F*ck 🧊 Solidarity Forever
Dear Comrades,
We are witnessing the fall of the United States in real time. And as the people of Minnesota have shown us, community organizing efforts are crucial leading the resistance. Folks across the country are answering the call to join them, as evidenced by the Nationwide Shutdown. But the work is not over. And our "leaders" are not coming to save us. We take care of us.
Here are a few resources for participating in the resistance:
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center has print your own red cards available in 56 languages for download.
Boycott Citizens has compiled a list of companies collaborating with ICE to boycott.
This Linktree has a comprehensive collection of mutual aid resources in Minneapolis, where you can support organizations on the frontlines, as well as more localized efforts for schools, food & rent relief, & family GoFundMes.
Solidarity forever.
— The Nonbinarian collective
CAMP: A Queer KidLit Fundraising Social
What if this Valentine's month we join in community with our queer comrades & book-ish folk at The Nonbinarian Bookstore? Join us in-store as your most fabulous sparkly self for an after-hours 21+ party on Friday, February 20 from 7pm—11 pm.
PWYC entrance fee goes toward supporting Queer KidLit Camp. Allies welcome & are gently encouraged to donate more if they can as we center TGNC & QTBIPOC attendees, authors, & volunteers.
Queer KidLit Camp brings together a diverse group of 30-50 queer and trans people in and around the book publishing industry to spend three days in community with each other for an opportunity to discuss the highs and lows of working in publishing with our intersectional identities.
Meet local authors! Win raffles! Flash tattoos & DJs & other fun gay stuff too probably! Come be cute with us on the dance floor at the super gay bookstore as we fundraise for the most wholesome thing in the book industry: Queer KidLit Camp! RSVP HERE!
Here’s what’s happening this month. All times EST; 💻 = virtual, 🛍️ = in-store
Reminder: All in-store events at The Nonbinarian Bookstore are masks required! Testing is encouraged and we have free tests on-site, but negative tests will not be accepted in lieu of a well-fitted mask.
🛍️ 2/6 Sex Change USA Zine Event with Daisy Thursday & Friends 7pm-9pm (after-hours), RSVP here
🛍️ 2/7 Masc4Mask PCR Testing 1pm-4pm, test sign up here
🛍️ 2/8 Volunteer Drop-In Hours: ICE Watch whistle kit assembly 2pm-4pm, free, no registration required, open to all, materials provided
🛍️ 2/12 QTTRPG Night 7pm-9pm (after-hours), RSVP here
🛍️ 2/13 Dykes' Day Out “Galentines Day” Celebration & Craft Night 7pm-9pm (after-hours), *open to anyone who self-IDs as a dyke, RSVP here
🛍️ 2/14 Masc4Mask PCR Testing 1pm-4pm, test sign up here
🛍️ 2/15 Queer Cookbook Club 4pm-6pm, RSVP here
💻 2/16 Virtual Volunteer Open Forum 7pm-9pm, free, open to current, past, & prospective volunteers, Zoom registration here
🛍️ 2/19 Cozy Queer (Silent) Reading Hour 6pm-7:30pm, free, no registration required, open to all
💻 2/19 Virtual Fragments Expanded: A QTPOC Smut Writing Workshop 7pm-8:30pm, *QTPOC attendees only, Zoom registration here
🛍️ 2/20 CAMP: A Queer KidLit Camp Fundraiser 7pm-11pm (after-hours), RSVP here
🛍️ 2/21 Masc4Mask PCR Testing 1pm-4pm, test sign up here
🛍️ 2/21 BDSM Series: Pervertables Class 7pm-8:30pm (after-hours), RSVP here
🛍️ 2/22 Monthly ATLS Name Change Clinic 1pm-3pm, free, no registration required, please bring a valid government ID
🛍️💻 2/23 Hybrid Reading Trancestors: A Trans History Book Club 7pm-8:30pm (after-hours) *TGNC attendees only, Zoom registration here
🛍️ 2/26 Intimate Fragments: A Smutty Trans Open Mic 7pm-9pm (after-hours), RSVP here
💻 2/27 Virtual The Nonbinarian Book Club 8pm-9pm, free, open to all, sign up for our Book Club Bulletin for Zoom link & reminders!
🛍️ 2/28 Masc4Mask PCR Testing 1pm-4pm, test sign up here
🛍️ 2/28 Queer Disability Aid Arts & Crafts Support Group 7pm-9pm (after-hours) *QT disabled attendees only, RSVP here
🛍️ 3/1 T4T Clothing Swap 1pm-4pm, free, no registration required, open to all
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Bookshop.org Nonbinarian Book List Recs
When you choose The Nonbinarian Bookstore as your bookstore of choice on Bookshop.org and shop our booklists or any item on Bookshop.org, we receive a 30% affiliate fee from every sale! The affiliate fee directly supports us as a newly opened bookstore as well as sustaining our mutual aid initiative, The Nonbinarian Book Bike.
Shop some of The Nonbinarian’s recommendations here:
This month, we are reading How We Get Free edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.*
Join us on Friday, February 27 at 8 p.m. 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.
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 or online. 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.
If you prefer to listen to the audiobook, support indie bookstores and the Nonbinarian by purchasing through Libro.fm and selecting us as your store of choice!*
Hosted monthly by Nonbinarians Philomena and Alexander, Reading Trancestors will meet monthly both in-store and virtually on Zoom. Each month we will collectively suggest and vote on our next book together.
This month, we’ll be continuing reading the second part of Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson available in print from Bookshop.org.*
Reading Trancestors is a free, monthly, hybrid reading and discussion group centering trans authors and readers, focused on learning from a past that insists on continually repeating itself. How did our trancestors survive the things we’re scared will happen again? Where did they find purpose in a world with no concept of their existence? What beautiful siblings are in the archive, siblings we may not even know existed?
Attendees (both virtual & in-person) will receive $5 off their next book club pick purchase at The Nonbinarian Bookstore.
Note: This book club centers the trans gaze and is open only to trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming attendees.
*If ever you cannot afford to obtain a copy of the book club pick for any of our meetings, please reach out to us via email. No judgment, no questions. We take care of us.
In addition to subscribing to our newsletter, following us on social media, visiting the store, and participating in events, you can also support the Nonbinarian in the following ways:
📚 Donate a book (or books)! See our used book policy for details.
📚 Donate funds to help upkeep costs rent and bike maintenance! You can become a sustaining backer through Ko-Fi, or you can make a one time donation via Venmo or Givebutter.
📚 Buy a book through our Bookshop storefront!
📚 Support us with a Libro.fm subscription!
📚 Buy Nonbinarian merch!
Thank you to the Nonbinarian community for always showing up and showing out! We wouldn’t be here without our comrades, cheerleaders, volunteers, and backers! It has been a joy to meet you in-store and at pop-ups, interact with you on social media, and get to know the Brooklyn community and its various neighborhoods.
Want to contribute to the Nonbinarian Newsletter?
If you want to submit something to the newsletter, including events, mutual aid needs, book recs, or ideas you'd like to see us include, please email us at newsletter@thenonbinarian.gay.
