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The so-called feminists complaining about cancel culture have been telling our store it isn't a 'safe space', even going so far as to ask for refunds, because we carry books by trans women and are open to all like a normal bookshop!
Who exactly is trying to cancel culture?
Who exactly is trying to cancel culture?
We're waiting.
Waiting for an enlivened and rigorous and honest discourse. Because what we've received is harassment and abuse.
What's amazing is we are a bookshop of books by everyone, focused on the work by and about women, working to redress patriarchal canonization and value as set by the patriarchy. But they can't abide us, because we are inviting and culturally intersectional.
We aren't cancelling culture, they are. Those who refused a discourse with them, are doing so because their discourse is shit. It's not about free speech or human rights, they feel a loss of their privilege, because their views are hurtful and no longer prioritized. Boo hoo.
But we wait patiently for some explanation on how we are cancelling culture. Culture welcome in our store, as are all people, to shop and browse. We sell books with shit takes in them because feminist history is full of them (Greer, side-eye to you) and it is our burden.
We are super happy not to take money from people telling us they feel silenced though because we are essentially a regular bookshop with a speciality focused on "looks down at our mission" women writers. OK! Have it your way. Your discourse is shite!
Every once in a few weeks we just have to process how absolutely stunned we are that this is a thing we've had to sort through to exist. And it isn't an iota of what trans women or people who identify outside of cultural norms have to go through. It's just ridiculous.
Like it's not even a discourse. We said trans women are women to that writer of Harry Potter in attempt to have a discourse and she blocked us. She is trying to cancel culture.
And yet so many people on twitter in the arts and in takes online seem very concerned about the abuse leveled her way.
We can only say that their concern seems skewed toward someone with a lot of power and money and who is beloved and who is making her own choices. She is responsible for HER VIEWS. She is responsible. Hold her accountable.
We are now going to continue to try to finish our website. We are open now! Not even by appointment. Simply open. We have a red velvet rope that arrived that we are struggling to put together. But we are allowing two people at a time in with no appointments. Have masks at door!
