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Very chuffed to have the wonderful Rachel Mann read from her poetry collection "A Kingdom of Love", published by @carcanetpress, next Wednesday at 7pm. Tickets in link in bio. Rachel will be reading some of her poems and discussing the themes with Roz Kaveney. Rachel defines herself as trans, a priest, poet, canon, writer and broadcaster. This event is ideal if you don't get round to reading much poetry but have always wanted to. Rachel and Roz will be chatting about how poetry can bring us together in difficult times. #lgbtq🌈 #trans #poetry #poetryofinstagram #transrepresentation #poetryisnotdead (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9hRgnbFTxR/?igshid=kj0ugoji2u0e

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BACK IN STOCK 🔥 New issue of @lestemagazine just arrived! (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8_XFzulwxg/?igshid=1edw4se1wf6pu

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@hatezine now stocked in @housmans_books! You can also find our #fucktoryscum and anti-Boris badges in good company. 🔸repost from @hatezine 🔸 (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8zC1tIlxfZ/?igshid=k2mc0vr7ewoh

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We're participating in the 5th @londonbookshopcrawl! Cheer up your February with a weekend celebration of the bookshops of London! Bookshops across central and greater London will be offering discounts, perks and special events for bookshop crawlers and you'll be able to download our free route maps to go bookshop crawling on your own or with friends, or join one of our special guided groups and meet new book loving friends. Try to visit as many bookshops as you can, or just one; discover new ones or visit old favourites. It's entirely up to you, and everyone is welcome, the only rules are be nice to people, have fun and share the bookish love! There will also be special events across the weekend like the Book Swap Brunch, special tours and other fun stuff. #londonbookshopcrawl #londonbookshopcrawl2020 (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7sXUuvg5PN/?igshid=bqz7rlx7x3bk

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“If we are to define Black Gothicity as something other than simply a Black person who is goth, what accoutrement defines the AfroGoth? Or does it need accessories at all, is Blackness itself is the signifier? I think this is why I love Fred Berger’s photo so much. The photo was taken in 1984, when goth was still post-punk. She’s not wearing any makeup, her mohawk spiked just enough, there’s no lace or fishnets or extravagant eyeliner. It’s just a black girl in a Bauhaus t-shirt and that’s goth enough." 🖤 Leila Taylor's DARKLY: BLACK HISTORY AND AMERICA'S GOTHIC SOUL is in stock now 🖤 "Bauhaus T-shirt Girl" photo by Fred Berger for Propaganda Magazine https://www.facebook.com/propaganda.gothic/?ref=bookmarks #afrogoth #afrogothic #afrogothgirl #afrogoths #bauhaus #joydivision #jordanpeele #postpunk 🌔This a a repost from @repeaterbooks 🌖 (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7q6QiGgOVd/?igshid=1ffopwd3rh9sv

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The Black Herstory 2020 calendar is in stock now! 12 illustrations by @jacobvjoyce of black radical womxn ☝🏾 (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6OcrLvF14S/?igshid=1fd6m4hvgq8ai

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Stuck for pressie ideas?! Housmans' vouchers are the perfect gift for the #activist #anarchist #marxist #feminist #campaigner #socialist in your life. And you'll be supporting a radical indie bookshop with more than 70 years' history. (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5vZt_QFUWD/?igshid=r4pdfh0ewth

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For all your radical book needs, Housmans bookshop. Since 1945! In the heart of #KingsCross, London #radical #feminist #antifascist #lgbtq #blackpolitics #anarchist (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5vYXb1l-Xo/?igshid=e5emrejhscnb

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Just got Worms in and it's friggin awesome. It's a shrine to #KathyAcker and it's a mega cool journal that celebrates female writer culture. There's Chris Kraus and Ariana Reines, Natasha Stagg, #DianediPrima, plus other women beat authors... LOVE IT! (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4nE303F4bD/?igshid=rzzn97fm742

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Pleased to have this instant classic on our shelves. An elegant and illuminating memoir on cancer, the cancer industry, the medical industrial complex, medical discourse, inequalities, the exploitative working conditions that make us ill, friendship and community. #NewAtHousmans #newbooks #Bookstagram (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4m0JX5liad/?igshid=9j9y62k709yq

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Event alert: Wed 30th Oct, 7pm. Join us to learn about and discuss the legacy of Race Today, an historic journal that was at the epicenter of the struggle for racial justice in Britain from 1973 to 1988 #racematters #racetoday #blackhistorymonth #malcolmx (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B398i6DlQsN/?igshid=16cph0kohmkjz

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Shocking images of the violent protests in #Catalonia after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan independence leaders to long prison sentences. On Friday 25th of October at 7pm, one of the main activists from Catalonia's independent movement, Liz Castro, and three experts, David Whyte (author of How Corrupt is Britain?), Ignasi Bernat and Rob Knox, will be at the shop to explain and discuss the situation. If you'd like to understand and find out more about the Catalonian struggle and its implications for #Scotland and nationalism in Europe, go to our bio for tickets. Ignasi and David are the editors of the book "Building a new Catalonia" which includes contributions by Paul Mason, Jordi Cuixart (one of the imprisoned activists), Costas Lapavitsas plus some of the main Catalonian activists. The book is currently in stock and will be on sale during the event. @amnesty.international.actions has urged the release of Jordi Cuixart and the other Catalan figures as their imprisonment represents a disproportionate restriction on their rights to free speech and peaceful assembly. Tickets are £1 unwaged, £3 standard and £5 solidarity. 📸 Emilio Morenatti/AP from ABC News #Catalonia #Catalunya (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3t-979FTTX/?igshid=hfl0ioo2q5wu

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EVENT ALERT🌛🌜 WED OCT 16 @ 7PM 🌞🌜🌝🌛 Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all it’s cracked up to be? At what cost does this acceptance come? And who is getting left behind, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ rights aren’t so advanced? Combining intrepid journalism with her own personal experience, Amelia Abraham searches for the answers to these urgent challenges, as well as the broader question of what it means to be queer in 2019. With curiosity, good humour and disarming openness, Amelia takes the reader on a thought-provoking and entertaining journey. Join her as she cries at the first same-sex marriage in Britain, loses herself in the world’s biggest drag convention in L.A., marches at Pride parades across Europe, visits both a transgender model agency and the Anti-Violence Project in New York to understand the extremes of trans life today, parties in the clubs of Turkey’s underground LGBTQ+ scene, and meets a genderless family in progressive Stockholm. A beautifully written, personal, intimate voyage into what it is to be queer. Incredibly eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book Owen Jones, author of Chavs and The Establishment I loved Queer Intentions! Absolutely fascinating and endlessly entertaining, but so much more than that. It’s also an important read that will resonate with anyone who’s spent more than a minute thinking about gender and sexuality and what it means to identify as queer in 2019, or who’s ever wondered where we go from here SJ Watson, author of Before I Go To Sleep An intersectional and insightful journey through the vast nuances of the queer experience Munroe Bergdorf #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtqia #queer (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3XOYK4FEET/?igshid=hx5vmbxddmel

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Look who popped in last week having just landed in London to start off her UK tour! It's the fabulous @michelleteaz who graciously signed copies of #againstmemoir and #blackwave 💅 grab a copy before they go! (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3UwKuUFDOe/?igshid=1i4zdxmocluv7

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Love this pic by @_natashadevon of @sarah_tanat_jones 👌at the launch of Queer Heroes last week #davidbowie ... At launch of a book of #queerheroes at @housmans_books this evening. Was admiring this #Bowie portrait by @sarah_tanat_jones when woman comes up and says ‘I love him more than you. I even have a Bowie necklace’. I must be maturing because I said ‘let’s not argue, Bowie wouldn’t have wanted it’ instead of ‘hold my beer while I get my tatts out’. #lgbtq🌈 (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3MRdujFSzl/?igshid=1qs5mzu6xrd6q

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#Repost from @russell_warfield ... packed @housmans_books for @jj_bola on masculinity. especially as a new father raising a boy, this was a really timely, thoughtful and emotionally generous talk ❤️ (at Housmans Radical Booksellers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3MQs5lFU47/?igshid=9ssj3cgc3tie

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Congratulations to @dreamnailsband for winning the @loudwomen HERCURY award 2019 for their album "Take up Space" recorded at the shop!!🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊 #Repost from @dreamnailsband ... 🏆WE WON the @loudwomen Hercury Award 2019 for our live acoustic album ‘Take Up Space’ 🏆😁🙌 See our full acceptance speech on our FB page 🤪🤩💖 We put so much energy and experimentation into that record - our first & only (so far) acoustic show, recorded at @housmans_books in London - because radical bookstores are inclusive community spaces that punk belongs in!🌟💖🌟💖 https://www.instagram.com/p/B204-nHlUbo/?igshid=o0si790twfia