2024 Will Be BIG for Us ✨
Happy New Year, comrades! 🎉 2024 marks the Nonbinarian Book Bike’s first full year of book distribution and event programming since our founding in October 2022! By subscribing to this newsletter, you are not only a beloved member of this community, but an important part of our ongoing efforts to distribute FREE LGBTQIA+ books to readers of all ages throughout Brooklyn. Thank you.
To see our accomplishments from the first year of the Book Bike, check out our Year in Review!
Through collective effort, The Nonbinarian Book Bike distributed approximately 575 books to individuals and 130 to organizations like Trans formative Schools!
We are so excited to see what we can accomplish together in 2024. We’re just getting started.
— Samantha Puc, Newsletter Editor & Book Club Coordinator
As we continue to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine,, The Nonbinarian is investing in reading and uplifting Palestinian voices. This month's book club pick is Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan.
The Nonbinarian Book Club is partnered with Bluestockings Cooperative, a worker-owner-run activist center, bookstore, and community space located at 116 Suffolk St, New York, New York, on the Lower East Side.
You can purchase this month's Nonbinarian Book Club book at Bluestockings to support their mission and ours! Click here to order online and use code BOOKBIKE for 15% off at checkout.
The Nonbinarian Book Bike is partnered with the following independent bookstores! Books purchased from our wishlists will be donated directly to the bike for free distribution.
The Nonbinarian Book Bike is also proud to partner with the following organizations for our community reading events! Please check out their mission statements and support them however possible.
🌠 Reading 4 Black Lives Project
Finally, The Nonbinarian Book Bike is partnered with Trans formative Schools, "a progressive education community centering trans joy and social justice." The organization aims to uplift trans children and educators, as well as families "touched by transness," through the implementation of a free afterschool program for ages 9-15. Trans formative Schools' dream is to create a liberal middle school that employs rigorous academics, identity exploration, and more.
All books purchased from this Bookshop wishlist will go directly to Trans formative Schools. The Nonbinarian Book Bike receives a portion of each purchase, which helps us pay for storage, bike maintenance and upkeep, and more. By purchasing from this list, you directly support two trans-led organizations and support indie bookstores through Bookshop.org.
If you'd like to partner with us for an event or sponsorship, please reach out via e-mail! In addition to subscribing to our newsletter, following us on social media, and participating in events, you can also support the Book Bike in the following ways:
📚 Donate a book (or books) to the Book Bike!
📚 Donate funds to help upkeep costs like storage and bike maintenance! You can make a one-time donation or set up a monthly one on Ko-Fi, or you can donate via Venmo.
📚 Buy a book from our wishlist!
📚 Buy a book through our Bookshop storefront!
📚 Support us with a Libro.fm subscription!
📚 Buy Nonbinarian merch!
To get involved in our virtual or physical programming, please DM @nonbinarianbike on IG or email kay@thenonbinarian.gay!
Thank you to the Nonbinarian community for making our first season so successful! It has been such a joy to meet you at pop-ups, interact with you on social media, and further get to know the Brooklyn community and its various neighborhoods.
In 2024, our distribution will begin earlier, allowing us to bring even more books to even further reaches of the city. Stay tuned! 📚🚲✨
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