of the Month: Chicago Books to Women in Prison

Organization of the Month: Chicago Books to Women in Prison                Chicago Books to Women in Prison is a volunteer collective working...
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:31:00 PST

July Sappho’s Salon Sat. July 19!

Saturday, July 19 7-9 p.m. Sappho's Salon: A Provocative Night of Lesbian Diversions.... Comedy Night Featuring Carrie Callahan and Cameron Esposito Special Guest DJ SpinNikki $7-10 sliding fee includ...
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:30:00 PST

July Events Calendar

Women & Children First July 2008 Program Schedule.... .. .. .. .. Every Tuesday through July 6:30 p.m. Storytime for 4 to 8-year olds. Summer's here and school's out, so we're trying an ...
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:28:00 PST

We’re hiring!

Women & Children First Bookstore, Chicago's 28-year-old feminist bookstore, currently has one full-time and one part-time bookseller opening beginning late August / early September. Bookstore and/...
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:44:00 PST

Call for Talent! Help us Spread the Word!

Call for Artists Women & Children First Bookstore in Chicago Is looking for provocative lesbian-identified queer artists and scholars to present their work at our new, monthly Sappho's Salon serie...
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:08:00 PST

Women & Children First Launches Sapphos Salon!

Women & Children First Launches New Lesbian Salon.... "Sappho's Salon" to Occur Monthly; First Salon Featuring Music, Readings...., is Part of Store's Gay Pride Celebration.... .... (....Chicago.....
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Wed, 28 May 2008 01:07:00 PST

How You Can Help Insure the Future of Feminist Bookselling in Chicago

Yes, you can play a vital role in helping to insure the future of feminist bookselling in Chicago! Here's how: 1. Choose to shop at our store. Besides great books, we also carry a hand-picked selectio...
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:22:00 PST

Why feminist bookstores are culturally essential.

It is not purely in self-interest when we say that we feel the existence of independent bookstores are vital to the free exchange of communication and the existence of independent publishing. The cult...
Posted by Women & Children First Bookstore on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:58:00 PST