In Good Company
The excellent blog Queer Marginalia included WAM! in a post today about new strategies for keeping the feminist bookstore spirit alive. Here’s what they had to say about us:
New Words, Cambridge, Massachusetts’ feminist bookstore, opened in 1973 as a partnership of four women. In 2000, they wrote a Ford Foundation grant and received funding to examine whether we still need feminist bookstores. After focus groups and media research, they answered, YES. While this answer may have been predictable (I am no less grateful for it), their innovative projects since then have not been. They created Women Action & the Media, or WAM!, closed the bookstore, and generated an exciting roster of interactive and transnational events focused on increasing women’s media literacy and agency. Their new project, WAM! It Yourself, guides activists to create collaborations in various cities, challenging the single-place of the bookstore model.
The article also brings readers up to date on the new approaches being tried by Bitch Magazine, Women and Children First, Feminist Press, and numerous other crucial feminist literary institutions. Read the whole thing here.
