🪩 Happy New Year!
The end of 2024 was a whirlwind for the Nonbinarian team as we opened a brick-and-mortar bookstore and determined new fundraising methods. Even as we all fear what’s to come in 2025, one thing is for certain: we aren’t going anywhere.
That’s entirely thanks to you, our incredible community, for showing up, showing out, and helping us build this project from the ground up over the last 2+ years. Our goal is to create the most inclusive, supportive space possible, and we continue to work toward that every day with the help of our volunteers and comrades.
Heading into a particularly frightening year, especially for multiply-marginalized folks, we’ll continue to fight for the right to read, the right to freely access information, the right to self-determination, and more. The Nonbinarian was started as a means of building, securing, and celebrating trans+ futures—and we will never give up that fight.
In solidarity,
Samantha Puc, The Nonbinarian Book Club Coordinator & Newsletter Editor
2025 New Year’s Weekend Sale! 🛍📚
Thursday, 1/2 - Sunday, 1/5
15% holiday goods & 10% off select titles all weekend long while supplies last!
All sale items will be featured on our display table. Holiday products include 2025 calendars, single greeting cards, gift wrap, gift tags, & gift bags!
For up-to-date store hours, visit us on Instagram!
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Bookshop.org Nonbinarian Book List Recs
+ Partner Wishlists (NEW!)
When you choose The Nonbinarian Bookstore as your bookstore to support 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.
If you would like to purchase books from our featured recommendations, check out our lists below!
If you would like to donate books to our partners, please shop below:
Drag Story Hour x The Nonbinarian — Picture books from the DSH NYC book list!
Trans formative Schools x The Nonbinarian — Help stock the classroom of a local trans-centered afterschool program, TfS!
The Reading for Black Lives Project x The Nonbinarian — Specifically Black + queer, all books from this wishlist go towards our comrade in free book distro in Brooklyn, R4BL.
Project Human Dignity x The Nonbinarian — Help build a permanent library for an adolescent (9-17), in-patient psych ward—because everyone deserves to see themselves on the shelf.
In addition to our 2025 New Year’s Weekend Sale, we have a host of events planned in January! Here’s what’s happening this month. All times EST; 💻 = virtual, 🛍 = in-store, 🚲 = off-site.
🛍 COVID-Conscious Craft Meet-Up: Sunday, January 5, 1—3 p.m.
The Nonbinarian partners with a new group for COVID-conscious gathering & craft making! Materials provided - seats limited.🛍 Dear Diary: A Coming Out Open Mic: Friday, January 10, after hours from 8—10 p.m.
Share your earliest entries from your littlest queer self, further proving the ally to queer pipeline. PWYC tickets via Partiful (link TK).🛍 T4T Clothing Swap: Sunday, January 12, 1—3 p.m.
Give your no longer affirming clothes a new life and build a new wardrobe for and by our gender expansive community. All size garments very much encouraged!💻 Weekly Queer & Trans Yoga: Starting Monday, January 13, 8—9 p.m. & Repeating Weekly
Hosted on Zoom, this is a gentle movement and breathwork class for all abilities and experience levels, centering somatics, restoration, and vitality. FREE. Register on Zoom (link TK).🛍 Bi-Weekly Queer Writers of Brooklyn Workshop: Tuesday, January 14, 6—7 p.m.
Meeting every other week, generate work, receive feedback, and read aloud in community.🛍 Lez Night Out Craft Night: Thursday, January 16, 5—7 p.m.
The Nonbinarian partners with Lez Night Out! Materials provided, seats limited.🛍 Neurodivergent PowerPoint Night: Sunday, January 19, 5—7 p.m.
Share your latest hyperfixation on a projector at the bookstore with your fellow neurospicy gays.💻 Weekly Queer & Trans Yoga: Monday, January 20, 8—9 p.m.
🛍 Weekly Knit-Along: Wednesday, January 22, 6—7 p.m.
Knit at your own pace in a group setting. Pattern and supplies provided, seats limited.🛍 HANKIE: Saturday, January 25, after hours from 8 p.m.—12 a.m.
An inclusive, after-hours sex education and cruising social. PWYC tickets via Partiful (link TK).🛍 Little Readers ROAR! Storytime: Sunday, January 26, 11:30 a.m.—12 p.m.
Nonbinarian volunteers read aloud from our favorite picture books, classic and new. Coloring materials provided. Appropriate for ages 0-5; all are welcome.💻 Weekly Queer & Trans Yoga: Monday, January 27, 8—9 p.m.
🛍 Bi-Weekly Queer Writers of Brooklyn Workshop: Tuesday, January 28, 6—7 p.m.
🛍 Weekly Knit-Along: Wednesday, January 29, 6—7 p.m.
💻 The Nonbinarian Book Club: Friday, January 31 at 8 p.m., Zoom
Let’s kick off the new year with a vibrant look at queer history!
This month, we are reading Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known by George M. Johnson with illustrations by Charly Palmer. Join us on Friday, January 31 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 Book Bike by purchasing through Libro.fm and selecting us as your store of choice!
*Our original book club partner, Bluestockings Cooperative, has announced an indefinite pause on special orders. As such, we are pausing our partnership for the time being. To continue to provide our community with a book discount on club titles, we are offering attendees a $5 voucher for use at the Nonbinarian Bookstore.
Thank you to Electric Lit and The New York Times for spotlighting The Nonbinarian Bookstore!
Don’t miss our founder K. Kerimian’s segment on The Brian Lehrer Show (audio start at 16:16)! And finally, Samantha Puc blurbed their favorite 2024 read, Nonbinarian Book Club pick Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Housemates, for NBC News.
The Nonbinarian Book Bike is proud to partner with the following organizations. Please check out their mission statements and support them however possible.
🌠 Reading 4 Black Lives Project
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, visiting the store, 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 info@thenonbinarian.gay!
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 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.
Thank you for supporting the Nonbinarian Book Bike! Look for our next newsletter on the 1st of the month. In the meantime, follow us on social media for daily updates.