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Feminist Library Long-sleeve Tops 

Long-sleeved cotton tops, featuring Feminist Library logo, hand-drawn sleeve design by our fantastic volunteer Phoebe, and text on the back with our motto, ‘Archiving and Activism since 1975’.

100% cotton. Available in sizes S to XXL.
Colour: Black

Size  To fit chest (inches) 

S 34/36
M 38/40
L 42/44
XL 46/48
XXL 50/52

£31 (including UK postage and packing)

Queer Zine Dictionary

This publication from the Feminist Library has contributions from over 40 artists exploring the idea of a ‘queer dictionary’ through original artworks and texts. Within these pages you’ll find illustrations, poetry, reclaimed words, but – most importantly – a space to exist within a queer, feminist family.

So, why a queer dictionary? As we know, language is important (fabulous). Language defines how we are categorised and treated by society, as constructed political beings. Language is slippery. It is reshaped over space and time as words and worlds evolve beyond their original conception. This reshaping is our power. We will continue to struggle and support each other as we strive to be defined how we choose, and we hope this (very queer) dictionary acts as a source of strength, reminding you (us) that we’re here together, as a queer community.

£13.50 including UK postage

Feminist Library Print

An archival quality giclée of our rebooted dragon logo, on 240gsm paper with a bright white smooth matte finish. Delivered wrapped in tissue paper in a triangular cardboard tube for protection – plastic-free packaging.

A4: £15
A3: £18

Including UK postage Extra postage:
Europe/USA: £4 Rest of World: £9

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Fine Art Bamboo Print
Limited edition of 50

Limited edition feminist prints by Eva Megias, aka Pops Comix. Giclée printed on environmentally friendly 290gsm 90% bamboo fibre museum-quality paper – acid and lignin free for long-lasting colour depth. Delivered wrapped in tissue paper in a hardback envelope – plastic-free packaging.

£26
Including UK postage
Europe/USA: £3
Rest of world: £10

Trans: A Memoir
Juliet Jacques

In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics. Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job and launch a career as a writer, she navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. Revealing, honest,humorous, and self-deprecating, Trans includes an epilogue with Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?

£8.79 including UK postage
£10.79 including postage to Europe

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory
Michele Wallace

Classic work of black feminism. First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in politics, media, and culture; and the legacy of such figures as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison,and Alice Walker. Wallace addresses the tensions between race, gender, and society, bringing them into the open with a singular mix of literary virtuosity and scholarly rigour. Invisibility Blues challenges and informs with the plain-spoken truth that has made it an acknowledged classic.

£18.99 including UK postage
£20.99 including postage to Europe

Beyond the Pale
White Women, Racism, and History
Vron Ware
Foreword by Mikki Kendall

Pioneering study of how ideas about white women have shaped the history of racism

How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, developed as a political movement within racist societies. Dissecting the different meanings of femininity and womanhood, Beyond the Pale examines the political connections between black and white women, both within contemporary racism and feminism, as well as in historical examples like the anti-slavery movement and the British campaign against lynching in the United States. Beyond the Pale is a major contribution to anti-racist work, confronting the historical meanings of whiteness as a way of overcoming the moralism that so often infuses anti-racist movements.

£18 including UK postage
£20 including postage to Europe

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe’s new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Hardback edition from Vintage.

£16.99 including UK postage

Feminism is for Everybody
bell hooks

‘Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.’ So begins Feminism is for Everybody, a short, accessible introduction to feminist theory by one of its most influential practitioners. Designed to be read by all genders, this book provides both a primer to the question ‘what is feminism?’ and an argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement today.

£15.00 including UK postage
£17.00 including postage to Europe

Ain’t I A Woman?
bell hooks

In this classic study, cultural critic bell hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women.

£18.00 including postage to UK
£20.00 including postage to Europe

Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms
Katy Deepwell (ed.)

International scholars and artists show how feminist art and activism can intervene in social processes. Representing a range of critical insights, perspectives and practices from artists, activists and academics, Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms reflects on the role of feminist interventions in the fields of contemporary art, the public sphere and politics.

£31.50 including UK postage
£34.50 including postage to Europe

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
Shon Faye

Hardback

In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the ‘transgender issue’ to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond.

£22.50 including UK postage
£25 including Europe postage

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
Lola Olufemi

More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structural violence and injustice. Feminism, Interrupted is a bold call to seize feminism back from the cultural gatekeepers and return it to its radical roots.

Lola Olufemi explores state violence against women, the fight for reproductive justice, transmisogyny, gendered Islamophobia and solidarity with global struggles, showing that the fight for gendered liberation can change the world for everybody when we refuse to think of it solely as women’s work. Including testimonials from Sisters Uncut, migrant groups working for reproductive justice, prison abolitionists and activists involved in the international fight for Kurdish and Palestinian rights, Olufemi emphasises the link between feminism and grassroots organising.

Reclaiming feminism from the clutches of the consumerist, neoliberal model, Feminism, Interrupted shows that when ‘feminist’ is more than a label, it holds the potential for radical transformative work.

£10.99 including UK postage (delivery time 3-7 days)
£13.99 including Europe postage.