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During its 36 years in business the Toronto Women’s Bookstore has survived a firebomb, boycotts and protests by opposing activist groups the demise of nearly all other women’s bookstores. Despite all this the TWB may soon face closure.
Co-manager Janet Romero says she didn’t know what to expect when the store sent an appeal to the store’s mailing list asking for financial help.
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Between Tiger Beat and Seventeen, fad diets and makeup tips, the typical teen magazine doesn’t normally give young girls much credit. That’s why Shameless, a feminist teen magazine, reaches out to “young female readers who are often ignored by the mainstream: freethinkers, queer youth, young women of colour, punk rockers, feminists, intellectuals, artists and activists.”
On Tuesday night, the magazine launched its new book She’s Shameless: Women Write About Growing Up, Rocking Out and Fighting Back at a prom/anti-prom celebration featuring live readings and music at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom. In an uncanny recreation of my own high school experience, the DJ played ‘90s classics from the likes of Blur and TLC, while a vintage episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer played on a projector screen in the background. (More …)
