#feministbookstore — Public Fediverse posts

We are now accepting vendor applications for the Firestorm Holiday Craft Market! 📣

This craft pop-up, now in its 7th year, will include two dates: Saturday, December 5th and Saturday, December 19th from 11am to 4pm. If your application is accepted, we'll schedule you for one or thr other, based on your preference!

Our craft market has always been a fantastic opportunity for community members to discover and support local makers. In lieu of a booth fee, vendors donate a percentage of sales to a cause, and this year we have again selected the Gaza Soup Kitchen. By connecting holiday shopping with grassroots Palestinian aid, we hope to extend the narrow circle of care traditionally associated with the gifting season.

If you're interested in peddling your wares for either date, please fill out this form by November 1st at midnight! You'll need a compelling description of your work and 3 to 5 high quality photos.
https://cloud.firestorm.coop/apps/forms/s/q4zf5w96pao88HWbmLwycGcz

#FeministBookstore #AvlArt #FirestormCoop (- Libertie)

Tonight at 6pm we're capping off a busy day with a mini zine workshop from Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett, creators of "Trans History, A Graphic Novel"! Participants will leave with a completed mini-zine ready for small press shows, portfolios, and trading with friends. Alex and Andrew will also be signing copies of their essential introduction to trans history, available today at a special price.

"Trans History, A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day" is deeply researched, highly readable, and features a broad range of voices. Moving, funny, heartbreaking, and empowering, this remarkable compendium is packed with research on every dynamic page. Learn more at https://firestorm.coop/events/3660-book-signing-and-mini-zine-workshop.html.

#ZineMaking #TransHistory #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

This coming Wednesday we'll be teaming up with our friends at @pmpress to host author Gabriel San Román in conversation with fellow journalist Roberto Lovato! They'll discuss Gabriel's new book, "Days of Dissent," about the strikes and forgotten martyrs of the labor movement.

In "Days of Dissent: Revolts, Strikes, and Rebel Histories," Gabriel brims with defiance recounting the rebellious history that has reshaped the United States and the world. In a subverted "this day in history" format, and rising from his Subversive Historian commentaries on Pacifica Radio, a story is told for every day of the year with poignant vignettes about protests—no matter how big or small.

Register for this virtual event and find your copy of "Days of Dissent" at https://app.hi.events/event/9369/revolts-strikes-and-rebel-histories . Not able to make the event live? Sign up anyway and we'll send you the recorded conversation to enjoy at your convenience.

#PeoplesHistory #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

There's something new at Firestorm! 🚲🚲🚲

This custom bike rack has been in the works for a while, but it's arriving at the perfect time because our street is getting bike lanes! The Haywood Road resurfacing project is currently underway and includes major upgrades for cyclists and pedestrians.

With space for six bikes, this awesome rack was designed by local artist David Earl Tomlinson / Dynamic Metalwork whose prior creations for our co-op can be seen inside and outside the bookshop.

Biking isn't just good for you and your environment, it's also a form of transportation that reduces neighborhood congestion, respects your privacy, and still works when a hurricane shuts down every gas station in the region for two weeks (ask us how we know).

See you at the bike rack! 🌞

#OneLessCar #BicycleInfrastructure #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

This Sunday we're hosting "Scapegoat" author Clare Follmann and activist Patty Krawec for a virtual conversation about the the outdated narrative of "invasive species" and their management!

Drawing on environmental science and semiotics, "Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong" (AK Press, 2026) recounts how the use of biased rhetoric and inaccessible language has created support for a popular but misleading war of “native” against “invasive” that does nothing to address the root cause of biodiversity loss: the global capitalist system that is destroying our planet.

Sign up for the virtual event and find your copy of "Scapegoat" at https://app.hi.events/event/7245/invasive-species-and-capitalism. Not able to attend the event live? Sign up anyway and we'll send you the recorded event to stream at your convenience!

#InvasiveSpecies #SpeciesManagement #EcoReads #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

June 11th is a day for us to remember long-term anarchist prisoners through words, actions, and ongoing material support. As in years past, our co-op is partnering with Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross to donate net proceeds from all sales to support imprisoned comrades. Every book, t-shirt, sticker, or other item you purchase on Thursday, June 11th will generate funds for commissary, legal defense, and other crucial support needs for freedom fighters who remain behind bars!

Want to buy a book on June 11th, but not sure what to read next? We asked a few of our esteemed author collaborators to help us recommend titles that express the revolutionary commitment and vision needed to sustain us in difficult times. Check out a sample of their suggestions in the slides above! Order online or browse in store—either way you'll get a great book and we'll put the proceeds toward a great cause.

At a time when the State conspires to disappear more and more of us into its jails, dungeons, and camps, we see a practice of solidarity not as an obligation but as the unerring path to our collective freedom. For more information on June 11th, check out https://june11.noblogs.org, where you can also find a list of individuals supported by the campaign.

#June11 #EarthLiberation #AnimalLiberation #PoliticalPrisoners #FeministBookstore FirestormCoop (- L)

⛓️‍💥 Do Not Confuse Punishment for Justice ⛓️‍💥

They're here! We could not be more stoked about how this fundraiser shirt for our local bail fund turned out. We adore the defiant canine designed by Turned Worm Studios and the print came out so crisp and striking.

100% of the profits from yhis shirr are being donated to the Asheville Community Bail Fund — every shirt sold puts $25 toward getting someone out! We know that putting people in cages doesn't make us safer. But supporting your local bail fund does 🫡

Available in sizes S-5XL https://firestorm.coop/products/25247-do-not-confuse-punishment-for-justice-avl-community-bail-fund-benefit-t-shirt.html

#QueerBookstore #CoopsNotCops #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (-Esmé)

On Saturday, June 13th we're excited to host a virtual event with Ian Alan Paul, author of the recently published book "The Reticular Society" (PM Press, 2026). Joined by scholar Andrew Culp, Ian will reflect on the networked reorganization of capitalist society, the diverse ways digital technologies have invaded and imposed their shape upon everyday life, and what forms of revolt might remain possible against the suffocating flows of our online world.

Register for the event and find your copy of "The Reticular Society" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3617-the-networked-colonization-of-everyday-life.html . Can't join the conversation live? Sign up anyway and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience.

This event is organized in collaboration with @pmpress as part of their All We Have Is Each Other Speaker Series.

#TechnoFascism #Cybernetics #Situationist #IanAlanPaul #FeministBookstore FirestormCoop (- L)

Next Monday, we're teaming up with Asheville Food & Beverage United to host Daniel Gross, author of "Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work... and the World." Together we'll discuss the state of labor organizing in Asheville and how workers can build unions that are led by members, powered by direct action, and aimed at fundamental change!

"Unions of Our Own" (Haymarket Books, 2026) is about maximizing our chance of victory: unions where workers are fully meeting needs, honoring their values, and advancing a transformational vision of the world.

https://firestorm.coop/events/3603-unions-of-our-own.html

#SolidarityUnionism #AshevilleFoodAndBev #FeministBookstore #SolidarityUnionNetwork #FirestormCoop (- L)

This Sunday our birthday party kicks off at 3pm, but we hope you'll come early for a conversation with local author and activist Clare Hanrahan!

Clare will present her new book "Elder & Sage Community Gardens: An Urban Uprising," which tells the story of the tenacious group of wayside gardeners who turned a vacant lot at 33 Page Avenue in Downtown Asheville into a community garden. Clare has been a fixture of local social justice movements for the better part of four decades and we so appreciate the way she has lovingly documented the community work she's been a part of. Let's celebrate our gardens and our co-ops this weekend!

Additional information and book purchasing can be found at https://firestorm.coop/events/3605-the-elder-sage-community-gardens.html.

#UrbanGarden #AshevilleStrong #828IsGreat #FeministBookstore #ElderAndSageCommunityGarden #FirestormCoop (- L)

Our collective endorses the "Sunshine Over Surveillance" open letter published by Sunshine Labs, which urges Asheville City Council to vote NO on a $1.14M DOJ grant to expand surveillance through the creation of a "real time intelligence center," and the authorization of a separate 7.5-year contract with Axon.

In particular, we agree with the following major objections articulated by the authors:

"Public participation and procurement have been bypassed. Council has heard from only APD and the vendors. The 7.5-year Axon contract has had no committee review and is being authorized through Sourcewell—a cooperative-purchasing exemption that bypasses competitive bidding.

Residents need more information. The proposed Axon contract and the existing Flock contract are both unpublished. APD has refused a public records request for Flock audit logs. One agency on APD's Flock data-sharing list is Florida Fish & Wildlife—reported by @404mediaco to be running thousands of Flock searches on behalf of ICE.

Federal money is not free money. The current administration has explicitly conditioned federal funding on local ICE cooperation and pursued legal action against jurisdictions that limit it. The grant resolution itself acknowledges that compliance terms will be set "at the Federal level"—and reviewed only AFTER acceptance. Separately, Axon held approximately $31.9 million in ICE contracts in 2025.

Civilian oversight has been dismantled. Asheville's Citizens Police Advisory Committee was paused in 2020 and dismantled in 2024. APD points to self-audits—but in San Francisco, SFPD shared Flock data with ICE and out-of-state agencies 1.6 million times in violation of state law, undetected through two consecutive quarterly audits."

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As an abolitionist organization, Firestorm believes that police reform is unrealistic and opposes any investment in policing. Sunshine Labs demonstrates that even non-abolitionists should reject the undemocratic and opaque proposals under consideration by City Council.

#DeFlock #AntiSurveillance #AbolishICE #FeministBookstore

Hey, do you publish zines?? 👀

In addition to stocking both free and for-purchase pamphlets at our bookstore, we mail zines to our sustainers each month—and we're always looking for exciting new material! If you've got a recently published zine that you think would appeal to our community, send us an email about it: [email protected] 💌

What we're looking for:
• Comics, perzines, essays, poetry, or mixed format!
• At least 12 pages long (sorry, no mini zines please!)
• 60+ copies
• $5 or less per zine

We'd love to see your work, but our email will not accept attachments over 10 MB, so either send a short excerpt or a link to view the larger file in the cloud. Because we select just one zine per month to send out, we won't be able to take every suggestion!

#Zinestagram #DIYPublishing #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

What can trans people expect from pregnancy and what roles do supportive friends, family members, and care providers play?

This Saturday at 6pm ET, join editor Simon Knaphus alongside contributors to a groundbreaking new anthology from @pmpress about navigating family building, pregnancy, fertility treatments, conception, loss, healthcare, abortion, childbirth, the early days of parenting, and the intersections of legal, political, and cultural contexts. This virtual event will include readings, discussion, and a chance to ask your questions!

Sign up and claim your copy of "Seahorses: Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Pregnancy" at https://app.hi.events/event/7167/gender-expansive-pregnancy. Not able to attend live? Sign up anyway and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience later!

#TransHealth #TransPregnancy #NonbinaryPregnancy #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

We're teaming up with Pansy Collective on May Day / International Workers' Day / Beltane for a free screening from @Elememts_of_MA's docuseries, followed by a community potluck!

The Elements of Mutual Aid is a four-part, independently produced documentary series putting a finger on the pulse of community-led survival projects confronting crisis with care. We'll be watching the first chapter together, which includes interviews with Reclaiming Our Homes, Justseeds, Klee Benally, and more.

Alongside the documentary, Pansy Collective will be selling merch to fund the installation of a free vending machine for Plan B and Naloxone in West Asheville!

If you are able, please bring reusable plates and cutlery along with a dish (vegan and gluten-free preferred). Because we will be eating outdoors, the potluck is weather dependent, but the film screening will take place rain or shine.

#MayDay #MutualAid #QueerSouth #TheElementsOfMutualAid #FeministBookstore

How do we reverse the suicidal course of capitalist society and build a liberated world?

This weekend we're teaming up with @pmpress to host a virtual conversation between Jarrod Shanahan, author of the recently published essay collection "Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help," and writer Eman Abdelhadi. Together they'll reflect on Jarrod's book and the last decade of US struggles—including Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Rebellion—alongside the rise of Trumpism, the alt-right, and an apocalyptic shift in popular culture.

Register for this free event and find your copy of "Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help" at https://app.hi.events/event/7035/every-fire-needs-a-little-bit-of-help. Not able to attend in person? Sign up and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience!

#EveryFireNeedsALittleBitOfHelp #GiveTheAnarchistACigarette #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

OMG Firestorm is turning 18?! Lift a glass (or maybe a bottle 😉) to the end of our youth. We're celebrating the milestone with a limited edition shirt from one of our favorite seditious artists—KRIME.

Starting today you can preorder one of these gorgeous gorgon shirts on our website for $36. They'll be printed by the good folks at Black Moon Ink on a 100% combed cotton tee from AS Colour, a company focused on high-quality, longer-lasting apparel. These shirts are tough enough to wear reading critical theory, but cozy enough for a fantasy novella!

Place your preorder before Sunday, May 3rd at https://firestorm.coop/products/24878-firestorm-birthday-t-shirt-preorder.html 📦

#FeministBookstore #TurnCopsToStone #Gorgon #FeministMythology #FirestormCoop (- L)

This Sunday, we're excited to host Argentinian anarchist Tomas Rothaus, author of the recently publish memoir "Another War Is Possible," which takes us on a wild, bumpy, and beautiful ride through a lifetime of resistance.

Joined by a member of the @crimethinc collective, Tomas will discuss the lessons he learned from veterans of the Spanish CNT, his first experience trading blows with police in the streets of Paris, and his adventures slipping across borders to participate in epoch-making riots. "Another War is Possible" is the first of three explosive books Tomas is publishing with our friends at PM Press!

Register for this free event and find your copy of the book at https://app.hi.events/event/7033/militant-anarchist-experiences-in-the-antiglobalization-era. Not able to join the event live? Register anyway and we'll share a recording to enjoy at your convenience!

#AnotherWarIsPossible #AnarchistHistory #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. In simple language: our sales are down, our costs are (way) up, and capitalism is the worst.

With less than $15k in financial buffer left, we've projected that our co-op will no longer have the resources needed for normal operations by the end of July.

⚠️ What We're Doing

Over recent months, we've analyzed our situation and explored possible interventions. We're planning to modestly increase store hours, refresh our Sustainers Program, explore new advertising opportunities, better promote our bulk / B2B sales, research grants for unfunded work done by our members, and look for new pop-up gigs. More immediately, we're planning a big sale for mid-April and we've requested and received a temporary reduction to our mortgage.

Our hope is that a handful of short-term measures will buy us time to pursue the longer-term shift in revenue needed to stabilize Firestorm. If we don't succeed, our nuclear option is a cut to pay. As a horizontal co-op we set a payrate democratically, so no changes take place without buy-in from our whole team, but moving away from a living wage runs counter to our collective health.

⚠️ What You Can Do!

If Firestorm surviving and thriving is important to you, we welcome your support. Here are a few ways to pitch in:

🌈 Buy your next book from us, or tell someone who buys books about us! Not a physical media person? We also sell audiobooks through Libro.fm.

🌈 Join our Sustainers Program, starting at $10/mo! Members receive discounts on books and can access free shipping, a monthly book subscription, and other great perks.

🌈 If you work in an organization that coordinates book-related programs, reach out to us about bulk purchasing (we offer discounts!)

We extend our huge appreciation to everyone who is already supporting our co-op financially, or otherwise! We've only made it this far because of you.

#WorkerCoop #FeministBookstore #SolidarityEconomy

It would be hard to think of a more influential book over the last 5 years than Dean Spade's "Mutual Aid." It's a perennial bookclub pick, there’s an even chance it comes up in any conversation about local organizing, and we regularly hear customers enthusiastically recommending it to each other.

It’s also a book that’s worth revisiting, and Dean does just that in this new edition, starting with a 38-page preface that’s good enough to print as a standalone zine. When the book was first published in 2020, part of its incredible appeal was that it emerged directly from urgent conversations and collective actions that readers themselves were part of. This new preface again brings the text into our moment and serves as a critical intervention against the cooptation and pacification of mutual aid 🔥

https://firestorm.coop/products/23866-mutual-aid.html

From the new preface: “My hope is that ‘Mutual Aid’ helps more people join with others in taking risks to care for people in crisis and dismantle the violent systems that are endangering all life and have already prematurely ended the lives of so many. What we need is not just individual or small-group acts of redistribution and care-which are no doubt meaningful-but to create entire voluntary, horizontal, decentralized systems of living together that do not operate through profit, scarcity, and extraction…

Our only chance at freedom is to break from the liberal hope that elites will act for us, and begin to take direct action and care for each other right now… Any particular part of the work we take up will, inevitably, be inadequate to address the crisis-we can't possibly give out enough money, tents, water bottles, masks, hormones, babysitting shifts, abortion pills, or bowls of soup for the level of crisis that the systems we are living in are creating. But we can do this care work with a focus on bringing more people into the struggle, creating new ways of surviving that are autonomous from our opponents' deadly supply chains, and building more capacity for our fights on every front, so that more of us are ready to join every riot or strike in reach and to risk everything for each other.”

#MutualAid #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

One of the most consequential trials of Trump's second term begins on February 17th, and our friend Des is in the middle of it with a box of zines.

Join us in Asheville on Sunday, Feb 15th at 5pm for a teach-in on the Prairieland case. We'll begin with a brief presentation of background information, the situation of our friend Des, and the latest updates on his trial, with a special emphasis on the implications for the movement to abolish ICE and defeat fascism in the US.

Our collective will then facilitate a discussion on how this case might inform our thinking about violence, nonviolence, and state repression in this moment of growing opposition. The final segment of the teach-in will be a space for participants to engage with the Free Des Solidarity Week by writing a letter, creating art, or developing materials to educate others about the case!

This is a free event, but we ask that you bring a donation to support Des' legal defense fund. Given the topic of this conversation, consider the recommendations we've made at https://firestorm.coop/news/expect-surveillance.html

#FreeDes #ZinesAreNotACrime #PrairielandDefendants #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

Snow day! ❄️ Grab your sled, because Firestorm will be open today and (hopefully) tomorrow from noon to 7pm, but our annual winter break starts MONDAY. We'll be closed from February 2nd through 10th to get some rest, catch up on other projects, and maybe even read a few books!

During our break Firestorm won't be open, but unlike in previous years, we will still be shipping in-stock books ordered through our website. So if you're snowed in today, don't panic (or risk your life)—you can grab that next Margaret Killjoy novella at firestorm.coop 📦

Note: since the weather is still weathering, consider calling the store before trekking in if it looks dicey.

#FeministBookstore #AllegedSecretAntifaHeadquarters #FirestormCoop (- E + L)

We're trying something new in 2026 to help us (and you!) ditch Meta.

We know from personal experience that, paradoxically, logging off can make it hard to maintain IRL connections. So much grassroots activity only seems to get advertised on social media—and for spaces like Firestorm, there's a trap in thinking that Instagram is the best place to reach people, even when they live right down the street.

But there are alternatives... if we build them!

Follow us to a place without data harvesting, shadow bans, and right wing trolls. This week we're launching a new broadcast thread on the Signal app, specifically for events at Firestorm. Sign up and you'll get event announcements + a weekly roundup reminder (no memes, no side chatter—strictly event details!).

Since most of our events are in-person, this new thread will primarily be useful to locals. For more local community events, we also recommend the Asheville Radical Community Calendar (DuckDuckGo it! IYKYK)

#FeministBookstore #QueerSouth #FirestormCoop (- L)

Now that we're in the 2025 home stretch, our collective is shifting from retail hustle to reflection. This was a tough year, on lots of levels, but our public messaging has mostly focused on political concerns rather than the difficult financial position we've been in since Hurricane Helene.

Thanks to strong community support and a grant from the Southern Power Fund, our co-op started 2025 with what we thought was a generous buffer. But between Asheville's slow recovery and worsening conditions for low and middle income folks nationally, we're seeing sales far below those of previous years—and we've burned through our reserves trying to bridge the gap. Our collective is still analyzing the situation, but it's clear that the Q4 turnaround we'd hoped for did not materialize, and we're now headed into late winter on thin ice.

We value transparency, so this post is intended to be a heads up that our project is increasingly precarious. We'll share more information in January along with an outline of how we plan to address Firestorm's financial sustainability. In the meanwhile, we appreciate your continued support and hope that you'll keep us in mind when you're buying books! ❤️‍🔥

#FeministBookstore #HurricaneHelene #FirestormCoop

Did you know that in addition to books our co-op stocks tabletop games? 🎲

Selected with an eye toward social movement themes and cooperative elements, these games are the perfect for adding excitement to an evening with housemates, family, or an affinity group! We've also recently added two awesome roleplaying games to our lineup: "Coyote & Crow," a game set in an alternate future where colonization of the Americas never occurred, and "The Defenders Almanac," a rules-light RPG from the creators of the hit game Defenders of the Wild, where forest creatures fight back against the machines.

Find tabletop games available for in-store pickup or eligible for free shipping at https://firestorm.coop/catalog/type/236-tabletop-games.html.

#TableTopGames #CooperativeGames #FeministBookstore (- L)

We've gathered together some of your very favorite craftspeople for a two day Holiday Craft Pop-Up. You're welcome!

We accept that you can't gift every person you love a book for every holiday, every single year (we work at a bookstore, believe us, we've tried). Switch it up with a macabre mug or a delightfully nerdy bauble made of dice!

Each day of the pop-up includes a unique group of artisans with a wide variety of mediums, styles, and flavors. The event is a Palestine solidarity fundraiser, with a portion of proceeds going towards the Gaza Soup Kitchen.

Join us on Saturday, December 13th to delight in the wares of Cardamom Bakery, Savim, & Friends, Earth to Hands, Fig Crochets , Miles Madonna, Ruckus Ceramics, The Crows' Teeth, The Dicey Dungeon, and WNC Mask Bloc, and Woodberry Designs.

Then on Sunday peruse treasures from Al's Stained Glass, Finn and the Whale, GasStationVampire, HK Hotteok, Lucin Zac, Luzida.Art, Matilda's Menagerie, Polycreative Collective, Shop.Tamango, Turned Worm Studios, and VII Ceramics.

We'll see you there! 🎨🧶🫖💎🍪🧣

#QueerBookstore #CoopsNotCops #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (-Esmé)

‼️ We're extending our Indies First sale through today! ‼️

You can come by today to snag 15% off all non-discounted inventory — this includes books, stickers, shirts, prints, and more! And when you're a Firestorm sustainer that stacks to a whole 25% off. If you were shopping for say, a major gift giving holiday... to name a random example... that 25% really goes a long way 😉

If you're not interested in braving the cold today you can always shop online with the promo code INDIESFIRST. We'll even throw in some free goodies like a sticker and a zine with your order 🫶

#OnHaywoodRd #FeministBookstore #IndiesFirst #SmallBusinessSaturday #FirestormCoop

Friends, comrades, book lovers, this Saturday our co-op is joining the retail pandemonium to offer you discounts on books! That's right, books made of paper, filled with delightful stories and subversive ideas. Skip the mall, skip the big box store, and DEFINITELY skip the Am🤮zon Surveillance Mega Corp, because our team is out here slinging 15-25% discounts on almost everything we stock! How do you get the biggest discounts? We're offering 25% off to members of our sustainers program! Sign up before you shop using the link in our bio.

Have a family member who doesn't love to read? Even flawed people deserve gifts! Give them stickers, t-shirts, board games, art prints, or other unique items from our catalog. If you're shopping in person, our collective is happy to provide bespoke recommendations to help you find exactly what you're looking for. We know that braving the crowds can be exhausting, so hot beverages are on the house!

Indies First savings aren't just for the geographically privileged. Shop online with the promo code INDIESFIRST for the same great deal (minus the hot beverage, sorry). We love it when people choose to support us over corporate shit-peddlers and we'll show you our appreciation with free stickers, postcards, or radical literature in every package. Plus shipping is always free on orders of $50 or more! 💓

#OnHaywoodRd #FeministBookstore #IndiesFirst #SmallBusinessSaturday #AnticapitalistCapitalism #FirestormCoop

Ditch the cranberry sauce and get ready for gore! In dishonor of the Thanksgiving holiday, we're hosting a horror movie double feature fundraiser. All proceeds will support Indigenous anarchist political prisoner Oso Blanco, currently serving 55 years related to bank expropriations in support of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico in the late 90s.

Suggested donation $5-20. Learn more about Oso Blanco at https://freeosoblanco.org.

#AntiColonialFilm #FeministBookstore #OsoBlanco #NoThanksNoGiving #FirestormCoop (- L)

Black Friday, hold the capitalism! 🙅

This year we're bringing back our Black Friday Book Swap, a chill, community-based alternative to the consumer chaos of retail's busiest weekend. Bring books you loved but are willing to part with, and take home something new! There's no limit on the number of books you can bring or take, just be considerate. You're also welcome to hang out and read, but dress warmly since the swap will be taking place on our patio!

Can I join if I don't have any books to bring?
Yes! No worries if you don't have any books you want to bring this time. Firestorm staff will also contribute from our collective's personal beloved book stacks.

Where is the book swap happening?
Come to Firestorm's patio where there will be cute tents and also ✨ free ✨ hot apple cider! Beware, books inside the bookstore are NOT part of the swap and sadly still subject to Commerce. But the point is, you DON'T have to spend money at the book swap!

#QueerBookstore #CoopsNotCops #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- Esmé)

One week from today Firestorm will be hosting @MsKellyMHayes in conversation with organizer Ash Williams to discuss the launch of "Read this When Things Fall Apart," a new publication of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times.

“If you need an antidote to despair, this book is for you. It’s a repository of fortifying collective wisdom, a tonic for our troubled times. The letters Kelly Hayes has collected offer vital insights amid the darkness, shrewd strategic advice for aspiring change-makers, and a reminder none of us are in the fight alone.”—Astra Taylor, co-author of "Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea"

Register for this online event, and find your copy of "Read This When Things Fall Apart," at https://firestorm.coop/events/3487-read-this-when-things-fall-apart.html

#Activism #MovementMemos #KellyHayes #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)