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Feminist and LGBTQ+ Bookstores

The Office of the GWS Librarian maintains the following list of women’s, feminist, and LGBTQ+ focused bookstores. We center feminist, anti-oppression, trans-inclusionary stores. The list is updated as we learn about new or closed stores. If you have a suggestion for our list, please email kmfoster2@wisc.edu.

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Feminist Bookstores in North America:

  • All She Wrote Books – Somerville, Massachusetts – intersectional, inclusive feminist and queer bookstore
  • Antigone Books – Tucson, Arizona – independent, historically feminist bookstore
  • Big Blue Marble Books – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – literary fiction, poetry, LGBTQ+ books for kids, teens, and adults
  • BookWoman – Austin, Texas – oldest, queerest, feminist-est bookstore in TX
  • Burdock Book Collective – Birmingham, Alabama – intersectional feminist bookstore and community space
  • Cafe con Libros – Brooklyn, New York – Intersectional Feminist community bookstore and coffee shop
  • Card Carrying Books & Gifts – Corning, New York – creating a feminist future
  • Charis Books – Decatur, Georgia – the South’s oldest independent feminist bookstore
  • Common Ground Books – Tallahassee, Florida – LGBT+, feminist, and banned books
  • Eleanor’s Norfolk – Norfolk, Virginia – local intersectional feminist bookstore & bottle shop
  • Em and Em’s Books – Buffalo, New York – LGBTQIA+, Black, Indigenous, POC, diverse, and women centric
  • Harriett’s Bookshop – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – celebrates women authors, women artists, and women activists (sister shop to Ida’s Bookshop)
  • Ida’s Bookshop – celebrates women authors, women artists, & women activists (sister shop to Harriett’s Bookshop, physical location closed Jan 31, 2025)
  • L’Euguelionne – Montreal, Quebec – feminist bookstore and non-profit solidarity co-op
  • People Called Women – mobile feminist bookstore in Ohio
  • Pocket Books – Lancaster, Pennsylvania – an eclectic feminist bookstore
  • The Radical Cat – Reno, Nevada – feminist bookstore, cat adoption center, and community space
  • A Room of One’s Own – Madison, Wisconsin – local, independent, feminist bookstore
  • Socialight Society – Lansing, Michigan – celebrates Black women, curates Black books, and creates Black spaces
  • Venus Envy – Ottawa, Ontario; and Halifax, Nova Scotia – education-oriented sex shop and bookstore
  • Violet Valley Bookstore – Water Valley, Mississippi – a queer feminist bookstore
  • Women and Children First – Chicago, Illinois – one of the largest feminist bookstores in the country
  • Womencrafts – Provincetown, Massachusetts – promotes the work of female artisans, authors, and musicians
  • Yes, Please – Scottdale, Georgia – a manifestation of our reverence for black women and gender expansive writers and readers

LGBTQ+ Bookstores in North America:

Outside North America:

  • Antigone – Rome, Italy – gender studies, feminisms, art, and queer theory
  • Artemis Books – Aachen, Germany – queer bookstore
  • Berkana – Madrid, Spain – first bookstore specializing in LGTBIQ+ culture in Spain
  • Black Feminist Bookshop – London, England – queer Black woman owned
  • Category is Books – Glasgow, Scotland – independent LGBTQIA+ bookshop
  • ChickLit – Vienna, Austria – feminist and queer feminist theory, fiction, lesbian novels, children’s books, graphic novels
  • Dali Bom Books – Seoul, South Korea – feminist and LGBTQ
  • Eisenherz – Berlin, Germany – queer literature
  • Fem Books – Taipei, Taiwan – feminist and queer books and films
  • Gay’s The Word – London, England – UK’s oldest LGBT bookshop
  • Gay on Wye – Hay-On-Wye, Wales – independent LGBTQ+ bookshop
  • Hares & Hyenas – St. Kilda, Australia – specialises in queer identity, sexuality, sex and gender diversity
  • Les Mots à la Bouche – Paris, France – bookstore focused on LGBTQ+ cultures
  • Librairie des femmes – Paris, France – books written by women, on women or for women
  • Libreria de Mujeres – Buenos Aires, Argentina – feminist bookstore and archive
  • Librería Mujeres – Madrid, Spain – renowned feminist bookstore
  • Lighthouse – Edinburgh, Scotland – queer-owned and woman led
  • Mujeres & Compañía – Madrid, Spain – women’s and feminist books
  • Savannah Bay – Utretcht, The Netherlands – gender studies, feminism, LGBTQIA+
  • The Second Shelf – London, England – feminist rare books
  • Un livre et une tasse de thé – Paris, France – bookstore and tea room
  • The Women’s Bookshop – Auckland, New Zealand – women’s writing, LGBTQIA+ books

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