Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes 📚🍂
K and I opened the store in 2024 because, in an increasingly intensifying socioeconomic and political climate, queer/trans books and spaces in the US were becoming scarce. I'm a firm believer that a good community bookstore is a mirror of that community in both need as well as interest. Since the Nonbinarian Bookstore opened two years ago, lots of things have changed — and I think it's time our shelves do, too.
As a response to the last few weeks and months of tightening restrictions on queer/trans communities of color, I'd like to expand our offerings along the lines of the following:
In both our used book buying, and new book curation, we are especially interested in bringing in books by and about Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, radical politics, and theory, in addition to weird & witchy books, plays, graphic novels, poetry, hard to find queer fiction, classic & contemporary trans authored books; the emphasis being why this book belongs in our store, not just who authored it.
Lastly, I'd like to stress that adding these subjects to our inventory is not a move away from queer/trans books. "None of us are free 'till all of us are free," as Fannie Lou Hamer says, and I'd like the Nonbinarian's stock to reflect the totality of that struggle — as comrades, friends, and equals.
— Jihye Shin-Perez (she/they), Nonbinarian Buyer & Co-Founder
The Nonbinarian Sidewalk Sale!
Fall is here and we are ready to make room for new books on our shelves. Join us outside The Nonbinarian Bookstore on Saturday, 9/19 for our first Sidewalk Sale!
We'll be slinging deep discounted new books, as well as bargain prices for gently used books, and giveaways on the book bike. Cash, card, or tap to pay accepted (cash preferred!). Sidewalk sale 12pm until 4pm, or until we run out!
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STOREWIDE SALE!
The Nonbinarian is getting ready for the holiday season by making way for new books and we're offering a storewide discount ALL DAY Saturday, September 19, regular store hours 12pm-7pm.
Help us make the dollars to bring in new, exciting inventory that reflects what we want this bookstore to be for you and SHOP!
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We Want Your Books!
We accept book donations for appraisal on Mondays and Fridays during regular store hours 12pm-7pm.
We emphasize queer & trans authored books. As we branch out our scope to include more voices in collective liberation, we are making exceptions for radical organizing texts & titles that fit within our larger values as a collective.
Buy backs in exchange for store credit. More used book policy info here.
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Upcoming at The Nonbinarian:
💻 = virtual, 🛍 = in-store, 🚲 = book bike.
Reminder: All in-store events at The Nonbinarian Bookstore are masks required.
See our website for more information on our events & to register!
🛍 9/17 Fragments Expanded: A QTBIPOC Smut Writing Workshop 6:45pm—9pm (after-hours), RSVP here *Open only to QTBIPOC attendees.
🛍 9/19 Nonbinarian Sidewalk Sale! 12pm—4pm (or until we run out)
🛍 9/19 Storewide sale! 12pm—7pm
🛍 9/19 Masc4Mask PCR Testing 1pm—4pm, test sign up here
🛍 9/20 Paper Crafting Workshop 4pm—6pm, RSVP here
🛍 9/24 Intimate Fragments: A Smutty Trans Open Mic 7pm—9pm (after-hours), RSVP here
🛍 9/25 Know Your Rights Union Training 12pm—3pm
🛍 9/25 Community EMDR NYC Drop-In Group: Reprocessing Session (after-hours private event) 6:30pm—8pm
💻 9/25 Virtual Nonbinarian Book Club 8pm—9pm EST. Sign up for our Book Club Bulletin for Zoom link & reminders!
🛍 9/26 Masc4Mask PCR Testing 1pm—4pm, test sign up here
🛍 9/27 Queer Scrap ‘N Yap 7pm—9pm (after-hours), RSVP here
🛍💻 9/28 Hybrid Reading Trancestors: A Trans History Book Club 7pm—8:30pm (after-hours). Register via Zoom or RSVP here for in-store attendance. *Open only to TGNC attendees.
🛍 9/29 The Somatics of Tarot Workshop 7pm—9pm (after-hours), RSVP here
🛍 9/30 “But Papa, I Love Him!” A PowerPoint Party for Queers with Big Feelings 7pm—10pm (after-hours), RSVP here
🛍 10/1 Crown Heights Tenant Union Palestine Solidarity Book Club (after-hours) 7pm—9pm
🛍 10/3 Masc4Mask PCR Testing 1pm—4pm, test sign up here
🛍 10/4 T4T Clothing Swap 1pm—4pm
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SAVE THE DATE: The Book Bike’s 4th birthday!
🚲 10/18 Queer Bring a Cake Book Bike Picnic at Brower Park! Celebrate FOUR years of The Nonbinarian with Queer Cookbook Club for a book bike distro & birthday cake picnic gathering. Folks new to the book bike, long time pals, & volunteers past & present are invited for a wholesome gay time outside for books, cake, & community.
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The Nonbinarian’s Bookshop.org Reading Lists
The Nonbinarian loves recommending books for you! Shop some of our volunteer curated book lists here:
When you select The Nonbinarian Bookstore as your bookstore of choice on Bookshop.org, we receive a 30% affiliate fee from every sale! The affiliate fee directly supports us as a small indie bookstore as well as sustaining our mutual aid initiative, The Nonbinarian Book Bike.
Thank you for choosing to support The Nonbinarian on Bookshop.org!
The Nonbinarian Book Club is a monthly, virtual, queer and trans-focused book club. Attendees will receive $5 off their next purchase at The Nonbinarian Bookstore (in-store). Meetings take place on the last Friday of each month and book club picks will be announced via the Nonbinarian Newsletter and social media on the 1st of each month.
This month, we'll be reading Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen (available in print for direct-to-home shipping from Bookshop.org, as an e-book, or on audiobook from Libro.fm).
Join us on Friday, September 25 at 8pm ET on Zoom to meet other club members and chat about the book! The Zoom link will be sent out on the day of the meeting.
Trans people are in the midst of hard time. That’s nothing new. To find ways to survive &, despite everything, thrive in the new/old regime, we turn to our elders, who have been through it all before.
Hosted monthly by Nonbinarian Alexander (he/him), meeting on the last Monday of the month on-site in-store at The Nonbinarian Bookstore & virtually on Zoom. Each month we will collectively suggest & choose our next book together.
This month, we'll be reading Before Gender by Eli Erlick (available in print for direct-to-home shipping from Bookshop.org, as an e-book, or on audiobook from Libro.fm).
Free. No need to have read in order to attend. Trancestors attendees receive an in-store discount. Join us online or in person on Monday, September 28 from 7pm-8:30pm ET.
To attend in-person: RSVP for in-store HERE!
To attend virtually: Zoom link here!
Note: This book club centers the trans gaze & is open only to trans, non-binary, & gender-nonconforming attendees.
Thank you to Bookstr, Electric Lit, and Publishers Weekly for spotlighting The Nonbinarian Bookstore in your queer bookstore round ups!
You can also find us on LGBTnearme.org, a program of the LGBT National Help Center, is a tool to help you find resources and community connections for the LGBTQ+ community, as well as BookQuest, Qlist, & Where Queers Go.
In addition to subscribing to our newsletter, following us on social media, visiting the store, leaving us reviews, & attending events, you can also support the Nonbinarian in the following ways:
📚 Become a member
📚 Chip-in via Givebutter or Venmo
📚 Donate used books
📚 Buy books through Bookshop.org
📚 Buy audiobooks through Libro.fm
📚 Buy Nonbinarian merch
Visit us:
The Nonbinarian Bookstore at 1130 President St, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Getting there: Ramp accessible entrance, corner of President & Rogers. 2/5 President stop; 3 Nostrand stop; B49, B44. Street & garage parking.
Regular store hours:
12pm——7pm Daily
Please note: Hours are subject to change, per volunteer COVID safety & risk exposure, private events, or extenuating circumstances. We will announce these changes online when possible.
As a disabled owned & volunteer operated store, we appreciate your patience & understanding.
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Website: thenonbinarian.gay
Socials: @nonbinarianbike
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