Women and Children First, the community operated LGBTQIA radical and progressive bookstore in Chicago, says that it is taking two days off at the start of January after the hectic Christmas period when business was good, and a time of year when many independent businesses enjoy a huge boost. To allow the staff a breather, they will be closed on 5th, 6th and 7th January. After that, there are a whole host of guests and public events through the winter months. Here are just some:
Thursday, January 8 at 7 p.m.
No More Mediocre by Laura Danger
in conversation with Sophie Lucido Johnson
Women & Children First
All of us are in combat with a culture telling us we need to be more, to hustle more, and that we should be doing it all ourselves. It’s a cycle that needs to be broken, and in this book, Danger, an experienced educator, facilitator, and domestic equity advocate, unpacks the inequity and rage at the erasure of domestic labor and care and guides readers toward a healthier and more balanced life.
Thursday, January 15 at 7 p.m.
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
by Adam Morgan
in conversation with Julia Fine
Margaret C. Anderson’s cutting-edge magazine The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from then-unknowns like T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna Barnes. And as its publisher, Anderson was a target. From Chicago to New York and Paris, this fearless agitator helmed a woman-led publication that pushed American culture forward and challenged the sensibilities of early 20th-century Americans dismayed by its salacious writing and advocacy for supposed extremism like women’s suffrage, access to birth control, and LBGTQ rights.
Wednesday, January 21 at 7 p.m.
Virtual Event: Trans & Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences
edited by Alex Iantaffi
with other contributors
a virtual event with Alex Iantaffi and other contributors to celebrate the release of Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences. This event will be hosted on Zoom Webinar. Registration link coming soon!
To be trans and disabled means to have experienced harassment, discrimination, and loneliness, sometimes also poverty, and to have struggled with feeling unworthy of love.
To see a full list of a calendar full of events and seminars, visit https://womenandchildrenfirst.com/
