The Feminist Book Club reads and discusses feminism. We make no claims to any particular feminist platform. We read theoretical texts, literature and primary works. All are welcome inclusive of gender, political persuasion, and familiarity.

For more information, email feministbookclubnyc@gmail.com.

Rule #1 of Whoring. Never believe a trick when he tells you he loves you. He’s lying. He just wants to see how much he can get out of you without having to pay.

Whore School is not just for those who seek guidance in the business of selling sex. It’s even for the common woman who never thought that she was a whore. It’s for any person who seeks to understand the basics of relationships, the importance of money, and how to remain in control when exchanging energy in our personal or professional relationships. But mainly it’s for the whores who want to keep whoring.

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Kundalini Yoga is also called the Yoga of Awareness. It combines the physical practice of Asanas with Pranayama (breathing) and Meditation/Chanting – it targets the whole body system (nervous system, glands, mental faculties, chakras) to develop awareness and consciousness, strength and flexibility.

Everybody is welcome, no previous knowledge of Yoga is necessary. Please bring a Yoga mat and possibly a blanket and a shawl.

Shortly after she moved to New York, from her native Switzerland in 1988, Ursula Scherrer started exploring different styles of Yoga for her own spiritual and physical well being before she did her first teacher training in 2002 and has been teaching ever since. In addition to her skills and expertise as a Yoga teacher (Hatha and Kundalini Yoga) she is also a Pranayama Healer and certified Qi Gong instructor.

For more information please contact Ursula Scherrer: uscherrer@verizon.net

Brooklyn has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, making it an icon of hipness worldwide while running roughshod over the residents who, in many cases, helped rebuild the borough in the first place. Author and journalist Neil deMause discusses The Brooklyn Wars, which details the winners and losers of battles between communities, developers, and city planners — and what, if anything, can be done to change the borough’s future.

Hybrid performance presentation with art, poetry and music coming together as an ensemble. The video footage of women’s shared and lived experiences discourse is narrative of international stories of expat women these will be punctuated with a poetry reading and fusion music is inspired from the artwork and they are all related to show the interrelated between different art forms this also talks about my field experiences punctuated with anecdotes. “Return of the bride” in My Soul on a Platter” is about gender based violence paraphrasing that human emotions are universal and woman’s rights are human rights. The poem centre around dowry and the Indian Patriarchal system. This event will be more of a fundraiser for the peacemode 365 project as we launch this international woman’s project on uniting women’s narratives all over the world. This is an interactive event hence your bookstore is the best space to transform spaces and engage book lovers.

Breanne Fahs will read from her new book, Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance, followed by a discussion of how to use menstruation to combat the misogyny of the Trump administration. Using menstruation as a troublemaking tool and drawing from previous menstrual activist work will be featured.

Come and meet people who are just as confused as you are about public restrooms and getting dressed in the morning! We provide a safe space for anyone with a non-binary gender identity to discuss one’s experiences as we defy society’s mainstream conception of gender.

We welcome gender identities that include but are not limited to: androgynous, agender, bigender, demigender, gender non-conforming, gender variant, genderfluid, genderqueer, non-binary, transmasculine, transfeminine.

This is the official US launch of Psychiatry Interrogated: An Institutional Ethnography—an anti/critical psychiatry book which peers into various under-theorized nooks and crannies of the psy complex. Dr. Lauren Tenney and Simon Adam will be co-chairing. Speakers include: Dr. Bonnie Burstow (Editor and contributor), Dr. Lauren Tenney (contributor), and Celia Brown, researcher. The evening will culminate in a spirited Q&A and the selling of this radical new anthology.

Sunday, DAY DATE @ 12:30PM – Free
Radical Educators Book Club
Join a group of educators engaged in inquiry of critical texts for a meetup and collaborative discussion of pedagogical values and practices.
Please contact bluestockingsraded@gmail.com for more information.

Reading: Badass Teachers Unite by Mark Naison

Sunday, DAY DATE @ 12:30PM – Free
Radical Educators Book Club
Join a group of educators engaged in inquiry of critical texts for a meetup and collaborative discussion of pedagogical values and practices.
Please contact bluestockingsraded@gmail.com for more information.

Reading: Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis

Join us every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month to learn ukulele! All skill levels are welcome. We will teach folks how to play songs from different historic cultural and social movements. We will try to focus on music which is consistent with a vision of collective liberation and solidarity. The bookstore has one communal ukulele that anyone can use, but folks are encouraged to bring their own ukulele to the workshop. We will provide some supplementary materiel for practicing the music and studying its social significance. Some of the music we will look at includes the blues of Bessie Smith, Brazilian bossa nova, French goguettes, the nueva cancíon of Víctor Jara, and others. We do not know everything, but we will try to pass on what we do know, and to help you flourish as a musician and human.

Author and educator Rita Banerjee has published a new novella titled “A Night with Kali” in the anthology “Approaching Footsteps.” The novella tells of two people stuck in a cab during a monsoon in Kolkata and the tale the cab driver tells of a ghost he encountered when he was young. Mrs. Banerjee will read from her story and sign copies afterwards.

Death Cafe is a place to wonder together about the mystery and meaning of life and to discuss death comfortably and openly, a free-wheeling, self-facilitated conversation around death and dying, inevitably touching upon life and living. Death Cafe is not a bereavement group. Snacks will be provided and as a thank you to Bluestockings participants are encouraged to enjoy a beverage from the Bluestockings Cafe. The first Death Cafe was held in London in 2011. Depending on the number of people that participate, you will meet in groups of 3-4 and talk about whatever compels you about death and dying. It is asked that people participate with an open mind and spirit, respect all points of view, and speak and listen with no agenda, objective, or themes.

Kundalini Yoga is also called the Yoga of Awareness. It combines the physical practice of Asanas with Pranayama (breathing) and Meditation/Chanting – it targets the whole body system (nervous system, glands, mental faculties, chakras) to develop awareness and consciousness, strength and flexibility.

Everybody is welcome, no previous knowledge of Yoga is necessary. Please bring a Yoga mat and possibly a blanket and a shawl.

Shortly after she moved to New York, from her native Switzerland in 1988, Ursula Scherrer started exploring different styles of Yoga for her own spiritual and physical well being before she did her first teacher training in 2002 and has been teaching ever since. In addition to her skills and expertise as a Yoga teacher (Hatha and Kundalini Yoga) she is also a Pranayama Healer and certified Qi Gong instructor.

For more information please contact Ursula Scherrer: uscherrer@verizon.net

Feminist masked avengers and self proclaimed conscious of the art world, Guerrilla Girls present their latest book: The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured: From Ancient Times Until Now. A hilarious take on how female bodies have been treated and mistreated over the centuries. The Guerrilla Girls will do a dramatic reading, answer your questions, sign books, and pose for selfies.

La Brujas Club is a mystical society that empowers women. We believe in the power of intuition and bringing women of all backgrounds together under one room to share literature and connect on a spiritual level.

In 1913, prostitute “Alice Smith” published her memoirs in the San Francisco Bulletin. Facing draconian laws and evictions, sex workers responded by writing into the newspaper, creating a forum for radical debate. The memoir would go on to inspire one of the first sex worker protests in U.S. history. Join co-editors Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus in a discussion of this important piece of feminist history. Winner of the California Historical Society Book Award.

A platform and environment for discussions, ideas and proposals addressing the societal issues & dangers facing humanity. Specifically: racism & race relations, class warfare, war and humanitarian crisis overseas, income inequality, LGBT community and more.

The Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinity is a safe space to discuss the gendered expectations placed on men and boys in a patriarchal society, and how these have affected, and continue to affect, all of us. The forum is open to all, inclusive of gender and level of knowledge of the subject matter. Each month, we will discuss a theme, which will be posted in the facebook group -www.facebook.com/groups/feministdiscussionofmasculinity/

NYC Black & Pink & the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project would like to invite you to our afternoon letter writing. What can you bring? Writing materials, stamps if you want! We can always use more postage.
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